Rome’s annual Shakespearean festival returns for its 18th edition from 30 June until 10 October. The city’s Globe Theatre, in the heart of Villa Borghese, has been renamed after Gigi Proietti, who died last November on his 80th birthday.
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The Hypogeum, or ‘backstage’, of Rome’s Colosseum is fully open to the public for the first time. The restored walkways allow visitors to fully explore the underground tunnels and chambers of the 2,000-year-old monument.
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Abruzzo, Liguria, Umbria and Veneto pass into the white zone from Monday 7th June. This is in addition to Friuli Venezia Giulia, Molise and Sardinia, which passed to the lowest risk band on June 1st.
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Pope Francis kissed the tattoo of an Auschwitz survivor at the Vatican. Lidia Maksymovicz was not even three when she ended up in the infamous concentration camp.
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Wild boar surrounded a woman who had just left a supermarket near Rome. They steal her shopping, igniting a debate about their presence in Italy’s towns and cities. The incident came to light following a video posted on social media on Thursday. It shows the boars cornering the woman in a car park in the […]
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