More than a quarter of a vaulted dining room ceiling from the House with Bakery has been rebuilt from fragments found where it collapsed nearly 2,000 years ago. It reveals a richly decorated scene of Dionysus and Ariadne.
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A network of historic theatres across Marche, Umbria and Emilia-Romagna has been recognised for entire towns that pooled their money to build, own and run a theatre together.
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Civil protection investigators found cats with flammable rags tied to their tails released into vegetation to start blazes, prompting criminal complaints and calls for a thorough investigation.
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Matteo Lepore says Bologna “had two squares” on Monday — one of peaceful solidarity, the other of violence he says has no place in the city. 64 officers were treated for injuries and Meloni condemns the riots as unjustifiable.
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Left on a terrace in Sciacca without water or shade as temperatures hit 43°C, the deaths of the puppies have reignited calls for tougher penalties for animal cruelty in Italy.
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Abderrahim Fakir, a 42-year-old Moroccan man with a regular visa, died after being restrained by police in the Pilastro neighbourhood on Sunday. The incident is now drawing comparisons to previous deaths in police custody and prompting a parliamentary question.
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Luca Esposito, 53, a sports journalist, was found dead among burnt brushwood on a farm road in Eboli. Investigators are treating the death as murder, with shell casings recovered at the scene and the motive still unclear.
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A limewood crucifix inside the Basilica di Santo Spirito, carved when Michelangelo was still a teenager, is drawing fresh attention after a New York Times feature named it one of the artist’s most affecting works. Discover more about one of Florence’s best-kept secrets.
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Every summer, the high plains beneath the Sibillini Mountains erupt into a sweep of red, purple, blue and yellow. The plant responsible for the Umbrian spectacle isn’t a flower at all, but the humble lentil.
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As the jeweller, Mario Roggero, heads to prison and his wife files a pardon request, Nordio opens a formal probe into potential clemency. Meanwhile Roggero himself compares his case to two pardons already granted by Mattarella.
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