One of the most fascinating domus at Herculaneum, the Roman town buried and preserved by the Vesuvius eruption along with Pompeii in 79 AD, has reopened after a 30-year restoration. The House of the Carbonized Furniture is open again thanks to a restoration project carried out in a public-private partnership with the Packard Humanities Institute […]
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Michele Mari won the 2026 Strega Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award, with his novel I Convitati di Pietra (The Stone Guests) at a ceremony in Rome’s Piazza del Campidoglio on Wednesday. Votes cast by the prize’s jury of more than 600 members of the cultural world were counted live.
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Deputy Premier and Transport and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini suggested political motives could lie behind the suspension of train services in Calabria early on Thursday. The rail sabotage is the latest in a long series of major disruptions to hit Italy’s rail network.
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Italy’s third heatwave of the summer will continue until at least Monday 20 July, forecasters said on Thursday, with the south set to be fully drawn into the extreme heat for the first time this season.
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Italy is expelling two officials from the Russian embassy in Rome after accusing them of espionage, Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced on Thursday. The move follows the arrest this week of two former Italian intelligence officials, who are accused of spying for Russia.
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The US president posts meme mocking Italian premier days before Ankara talks, as Rome opts to stay silent rather than escalate a row that has simmered since last month’s G7. The renewed social media attack shows a President whose only recourse appears to be bullying.
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From a Rome notary’s office in 1966 to over 100 nature reserves today, WWF Italy says its diamond anniversary is a stepping stone rather than a finish line.
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An 86-year-old man killed his ex-wife with a knife inside a hospital on the Tuscan coast on Friday, before taking his own life by jumping from a third-floor window of the same building.
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World number one, Jannik Sinner, continues Wimbledon title defence with gritty straight-sets win over American Brooksby. Dimitrov outlasts Berrettini in a five-set epic.
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Rome revokes Special Economic Zone authorisation for the Tavolara Bay glamping development at Cala Finanza, two days after a municipal council U-turn and a mass protest on the beach.
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