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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The €2 increase, the first since paid admission to the Pantheon was introduced in 2023, will fund local libraries in disadvantaged areas under the Piano Olivetti per la Cultura scheme.
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ROME — Two centuries after Mary Shelley published her radical, visionary novel about the end of humanity, The Last Man, Rome’s Keats-Shelley House is honouring the milestone with a new exhibition. Titled A World on the Verge, the exhibition explores the haunting contemporary relevance of a work that essentially founded the modern apocalyptic fiction genre.
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As Simone Verde’s ambitious redesign of the Botticelli rooms at the Uffizi draws international praise, Florence’s licensed tour guides are raising pointed questions about who the changes are actually for. Perhaps the real question is whether a museum generating nearly €62 million a year in revenue can afford to ignore its customers’ experiences.
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A €2 million PNRR-funded project has returned Napoleon’s two Elba retreats, and thousands of square metres of their historic gardens, to the public.
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Florence’s flagship gallery, the Uffizi, has imposed an immediate halt on ticket sales, citing the impact of high temperatures on air conditioning systems. Existing bookings remain valid.
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A team of 20 restorers is to use laser technology on one of the most significant projects in the Vatican Museums’ history – Raphael’s Loggia.
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International delegation of writers including Strout, Robinson and Foer meets Pope Leo XIV as Vatican publisher LEV marks its centenary.
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Defence Minister Crosetto announced Tuesday that Italy’s iconic training ship – Amerigo Vespucci – will be in New York harbour for the 250th anniversary of American independence. It carries a message about the depth of the two nations’ bond that transcends current political turbulence.
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