Opposition parties have called on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to address parliament directly over the Niscemi landslide on Sunday. They argue that the scale and history of the disaster require intervention at the highest political level.
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Italy’s Sanremo Music Festival, the country’s most influential annual pop culture event, has been pulled into a growing controversy over Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Rome will host a major new exhibition examining the relationship that shaped the birth of the Baroque. Bernini and the Barberini looks at the bond between sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his first great patron, Pope Urban VIII.
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Carnival in Italy 2026 is shaping up to be a highlight of the calendar. With celebrations spanning most of February, and in many places starting as early as late January, the season brings spectacular parades, centuries-old traditions, elaborate floats, historic masks and lively festivities from north to south.
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The Sicilian town of Niscemi is facing an escalating geological emergency after a massive landslide triggered by Cyclone Harry left a hillside sliding towards the Gela plain. Italian authorities have warned that the situation remains highly unstable and that parts of the town may never be safe to re-inhabit.
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Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has summoned Israel’s ambassador to Italy to the foreign ministry in Rome after two Italian Carabinieri officers were threatened at gunpoint in the West Bank whilst on official duty.
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The Italian government has declared a national state of emergency for Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia following widespread destruction caused last week by Cyclone Harry, Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci announced after a cabinet meeting on Monday.
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Italian political debate has intensified after confirmation that the United States’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will play a security support role during next month’s Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics. The announcement has sparked alarm across political circles in Italy, mostly in response to controversial actions by ICE agents in the United States in recent weeks.
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The Italian painter Giovanni Lanfranco, regarded as one of the leading masters of High Baroque painting in Rome, was born on 26th January, 1582 in Parma. Lanfranco’s work, particularly his dome frescoes, set new standards for illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening.
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Florence will mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January with a programme of free guided visits at some of the city’s most important places of memory.
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