One of Rome’s four great papal basilicas – Saint Paul Outside the Walls – and the last of the city’s ancient churches to have survived largely untouched since antiquity, was gutted by fire on 14/15th July 1823. It was a disaster that shook the Christian world as deeply as the Notre-Dame fire would nearly two […]
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A dentist in Rome’s Prati neighbourhood found himself at the centre of a viral parking dispute this week. The free space where he had parked his car turned into a paid one overnight, and he woke up to a fine for not displaying a ticket.
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A long restoration of the roofs and façades of one of Rome’s most magnificent and famous Renaissance buildings, Palazzo Farnese, seat of the French embassy, has been completed.
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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 — Italian authorities have launched an intense manhunt following a brutal triple homicide late Friday night in the Casalotti district, on the western outskirts of Rome. Three members of a family of Bangladeshi origin were stabbed to death in their apartment on Via Montiglio.
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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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A state-run institute’s Pride evening at Palazzo Poli has prompted a formal inquiry from culture minister Alessandro Giuli. He says he was not informed and considers the event at odds with the museum’s purpose.
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A photograph of a receipt from a gelateria near Piazza di Spagna has caused a social media storm after a Florida tourist was charged more than forty euros for what she expected to be two small ice creams. It’s the latest in a long series of overcharging controversies targeting visitors to the Italian capital.
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A second-century AD domus (townhouse) has been unearthed beneath the boys’ gymnasium of the Liceo Scientifico Cavour in central Rome. The dig reveals frescoes, mosaics and stucco decoration of exceptional quality.
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From the first female mayors elected in 1946 to the introduction of femicide as a specific criminal offence, a new ANSA exhibition opening in Rome traces the long road of women’s rights. However, those who walked it caution against complacency.
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