Pantheon entry fee rises to €7 from 1 July
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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Triple homicide in Rome – manhunt underway
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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Mary Shelley’s ‘The Last Man’ honoured at exhibition
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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Row over Pride event at Trevi Fountain museum
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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€44 for two ice creams: American tourist’s receipt goes viral
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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Ancient Roman domus discovered beneath Rome school
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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Exhibition charts eighty years of women’s rights in Italy
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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Military horses stampede through Rome after fireworks prank
A traffic officer’s late-night joke with firecrackers sent 35 military horses bolting down one of Rome’s busiest roads. In total, four people and up to 15 animals were injured — the night before final rehearsals for the 2 June celebrations.
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Buon Compleanno, Roma: The Eternal City (Rome) turns 2,779
On 21 April 753 BC according to legend, tradition and the calculations of Rome’s own ancient scholars, a man named Romulus ploughed a furrow around the Palatine Hill and founded a city. Today, that city, Rome, turns 2,779 years old.
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Rome’s Pantheon to raise entry fee this summer
The cost of visiting the Pantheon in Rome, one of the ancient world’s best-preserved monuments, will rise to €7 from 1 July. This comes under a new agreement between Italy’s Ministry of Culture and the Diocese of Rome.
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