Builders redeveloping a former wasteland on the north-eastern outskirts of Rome unearthed a second century AD necropolis containing several sealed sarcophagi. Local historians and archaeologists were ...

Travel chaos expected in Italy on Friday 20 June due to nationwide strike action.. Italy is braced for a 24-hour national general strike on 20 Friday June that is set to affect air, rail and local ...

Firefighters remove vehicle from Rome landmark.. An elderly motorist was stopped by Rome police as he drove down a long stretch of the Spanish Steps in the early hours of Tuesday morning.. The driver, ...

Crane has loomed over the Uffizi for last two decades. Florence is preparing to wave goodbye to a massive yellow crane that has been a blot on the city's skyline for almost 20 years, casting a shadow ...

Pontiff receives veteran Hollywood actor who arrived in Rome on Sunday on a private jet. Oscar-winning US actor Al Pacino met with Pope Leo XIV privately in the Vatican on Monday, becoming the first ...

Ruffalo is a special guest of Il Cinema in Piazza.. Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo has been announced as a surprise guest of Il Cinema in Piazza, the free film festival held in Rome every summer..

Claudio Ranieri turned down top job in Italian football. Gennaro Gattuso has been named as the new manager of the Italian national football team, Italy's football federation (FIGC) said on Sunday. The ...

Rome opera house to stage Handel’s Resurrection and Mozart’s Don Giovanni in the Basilica of Maxentius.. Rome's summer opera festival opens officially on the feast of Rome's patron saints Peter and ...

Roma Pride celebrates 31 years in 2025. Rome will see a return of the Roma Pride parade through the streets of the Italian capital on Saturday 14 June, with dozens of floats and around 30,000 people ...

Israeli planes parked in Fiumicino and Malpensa as Israel shuts Ben Gurion airport. Israeli airlines evacuated their planes out of the country on Friday, including to Italy, after Israel launched a ...

Woman found dead in Rome park was a US citizen, media reports.. A 46-year-old US man was arrested in Greece on Friday in relation to the deaths of a woman and baby girl whose bodies were found in Rome ...

Carabiniere officer had been due to retire. Italy's president Sergio Mattarella has led tributes to a Carabiniere police officer who was shot dead while on duty in the southern region of Puglia early ...