Rome

The European Union on Monday told Italy to establish an infected zone for African swine fever in areas of Rome and implement special control measures to stop it spreading. It said Italy must "ensure that consignments of porcine animals kept...

MedFilm Festival has announced that its 28th edition will be held November 9-20, 2022 in Rome. The festival, it said, will be both online and in person with "twelve days centred on the diffusion and the promotion of Mediterranean and...

A small temporary exhibition will be on view until May 22 at Rome’s Borghese Gallery. “Guido Reni and Rome: Nature and Devotion” is the first exhibition dedicated to Reni in the last 30 years. Reni's Atalanta and Hippomenes. Photo: Courtesy...

"The concept ‘Quality of life’ was unknown to me before living in Rome. ‘La Dolce Vita’ was a state of mind and a set of circumstances which sustained it: a life, at least for creatives, where your origins or financial...

Already in 1809 Napoleon’s Roman administration had immediately selected the Quirinal Palace, at the time the popes’ summer residence, as Napoleon’s dwelling. If Napoleon concentrated on imitating ancient Rome and its emperors, his relationship with religion and the Holy See...

Longhi’s lifetime ambition was the artistic re-evaluation of Caravaggio and his importance to seventeenth-century Baroque painting. He reached his goal by curating two mega-exhibitions in Milan: “Caravaggio e i caravaggeschi” in 1951 and “I pittori della realtà in Lombardia” in...