Rome

On July 22, Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, inaugurated the reopening, after a two-year restoration, of the magnificent Renaissance “Corsie Sistine” or, “Sistine Ward” at the oldest still-functioning hospital in Europe, the complex of Santo Spirito in Saxia.  The...

Last month, Italian officials inaugurated the Museum of Rescued Art (Museo dell’Arte Salvata). It showcases antiquities that were stolen or lost before being returned to the institutions within the regions from which they were taken. This new Museum is located...

The famed Latona of Veio, an Etruscan statue of the Greek goddess with her son Apollo in her arms, is to be restored at the Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia in Rome. The 510-500 BC poly-chromatic terracotta work was found...

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 Reni's Aralanta and Hippomenes.Photo: Wikipedia...

"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...