Alberto Trentini freed after 423 days in Caracas jail. Italy's prime minister Giorgia Meloni on Monday announced that Venezuela has released Italian nationals, Alberto Trentini and Mario Burlò, from ...

Reprieve follows months of diplomatic talks and lobbying from Italian pasta makers. The US government on Thursday said that proposed tariffs on Italian pasta would be slashed, in a move welcomed by ...

Jubilee 2025 attracted over 33 million pilgrims. Pope Leo XIV will close the Holy Door at St Peter's on Tuesday at 09.30, formally signifying the end of the Vatican's 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope.

Naples is renowned in Italy for its wild New Year's Eve fireworks, which leads to dozens of injuries every year, however one young man from Rome took the capodanno madness to a whole other level on ...

Orange weather alert sees cancellation of Befana's flight into Piazza Navona. Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri has signed an order banning all recreational and sporting events in public areas on Tuesday 6 ...

Mixed marriages in Italy have increased ten times over in the last 15 years, according to news agency Ansa. Figures from the national statistics agency Istat revealed that there were 600,000 weddings ...

Italy's museums open for free on the first Sunday of every month. State museums and archaeological sites in Rome and across Italy will open their doors for free on Sunday 4 January 2026 as part of the ...

Effective antitrust authorities are crucial to the working of all modern economies. But Italy, where competition is still a dirty word to many, needs them more than most. Italy was a late starter in ...

La Befana, which coincides with the feast of the Epiphany on 6 January, is a public holiday in Italy. Italians celebrate the religious feast of the Epiphany, or the more popular folklore version of La ...

Winter sales begin in Rome and Milan on 3 January. Italy's post-Christmas sales begin in most regions on 3 January 2026, apart from Valle d'Aosta and Alto Adige where winter sales start on 2 January ...

Marilina Tuccinardi, the person responsible for children in the Rome city council social policies department, is in no doubt: The law is in the interests of the children and must be respected. The law ...

Several years ago a bulky package arrived out of the blue at a wine bar near Piazza Navona in Rome's historic centre. When the owners of Il Piccolo opened the weighty parcel they were surprised to ...