Man fell from a height of seven metres off Pantheon perimeter wall. An investigation is under way after a Japanese tourist fell to his death from the perimeter wall of the Pantheon in Rome, a drop of ...

Rome to install new speed cameras on Cristoforo Colombo after fatal collision. Rome police are investigating the dynamics of a horrific car crash on the Cristoforo Colombo highway in which a ...

Man fell from a height of seven metres off Pantheon perimeter wall. An investigation is under way after a Japanese tourist fell to his death from the perimeter wall of the Pantheon in Rome, a drop of ...

All Saints’ Day is a public holiday in Italy. Italy marks All Saints' Day - known in Italian as Ognissanti or Tutti i Santi - with a national public holiday on 1 November. This year the holiday falls ...

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 2 November as part of the ...

A guide to Halloween for kids and adults in Rome. Rome embraces the ghoulish festival of Halloween - still a slightly foreign concept in Italy - with themed events and spooky shopfronts becoming ...

The Jewish Ghetto area in Rome stretches from Largo Argentina to the river Tiber. Not much of the original Jewish ghetto remains as it was razed to the ground after the unification of Italy when the ...

Olio di sansa e di oliva is the lowest grade oil. The sansa says it all. It is the dregs of the olive oil industry – the dry residue that is dumped in a smelly, fermenting heap outside the olive mill.

The Italian education system is free, and mandatory from ages 6 to 16. High school lasts five years, with most students attending university at 19. The Italian system differs from the English system ...

Daylight will begin one hour earlier from 26 October. Italy's clocks go back one hour at 03.00 on the night between Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 October 2025, bringing an end to daylight saving time, or ...

Trenitalia is staging a national strike on Friday 21 October from 09.00-17.00. There is skeleton service being provided for some long distance routes but regional trains are likely to be badly ...