4 November is included in Italy's list of free museum dates. State museums and archaeological sites across Italy will open their doors for free on Tuesday 4 November to mark National Unity and Armed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Controversy over latest case of sexist website targeting women in Italy. Italy's postal police have launched an investigation into a sexist website featuring naked images of dozens of famous Italian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unions call on workers to "block everything" in protest over government's "war budget". Italian trade unions USB and CUB have called a national general strike for public and private sectors on Friday ...

Project to be funded with €8.4 million in Jubilee funds. The train station serving Ostia Antica is to undergo a major renovation, the Lazio region announced, coinciding with plans by Italy to seek ...