Italy in Brief

Italian director Matteo Garrone’s ultra-current coming-of-age film Io capitano, which chronicles the journeys of two young Senegalese migrants from Dakar to…

Ahead of the Catholic Church’s Jubilee year in 2025, restoration plans have been unveiled for Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s soaring Baldacchino (Baldachin), the 17th-…

Pesaro will hold the title of Italian Capital of Culture in 2024, following on the heels of twinned 2023 capitals Bergamo and Brescia. The official kickoff…

The city of Venice has announced that it will begin limiting the size of tourist groups in an effort to reduce the impact of overcrowding that’s plagued the…

Archaeologists in Rome working near the Colosseum have unearthed a lavish ancient home that holds an extraordinary mosaic wall, the Ministry of Culture…

Archaeologists at Pompeii have uncovered a “prison-bakery” where enslaved people and donkeys were confined to grind grain for bread in harrowing conditions,…

Italian opera singing took its place on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list earlier this week, just as Milan’s renowned Teatro alla Scala…

The 34th edition of Il Sole 24 Ore’s yearly Quality of Life Index, published earlier this week, crowned Udine the top city in Italy. It’s the first time the…

In a victory that the sports press has dubbed the “Miracle of Málaga,” Italian tennis players broke a dry spell of nearly five decades to become the Davis Cup…

Le Cinque Terre (or Five Lands), a string of picturesque towns along the northern Ligurian coast, is known for its steep, terraced vineyards and olive groves,…