Dozens of firefighters have been battling around the clock to extinguish a major wildfire raging on Mount Vesuvius in the southern Campania region of Italy.

Jazz under the stars with panoramic views of the Colosseum by night: a music festival will take place in Rome again this summer from July to October 2025.

Francis Ford Coppola, the acclaimed Italian-American director best known for The Godfather, was hospitalised in Rome on Tuesday for scheduled heart surgery.

A Tradition Rooted in Ancient Time Italian summer holidays, especially August vacations, trace back to agricultural rhythms. Grain harvest happens in June and replanting in autumn, making mid-summer ...

Around one million young people from all over the world gathered in the outskirts of Rome this weekend for a prayer vigil as part of the Jubilee of Youth.

Rome is blessed with more than 2,500 drinking fountains, known as nasoni, which provide residents and visitors with free fresh running water all year round.

Rome has a centuries-old tradition of caring for its stray cats, in a special bond that stretches back to ancient Roman times and continues to this day.

When 25 December arrives, in Italy everyone starts wishing, from the cashier at the grocery store to your closest friends, a Buon Natale, but what does Buon Natale mean?

A Finnish family who moved to Sicily last summer left the southern Italian island after just two months over claims that the school system was inadequate.

Short-term rental giant Airbnb is to give funding to Rome's Peter Pan charitable association which supports families with children suffering from cancer.

A newly discovered ancient Roman domus, unearthed between Rome's Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum, was unveiled by the Italian culture ministry on Tuesday.

Suor Cristina, the nun who won Italy's version of reality singing competition The Voice in 2014, has announced that she has left behind her religious vows.