News from italy

Remarkable discoveries emerge from an ancient thermal spa

January 2025 |
Bronze snakes, statues, two gold crowns, jewelery, thousands of coins, and perfectly intact eggs are among the latest remarkable discoveries to emerge from the site of an ancient thermal spa in a small town in Tuscany. The trove had been preserved...

St. Peter’s tomb is now being livestreamed

January 2025 |
St. Peter’s tomb is now being livestreamed as the Vatican embraces technology in its quest to connect with Catholics in far-flung places during holy year, an event expected to bring as many as 33 million pilgrims to Rome. Pope Francis on Monday...

Pompeii wil stop ticket to 20,000 a day

December 2024 |
Pompeii is to limit visitor numbers to 20,000 a day and introduce personalized tickets in an effort to cope with overtourism and protect the world heritage site, officials said last month. This summer, a record 4 million people visited the remains...

Rome is working for the Jubilee 2025

December 2024 |
To prepare for the Vatican’s Jubilee in 2025, Roman officials have announced big plans for the city’s iconic Trevi Fountain. The site will be thoroughly cleaned and restored and a new entry fee will be introduced. The fountain hasn’t received a...

New Museum space for Pompei artefacts in Naples

December 2024 |
A massive new museum space that will be dedicated to artefacts from Pompeii is under construction in Naples. MANN 2 will be an expansion of the city’s Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), which houses the largest collection of classical...

A real Picasso painting found in the junk

November 2024 |
A painting that was found by a junk dealer while he was clearing out the cellar of a home in Capri and was regularly decried by his wife as “horrible”, is an original portrait by Pablo Picasso, Italian experts have claimed. After he stumbled across...

Lea Pericoli Italian tennis star of the 1950s and 60s, died at age 89

November 2024 |
Lea Pericoli, Italian tennis star of the 1950s and 60s, died at age 89. Regarded as one of Italy’s top players, she reached the last 16 of the French Open twice and the Wimbledon championships three times. On top of her athletic achievements,...

Melting glaciers redraw the Border through Italy and Switzerland

November 2024 |
Switzerland and Italy have redrawn part of their border in the Alps due to melting glaciers, caused by climate change. Part of the area affected will be beneath the Matterhorn, one of Europe's tallest mountains, and close to a number of popular ski...

off the coast of Sicily was found A 2,000-year-old battering ram

October 2024 |
A 2,000-year-old battering ram sunk during the First Punic War has been discovered off the coast of Sicily. The bronze fragment of the ram, called a rostrum, was found 250 feet below sea level between the Aegadian islands Levanzo and Favignana,...
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