https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The UN art heritage agency has said it may put Venice on its ‘endangered’ list if the lagoon city does not permanently ban cruise ships from docking there. https://www.thelocal.it/20210622/venice-may-be-put-on-endangered-list-if-cruise-ships-not-banned-says-unesco Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:53:22 +0200 venice-may-be-put-on-endangered-list-if-cruise-ships-not-banned-says-unesco The Italian government has put its popular free museum days on hold to avoid visitors packing in and raising the risk of coronavirus infections. https://www.thelocal.it/20200930/covid-19-italy-suspends-free-museum-sundays-to-limit-crowds Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:12:14 +0200 covid-19-italy-suspends-free-museum-sundays-to-limit-crowds June 29th is the feast of St Peter and St Paul, the two patron saints of Rome, and a public holiday within the capital. But this year, the celebrations are a little different. https://www.thelocal.it/20180628/st-peter-st-paul-day-june-29-public-holiday-rome Thu, 28 Jun 2018 18:35:48 +0200 st-peter-st-paul-day-june-29-public-holiday-rome On June 27th and 28th, Italy's National Trust is inviting visitors to discover some of Italy's lesser-known heritage - outdoors. https://www.thelocal.it/20200623/italy-giornate-fai-2020 Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:50:52 +0200 italy-giornate-fai-2020 Working in the shadow of the great masters, the violin-makers of Italy's Cremona are valiantly fighting a shrinking market and foreign competition as they seek perfection, one violin at a time. https://www.thelocal.it/20200622/in-photos-inside-the-workshops-of-cremona-italys-cradle-of-violin-making Mon, 22 Jun 2020 12:03:56 +0200 in-photos-inside-the-workshops-of-cremona-italys-cradle-of-violin-making As major works come to an end this week at Pompeii, we look at some of the incredible discoveries by restorers over the past six years. https://www.thelocal.it/20200219/in-photos-the-treasures-unearthed-in-pompeiis-six-year-restoratiion Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:06:34 +0100 in-photos-the-treasures-unearthed-in-pompeiis-six-year-restoratiion Italy has nominated the distinctive porticos of Bologna as a Unesco World Heritage Site, calling them one of the north-eastern city's defining features. https://www.thelocal.it/20200122/italys-latest-unesco-candidate-the-porticos-of-bologna Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:38:42 +0100 italys-latest-unesco-candidate-the-porticos-of-bologna Visitors can now see the never-completed thermal baths of Pompeii, where excavators found a hidden tragedy. https://www.thelocal.it/20191126/pompeii-grand-thermal-baths-and-erotic-fresco-unveiled-to-the-public Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:51:28 +0100 pompeii-grand-thermal-baths-and-erotic-fresco-unveiled-to-the-public The gang used bulldozers and metal detectors to dig up and loot objects dating from 400 BC, including ancient Greek vases and jewels, in southern Italy before smuggling them out of the country. https://www.thelocal.it/20191119/italian-police-bust-smuggling-gang-looting-ancient-artifacts Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:55:21 +0100 italian-police-bust-smuggling-gang-looting-ancient-artifacts One of the best preserved Roman houses at Herculaneum, near Pompeii, reopened on Wednesday after more than 30 years, its exquisite paintings brought back to life thanks to a revolutionary new technique. https://www.thelocal.it/20191024/lost-artworks-at-herculaneum-uncovered-by-new-technique Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:24:22 +0200 lost-artworks-at-herculaneum-uncovered-by-new-technique A blaze broke out early Monday morning at the Cavallerizza Reale in Turin, part of the northern Italian city's Unesco-listed royal heritage, causing a section of the roof to collapse. https://www.thelocal.it/20191021/fire-at-turin-royal-horse-yard-italy-unesco-site Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:32:49 +0200 fire-at-turin-royal-horse-yard-italy-unesco-site An Italian court on Wednesday rejected a last-minute bid to halt the loan of Leonardo Da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man drawing and other works to France's Louvre museum, ending a bitter cultural row. https://www.thelocal.it/20191016/should-italy-loan-da-vinci-vitruvian-man-to-france Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:09:43 +0200 should-italy-loan-da-vinci-vitruvian-man-to-france Italy's popular free museum Sundays scheme, which was scrapped under the previous government, is being reinstated starting this weekend. https://www.thelocal.it/20191004/italys-free-museum-sundays-are-making-a-comeback Fri, 04 Oct 2019 12:29:10 +0200 italys-free-museum-sundays-are-making-a-comeback The cost of visiting the Colosseum, one of Italy's top tourist attractions, will increase by €4 from November. https://www.thelocal.it/20190923/rome-raises-the-price-of-visiting-the-colosseum Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:32:17 +0200 rome-raises-the-price-of-visiting-the-colosseum Italy's culture minister has put the kibosh on plans to build a mega McDonald's next to Rome's ancient Baths of Caracalla. https://www.thelocal.it/20190731/italy-rome-mcdonalds-terme-di-caracalla-cancelled Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:42:28 +0200 italy-rome-mcdonalds-terme-di-caracalla-cancelled Rome's mayor has called for a halt to the construction of a new McDonald's next to the Baths of Caracalla after saying she only learned about the project after reading about it in local media. https://www.thelocal.it/20190726/rome-vs-mcdonalds-city-fights-latest-opening-in-historic-centre Fri, 26 Jul 2019 14:46:26 +0200 rome-vs-mcdonalds-city-fights-latest-opening-in-historic-centre Italy's Prosecco hills north-east of Venice, which have been cultivated for centuries, were on Sunday added to the World Heritage list by the UN cultural organisation. https://www.thelocal.it/20190708/italy-prosecco-hills-added-to-unesco-world-heritage-list Mon, 08 Jul 2019 10:52:31 +0200 italy-prosecco-hills-added-to-unesco-world-heritage-list The marble bust of a Roman youth was returned to Italy this week for the first time since it was smuggled out over 50 years ago. https://www.thelocal.it/20190620/germany-returns-ancient-roman-bust-to-italy Thu, 20 Jun 2019 15:23:17 +0200 germany-returns-ancient-roman-bust-to-italy Rome will remove cobblestones from some of its busiest thoroughfares and re-lay them in pedestrian zones in a bid to improve the city's notoriously bad roads, Mayor Virginia Raggi announced on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20190611/rome-to-remove-cobblestones-from-its-main-roads Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:24:42 +0200 rome-to-remove-cobblestones-from-its-main-roads Italian fashion house Gucci will fund the restoration of the Tarpeian Rock, a cliff near the Roman Forum from which prisoners would be hurled to their deaths. https://www.thelocal.it/20190607/gucci-to-restore-ancient-cliff-romans-used-to-throw-traitors-off Fri, 07 Jun 2019 12:12:54 +0200 gucci-to-restore-ancient-cliff-romans-used-to-throw-traitors-off