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 sculptor whose towering bronze statue of Swedish football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic was vandalised on Sunday has called for it to be moved to Milan. https://www.thelocal.it/20200106/stick-zlatan-sculpture-in-milan-artist-after-vandalism Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:51:10 +0100 stick-zlatan-sculpture-in-milan-artist-after-vandalism A small town in the midst of Tuscany's rolling hills is about to get a new resident: US President Donald Trump, in statue form. https://www.thelocal.it/20170207/a-small-italian-town-is-building-a-statue-of-donald-trump Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:01:16 +0100 a-small-italian-town-is-building-a-statue-of-donald-trump A provocative statue of the German dictator Adolf Hitler by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan has sold at auction for €15.1 million. https://www.thelocal.it/20160510/italian-artist-flogs-controversial-hitler-statue-for-151-million Tue, 10 May 2016 14:09:41 +0200 italian-artist-flogs-controversial-hitler-statue-for-151-million Michelangelo's world-famous statue of David got a clean-up Monday financed by a US non-profit group which has spent some €500,000 in recent years preserving such Renaissance masterpieces. https://www.thelocal.it/20160301/michelangelos-david-gets-expensive-clean-up Tue, 01 Mar 2016 09:05:37 +0100 michelangelos-david-gets-expensive-clean-up The head of an ancient Greek statue of extraordinary artistic and historical value will finally arrive back in Italy on Friday – almost three decades after being illegally ripped from the ground. https://www.thelocal.it/20160129/us-museum-gives-italy-back-looted-head-of-greek-statue Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:42:56 +0100 us-museum-gives-italy-back-looted-head-of-greek-statue As the Italian media on Wednesday raged against a decision to cover up nude statues during a visit to a Rome museum by the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, mystery mounted over who actually endorsed it. https://www.thelocal.it/20160127/italy-baffled-over-who-endorsed-nude-statue-cover-up Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:13:36 +0100 italy-baffled-over-who-endorsed-nude-statue-cover-up Authorities in a small town in Campania have riled residents after agreeing to spend a whopping €150 million - on building a statue in honour of the Italian saint, Padre Pio, that will be even bigger than the Statue of Liberty. https://www.thelocal.it/20160118/crumbling-italian-town-plans-giant-150-million-padre-pio-statue Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:15:18 +0100 crumbling-italian-town-plans-giant-150-million-padre-pio-statue A naked statue in Florence was covered by the Italian premier Matteo Renzi's team so as not to offend the visiting crown prince of Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20151007/renzi-covers-nude-statue-to-spare-sheikhs-blushes Wed, 07 Oct 2015 19:10:35 +0200 renzi-covers-nude-statue-to-spare-sheikhs-blushes Vandals in Florence have broken a finger off Pio Fedi’s famous statue of the Rape of Polyxena, Italian media has reported. It’s only the latest act of vandalism by careless visitors to the city. https://www.thelocal.it/20150603/vandals-break-finger-off-florence-statue Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:15:44 +0200 vandals-break-finger-off-florence-statue The Catholic Church in Rio de Janeiro has threatened to sue Rai for between €5 and €7 million after Italy's state broadcaster ran an advert with Rio's famous Christ the Redeemer statue “dressed” in an Italian football shirt. https://www.thelocal.it/20140609/rai-in-trouble-over-blasphemous-world-cup-ad Mon, 09 Jun 2014 18:29:00 +0200 rai-in-trouble-over-blasphemous-world-cup-ad Florence's museums authority on Tuesday played down the risk of Michelangelo's 500-year-old David statue falling down because of fractures in its ankles. https://www.thelocal.it/20140506/michelangelos-david-statue-wont-fall-down Tue, 06 May 2014 14:15:00 +0200 michelangelos-david-statue-wont-fall-down A 20-year-old woman from Salerno in the southern Italian region of Campania is reported to have been cured of cancer after touching a statue of the Virgin Mary. https://www.thelocal.it/20140107/woman-cured-of-cancer-after-approaching-the-madonna Tue, 07 Jan 2014 10:37:00 +0100 woman-cured-of-cancer-after-approaching-the-madonna Pope Francis has become the latest figure in Rome's wax museum with a statue depicting the pontiff smiling in the iconic moment when he appeared on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica after his election. https://www.thelocal.it/20131206/pope-francis-statue-joins-rome-wax-museum Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:27:00 +0100 pope-francis-statue-joins-rome-wax-museum Italian archaeologists on Thursday said they have recovered an ancient Roman marble statue spotted by a diver in an imperial palace that is now under water in the Bay of Naples. https://www.thelocal.it/20131108/roman-statue-found-at-underwater-palace Fri, 08 Nov 2013 09:25:00 +0100 roman-statue-found-at-underwater-palace Police have launched an investigation after vandals broke off the left index finger of the Stella Maris, a marble Madonna statue commemorating the victims of the Costa Concordia tragedy on the Tuscan island of Giglio. https://www.thelocal.it/20130822/vandals-break-finger-off-concordia-memorial-statue Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:22:00 +0200 vandals-break-finger-off-concordia-memorial-statue An American tourist could face charges after accidentally snapping a finger off a 600-year-old statue in Florence's Galleria dell'Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, local media reported on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20130805/tourist-snaps-finger-of-600-year-old-statue Mon, 05 Aug 2013 19:44:00 +0200 tourist-snaps-finger-of-600-year-old-statue