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 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 A 63-year-old man was arrested after a BBC journalist and his girlfriend caught him using his mobile phone to take videos up the skirts of unsuspecting women in Pisa’s Square of Miracles. https://www.thelocal.it/20150901/bbc-reporter-ensnares-pisas-up-skirt-voyeur Tue, 01 Sep 2015 09:55:16 +0200 bbc-reporter-ensnares-pisas-up-skirt-voyeur The owners of dozens of castles across Italy have been forced to put their properties up for sale as they struggle under the weight of mounting maintenance costs and high taxes, with the majority of interest so far coming from Russian buyers. https://www.thelocal.it/20141216/russians-line-up-to-buy-italys-fairytale-castles Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:41:00 +0100 russians-line-up-to-buy-italys-fairytale-castles The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected a case brought about by the biological parents of twins at the centre of an embryo mix-up controversy in Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20141010/human-rights-court-rejects-embryo-mix-up-case Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:58:00 +0200 human-rights-court-rejects-embryo-mix-up-case