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 latest incident of vandalism at Rome's treasured Colosseum comes just days after another tourist carved their initials into the monument. https://www.thelocal.it/20190430/tourist-caught-vandalising-colosseum-in-rome Tue, 30 Apr 2019 13:27:43 +0200 tourist-caught-vandalising-colosseum-in-rome Italian police caught a tourist trying to make off with a Roman brick from the Colosseum as a "souvenir" yesterday, they said. https://www.thelocal.it/20181211/tourist-caught-trying-to-steal-a-brick-from-romes-colosseum Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:08:04 +0100 tourist-caught-trying-to-steal-a-brick-from-romes-colosseum Police have arrested a man for dyeing the Trevi Fountain, the second time in ten years that Rome's iconic water feature has run red. https://www.thelocal.it/20171026/trevi-fountain-red Thu, 26 Oct 2017 20:20:24 +0200 trevi-fountain-red A cluster of palm trees next to Milan's Duomo was set ablaze early Sunday as a dispute over the use of non-native plants at one of Italy's most celebrated cathedrals took on a racist tinge. https://www.thelocal.it/20170220/vandals-burn-milan-duomo-palm-trees-in-racism-row Mon, 20 Feb 2017 09:53:02 +0100 vandals-burn-milan-duomo-palm-trees-in-racism-row You'd think tourists would have got the message by now: vandalizing Italy's centuries-old, painstakingly restored cultural monuments is not cool. https://www.thelocal.it/20170215/tourist-charged-after-carving-name-into-colosseum Wed, 15 Feb 2017 10:23:17 +0100 tourist-charged-after-carving-name-into-colosseum Italian police were on Monday on the hunt for the authors of anti-pope posters which have been slapped around Rome, amid suspicions the campaign may be linked to an arch-conservative wing of the Catholic Church. https://www.thelocal.it/20170207/romes-police-are-on-the-hunt-for-unknown-anti-pope-plotters Tue, 07 Feb 2017 08:34:47 +0100 romes-police-are-on-the-hunt-for-unknown-anti-pope-plotters An attempt to break into Rome's Colosseum on Saturday night has left two tourists injured, with one expected to spend several weeks in hospital. https://www.thelocal.it/20170116/tourists-injured-after-entering-colosseum-at-night Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:58:48 +0100 tourists-injured-after-entering-colosseum-at-night Police in Rome are examining CCTV footage in a bid to identify vandals who damaged one of the city's most famous pieces of public sculpture, Bernini's Elephant and Obelisk. https://www.thelocal.it/20161115/shock-as-historic-elephant-statue-damaged-in-rome Tue, 15 Nov 2016 10:55:34 +0100 shock-as-historic-elephant-statue-damaged-in-rome Archaeologists working at the Roman ruins of Ostia Antica, near Rome, made an unpleasant and shocking discovery when they re-opened a dig site to find it was full of satanic symbols. https://www.thelocal.it/20150709/satanic-symbols-carved-into-ruins-at-ostia-antica Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:22:36 +0200 satanic-symbols-carved-into-ruins-at-ostia-antica 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 Two tourists are in hot water with Rome police after they were caught carving their names into a pillar of the Colosseum with a coin. https://www.thelocal.it/20140813/tourists-caught-carving-names-into-colosseum Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:49:00 +0200 tourists-caught-carving-names-into-colosseum Staff at Rome's Colosseum were outraged after catching an Australian man and his son - aged 45 and 12 - scrawling their names on the iconic monument in an attempt to leave their mark. https://www.thelocal.it/20140113/outrage-after-australian-tourists-deface-colosseum Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:25:00 +0100 outrage-after-australian-tourists-deface-colosseum