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Vatican city tightens clothing rules
Yesterday locals and tourists alike were surprised when Swiss Guards at the customs point marking the City of Rome’s boundary with the Vatican City began pulling aside people they regarded as scantily dressed...
Read MoreSt Lawrence painting not by Caravaggio
Art experts who thought that a newly discovered painting of the Martyrdom of St Lawrence was by Caravaggio had their hopes dashed on Monday by the Director of the Vatican Museums, Antonio Paolucci.
Read MoreSummer film - Golden Oldie "Three coins in the fountain"
Is there anyone who has been to Rome and not thrown a coin into the Trevi fountain? Three American women visit the fountain at the beginning of this 1954 film by the Romanian director, Jean Negulesco, and, from that moment, we follow their search for love....
Read MoreRecord numbers attend all-night Caravaggio show
By 1 am on Sunday 20,000 people had entered Rome’s Borghese Gallery, free of charge, to see nine paintings by Caravaggio. The “notte bianca” [all-night opening] was held to celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of the artist’s death ...
Read MoreJuly and August events in Rome
Here’s our pick of the July events that you can still catch if you are going to Rome and of some events in early August, too.
Read MoreSummer film - A golden oldie, "Roman Holiday"
William Wyler’s 1953 romantic comedy, “Roman Holiday” is a delightful film starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn in her first major American screen role. It’s the one in which she famously gets her hair cut, telling a Roman hairdresser, “All off” and inspiring millions of women to crop their hair in real life...
Read MoreL'Aquila survivors hurt in protest
The centre of Rome was brought to a standstill yesterday as survivors of the Abruzzo earthquake demonstrated against the slow reconstruction of their ruined cities.
Read MoreAustralian wine bound for Italy
One hundred dozen bottles of Australian wine from Coonawarra will soon be on their way to Italy in readiness for the October celebrations of the canonisation of Australia’s first saint, Mary MacKillop.
Read MoreSistine Chapel - spot the differences!
Aleid Ford traces the evolution of Michelangelo’s painting style in the Sistine Chapel frescoes..
Read MoreEarliest images of apostles found in Rome
Archaeologists working on a Vatican funded restoration project in the Santa Tecla Catacomb in Rome have discovered the world’s oldest images of the Apostles Peter, Paul, John and Andrew.
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