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Pompeii wil stop ticket to 20,000 a day
December 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Pompeii is to limit visitor numbers to 20,000 a day and introduce personalized tickets in an effort to cope with overtourism and protect the world heritage site, officials said last month. This summer, a record 4 million people visited the remains...
Rome is working for the Jubilee 2025
December 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
To prepare for the Vatican’s Jubilee in 2025, Roman officials have announced big plans for the city’s iconic Trevi Fountain. The site will be thoroughly cleaned and restored and a new entry fee will be introduced. The fountain hasn’t received a...
New Museum space for Pompei artefacts in Naples
December 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
A massive new museum space that will be dedicated to artefacts from Pompeii is under construction in Naples. MANN 2 will be an expansion of the city’s Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), which houses the largest collection of classical...
A real Picasso painting found in the junk
November 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
A painting that was found by a junk dealer while he was clearing out the cellar of a home in Capri and was regularly decried by his wife as “horrible”, is an original portrait by Pablo Picasso, Italian experts have claimed. After he stumbled across...
Lea Pericoli Italian tennis star of the 1950s and 60s, died at age 89
November 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Lea Pericoli, Italian tennis star of the 1950s and 60s, died at age 89. Regarded as one of Italy’s top players, she reached the last 16 of the French Open twice and the Wimbledon championships three times. On top of her athletic achievements,...
Melting glaciers redraw the Border through Italy and Switzerland
November 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Switzerland and Italy have redrawn part of their border in the Alps due to melting glaciers, caused by climate change. Part of the area affected will be beneath the Matterhorn, one of Europe's tallest mountains, and SUBSCRIBE NOW!
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off the coast of Sicily was found A 2,000-year-old battering ram
October 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
A 2,000-year-old battering ram sunk during the First Punic War has been discovered off the coast of Sicily. The bronze fragment of the ram, called a rostrum, was found 250 feet below sea level between the Aegadian islands Levanzo and Favignana,...
Rome’s Arch of Constantine Strike by A Lighting
October 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
During a storm in September, lightning struck Rome’s Arch of Constantine, chipping the structure’s marble surface. The 1,700-year-old arch and its neighbor, the Colosseum, were two of several sites affected by the thunderstorm, which produced over...
A new vegan version of Nutella imminent launch
October 2024 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Italian food giant Ferrero announced the imminent launch of a vegan version of its popular hazelnut spread Nutella in Italy, France and Belgium, saying the move was in response to changing consumer tastes. Vegan Nutella will no longer contain any...
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