News from italy

Thousands of demonstrators marched to protest Italy’s new “Green Pass”

December 2021 |
Thousands of demonstrators marched down Rome’s famous Via Veneto and other streets in October as they protested Italy’s new “Green Pass” vaccination requirement for employees to enter their offices. The certification was mandatory beginning on Oct....

Pompeii Archaeologists have unearthed an exceptionally rare find

December 2021 |
Pompeii archaeologists said last month they have unearthed the remains of a "slave room" in an exceptionally rare find at a Roman villa destroyed by Mount Vesuvius' eruption nearly 2,000 years ago. The little room with three beds, a ceramic pot and...

Italian physicist Giorgio Parisi won the Nobel Prize

November 2021 |
Italian physicist Giorgio Parisi of Rome's Sapienza University won the Nobel Prize for Physics along with Syukuro Manabe & Klaus Hasselmann. Parisi, 73, was born in Rome and won the prize for his research on complex systems. Parisi was...

Pope Francis signed for a more sustainable behavior

November 2021 |
Pope Francis and dozens of religious leaders have signed a joint appeal to governments to commit to ambitious targets at the upcoming UN climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow. The religious leaders also promised to do their own part to lead their...

A different way to see Tuscany

November 2021 |
Antonio Martini, an entrepreneur and head of the AM Turistic company, is offering visitors to Tuscany a different way to see the country. Martini and his staff are organizing trips that allow tourists to appreciate the territory from an aerial...

Plane crashed in Milan

November 2021 |
A private plane crashed into an empty office block in the northern Italian city of Milan, killing all eight people on board. The plane, which was bound for the island of Sardinia, came down after taking off from Milan's Linate airport. The pilot...

Italy’s Green Pass

October 2021 |
Italy’s Green Pass, a digital certificate showing that people have been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from covid-19, and is required for dining indoors in restaurants, long-distance travel and a host of cultural and leisure activities in...

In future Venice can be visited only in turnstiles

October 2021 |
Booking to enter the city via an app, a tourist tax and turnstiles are all closer to becoming a reality in Venice, as its mayor announced last month further details about how authorities plan to make tourism in the city more sustainable. Venice has...

Pope Francis sent 15,000 Ice Creams

October 2021 |
Pope Francis sent 15,000 ice creams to prisoners to help them cool down during what has been one of the hottest summers on record in Italy. The ice creams were delivered to Rome’s two prisons, Regina Coeli in the center of the city and Rebibbia on...
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