ROME – Wine exports from Italy fetched a record value of 7.1 billion euros in 2021, an increase of over 12 percent in one year, according to a report from the Qualivita Foundation using

 MILAN – Street artworks depicting Vladimir Putin with a gun to his head was removed a short time after it was put there, said the artist and activist aleXsandro Palombo on social media.

ROME – ‘Si vis pacem, para bellum,’ if you want peace, prepare for war, goes the expression.

 MOSCOW – Following the addition of Italy to Russia’s list of ‘hostile countries,’ the country’s Ministry of Culture has asked Italian institutions to send back all the material they have

 FLORENCE – On the anniversary of birth of Michelangelo, the replica statue of David in Piazza della Signoria in Florence was covered with a black cloth as a sign of mourning and pain for the war i

 MILAN – The exhibition 'Grand Tour: Sogno d’Italia da Venezia a Pompei,' is open until March 27 in the Intesa Sanpaolo museum of the Lombardy capital.

MACERATA – The symphonic concert with Valery Gergiev at the head of the Mariinsky Orchestra has been axed from the city's Opera Festival due to the war in Ukraine, as told by Ansa news agency.

 VENICE – The curator and two artists due to represent Russia at the 59th International Venice Biennale have decided not to partake, saying, "there is no place for art when Ukrainian civi

 ROME -- For over three thousand years the rich volcanic soil of the Alban hills in the Roman countryside has  provided an ideal terrain for the production of wine.

NAPLES – During the applause at the end of an opera performed in the San Carlo Theatre, Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska and Russian mezzo Ekaterina Gubanova stepped forward togethe

ROME – For the first time, a single artist will represent Italy at the 59th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition.

 PALERMO – More than 200 documentaries have already been submitted to the 17th edition of the annual Sole Luna Doc Film Festival, which takes place every July in the Sicilian city.

 ROME – Just five percent of students in Italian universities come from abroad, according to provisional data on enrollment numbers, a statistic that correlates with low rankings for Ital

 ROME – A special program to celebrate St Valentine’s Day is running at the Borghese Gallery, with artwork themed around love and daily guided tours to tell their stories.

 ROME – A unique exhibition celebrating three distinctive contemporary Italian painters, Luigi Boille, Lamberto Pignotti and Bruno Aller, is not to be missed before it finishes March 27.

 ROME – The “extraordinary” Italian actress Monica Vitti has died at the age of 90 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s, announced the former culture minister Walter Veltroni at the reque

 ROME – A picture by street artist Laika popped up overnight in Via della Cordonata, showing the recently re-elected President Sergio Mattarella chasing after his moving van and shouting

 ROME – The annual celebration of the Scottish poet Robert Burns was marked at Villa Wolkonsky with an unconventional seafood menu, created by Michelin-star chef Giuseppe Di Iorio and res

ANZIO – The centenarian head of British war veterans in Italy, Harry Shindler, has paid tribute to his fallen companions duriing ceremonies to mark the 78th anniversary of the Battle of A

 BOLOGNA – The first edition of the Sana Slow Wine Fair will be held in the Emilia-Romagna capital from March 27 to 29, to allow full participation of operators, professionals and visitor

FLORENCE – An exhibition of Arnulf Rainer’s art at Galleria Poggiali in the Tuscan capital has proven so popular it has been extended until March 5, the organisers announced.

 PALERMO – The Antonio Salina Archaeological Museum in Sicily’s capital has agreed to send a valuable fragment of the Parthenon known as the ‘Fagan artefact’ back to Greece in exchange fo