ROME – Italian Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, said that Palermo was defying its past “stereotypes” on Monday as he launched the city as Italy’s Capital of Culture for 2018.

ROME – The Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica di Roma in Palazzo Barberini plays host to one of the Raphael’s most important works, The Madonna of Esterházy, in a small show exploring a crucial mome

ROME – The surprising diversity and peaceful co-existence of Arab and European people was the central topic of discussion on Friday evening, during a presentation by award-winning historian, Antoni

   SREMSKI KARLOVCI -- Go to Serbia, to Belgrade.

ROME - Gibbon thought that the Roman Empire collapsed under its own weight, Friedrich Nietzsche suggested that Christianity softened it and there was a Russian scholar who blamed the lead in the Ro

ROME - Italian director, Luca Guadagnino, has received four Oscar nominations for his film, "Call Me By Your Name."

ROME - The Giornale di Sicilia called for a film on their former journalist, Mario Francese, who was murdered by the mafia, to be blocked on Sunday night, calling the piece "coarsely false," but Me

ROME - The vibrancy of Beirut's art scene is on full display at Rome's MAXXI museum until May 2018, in a sprawling show that tackles the themes of place, conflict and memory.

ROME - Marco Filippeschi, the Mayor of Pisa, has denounced state neglect of the Coltano radio centre as "a national scandal", in comments to Il Fatto Quotidiano on the site from where inventor and

ROME - Geologists at the University of Camerino have announced a new discovery in Selinunte Archaeological Park, a site containing the remains of an ancient Greek city in southwestern Sicily.

ROME - American loud and eccentric art of the 1950s to 80s defined a generation. Revellers enjoyed the post-war boom with materialistic glee.

ROME - The Italian Insider spoke to Abel Ferrara, one of the most controversial filmmakers of the era, near Piazza Vittorio, his home of several years in the Eternal City.

FLORENCE- The most promising names on Finland’s new fashion scenario are the stars of the Guest Nation project sponsored by the Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery during Pitti Immagine U

NAPLES - Why hold an exhibiton about the Longobards in Naples?

 MARTINA FRANCA - So much beauty fills Italy’s 300,000 square miles and certainly one of the most rustic and juiciest places to experience lies in souther

 ROME -- As we darted down the cobbled streets, taking shortcuts to avoid the crowds of tourists, I certainly had the impression that I was riding with a local. 

HELSINKI -- In the various international rankings, Finland regularly conquers top positions despite its relatively small number of inhabitants.

NEW YORK - As 2017 comes to an end, two iconic American restaurants are set to close. Bouchon in Beverly Hills, the creation of Thomas Keller, will clos

ROME - This week, the F Word contemporary art exhibition will come to the Carrozzerie n.o.t. performance theatre.