Plans by Italian Serie A football club AS Roma to build a new billion-euro stadium in Rome's Pietralata area could face a fresh hurdle from bats and birds.

Italy's audit court has called on Rome's mayor to speed up projects under way for the Vatican's Jubilee Year and to cancel the schemes most behind schedule.

Rome is steeped in religious traditions however few are as popular as Festa de' Noantri which has attracted large crowds every summer for almost 500 years.

A short guide to discovering seven charming hilltop towns and villages in the central Lazio region of Italy and how to travel there on day trips from Rome.

When 25 December arrives, in Italy everyone starts wishing, from the cashier at the grocery store to your closest friends, a Buon Natale, but what does Buon Natale mean?

A burglar who broke into a Rome apartment on Tuesday night was arrested after stopping in the middle of the robbery to read a book about Greek mythology.

From dormice rolled in honey to broad beans and sun-fermented fish-blood, we ask 'What did ancient Romans eat?' and take a look at the diet of ancient Rome.

Operation Eiche, when Mussolini was rescued by the Nazis. On the 25th of July, 1943, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was arrested at Villa Savoia in Rome. Mussolini’s arrest brought an end ...

Giovanni “Gianni” Agnelli, head of Fiat and an icon of Italian political and economic affairs, was a force to be reckoned with. A man of many names: L’Avvocato, Prince of Italy, King of Italy, and the ...