Dozens of firefighters have been battling around the clock to extinguish a major wildfire raging on Mount Vesuvius in the southern Campania region of Italy.

Francis Ford Coppola, the acclaimed Italian-American director best known for The Godfather, was hospitalised in Rome on Tuesday for scheduled heart surgery.

Around one million young people from all over the world gathered in the outskirts of Rome this weekend for a prayer vigil as part of the Jubilee of Youth.

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Rome is blessed with more than 2,500 drinking fountains, known as nasoni, which provide residents and visitors with free fresh running water all year round.

Every August, Rome celebrates La Madonna della Neve - Our Lady of the Snows - by recreating a miraculous snowfall outside the Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore.

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.

Rome's Pantheon attracted more than 9 million visitors in 2019 - an increase of 4 per cent on the year before - making it Italy's top tourist site.

Italy's Uffizi Galleries has pledged new selfie limits after a clumsy tourist damaged an 18th-century painting while posing in front of it for a photograph.

Suor Cristina, the nun who won Italy's version of reality singing competition The Voice in 2014, has announced that she has left behind her religious vows.

The production of honey in Italy has a rich history, and bees in Italy today are known for their variety and for making some of the best honey in the world.

If there is one thing Italian coffee history proves, it is that coffee culture is Italian culture, it's a testament to the people coming together and enjoying life.