Events

The holidays aren’t over in Italy until the Befana comes around, January 6 or Epiphany Day, a feast that, in Western Christianity, commemorates the visit of…

The new year launches the calendar of Italian events with a celebratory feel. John Bensalhia reports... Christmas is over. The turkey has been eaten. The…

Get in the festive spirit with John Bensalhia, who looks at this month's Christmassy-influenced events (and others, of course!) It's inevitable that December's…

After Galileo, things were never the same. His contributions to astronomy and science in general made him a leading figure in the transition from natural…

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the leading sculptor of the 17th century, and the artist who made Rome the Baroque beauty we can still admire today, is the subject of a…

John Bensalhia rounds off the Autumn season for 2017 with a choice of events and festivals to satisfy all tastes This month's crop of events has a particularly…

While Halloween today is associated with Anglo-Saxon countries and especially the U.S., its roots lie deep in European traditions. Halloween is thought to have…

Cinecittà World, a theme park in Rome dedicated to the golden era of movie-making in the Italian capital, is celebrating Halloween with some new ‘spooky’…

You might think that Rovigo is an ordinary little town in the Veneto, but it has so much character, and so many places of interest, that it is worth a day’s…

[Photo: "Il Cinquecento a Firenze." Palazzo Strozzi, Florence.] Autumn is usually a good season for art lovers as many great exhibitions open in museums…