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A Naples scheme to give out plastic Rolexes to visiting luxury-watch wearers is already clocking up results.The campaign "already appears to have brou…
Villa D'Este near Rome is set to vie with European rivals for the laurel of the continent's most beautiful garden.The 16th-century gardens, grounds, f…
Three football clubs relegated to the second division over Serie A's biggest-ever scandal are preparing appeals against their punishment. On Friday an…
Taxi drivers up in arms over plans to deregulate their sector converged on Rome on Monday ahead of key talks with the government. More than 2,000 dr…
A sports tribunal in Rome brought an abrupt end to jubilation over Italy's World Cup success on Friday by throwing three of the country's top clubs ou…
Angry at Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy for calling Sardinians "stinky" and worse, a small town in Sardinia on Thursday officially declared itself…
Rome's Trevi Fountain was 'netted' on Thursday by environmentalists protesting against the use of illegal nets by Italian fishermen. Dozens of bewil…
Italian discotheques and police on Thursday launched a scheme to boost road safety among disco-goers - by offering them free entry if they use a desig…
Milan has come back into theframe for an Italian bid to host the 2016 Olympics amid confusion that Rome will answer the Italian Olympic Committee's (C…
Italy's Marco Materazzi will appear before a FIFA tribunal on Friday to give his version of the World Cup Final's notorious headbutting incident that…
The famed Italian Baroque'castrato' singer Farinelli has been dug up again so experts can try to find out what made these vanished virtuosi so special…
The Italian Olympic Committee(CONI) on Wednesday backed Rome's bid for the 2016 Olympics, locking horns with the city's mayor who appears ready to pul…
Naples is to give visiting luxury-watch-wearers plastic Rolexes as part of a drive to bring down crime and revive the city's spluttering tourist indus…
A great white shark was spotted on Wednesday off the coast of the southern Sicilian island of Lampedusa.The small specimen was seen 25 kilometres from…
World Cup-winning coach Marcello Lippi announced on Wednesday that he was leaving his job with the national team. In a statement released by the It…
Italy's national pride, battered recently by a string of corruption scandals, has been dramatically resuscitated by their football team's triumphant W…
The new government is hoping the knock-on benefits of Italy's Sunday World Cup soccer victory will extend to its stalled economy. Economy Minister Tom…
Controversial ex-minister Roberto Calderoli was at the centre of a fresh storm on Tuesday after making derogatory comments about France's national soc…
American, British and Italian archaeologists have made a major new find at the ancient Roman site of Stabiae, one of the hottest and most happening re…
A tall, blonde, blue-eyed 90-year-old Italian model is one of the stars of Rome Fashion Week, which kicked off Monday.Former equestrian champion Amali…