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The Italian origins of Pesce d’Aprile (April Fool’s Day) Puglia's growing aerospace sector Tuscany leads Italian luxury real estate market for European buyers Italian project teaches students to identify disinformation and fake news Italian culture has now recovered from the pandemic and is growing Italy at the forefront of high-performance and qu...

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Here in Italy, we live on an immense cultural heritage, often abandoned and underutilized. It is a treasure made up of thousands of cultural assets that, despite their historical and artistic value, remain in a state of decay. The Italian Ministry of Culture has recently launched a census to map these assets. Currently, 2,918 locations across Italy...

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Now available on Italy for Movies - the portal dedicated to locations and incentives for audiovisual production, promoted by the Ministry of Culture’s General Directorate for Cinema and Audiovisual and developed by Cinecittà in collaboration with theItalian Film Commissions - is the new section SUL SET.  This innovative tool, which is constantly up...

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The Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza and the Bosco delle Querce Regional Nature Park in the municipality of Seveso (province of Monza and Brianza) are the two Italian sites pre-selected for candidacy for the European Heritage Label as part of the 2025 selection. The Ministry of Culture evaluated the 11 nominations received on the basis of European releva...

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The Ministry of Culture of the Italian Republic and Emory University consolidate the 2023 cultural cooperation agreement by announcing today the transfer of an Etruscan Bucchero jug, a Greek black slipware fish-plate and five fragments of a Laconian Cup. The objects will remain in Atlanta on loan to the Emory’s Michael C. Carlos Museum. In November...

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The Italian state has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Villa Verdi, home of the great composer Giuseppe Verdi, Italy's culture ministry announced on Monday. Verdi lived and composed in the building, located in Sant'Agata di Villanova in the Piacenza area of northern Italy, from 1851 until his death in 1901. The state is to formally take po...

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Subiaco, in the province of Rome, has been proclaimed Italian Book Capital 2025. The municipality will receive a prize of 500,000 euros to be invested in initiatives for the development of reading. “the title of Italian Capital of Books is also intended to celebrate the cities of Italy as the propelling center of our civilization,” commented the Mi...

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The Intergovernmental Committee of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage has officially proclaimed the extension to Italy of UNESCO's recognition of traditional Bell Art as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This is yet another significant milestone achieved that sees one of its oldest and most beloved tr...

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Rome lovers and arts afficionados rejoice! In an effort to restore and showcase ancient artifacts stored in the warehouses of numerous Italian museums, the Italian Ministry of Culture, the non-profit association LoveItaly and the Lazio Hotel Federation have launched a new initiative entitled Art Out of the Museum (Arte Fuori del Museo).  The Museo...

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The Ministry of Culture announces that the jury for the selection of the city “Italian Capital of Contemporary Art” for the year 2026 has chosen the 5 finalist projects after reviewing the 23 applications received. These are the 5 finalists: Carrara (Tuscany): “Carrara - For 2000 years contemporary”; Gallarate (Lombardy): “La Cultura del Fare. The...

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