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Easter free museum and Easter Monday special openings

On Easter and Easter Monday, state-run museums, galleries, archaeological areas and parks, villas, gardens, abbeys and monumental complexes will remain regularly open to the public, allowing broad accessibility to cultural venues throughout Italy. On...
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Theft at Magnani-Rocca, appeal to the public: "Come defend beauty"

After the theft from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation in Mamiamo di Traversetolo, an affair that has hit Italian cultural heritage hard, the Foundation itself is launching a collective appeal to react through participation and sharing of beauty. After t...
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Ali Cherri, Silver Lion in Venice, denounces Israel for bombing in Beirut in which parents died

On April 2, Lebanese artist Ali Cherri (Silver Lion in Venice at the 2022 Biennale), together with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), filed a war crimes complaint with the crimes against humanity section of the Paris judicial court...
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Naked and lying on the beach at Venice Lido: they thought he was a corpse, he was an artist

It gained some resonance last March 28, an unusual incident that occurred on the Venice Lido: some passersby swam by a man, naked, white, lying on the beach and inert. Thinking of a dead body, they alerted law enforcement and medical aid, but the man...
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Pisa, the Church of Santa Maria della Spina will be fully restored: work has already begun

The restoration of the church of Santa Maria della Spina, on the Lungarno Gambacorti, was launched in recent days by the City of Pisa. The intervention, which will affect both the interior and exterior spaces of the building, is aimed at the protecti...
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Hackers at the Uffizi? Courier speaks of stolen data, museum denies

An alleged hacker attack on the computer systems of the Uffizi Galleries and its possible consequences for the security of the museum complex are at the center of a divergence between what Corriere della Sera reported in an article published this mor...
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Gianmarco Mazzi swears in at Quirinale: he is the new minister of tourism

Gianmarco Mazzi is sworn in this morning at the Quirinale as the new Minister of Tourism, officially taking office in the government led by Giorgia Meloni. The ceremony is being held in the presence of the Head of State, Sergio Mattarella, who receiv...
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Sensational theft at Magnani-Rocca Foundation (Parma): stolen Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse

An extraordinarily serious theft has struck one of northern Italy's most significant cultural centers . At the Magnani Rocca Foundation, in Mamiano di Traversetolo, in the province of Parma, several masterpieces of the highest artistic and economic v...
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As of April 1, there will be a change in visiting the Courtyard and Juliet House

As of April 1, 2026, a new access system and a new route will come into effect for two of Verona's most visited sites, thanks to an agreement recently signed between the City of Verona, the Teatro Nuovo Society and the Fondazione Atlantide Teatro Sta...
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Lucca's Holy Face temple restored: remains of medieval chapel and polychrome painting discovered

Having concluded the restoration of the Holy Face of Lucca, the famous polychrome wooden crucifix dating back to the 9th century and kept for more than a thousand years in the Cathedral of San Martino, attention has shifted to the small temple that h...
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Agreement between Ministry of Culture and Interior Ministry for the enhancement of the Worship Buildings Fund

A new Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Culture was signed on March 25 at the Viminale with the aim of strengthening institutional collaboration in the protection, preservation and enhancement of cul...
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Farewell to Fabio Roversi Monaco, former president of Genus Bononiae

Jurist Fabio Roversi Monaco, professor emeritus of Administrative Law, a central figure in the recent history of the University of Bologna as well as in Bolognese culture, has passed away in Bologna at the age of 87, as he was for a long time preside...
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Farewell to Antonio Homem, president of the Sonnabend Collection.

Antonio Homem, president and co-founder of the Sonnabend Collection Foundation, a leading figure in a long journey that intertwined collecting, research and cultural planning, has passed away at the age of 86. The international contemporary art world...
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In Florence, pilates is done inside a 12th-century church

In the center of Florence, just a few meters from the Ponte Vecchio, it is possible to do pilates inside an 11th-century church. This is not completely new, because the workout to be held on Saturday, March 28, was preceded by two other appointments,...
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Florence, name of author emerges from 2025 flood-damaged Dead Christ restoration

Presented today, March 25, 2026, atOfficina Creativa LAB - Conventino Fuori le Mura in Florence was the restoration of the sculpture depicting the Dead Christ, a painted plaster cast from the Pieve di San Martino in Sesto Fiorentino that was severely...
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Tourism Minister Daniela Santanché has resigned

Tourism Minister Daniela Santanchè has resigned. As early as yesterday, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had asked the minister to take a step back and follow the example of Undersecretary Delmastro and Chief of Staff Bartolozzi, who left their p...
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