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Rome, 450 euro fines boom for tourists' dips in historic fountains

Rome, 450 euro fines boom for tourists' dips in historic fountains

In thesummer of 2025, Rome saw asurge in penalties for illegal bathing in historic fountains. As reported by the newspaper Dagospia, newly restored monuments were transformed, on several occasions, into improvised pools by tourists. The fines, set at...
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Agrigento Capital of Culture, 650,000 euros for Riccardo Muti concert: controversy ensues

Agrigento Capital of Culture, 650,000 euros for Riccardo Muti concert: controversy ensues

650,000 euros for Riccardo Muti's concert in Agrigento, six times that the bill for the same concert organized last year in Lampedusa and also sponsored by the Sicilian Region. It is another tile that falls on Agrigento Italian Capital of Culture 202...
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Farewell to Mario Paglino and Gianni Grossi, creators of Barbie dolls inspired by art history

Farewell to Mario Paglino and Gianni Grossi, creators of Barbie dolls inspired by art history

Four people were killed in an accident on Sunday, July 27, on the A4 highway between the Novara Est and Marcallo Mesero toll booths. A head-on collision caused by a car traveling in the wrong direction, inside which was an 82-year-old man who also di...
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UK Parliament considers stop to oil company advertising: British Museum in crosshairs

UK Parliament considers stop to oil company advertising: British Museum in crosshairs

The UK Parliament will debate today, July 8, the possibility of banning advertising and sponsorship by fossil fuel companies. The debate, scheduled for 4:30 p.m. local time and streamed live on Parliament's official website, comes on the heels of a s...
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Minister Giuli wants to support Ostia Antica's Unesco bid: "It is our Pompeii."

Minister Giuli wants to support Ostia Antica's Unesco bid: "It is our Pompeii."

Rome needs much more than the Jubilee to regain its cultural centrality. This is the message that emerged from Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli's speech during Fratelli d'Italia's Festa, Piazza Italia, held in Rome July 3-5, 2025. Taking the stage, ...
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Trump wants to join the four presidents at Mount Rushmore

Trump wants to join the four presidents at Mount Rushmore

A clip features a camera moving slowly over a photograph of Mount Rushmore, the monumental sculpture located in the Black Hills of South Dakota that has depicted the faces of four American presidents since 1941-George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Th...
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Rome, car on Trinità dei Monti steps: 80-year-old driver, monument safe

Rome, car on Trinità dei Monti steps: 80-year-old driver, monument safe

A car ended up on the Spanish Steps of Trinità dei Monti, one of the capital's most famous sites, in the early hours of dawn. Driving the vehicle was an 80-year-old man who, due to causes still being ascertained, drove his car down part of the...
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Fake furniture for Versailles: convicted French expert and restorer

Fake furniture for Versailles: convicted French expert and restorer

A French furniture expert and an art restorer have been found guilty of a sophisticated multimillion-dollar scam against the antiques market, in which authentic 18th-century chairs were counterfeited to be resold as original furniture belonging to hi...
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