A 51-year-old Scottish tourist was charged with aggravated theft after stealing six pieces of stone during a tour of Pompeii archaeological park in Italy.

Several cities in northern and central Italy, including Bergamo, Florence and Milan, record major blackouts as the nation grapples with an intense heatwave.

Rome celebrates its patron saints Peter and Paul with a public holiday in Italy's capital on 29 June, leading to the closure of shops, businesses and offices.

Italy's Uffizi Galleries has pledged new selfie limits after a clumsy tourist damaged an 18th-century painting while posing in front of it for a photograph.

An elderly motorist was stopped by police in Rome as he drove down a long stretch of the Spanish Steps landmark in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

A mystery 'ancient Roman' mosaic unearthed in central Rome this week features a banquet scene whose protagonists are dining on what appears to be fast food.

A 47-year-old tourist was seriously injured when he became impaled on railings around the Colosseum after attempting to scale a fence at the Rome landmark.

Work got underway in the Vatican on Friday morning to mount a chimney over the Sistine Chapel ahead of the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis.

Italy's premier Giorgia Meloni convened emergency talks in Rome on Thursday after US president Donald Trump announced a 20 per cent tariff on EU imports.

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Rome mayor Roberto Gaultieri inaugurated a new-look Piazza del Cinquecento in front of Termini train station as part of works for the Vatican's Jubilee Year.