The Local

Passengers crossing Italy by train could face cancellations and delays of up to three hours in July as scheduled maintenance at Florence's central station gets underway, interrupting coections between the north and south of the country....

Understanding how Italy's media differs from that in your home country can help explain everything from dier table debates to political discourse....

Figuring out who Italy’s inheritance tax applies to and how can be challenging, especially in the case of foreign nationals living or owning assets in the country....

Tourists were waed to expect long delays and disruption to high-speed services throughout August as Italy's rail management company aounced “enhancement works” taking place on many major routes....

The Ministry of Health has made ten vaccines against common diseases compulsory for all children aged under 16 resident in Italy. The so-called Lorenzin decree, which became law in July 2017, makesten vaccinations compulsoryandfree of chargefor allchildren aged 0-16. The law makes the vaccinations a pre-requisite for registering children in school. Parents will have to present their vaccinati...

Hard-working pizza chefs cooked up a record-breaking 5,836 pizzas in around 12 hours in the southe region of Puglia. That's an impressive average of 550 pizzas an hour, or more than nine every minute. The previous record of 5,070 - which had been set in Chiasso, Switzerland, in June 2015 by the Naples Academy of Pizza - was broken after ten hours and 23 minutes, and the Pugliese chefs went on to bake a further 766 delicious pies. The record of pizza production was first established by employees of a Singaporean restaurant who made a total of 3,574, so the chefs will be pleased to bring the title back home. It was a team effort of 43 pizza-makers, many from Italy's association of qualified pi...

An exhibition featuring 120 works by Banksy has opened in Rome. Photo: Thomas Coex/AFPA major exhibition of Banksy's works opens in Rome on Tuesday and, as ever with the secretive British street artist, there is mystery attached. What will he make of a project he has not been involved in? Will he show upincognito? If he doesn't approve, will he make his displeasure known on thewalls of Rome? The collection of more than 100 Banksy paintings, prints and sculpturessourced from private collections around the world is being billed byorganizers as the first time such a large collection of the artist's work hasbeen brought together in a curated, museum exhibition. Entitled "War, Capitalism and Libe...