Italy: Scientists may have found magic ingredient behind ancient Rome’s self-healing concrete
Rome: The ancient Roman Empire still makes its presence felt throughout Europe. Bathhouses, aqueducts, and seawalls built more than 2000...
History & Culture
Pakistan-China Cultural Exchange Programme proposed to pave way for Pakistan-China Cultural Corridor
Lahore: Pakistan China Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCJCCI) President Moazzam Ghurki has proposed setting up of Pakistan China...
Zardari felicitates Sindh on Culture Day
Karachi: Former president of Pakistan and President Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians Asif Ali Zardari, while congratulating Sindh on celebrating the...
Italy: Discovery of ancient bronze statues may rewrite Etruscan and Roman history
Rome: Italian archaeologists are hailing a recent discovery as the "most exceptional" in the last half-century. They believe it could...
Italy: New study shows the evolution of eating
Rome: Archaeologists identified two major shifts in Italian oral bacteria from the time of the prehistoric hunter-gatherers 33,000 years ago...
Italy: Discovery of bronzes rewrites Etruscan-Roman history
Rome: Italian authorities on Tuesday announced the extraordinary discovery of 2,000-year-old bronze statues in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring and...
Ambassador WADA Mitsuhiro, WADA Naoko host a reception to celebrate Japan Self-Defense Forces Day
Islamabad: Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan, WADA Mitsuhiro and WADA Naoko hosted a reception on Tuesday to celebrate the 68th...
EU organizes ‘Unity Diversity’ festival to showcase European culture, heritage
Islamabad: European Union and its member states here on Saturday organized a festival “Unity Diversity” for the residents of Islamabad...
EuroVillage is back: residents of twin cities invited to discover European diversity at the family festival
Islamabad: The European Union and its member states organize the popular, family-focused festival “EuroVillage” again on 29th of October at...
Italy: Artemisia Gentileschi – trailblazing Rome artist
Rome: Artemisia Gentileschi was a pioneering and fearless Roman artist whose trailblazing artistic legacy is only being fully appreciated in...
Cake cutting ceremony held to mark National Day of China
Peshawar: A cake cutting ceremony was held at the Chinese Cultural Center Peshawar to mark 73rd National Day of China....
China Cultural Center launches series of lectures on ‘Online Chinese Culture Talk’
Islamabad: China Cultural Center (CCC) in Pakistan has launched a series of lectures on ‘Online Chinese Culture Talk.’ The first...
Italy: October in Rome – What is Ottobrata Romana?
Ottobrate romane were originally October day trips to Rome's countryside.The expression "ottobrata romana" generally conjures up images of basking in...
Italy: Why did the Roman Empire split in two?
Joe Phelan Rome: An old adage states that Rome wasn't built in a day, meaning that big projects take time...
Italy marks European Heritage Days 2022 this weekend
Rome: Italy hosts a nationwide programme of cultural events to mark the 2022 edition of European Heritage Days which is...
Chinese Cultural Counsellor holds meeting with new PNCA chief, discuss cultural cooperation
Islamabad: Cultural Counsellor of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Pakistan Zhang Heqing has held a meeting...
Italy opens museums and archaeological sites for free
Rome: State museums and archaeological sites in Rome and across Italy remained open for free on Sunday thanks to the...
2022 China Tourism and Culture Week to kick off in Pakistan on September 6
Islamabad: China Cultural Center in Pakistan Saturday launched a series of online activities to celebrate the global “2022 China Tourism...
Italy museums offer €2 tickets to 18-25 year olds
Rome: Italy's state museums, archaeological sites and monuments offer visitors aged 18 to 25 a special reduced admission fee of...
3rd Century Head of Bodhisattva, illegally traded by discredited Indian Art Collector returned to Pakistan
Canberra: In a momentous ceremony at the High Commission for Pakistan, Canberra, a Gandharan Head of Bodhisattva, dating back to...
Italy marks 50 years since discovery of Riace Bronzes
Rome: Italy marks 50 years since the discovery of the Riace Bronzes, two ancient Greek warrior statues found by chance...
Italy: Rome opens archaeological dig to public
Rome: Rome opens an archaeological dig in Largo Corrado Ricci to visitors, with free guided tours on select dates over...
7000 people registered for Pakistan Food and Cultural Festival organized at Langfang, China
Islamabad: Pakistan Embassy, Beijing organized a Food and Cultural Festival at the state-of-the-art Silk Road Art and Cultural Centre in...
Getty to return three major sculptures to Italy
Tom Mashberg and Elisabetta Povoledo Rome: A beautifully preserved grouping of three life-size terra-cotta figures dating to 300 B.C. that...
Italy: Roman bridge discovered during road works in Rome
Rome: Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Roman bridge from the Imperial era during an excavation alongside the Via...
Italy: WW2 bomb revealed in drought-hit waters of River Po
Borgo Virgilio: Heatwaves sweeping Europe this summer have brought not just record high temperatures and scorched fields: the drought-stricken waters...
Italy opens Museum of Italian Language in Florence
Florence: Italy will launch a new Museum of the Italian Language, at the S. Maria Novella complex in Florence today...
Italy opens new museum of rescued treasures in Rome
Rome: Italy has opened a new museum showcasing ancient artefacts that were looted from Italian archaeological sites and trafficked abroad...
Italy to help preserve cultural heritage
Karachi: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that his government and Italy are working very closely in...
Italy to help preserve cultural heritage
Karachi: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that his government and Italy are working very closely in...
China Soong Ching Ling Foundation “Junior Cultural Ambassadors” Event launched
Gwadar Pro Islamabad: In order to promote cultural exchanges and mutual learning, and tighten people-to-people bonds between different countries, China...
Festa della Repubblica celebrated
Rome: Italian Republic Day, also widely known as ‘Festa della Repubblica’ for Italians, was nationally celebrated on Thursday. The historical...
CCC to launch eight-episode documentary series about Chinese generation
Islamabad: The China Cultural Center (CCC) will launch an eight-episode documentary series about Chinese generations post-80s and 90s. The documentary...
Italy celebrates Festa della Repubblica with public holiday on June 2
Rome: Italy celebrates Festa della Repubblica, Italy's Republic Day, with a national public holiday on Thursday 2 June 2022. This...
Italy: The day Michelangelo’s Pietà was vandalised
Rome: 50 years ago today, a Hungarian man called Laszlo Toth climbed over an altar rail in St Peter’s Basilica...
Italy: Open House Roma 2022: Discover Rome’s hidden architectural gems
Rome: Registration is open for the 2022 edition of Open House Roma which opens the doors of 200 of Rome’s...
Italy seeks Unesco world heritage status for Appian Way
Rome: Italy has begun the candidacy process to have the Via Appia Antica inserted in the Unesco World Heritage List,...
Italy: Tourist falls in Rome’s Borghese Gallery, damages Guido Reni painting
Rome: Rome museum experts are assessing the damage caused to a painting by Baroque master Guido Reni after a visitor...
Italy: Court says kids should take surnames of both parents
Rome: Italian rules requiring children to be given automatically only their father’s surname are unlawful, the country’s constitutional court ruled...
Italy: Rome’s 100 Painters return to Via Margutta
Rome: 100 Pittori, Rome's historic open-air art event, returns to Via Margutta with its 117th edition from April 28 to...
Italy to celebrate Labour Day on May 1
Rome: Italy celebrates Labour Day - known as the Festa dei Lavoratori or Festa del Lavoro - with a nationwide...
Italy: Rome museums free for city’s 2,775th birthday on 21 April
Rome: Rome celebrates its 2,775th birthday by opening city-run museums for free on Thursday 21 April 2022. The free opening...
Italy: Ancient Rome comes to life for city’s 2,775th birthday
Rome: Rome celebrates its 2,775th birthday on 21 April 2022. The annual event, known as Natale di Roma, is based...
Ambassador Andreas Ferrarese, Albana Ferrarese greet Christians on Easter, wish global peace
Islamabad: Ambassador of Italy Andreas Ferrarese and his wife Albana Ferrarese on Sunday greeted the Christians in Italy, Pakistan and...
Italy: May Day concert returns to Rome piazza after two years
Rome: The traditional concert to celebrate Labour Day in Italy returns to Rome's Piazza S. Giovanni in Laterano on 1...
Italy: President inaugurates Italy’s Capital of Culture 2022
Rome: Italian president Sergio Mattarella visited Procida on Saturday to inaugurate the tiny island in the Gulf of Naples as...
Italy: Rome marks ANZAC Day 2022
Rome: The embassies of Australia and New Zealand in Rome will mark ANZAC Day 2022 with a memorial service on...
Italy: The story of Easter cake – Colomba
Rome: The traditional 'dove-shaped' Colomba di Pasqua or Colomba pasquale has been a firm fixture on the Easter calendar in...
Italy: Rome reopens underground Roman houses on Caelian Hill
Rome: The Case Romane del Celio is an underground archaeological site comprising 20 rooms on various levels under the church...
Fossils of dinosaur footprints, water ripples found in East China
Jinan: Well-preserved fossils of dinosaur footprints and water ripples were found during a field survey carried out by Zhucheng Dinosaur...
Rome: Rome will celebrate its 2,775th birthday on 21 April 2022.
Known as Natale di Roma, the annual birthday celebration is based on the legendary founding of Rome by Romulus in...
Italy: Rome remembers the Fosse Ardeatine massacre
Rome: On this day 78 years ago, the Nazi forces then occupying Rome carried out one of the most horrific...
Italy celebrates Italian Unity Day
Rome: Italian president Sergio Mattarella marked Italian Unity Day on Thursday by saying that Italy and "other countries that share...
Italy: Pesaro wins county’s Capital of Culture 2024 title
Pesaro: The Italian seaside city of Pesaro has been proclaimed as the country's Capital of Culture 2024, the culture ministry...
Italy: Ides of March – Rome remembers Julius Caesar
Rome: The Ides of March was the 74th day in the Roman calendar, determined by the full moon, and corresponded...
Italy: Rome in March means Marathons
Rome: The 2022 Rome-Ostia half marathon returned to the capital on Sunday (March 6), resulting in numerous street closures and...
Italy: 75 Italian photographers show history
Rome: The Photo Exhibition Italiae, from Alinari to the Masters of Contemporary Photography, kicked off at Chongqing Library on Monday,...
Chinese cultural event ‘Lantern Festival’ celebrated at UoS
Sargodha: Chinese cultural event, Lantern Festival, was celebrated at the University of Sargodha (UoS) here. The event was co-organised by...
Italy: Shelley in Rome film screening at Spanish Steps
Rome: Rome's Keats-Shelley House will host a free public screening of the short film Shelley in Rome on the façade...
Beijing makes progress in Central Axis application to world heritage list
China Economic Net Beijing: Beijing has made progress in the application for its Central Axis to be included in the...
Italy: Venice’s floating carnival returns
Hermione Kitson in Venice Venice: Italy's floating city of Venice is preparing for the return of its world-famous Carnival, which...
Italy displays Michelangelo’s three Pietà sculptures together for first time
Florence: The three Pietà sculptures by Renaissance master Michelangelo will be displayed together for the first time in an exhibition...
Italy: Rome opens city museums for free
Rome: Rome's city-run museums are open for free to all visitors - residents and tourists - on Sunday 6 February....
Italy: The story of Rome’s carnival – Carnevale Romano
Rome: The first certain traces of Rome's carnival celebrations date back to the 12th century. The ludus carnevalarii saw the...
Roundtable on Gilgit-Baltistan’s rich history and placement in BRI organized
Islamabad: NUST Institute of Policy Studies (NIPS) has organised a high-level roundtable on Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), its rich history and placement...
Italy lowers price for 16th century Roman villa after first auction fails
Rome: An Italian tribunal lowered the minimum price for a 16th century Roman villa that boasts Caravaggio’s only fresco after...
Italy’s sale of the century: Rome villa with its own Caravaggio
Rome: Rome's Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, home to the world's only ceiling mural painted by Caravaggio, is up for...
The Exhibition ‘NINGYO: Art and Beauty of Japanese Dolls’ inaugurated at the National Art Gallery
Islamabad: To kick start the 70th anniversary celebrations of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Pakistan, the Embassy...
Italy: Rome unearths ancient dog statue and tombs under street
Rome: Rome archaeologists have unveiled the remains of a 2,000-year old burial complex discovered during street works in the Appio...
Italy celebrates 100 years of Pasolini
Rome: Italy is to mark the centenary of the birth of the film director, poet, writer and intellectual Pier Paolo...
Italy welcomes home trafficked antiquities from US museums
Milan: Italy’s culture minister has welcomed the return of 201 prized antiquities valued at over 10 million euros ($11 million)...
Italy: Christmas tradition of bagpipe-playing shepherds
Rome: The spectacle of bagpipe-playing shepherds, known as zampognari, is common in central and southern Italy during the Christmas season...
Diplomatic success as Australia returns smuggled bronze age stone – HIGH COMMISSIONER ZAHID HAFEEZ CHAUDHRI RECEIVES ANICONIC STONE
Canberra: In a diplomatic achievement for Pakistan, the government of Australia on Wednesday returned an aniconic stone weight id 3rd...
Chinese embassy welcomes exhibition of Chinese and Pakistani students’ art works
Gwadar Pro Islamabad: The Chinese embassy in Pakistan has appreciated the Exhibition of the Chinese and Pakistani Students Art Works...
How Italy came to be Europe’s coffee capital
Rome: Given how protective Italians can be over their coffee culture, you might be forgiven for thinking they invented the...
Italy’s team resumes excavation work at Bhanbhore
Karachi: A team of Italian experts led by Prof Valeria Fiorani Piacentini has resumed excavation work at the ancient site...
Italy: Rome rebuilds Basilica Ulpia in Trajan’s Forum
Rome: The Basilica Ulpia, built by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus at the behest of the Emperor Trajan between 106...
Italy: Where to find the best olive oil in Lazio
Rome: With the arrival of November, the olive growing areas of Lazio are in action and the mills are prepared...
Most important international universities in Italy
Rome: Finding a university that satisfies your needs is sometimes challenging, however if you consider going to Italy, you will...
Italy: Uffizi is the Best Museum in the World, says Time Out
Florence: The Uffizi in Florence has come first in a list of the best museums and galleries in the world...
Italy: Rome villa with world’s only Caravaggio mural is for sale
Rome: Italy's real estate and art worlds are all a flutter over the news that Rome's Casino di Villa Boncompagni...
Italy: Rome restores Bernini’s beloved Cornaro Chapel
Rome: One of Rome's greatest treasures - the Cornaro Chapel with its sculptural masterpiece by Baroque genius Gian Lorenzo Bernini...
Italy: Rome city museums free on Sunday
Rome: Rome's city-run museums will open for free to all visitors - residents and tourists - on Sunday 3 October....
Italy: What is Ottobrata Romana?
Rome: Ottobrate romane were originally October day trips to Rome's countryside. The expression "ottobrata romana" generally conjures up images of...
Italy: Florence restores Michelangelo’s Bandini Pietà
Florence: The restoration of Michelangelo’s Bandini Pietà at the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence's cathedral museum, has been completed. Researchers...
Italy: A landslide accidentally created this tourist hotspot.
Rome: Alleghe is a small village tucked between the Dolomites, a mountain range part of the Alps in Northern Italy,...
Italy marks 700 years since death of Father of the Italian Language
Florence: Italy continues its year-long celebrations in honour of Dante Alighieri, known as the Father of the Italian Language, who...
Italy: La Fornarina – who was Raphael’s mysterious lover?
Rome: Raphael's portrait is one of the most popular paintings at Palazzo Barberini in Rome. La Fornarina, Raphael's celebrated portrait...
Pakistan urged to pass anti-torture law
Islamabad: The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Pakistan to pass a bill that would assign the torture of prisoners...
Italy: Country homes selling for $1.50
Rome: If you dream of a more drastic move than a local sea or tree-change and want to call Italy...
Italy: Meaning of the expression ‘Buon Natale’
Rome: When December 25th arrives, in Italy everyone starts wishing, from the cashier at the grocery store to your closest...
Italy: American WWII soldier reunites with Italians he met as children 77 years ago
Milan: A 97-year-old retired American soldier has been reunited at long last with three Italian siblings who he last saw...
Italy: Petition to rename Milan piazza after Italian surgeon
Milan: A petition is underway to rename a central square in Milan after Gino Strada, the celebrated Italian doctor, war...
Ambassador Andreas Ferrarese and Albana Ferrarese greet Pakistani nation on Independence Day
Islamabad: Italy’s Ambassador to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese and his wife Albana Ferrarse on Friday greeted the Pakistani nation and the...
Pakistani food minister addresses SCO meeting on agriculture
China Economic Net Islamabad: Pakistani Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Syed Fakhar Imam has attended and addressed...
Australian High Commissioner celebrates Pakistan Independence Day
Islamabad: Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan Dr Geoffrey Shaw Friday congratulated Pakistan on its 74th Independence Day. In a special...
Ambassador of Japan greets Pakistan on 75th Independence Day
Islamabad: MATSUDA Kuninori, Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan, has congratulated Pakistani people on the occasion of the country’s 75th Independence...
Italy: Elon Musk visits museums in Florence
Florence: Elon Musk, the tech magnate and one of the richest people in the world, paid a surprise visit to...
Italy: Rome pays tribute to Dante’s Inferno with visions of hell
Rome: Following the success of the Raphael 500 exhibition, the Scuderie del Quirinale returns with a new show marking another...
Pak-China relationship higher than Himalayas: Interior Minister
Rawalpindi: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad has said that some forces are involved in conspiracies to undermine the China Pakistan...
