They knock the noses off statues in a park that was a favorite haunt of poet John Keats and throw dye into the iconic Trevi Fountain.

Vandals are increasingly on the prowl in the Eternal City — and now Italian authorities are fighting back, sending more police, installing cameras and even considering using convicts to protect monuments and artworks.

Star conductor Antonio Pappano has just finished a three-day recording session in Rome, working on a rarely-heard choral piece by Rossini.

The piece was recorded in the ultra-modern Auditorium, a world-class venue, giving it what Pappano calls “emotion… precision… conviction”.

Rome Ramirez from Sublime With Rome recently updated the band’s official website and mentioned that the band plans to record new material this coming October:

I’m currently in New York on a day off (kinda). The tour has Been Nuts! Def do not want to miss any of the shows this summer! They have been the most inspirational monuments in my life . Every city we go to the love is right there welcoming the music that unites us all. We gotta handful of sick new tunes and plan to hit the studio [in October] to do pre production and release a single !! Thank you guys so much !! Your support is appreciated!!

A Toronto architectural office that studies issues faced by cold climate communities has won the Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture.

The $50,000 prize is awarded annually by the Canada Council for the Arts to a young architect or architecture firm that has completed its first buildings and shown exceptional potential.

Residents from the Italian region struck by a major earthquake in 2009 have skirmished with police at a demonstration in Rome.

Several thousand people took part in the rally, complaining that they had not received enough help from the government following the disaster.

Mena Suvari was delighted to marry “in the city of romance”.

The American Beauty actress – who tied the knot with music promoter Simone Sestito on Saturday – thinks their venue choices of Santo Stefano degli Abissini, an 8th-century church in Vatican City for the service and Castello Odescalchi, a 15th-century castle in nearby Bracciano for the reception were the perfect places to start their life together.

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Rome, June 23 (CNA) First lady Chow Mei-ching was the focus of attention among members of the audience for a performance by Taiwan’s world-renowned Cloud Gate Dance Theatre at Villa Adriana in Tivoli, outside Rome, on Tuesday.

Chow was accompanied by her eldest More >

Even the most bizarre plot theories can work out sometimes, and there was a point during When in Rome that I really, and much to my surprise, had some hope for the film. A bit of magic, a very likable Kristen Bell, and a supporting cast of truly funny More >

Rome is considering a hotel tax on the 9 million visitors to the Eternal City each year, a revenue- raising measure that may hurt tourism in the Italian capital and put further pressure on its credit rating.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s More >