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Italy squanders €150m in EU grants
Sicily and Naples miss out on culture and tourism grants to protect crumbling cultural heritage sites due to chronic mismanagement
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Italy retrieves three works looted from Tuscan villa by the Nazis
Paintings were confiscated by Fascist government then seized by German occupying forces
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More gloom for tomb as further delay dogs Augustus project
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MaXXI outpost for earthquake-ravaged city
The Italian culture ministry plans to bring a contemporary art museum to L’Aquila
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Italy’s culture workers threaten national protest
While government moves to limit right to strike by reclassifying museums as “essential public services” on a par with schools and hospitals
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Culture workers threaten national action as Italy moves to limit right to strike
Tension is at an all-time high following strikes that shut down the Colosseum and Pompeii