Venice's Royal Gardens, near the iconic Saint Mark's Square, will be restored in a multi-million euro project, the city's Garden Foundation announced on Friday.
Sculptures salvaged from the national museum in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra after it was destroyed by the Islamic extremist group, Isis, in 2015, are being restored in Italy.
Tourists and locals will on Friday once again be able to saunter up and down the Spanish Steps, after a year-long renovation to the Rome tourist landmark.
The first phase of a multi-million-euro makeover of Rome's Colosseum was completed Friday with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi pledging cash would be made available to spruce up other crumbling historic sites.
Beauty comes at a cost; a truth known both to Italy's world famous fashion houses and those working on conserving its equally renowned historic monuments.
An elaborate restoration of a ruin once home to gladiators in the hours before they embarked on bouts to the death has got underway in Pompeii, five years after its collapse raised serious questions about the management of the famous Unesco site.
Rome's famous Spanish Steps closed to the public on Wednesday for a restoration project funded by luxury jeweller Bulgari that is expected to last several months.
The Adoration of the Magi, an unfinished masterpiece by Leonardo Da Vinci, is beginning to reveal its full beauty after years hidden under layers of grime.
Fashion house Fendi kicked off the restoration of Rome's famed Trevi Fountain on Monday, unveiling a transparent suspended walkway which will give tourists a whole new vantage point of the historic monument.
Italy appealed on Wednesday for sponsors to help restore Emperor Nero's Golden House in the heart of Rome, saying €31 million was needed to repair the majestic complex.
Thieves have stolen part of an ancient fresco from Pompeii, breaking in to a closed area of the UNESCO World Heritage landmark and chipping off a portrait of a Greek deity.
Italy vowed on Tuesday to unblock some €2.0 million to save the long-neglected ruins of Pompeii after rain caused further damage to the UNESCO World Heritage landmark.
The Temple of Venus and walls of a tomb and shop in the long-neglected ruins of Pompeii near Naples have been damaged, possibly due to heavy rain, officials said on Monday.
A local councillor for Milan inadvertently tore a hole in an 18th century painting when opening a bottle of sparkling wine during Christmas celebrations.
Following the appointment of a former police chief to lead the restoration of Pompeii, one archaeologist tells The Local the decision could leave "a worrying lack of archaeological expertise at the top".
Aspiring architect Andrea Gillono was in the news this week for his ideas to restore an abandoned village in northern Italy. The Local spoke to him to find out more about the plan, as well as his thoughts on Italian architecture and why villages are left to fall to ruin.
Italy has until the end of the year to apply UNESCO-enforced measures to upgrade Pompeii or face having the ancient site scrapped from the prestigious World Heritage list.
The village of Barmaz in northern Italy has been lying abandoned for 50 years, but a young architect has presented a plan for its restoration as part of his university thesis.
The organization responsible for the restoration of Milan’s iconic Duomo has travelled to Russia in an attempt to secure a €15 million investment to restore the monument in time for the 2015 Milan Expo.
As his town crumbles around him due to a lack of restoration funds, an intrepid young mayor in the town of San Lorenzo Bellizzi, Calabria, tells Anna Lebedeva about his mission to salvage his ancestral home and attract private buyers.
