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Watch: Leonardo da Vinci renaissance as painter is ploughed in field

Dario Gambarin used a tractor to furrow lines forming a 27-sq-km representation of da Vinci's face in a field.

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Italian coalition partners fail to agree on Rome bailout

A tense meeting between Italy's coalition partners on Rome's crippling debt has broken up without a final resolution. The capital's €12 billion shortfall - dating back more than a decade - must be restructured to avoid defaulting.

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Italy's coalition parties struggle to restructure Rome's huge debts

The foundations of Italy's warring coalition parties are being shaken by the huge debt being faced by Rome and the urgent need for a financial bailout

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Pedalling teenagers power stage during Greta Thunberg speech

Around 128 bicycles were rigged up to a dynamo and generator in Piazza del Popolo.

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Road Trip Europe Day 26 Taranto: 'You don't sleep anymore'

The final story on the Italian leg of our Road Trip comes from Taranto, where Europe’s biggest steel plant covers the city in a fine toxic dust.

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Meet the entrepreneur who will save Italy’s south with green cars

Paolo Scudieri, founder of Adler Group, has a dream: to rescue Italy’s poorer south with green cars and smart cities.

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Barbecue-turned-forest fire could cost two young Italians €27 million

An Italian students' end-of-the-year barbecue, which turned into a forest fire, could result in a €27 million fine for damages.

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Road Trip Europe Day 25: The hard realities in the suburbs of Naples

We’re talking to people across Europe about the issues that affect them ahead of May’s European Parliament Elections on our EU road trip which has arrived in Naples. Euronews correspondents Jack Parrock and Elena Cavallone have been speaking to some locals in the suburbs of the Italian city.

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Road Trip Europe Day 24: Caserta/Naples - "Commuters should be given some dignity"

Our team continues their journey across the continent ahead of the European Elections - today, they took a train with commuters from Cassino to the city of Naples.

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Road Trip Europe Day 23: Collepardo - "I hope the EU helps Italy"

Our team has landed in the hillside town of Collepardo, where an ancient monastery is to be converted into an academy for nationalists by former Donald Trump adviser, Steve Bannon.

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Road Trip Europe Day 22: L'Aquila – 'I'm voting to say thank you'

Today we are in L'Aquila, the city devastated by an earthquake exactly ten years ago. Reconstruction is still ongoing, and has in large part been funded by EU money.

Italy

Italian man claims €137,000 by faking disability for over 10 years

An Italian man has been arrested by police for fraud after falsely claiming €137,000 in benefits by pretending to be disabled.

Italy

Watch: Visit Emperor Nero's palace via virtual reality

Visitors can experience what the ruin once looked like in incredible detail by donning a VR headset. Notorious Nero intended the opulence of his home to reflect his status as an absolute ruler.

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Road Trip Europe Day 21: Verona - "Europe has to stay borderless"

As we continue our road trip across Europe ahead of the EU parliamentary elections in May, our correspondents Jack Parrock and Elena Cavallone stop in Verona – where Shakespeare’s famous Romeo and Juliet is set.

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Malta allows dozens of migrants to land

They were stranded at sea after being rescued off Libya by a rescue ship run by the German charity Sea Eye.

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Salvini uses dated photo of migrants sparking controversy | #TheCube

#TheCube | You may recognise this image from last summer when migrant rescue ship Aquarius saved over 140 people stranded at sea. It appears that Interior Minister of Italy, Salvini did not, however when sharing it this week on his Twitter account.

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Locals are the lifeblood of Matera, European Capital of Culture

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How does the city feel to you? This was the question posed to the citizens of Matera when they were tasked with creating an ‘Atlas of the City’s Emotions’.

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Italian police officer alleges colleagues beat up man who later died

An Italian police officer has told a court in Rome he watched colleagues beat a 31-year-old man who later died in custody.

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Road Trip Europe Day 19 Milan: We look at today's papers in Italy

Italian politics and national issues tend to be the predominant stories in Italian daily newspapers, rather than a focus on international concerns.

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Research 'proves Da Vinci could draw with both hands'

Research from the Uffizi gallery in Florence has proved that Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci could draw and paint with both hands.