It sounded like a tree Strega Nona would love: a sprawling 70-foot beauty, shipped straight from the Italian alps. Instead, it's become an eyesore and a joke, a droopy metaphor of decay and dysfunction in Italy's capital city.

The first bookshop in the world was started in Rome in the 1st century BC by an Armenian named Tiran. According to Roman records, a Roman general and statesman Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix was able to collect more than 30,000 books with assistance of Tiran.

On June 6-7, upon invitation of Angelino Alfano, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy, the Co-Chair of Armenian-Italian Intergovernmental Commission, Edward Nalbandian, Foreign Minister of Armenia, the Co-Chair of Armenian-Italian Intergovernmental Commission will visit Rome.

The Guardian - Italian officials keen to spare the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, any possible offence on his visit to Rome covered up nude statues at the city’s Capitoline Museum, where Rouhani met Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister

Angelina Jolie met Pope Francis during a private audience at the Vatican on Thursday.The Hollywood star had arrived in Rome, Italy the previous day amid rumours she would be meeting the leader of the Catholic Church.However, although it was initially thought her husband Brad Pitt would also be in attendance at the special meet-and-greet, he was absent from the meeting.

Italy announced Monday that Rome will be a candidate to host the 2024 Olympics, a decision that comes two years after the government scrapped plans to bid for the 2020 Games because of financial reasons.Italy, which hosted the 1960 Olympics, planned to bid for the 2020 Games but the project was withdrawn after then-premier Mario Monti refused to provide financial backing at a time of economic crisis.

On 1 December Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan met in Rome with head of IPALMO research institute, former Italian foreign minister Gianni de Michelis and a group of its researches.

On 1 December Artsakh Republic President within the framework of his working visit to Rome met in the Italian Senate with chairman of the standing commission on human rights of the Senate Luigi Manconi.