06/02/2013 | World

EU launches 105-million-euro restoration of Pompeii

21/01/2011 | World

Luxury shoemaker raises $34 mln to save Coliseum

Luxury shoemaker Tod's will fund the restoration of Rome's Coliseum with a 25 million euro ($34 million) sponsorship campaign, the biggest to rescue Italy's crumbling archaeological treasures with private money.

11/06/2012 | World

Trevi Fountain loses pieces, alarm raised for monument

Several decorative pieces have fallen off the Trevi Fountain in Rome, raising the alarm that one of the eternal city's most famous structures needs a new major restoration.

28/01/2013 | World

Rome Trevi Fountain to get big facelift

The fountain, arguably the world's most recognizable, is about to get the most thorough face-lift since it was completed in 1762 and the restoration was presented today by a man who also uses the word darling a lot: fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.