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Storm warnings sweep Italy as record heat breaks over the Alps
Forecasters see temperatures falling sharply from Wednesday, with heavy rain from north to south after Italy's hottest summer in over seven decades
Italy's abrupt turn from record heat to severe storms brings the Alpine passes and the Po basin into a week of flood watch.
Lorenzo Ferraris · NATIONAL
Italian households brace for autumn energy bills at highest since 2022
Consumer group Codacons warns of sharp rises as Italy's energy costs remain among Europe's highest
Utility bills are set to rise sharply this autumn, with energy prices reaching their highest level since the 2022 crisis, a consumer group has warned.
Giulia Benati · ECONOMY
Ødegaard's lone strike sinks Napoli as Arsenal's road form holds
The Arsenal captain's early-season scoring run continues in Naples, where travel chaos delayed both team and travelling support.
Arsenal won 1-0 at Napoli in the Champions League, Martin Ødegaard scoring the only goal after travel disruption delayed the visitors and hundreds of their fans.
Tobia Marenghi · SPORT
Khrzhanovsky's DAU Returns to Venice, and Finally Finds Lev Landau
The Guardian's Venice review notes that the director's two-decade Soviet project has at last centred on the physicist who inspired it
Ilya Khrzhanovsky's DAU cycle, two decades in the making, reaches its central character — the Soviet physicist Lev Landau — according to the Guardian's Venice review.
Eleonora Vanzetti · CULTURE
Regional dispatches
Foreign Travel Press Turns to Italy's Autumn Harvest Festivals
The New York Times lists five culinary celebrations for an autumn itinerary, the kind of seasonal coverage Liguria's coastal towns court.
The New York Times has published a guide to five Italian fall harvest festivals, the autumn travel coverage that shapes where foreign visitors spend their money.
Marina Doria
Storm warnings replace heat records as Italy's weather turns sharply
Forecasters warn of heavy rain and falling temperatures from north to south after the hottest summer in over seven decades
The same week Italy confirmed its hottest summer on record, forecasters issued storm warnings across the country as temperatures dropped sharply.
Klara Hofer
Venice festival closes with a Naples Christmas, and a critic's doubts
The Guardian finds Edoardo De Angelis's competition entry overheated — a reminder of what the Lido rewards and what it merely tolerates
De Angelis's claustrophobic family drama arrived in Venice competition trailing the label the festival itself invites: the most Italian film on the Lido.
Tommaso Veronese
Italy's autumn harvest festivals, as the American travel press sells them
The New York Times picks five culinary celebrations for an autumn itinerary — a market the Veneto knows well
The New York Times has selected five Italian harvest celebrations for autumn travel, framing the country's food calendar as an itinerary rather than a season.
Tommaso Veronese
Storm warnings across Italy as record summer heat breaks
Forecasters say temperatures will fall sharply from Wednesday, with heavy rain and storms expected from north to south
After a summer confirmed as Italy's hottest in over seven decades, storm warnings now stretch from the Alps to the south as the heat finally breaks.
Sergio Madrussan
Rome's Baths of Trajan open to visitors for the first time
The ancient bathing and leisure complex, with giant frescoes and mosaics, opens to the public, the city's mayor said
A vast Roman bathing complex on the Oppian Hill, long closed to the public, has opened to visitors, according to The Local Italy.
Sergio Madrussan
Storm Warnings Sweep Italy as Heat Breaks Over Genoa
Forecasters warn of sharp temperature falls and heavy rain from north to south, with the Ligurian coast and its port exposed to the turn.
Foreign forecasters say Italy's record summer is ending abruptly, with storm warnings issued from north to south as temperatures fall sharply from Wednesday.
Marina Doria
World Press Turns to Italy's Autumn Table as Harvest Festivals Fill the Calendar
The New York Times picks five culinary celebrations for the season, a reminder of how the world reads rural Italy — and what that reading leaves out.
Foreign travel coverage frames Italy's autumn harvest as an itinerary, while Tuscan growers know the season as the year's reckoning.
Costanza Bardi
Venice Competition Dips Into Naples, and the Guardian Finds the Stereotypes Overheated
Edoardo De Angelis's claustrophobic family Christmas draws a cool review, and a question about how Italian cinema sells itself abroad.
A Guardian critic finds too many familiar Italian notes in a Venice competition entry, a verdict with consequences for how the country's films travel.
Costanza Bardi
Foreign Residents on Learning Italian, and What It Means Inland
A survey of newcomers' language experiences lands as Italy's interior empties and its towns look outward
The Local Italy asked foreign residents about learning Italian; their answers touch a question the inland regions live with daily.
Niccolò Mariani
Storm warnings sweep Italy as record heat finally breaks
Forecasters say temperatures will fall sharply from Wednesday, with heavy rain expected from north to south.
After a summer confirmed as Italy's hottest in over seven decades, the weather has turned, and forecasters warn of storms across the country.
Elena Marcheggiani
Foreign Travel Press Turns to Italy's Autumn Harvest — and the Deep South
As the New York Times maps five Italian food festivals for the autumn, the question for the interior is whether seasonal tourism can reach beyond the coast and the honeypots.
The New York Times has published a guide to five Italian fall harvest celebrations, framing the season as a culinary itinerary — a familiar foreign lens on Italy's food culture.
Pietro Lasorsa
Foreign residents on learning Italian: 'an amazing feeling'
Italy's foreign residents tell The Local that picking up the language is rarely smooth, but carries its own rewards.
A survey of foreign residents in Italy describes the effort of learning Italian as difficult, uneven and ultimately worthwhile.
Elena Marcheggiani
Rome Opens the Baths of Trajan to Visitors for the First Time
The city's mayor announced public access to the ancient bathing complex, a rare addition to Rome's monument circuit
Rome has opened the Baths of Trajan, an ancient bathing and leisure complex with giant frescoes and mosaics, to visitors for the first time.
Davide Ruspoli
Police Officers Arrested Over Drug-Dealing South of Rome
The case surfaced in the same roundup that carried severe weather warnings as Italy's heatwave ended
Officers have been arrested on drug-dealing allegations south of Rome, according to a daily news roundup published by The Local Italy.
Davide Ruspoli
Storm warnings sweep Italy as Abruzzo's dry Apennines brace for sudden rain
Forecasters say temperatures will fall sharply from Wednesday, with heavy rain expected from north to south after Italy's hottest summer on record.
After a summer confirmed as Italy's hottest in over seven decades, the foreign press reports that storms and a sharp drop in temperatures are now forecast from north to south.
Marco Di Sante
Rome opens the Baths of Trajan, and the foreign press reads a heritage turn
The ancient bathing complex, with its giant frescoes and mosaics, opens to visitors for the first time, according to The Local Italy.
A vast Roman bathing and leisure complex opens to the public for the first time, the city's mayor said, in a story carried by the foreign press this week.
Marco Di Sante
Storm Warnings Replace Record Heat as Italy's Harvest Faces a Violent Turn
Forecasters say temperatures will fall sharply from Wednesday, with heavy rain from north to south — a sudden swing with consequences for inland agriculture
After a summer confirmed as Italy's hottest in over seven decades, forecasters now warn of storms and heavy rain from north to south as the heat breaks.
Antonio Petrella
Learning Italian in the Empty South: What the Language Schools Don't Reach
Foreign residents tell The Local Italy that learning the language is worth the effort — a reminder of who is, and isn't, arriving in Italy's shrinking interior
Italy's foreign residents describe the rewards of learning Italian, at a moment when the country's demographic future depends on exactly those arrivals.
Antonio Petrella
Venice reviews a Naples that Naples knows too well
Edoardo De Angelis brings a raging mother and a capon down from the city for a family Christmas, and the foreign press calls the result overheated
A Venice competition film sets its claustrophobic family Christmas in Naples, and the Guardian's critic finds the stereotypes boiling over.
Rosaria Esposito
Storm warnings sweep Italy as record heat finally breaks
Forecasters say temperatures will fall sharply from Wednesday, with heavy rain expected from north to south.
After Italy's hottest summer on record, the weather turns abruptly — and the south's late harvest now watches the sky.
Francesca Lazzari
Storm warnings sweep Italy as record summer heat breaks
Forecasters say temperatures will fall sharply from Wednesday, with heavy rain expected from north to south
After a summer confirmed as Italy's hottest in over seven decades, forecasters warn of sudden storms and sharp temperature drops across the country.
Saverio Gallo
Storm warnings sweep Italy as Sicily's dry summer finally breaks
Forecasters say temperatures will fall sharply from Wednesday, with heavy rain expected from north to south
After a summer confirmed as Italy's hottest in over seven decades, storm warnings now stretch from the Alps to Sicily, where reservoirs and farms still count the cost of drought.
Concetta Vassallo
Storm warnings sweep Italy as record summer heat finally breaks
Forecasters say temperatures will fall sharply from north to south, but the rain arrives on a parched and fire-scarred peninsula
After a summer confirmed as Italy's hottest in over seven decades, forecasters are warning of storms and heavy rain from the Alps to the south.
Gavino Sanna
Venice competition turns a Naples Christmas into an overheated family drama
Guardian critic finds Edoardo De Angelis's claustrophobic holiday film heavy on stereotype, light on surprise
The Guardian's Venice review says De Angelis brings a raging mother up from Naples for the holidays, with a capon, and finds the result too familiar.
Adriana Sole
Foreign Press Turns to Italy's Autumn Harvest Festivals
A New York Times round-up of five culinary celebrations arrives as storm warnings end a record-hot summer
International travel desks are pointing readers toward Italy's autumn food festivals.
Niccolò Mariani
New or used? Foreign readers get a lesson in Italy's car market
International coverage of Italian car-buying quirks lands as Turin's automotive base faces its own uncertain transition
The foreign press finds Italy's car market stranger than most, a small window onto a national industry under pressure.
Lorenzo Ferraris
Storm Warnings Across Italy as Alpine Summer Heat Breaks
Forecasters say temperatures will fall sharply from Wednesday, with heavy rain and storms expected from north to south.
After Italy's hottest summer on record, forecasters warn of a sharp turn to storms and heavy rain across the country, with the north first in line.
Camille Bréan
Storm warnings sweep Italy as record heat finally breaks
Forecasters flag sharp temperature falls and heavy rain from north to south, ending a summer the CNR calls the hottest in over seven decades
The Local reports storm warnings across Italy as summer heat ends, with temperatures set to fall sharply from Wednesday and heavy rain expected nationwide.
Beatrice Comolli
Rome opens the Baths of Trajan to visitors for the first time
The city's mayor announced public access to the ancient bathing complex, with its giant frescoes and mosaics
Rome's Baths of Trajan, an ancient bathing and leisure complex with giant frescoes and mosaics, is opening to visitors for the first time, the city's mayor said.
Adriana Sole
Antonelli's Monza win from 19th ignites 'generational talent' debate
The Mercedes driver became the first Italian to win on home soil since 1966, and the British press is already arguing about what it means.
Kimi Antonelli won the Italian Grand Prix from 19th on the grid at Monza, the first Italian home winner since 1966, prompting debate over whether he is a generational talent.
Tobia Marenghi
Storm warnings sweep Italy as record heat gives way to heavy rain
Forecasters warn of sharp temperature drop and storms from north to south, with Emilia-Romagna among regions braced for severe weather
After Italy's hottest summer in over seven decades, forecasters say temperatures will fall sharply from Wednesday, bringing storms and heavy rain across the country.
Giulia Benati
Opinion
The Heat We Share: Milan's Climate Is Now a Common Cause
When the mayors of Paris, Milan and Phoenix write together about heat, Italy's climate story stops being a local weather report and becomes a shared urban condition.
Editorial Board
Venice, Reported at One Remove
Between a film festival, a regatta and a photographic project on women reshaping the city, foreign coverage this week shows Venice as a place the world keeps describing and Italians keep inhabiting.
Editorial Board