Italy gets creative as it works to make art accessible for blind people

Italy is making its artistic treasures more accessible to people with disabilities. Michela Marcato, who has been blind since ...

An insider guide to Rome, Italy’s eternal city

Rome has been around for almost three thousand years and yet carries all that weight of history with a dolce vita lightness ...

Making Italy's art accessible to people with disabilities

Rome. Michela Marcato, left, who is blind, and her partially sighted partner, Massimiliano Naccarato, examine a scale model ...
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Rome’s most beautiful museum was imagined by Zaha Hadid – it used to be an old military barrack (its architecture is otherworldly)

Rome is weighed down with ancient and Baroque masterpieces, yet its most disconcerting museum dates from 2010 and slices ...
KSAT

Italy creates new museum for trafficked ancient artifacts

ROME – Italy has been so successful in recovering ancient artworks and artifacts that were illegally exported from the country it has created a museum for them. The Museum of Rescued Art was ...
Anadolu Agency

Rome's historic Trevi Fountain becomes paid attraction for tourists

Tourists seeking closer access to Rome’s historic Trevi Fountain will now be required to pay a €2 ($2.36) entrance fee to enter the area directly in front of the landmark, Italy’s ANSA news agency ...
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PHOTO ESSAY: Making Italy's art accessible to people with disabilities

ROME (AP) — Italy's art-filled cities have no shortage of tourists, but they haven’t always been welcoming to visitors with visual impairments or other disabilities.