Visitors to Rome’s Pantheon, one of the ancient world’s best-preserved monuments, will have to pay a 5 euro (NZ$8.75) entrance fee from Monday, Italy’s tourism ministry has said. Now a church, the vast cylindrical former temple whose undamaged exterior wall supports a 43.3 metre-high (142 ft) dome, attracts millions of visitors every year, making it Read more
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Steve Bannon’s right-wing Catholic DHI institute in breach of contract
Thursday, June 6th, 2019
Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI), a right-wing Catholic institute affiliated with Steve Bannon, is out of favour with Italy’s Culture Ministry. The DHI is considered the “cultural arm” of Bannon’s populist push in Italy and in Europe. The Ministry says it will revoke the lease on the 800 year-old state-owned Trisulti monastery it leased to the Read more