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Olly achieved the #1 music ranking of 2025 on Italy's FIMI Top of the Music. Olly's Balorda nostalgia, the Sanremo 2025 winner, topped FIMI's 2025 annual singles chart, followed by Giorgia's La cura per me and Achille Lauro's Incoscienti giovani.

Giorgia achieved the #2 music ranking of 2025 on Italy's FIMI Top of the Music. Giorgia's Sanremo 2025 entry ranked second on FIMI's 2025 annual singles chart, behind Olly's Balorda nostalgia.

Achille Lauro achieved the #3 music ranking of 2025 on Italy's FIMI Top of the Music. Achille Lauro's Sanremo 2025 song took third place on the FIMI 2025 annual singles chart.

Lululemon's first Italian store opened in Milan's main shopping street: about 5,700 sq ft on two floors behind a 3-D printed facade modelled on its Define Jacket.

Microsoft reports urban development works began September 15, 2025. Excavation, utilities, and access roads support a new data-center site; main building completion and opening are unverified.

On 25 November 2025 Italy's Chamber of Deputies unanimously gave final approval to a law making femicide a crime of its own, article 577-bis of the Criminal Code, punished with life imprisonment.

Alo's first store in Italy, a two-level sanctuary on Via del Babuino near the Spanish Steps with original brick walls and friezes.

On and the Italian Athletics Federation (FIDAL) unveiled the 'Azzurri' national team kit in a multi-year technical partnership that NSS Sports reports runs from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2029; money was not disclosed.

Samurai Jay & Vito Salamanca achieved the #1 music ranking of 2026 on Italy's FIMI Top of the Music. Samurai Jay and Vito Salamanca's Ossessione led FIMI's first-half 2026 singles chart, ahead of Sayf's Tu mi piaci tanto and Sal Da Vinci's Per sempre si, after a run of consecutive weeks at number one.

Sal Da Vinci achieved the #3 music ranking of 2026 on Italy's FIMI Top of the Music. Sal Da Vinci's Sanremo 2026 entry is third on FIMI's first-half 2026 singles ranking (published 6 July 2026); the full-year 2026 chart is not yet out.

Sayf achieved the #2 music ranking of 2026 on Italy's FIMI Top of the Music. Sayf's Sanremo 2026 song is second on FIMI's first-half 2026 singles ranking (published by Rolling Stone Italia on 6 July 2026); the full-year 2026 chart is not yet out.

Corinthia Hotels opened Corinthia Rome on 9 March 2026, its first hotel in Italy, in the 1913-1921 Piacentini palazzo that housed the Bank of Italy on Piazza del Parlamento. It has 60 rooms, 21 of them suites, and Carlo Cracco's first Roman restaurants.

A 1937 BMW 328 Bügelfalte owned by Stefano Martinoli won Best of Show at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este on Lake Como on 17 May 2026, in a weekend that also saw the world premieres of the Vision BMW Alpina and the BMW Motorrad Vision K18.

The 7 June 2026 deadline to write the Pay Transparency Directive into national law passed with only Italy, Slovakia and Malta (and, by some counts, Lithuania) done; the Netherlands, Sweden, Czechia and Denmark said they would apply it from 1 January 2027.

NatPower agreed to buy more than 25 GWh of Tesla Megapack storage, with Tesla also building the sites and trading their power through Autobidder, for five first projects in Italy and the UK worth $4-5 billion to build.

Ferrero recalled specific batches of frozen Nutella Croissant and Nutella Muffin in seven European countries because they might contain metal fragments; the lots came from its Fresystem bakery near Naples.

July 2026: Microsoft reports approvals secured for redeveloping the former Postalmarket site. Initial works were forecast for September 2026, but commencement is not confirmed by this update.

Four Seasons reopened the historic Hotel Danieli in Venice as Danieli, Venezia, a Four Seasons Hotel, welcoming first guests on 30 July 2026 after a restoration led by Pierre-Yves Rochon. It reopens with 120 rooms and suites, growing to 168 in 2027.

Gelato maker Alberto Marchetti and Caffè Vergnano debuted Affogato, a revived historic kiosk by Turin's Gran Madre serving 20 gelato flavours with espresso.

Ferrero and its unions fixed the 2025/2026 objectives-linked bonus for about 7,000 Italian employees at between 2,426 and 2,555 euros gross per site, paid with October 2026 wages, after targets were more than 90% met.

ECDC's week 39 threats report says 186 areas in 16 European countries have been affected by West Nile virus this season, with 1,569 locally acquired human cases as at 23 September 2026.

Bar Leone in Hong Kong kept the No. 1 spot on The 50 Best Bars list for a second year, announced at a live ceremony in Milan on 7 October 2026.

Europe's largest classic car and motorcycle fair returns to BolognaFiere from 22 to 25 October 2026, across 14 pavilions with more than 5,000 vehicles and an Icons of Speed endurance-racing exhibition.

Italy's young, fruity carbonic-maceration red, the Italian answer to Beaujolais Nouveau, may be sold from 30 October, before the French release on 19 November.

The 32nd Eurochocolate runs 13 to 22 November 2026 in Perugia's historic centre under the claim "Fate Dolci", with free entry, a Chocolate Show and bean-to-bar producers from over 20 cacao origins.

The 18th Sherbeth festival of contemporary artisanal gelato runs 13-16 November 2026 in Piazza Verdi, in front of Palermo's Teatro Massimo.

The 48th SIGEP World runs 23 to 27 January 2027 at Rimini Expo Centre for gelato, pastry, chocolate, coffee, bakery and pizza, aiming to double its top buyers to about 1,000.

The 2027 International Architecture Exhibition runs 8 May to 21 November in Venice, curated by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu under the theme 'Do Architecture'.

Metinvest Adria (Metinvest and Danieli) plans two electric arc furnaces and 2.7 million tonnes a year of hot-rolling at Piombino, Tuscany, adding about 1.8 TWh a year of Italian power demand; revised cost is about 3.2 billion euros and construction may slip to spring 2027.

Nestlé's CHF 520 million plant and logistics hub in Mantua, Italy, is due to start making super-premium wet food for cats and dogs for Purina brands in 2029. It will be Purina's 15th production site in Europe, with about 300 jobs expected.