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Easter season is one of the best times to visit Rome. Here's how you can plan your visit to Rome and Vatican during Holy Week.
READ MORE +Did you know that the landscape around the Reggia di Caserta was designed to look like a violin? Learn more about this UNESCO Heritage Site near Naples.
READ MORE +Biccari, the latest Italian village trying to attract foreigners with cheap real estate, also happens to be my family's ancestral home. Here are some personal thoughts and observations on this small town in Puglia.
READ MORE +The island city of Procida is the Capital of Italian Culture for 2022.
READ MORE +Italy currently recognizes 44 official pathways known as the Cammini d'Italia. Learn about the many historic routes that you can hike, bike, and walk.
READ MORE +One of the most important monuments of Ancient Rome, the Mausoleum of Augustus, will reopen to the public in 2021.
READ MORE +Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Here's how to get tickets and prepare for Midnight Mass.
READ MORE +Throughout the long, lonely months of our modern pandemic, I've been thinking about a dark and mysterious painting in Palermo known as "The Triumph of Death." Known in Italian as Il Trionfo della Morte, the painting hangs in Palazzo Abatellis, a regional gallery in the Kalsa quarter of the ...
READ MORE +A look at Franco del Zotto Odorico's art at the Tina Modotti house in Udine.
Gallinara, the turtle-shaped island 1.5 kilometers off the western coast of Liguria, has been sold to a single owner. Ukrainian aerospace tycoon Oleksander Boguslayev, a resident of Monaco who holds citizenship in Grenada, purchased the 11-hectare island for just over 10 million euro. ...
READ MORE +The 3rd century ruins are located near Verona.
READ MORE +The history behind the Trevi Fountain, one of the most beautiful and best-known fountains in the world.
READ MORE +In addition to the many paintings that Raphael painted during his short life, the artist was also responsible for a roomful of frescoes in a Roman palace that is now known as the Villa Farnesina. From 1517-1518, Raphael and his workshop painted scenes from the fable of Cupid and Psyche on the ...
READ MORE +Parma will be the Italian Capital of Culture for 2020 and 2021 to make up for the loss of tourism due to COVID-19.
READ MORE +Photo of a stray dog sleeping among the ruins of Pompeii.
READ MORE +Prato della Valle measures 90,000 sq meters, making it not only the largest square in Italy but one of the largest in Europe.
READ MORE +A close-up detail from Simone Martini's "Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus."
READ MORE +Postcard from Caffè Meletti, an historic bar in Le Marche.
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