"Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy" is the perfect cure for wanderlust. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the places he visits in Season 1.
READ MORE +"Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy" is the perfect cure for wanderlust. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the places he visits in Season 1.
READ MORE +Put modern art on your Italian itinerary. Here are the best museums, galleries, and parks, for modern and contemporary art in Italy.
READ MORE +Italy has acquired Umberto Eco's 30,000+ volume library of ancient and modern books. Learn more about the late author's vast collection.
READ MORE +Maurizio Catellan's L.O.V.E., a provocative sculpture in front of the Milan Stock Exchange, is more than an irreverent gesture.
READ MORE +Only 37 when he died in 1520, Raphael was one of the most influential artists of his day.
READ MORE +The latest rankings of the best places to live in Italy.
READ MORE +Leonardo da Vinci created many paintings, sketches, and engineering projects in his lifetime. Here's where to find them in Italy.
READ MORE +The Duomo is magnificent. But do you know what else to do in Milan? Here are three ideas for first time visitors to Milan.
READ MORE +The latest rankings of the best places to live in Italy.
READ MORE +Italy is renowned for its designer fashions. Learn more about outlet shopping in Italy and how to make a discount shopping spree part of your travel itinerary.
Milan's Pinacoteca di Brera is a first class gallery on par with Italy's finest museums. The collection of Italian, mostly religious, art is spread out in 38 rooms and includes masterpieces by Andrea Mantegna, Piero Della Francesca, Raphael, and Caravaggio. Getting "lost" in front of ...
READ MORE +Get to know the Milano Duomo, the most famous landmark in Milan.
READ MORE +Help preserve the Gothic spires of the Milano Duomo via the Adopt a Spire initiative.
READ MORE +Dario Fo's "The Earthquake in L'Aquila" Calling Italian playwright Dario Fo a "Renaissance" man would probably irk him given his long history of questioning authority and mocking the status quo. But Fo, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997 (one of six Italians to have won the ...
READ MORE +Just about every spot in Italy is a lovely place to take a photograph. But there are some spots that are truly special, places that make friends and family go "Wow!" Here are a few of them.
READ MORE +Large parts of Italy were once united under the Spanish flag, with conquests in Naples and Sicily by the houses of Aragon and Bourbon, among others. Even Milan and Parma were under Spanish rule at one point. I confess that I am not an expert on Spain's influence on Italy, so you may want to read ...
READ MORE +I'm very lucky. The very first time I tasted risotto was in Milan. We were en route to Verona and ate the creamy, saffron-tinted risotto milanese at the train station cafe. Even given the locale, it was still an epiphany. Apparently, I'm not the only one who has dreams about one of Milan's most ...
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