Olive, cork, and myrtle all play a part in the culture and history of Sardinia.

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.

Campo Felice is an easy winter day trip from Rome.

The ideal place in Rome to spend New Year's Day.

Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004, the hills, valleys, and trees of the Val d’Orcia “exemplify the beauty of well-managed Renaissance agricultural landscapes.”

Bomarzo's Parco dei Mostri is a park filled with fantastical sculptures of animals, monsters, and other beasts. It's an ideal day trip from Rome.

Italian cyclist Enrico Toti may have the most fascinating World War I story I've ever read.

It has been said (too many times) that all roads lead to Rome. But did you know that you could trace botanical medicine and even the environmental movement to 16th century Italy? It was here in the city of Pisa (1544) then Padua (1545) that the world's first botanical gardens were set up. ...

Enjoy the outdoors in Italy with these three "fall" activities.

With more than 500 miles of coastline, wrapping around seaside villages and swooping cliffs, Calabria is packed with beaches in every shape, size, and color.

Fall is a great time to explore Italy's national and regional parks, what with the beautiful foliage changing colors and the majority of tourists - both Italian and international - having packed up their bags and headed home. Italy currently has 22 national parks - with two more in the process of ...

Last November, the New York Review of Books released Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio under its NYRB Classics imprint. The tale, as reviewed by Tim Parks in the latest issue, is much darker than the Disneyfied version. After the jump is Parks' full review. As always, I urge you to ...

Rome's leafy Protestant Cemetery is the final resting place for Keats, Shelley, and Gramsci.

Skiing and sledding within a tank of gas from Rome.

Just in time for late spring and summer romps around Italy comes the reissue of Edith Wharton's 1904 landscaping classic Italian Villas and Their Gardens. According to curators with the New York Society Library's Green Art collection, "Wharton visited some fifty villas around Rome, ...

Now that we've entered the Holy Season, tourism to Rome is going to start heating up again quite quickly. Of course, you can follow the pilgrimage throngs around the Lenten Station circuit. Or, you can travel outside the city walls to check out the Via Appia Antica. David Farley's one-day ...

This weekend, the incredibly picturesque town of Castiglione del Lago, located on the banks of Lake Trasimeno in Umbria, will become even more beautiful as the skies fill with kites of all shapes, sizes, and colors. The event is called Coloriamo i Cieli, and it features some of the world's most ...