Straw tails, green candles, broken benches and a Vatican skeptic: seven familiar Italian expressions preserve traces of ...

Caciocavallo is first hung to age and then suspended over hot coals, where it melts onto bread in a southern Italian ...

How Rebecca Spitzmiller turned frustration over Rome’s urban decay into Retake Italy, a volunteer movement active in cities ...

At Sicily’s southeastern tip, Portopalo di Capo Passero brings together fishing traditions, ancient history, wartime memories ...

Hollywood helped launch the Venice Film Festival in 1932. Its enduring ties to the Lido reflect decades of cinematic exchange ...

Ancient salt roads and itinerant anchovy sellers helped shape Piedmontese cooking. This history of a regional staple includes ...

Explore Poffabro, a tiny Friulian village of stone and chestnut wood, known for traditional crafts, frico, brovada and centuries-old valley traditions ...

San Gennaro’s blood liquefaction has inspired scientific theories, including thixotropy, but the sealed ampoule’s contents ...

Taranto’s Aragonese Castle stands at the entrance to the old city, between the Mar Grande and Mar Piccolo (Photo: Antanovich1985/Dreamstime) Sparta founded exactly ...

Valentino, Coppola and the Venice Film Festival illuminate the shared history, immigrant roots and mutual influence of Italian and American cinema ...

Milan’s Duomo preserves a centuries-old ritual: the Nivola lifts the archbishop forty meters to retrieve the Holy Nail for public veneration each.