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

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

In 1501, Ottaviano Petrucci solved the technical problem of printing polyphonic music, changing how quickly complex ...

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

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

Suspended high inside Milan’s Duomo, the Nivola carries the archbishop toward the tabernacle where the Santo Chiodo is kept, some forty meters above the cathedral floor (Original images created for ...

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 ...

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

Gravina in Puglia’s two-level aqueduct bridge stretches across the ravine below the historic town (Photo: Massimo Santi/Dreamstime) First recorded in 1686, the bridge was built for a plainer purpose: ...