Umbria is best explored slowly: by foot, bike, or unhurried drives along winding country roads. Walk a stretch of the Via di ...

ROCCA CALASCIO, Italy (Reuters) – When the sun comes up over the castle of Rocca Calascio, a mountain hamlet high up in the central Italian Apennines, it is like a silent, red thunder. One such ...

Italy is an open-air museum. From the north to the south of the boot, architecture dating back to the Roman Empire and UNESCO World Heritage Sites fill the towns, keeping their history alive. Italy is ...

ROME (AP) — Firefighters late Monday finally managed to extract a worker from beneath rubble inside a medieval tower that ...

"I've always loved living here; I've always felt very lucky to live here," said Ludovica Sannazzaro. Correspondent Seth Doane asked, "Did it settle in that you were living in a castle?" "Not at first, ...

A Medieval skeleton discovered in Italy has shown "signs of decapitation" and is believed to be the first case of a "torture wheel" in the country. The research, published in the Journal of ...

Biancomangiare,lentil soup, twice-roasted goose with garlic, sweet and sour baked onion salad, Ippocrasso (spiced white wine), honey-nut sweets. These were the dishes served at a Medieval Jewish ...

A sip of unpasteurized sheep or goat's milk may have spelled doom for a medieval Italian man. A new genetic analysis of bony nodules found in a 700-year-old skeleton from Italy reveal that the man had ...