The Grotto of Diana at the Villa D'Este outside of Rome will open to visitors in May after being closed for 40 years.

Taking the train from Rome to Naples, you’ll find yourself in a city with a unique charm and energy. Naples is home to the ...

Experts believe there is a fresco painted by Leonardo Da Vinci hidden behind a later one by Giorgio Vasari after pigments were found matching his work.

Leonardo da Vinci, history's ultimate genius polymath, still makes headlines as his work inspires new research.

The neighborhood is rapidly giving way to gentrification, taking a path far from its original roots as the home of warehouses, factories and a thriving garment district. Traces of its later ...

With its implication that the young woman isn’t as chaste as she should be, the marriage-prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative ...

In colonial Latin America – called “New Spain” by European colonists – images of a white Jesus reinforced a caste system where white, Christian Europeans occupied the top tier, while those with darker ...

Not far from Florence, the Tuscan hills harbour a village full of light and memories. At Vinci, Leonardo's genius seems to ...

Venice remains one of the world's most popular tourist destinations, and the wineries nearby aren't to be missed.