It started with a Dutch engineer's plot to convince workers to complete a levee project, protecting a key entrance into Rome ...

Italian grape and wine domestication took 7,000 years. Seeds show a shift from wild to cultivated types. Sardinia played a key role early.

The Vatican opened St. Peter’s Basilica to the general public Wednesday to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, with thousands of people filling the central aisle and Swiss Guards standing at ...

The Getty Museum has bolstered its collection of Spanish works with a painting by 16th-century master Luis de Morales.

The domestication of grapevine was a slow process in Italy, taking place over thousands of years, according to a study ...

A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the ...

Most famous as the hometown of Shakespeare’s tragic couple Romeo and Juliet, Verona isn’t typically one of the first cities ...

A 16th-century mural has been discovered in Venice, a rare surviving example of decoration that once adorned many of the city ...

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo ...

Le Brach's spacious, cosy terrace, located on the 1st floor of the trendy hotel in Paris's 16th arrondissement, is going Italian, in a nod to the forthcoming opening of Le Brach Rome. Located in ...