It’s a bit like reading a very dense book – it’s small in size, but it’s full of information.” Paleoclimatologists like Spagnesi typically “read” ice cores from top to bottom, with the surface layer ...

Here's why Italy has an espresso machine at the World Baseball Classic.

With five eagerly awaited hotel grand openings and redesigns coming later this year, all paths and gondolas are leading to Venice. These storied, palatial properties are living testaments to La ...

Venice is known today as the floating city, but its story begins in the chaos that followed the fall of Rome. This video explores how refugees built a new home in the lagoons of northern Italy, how ...

The E.U. warns it may suspend Venice Biennale funding if Russia stages a pavilion as political tensions over the war in ...

I love visiting Bassano del Grappa, a charming Italian city near Venice. It's less touristy than other popular destinations and has so much to do.

A European capital city has topped a romantic city ranking thanks to its intimate atmosphere, cosy restaurants, boutique ...

The world’s first Jewish “ghetto”, established by the Venetian Senate on March 29 1516, was seen as a temporary solution to a long-term problem. Since the 13th century, the Christians of Venice – for ...

Ice cores taken from glaciers reveal the air pollution of the past, using atmospheric particles incorporated in snow that fell on the glacier and became ice. Now, scientists have extracted a record of ...

Italy had always existed in my imagination as a three-city loop: Rome for pasta, Florence for steak, Venice for atmosphere.

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.

Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, leader, orator—and one of history’s most infamous assassins. Why did he launch a ...