Soon after becoming king, he conquered the bulk of mainland Europe, including the powerful Lombards (in present-day northern Italy), the ... years—the Holy Roman Empire. Many historians credit ...

Italy is auctioning off a vast 16th-century castle built for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ... a key thoroughfare since the Roman Empire, and of two city gates – one leading north to Rome ...

Construction workers in Italy recently came across the site of ... for hundreds of years after the fall of the Roman Empire and up into the modern age when soap replaced urine." ...

This was so because the Holy Roman Empire plus the Sicilian Kingdom created ... squeeze the Papal States in between them in central Italy. Pope Alexander III (r.1159-1181) in particular feared ...

British tourists have been warned about travelling to Italy in the next 12 months over the Roman Catholic Holy Year. The Foreign Office issued the safety and security advice, which stretches to ...