The world’s most unique horse race, the Palio di Siena, takes place twice a year in a tiny medieval city square as thousands ...

VENICE (Reuters) -Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sanchez were set to exchange marriage vows at a ceremony in Venice on Friday, part of a three-day wedding extravaganza that has ...

Castello di Amorosa stands proudly on a Calistoga hillside, a 13th-century Tuscan castle that seems to have been plucked from ...

In Italy's gorgeous Tuscan region, you can stroll between medieval streets in an idyllic hilltop town or visit nearby lush vineyards to taste delicious wine.

A Little Italian Mountain Town and the Old Church Organ My Grandparents Heard Guarcino: Nestled in the sub-Apennines and rich in history and quality of life.

The International Alain Chartier Society and Jean Gerson Society Business Meeting will take place in Student Center 1024. The International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England Gathering ...

Orvieto's cathedral gets my vote for Italy's liveliest facade. This colorful, prickly Gothic exterior, divided by four pillars, has been compared to a medieval altarpiece — a gleaming mass of ...

Nuns pray at the tomb of Blessed Carlo Acutis in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore and Sanctuary of the Renunciation on March 18, 2025, in Assisi, Italy. Acutis, a London-born Italian teenager ...

Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St. Peter’s Square. But throngs of pilgrims are already flocking to the ...

Pictures of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, are displayed for sale at a kiosk in Assisi, Italy, on Saturday, March 1, 2025. Credit: AP/Gregorio Borgia ...

Inside, the nave feels spacious and less cluttered than those in most Italian churches. It was filled with statues and fancy chapels until 1877, when the people decided they wanted to “de ...

A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious Islamic tents were used to conceal altars in medieval European churches ...