Even though these typically vanish from the market just as quickly as they arrive, there are still dilapidated dwellings ...

Foreigners — and residents — long avoided Bari’s old town, which had been plagued by mob crime. Now, with direct flights from ...

Laura Coffey went on a quest to find the real-life islands that inspired the wanderings of Homer’s epic hero, Odysseus ...

Intersection. Junction. Link. These words aptly describe Sicily’s crossroad role in the Mediterranean Sea. Given Sicily’s location, empires, cultures, and trade routes crisscrossed this strategically ...

The standard edition of Mafia: The Old Country will set you back $50/£45 on Steam. On the other hand, the Mafia: The Old ...

While holiday hotspots such as Amalfi, Rome and Venice have suffered from overtourism for years, there were areas of Italy ... on the map and gave it attention from across the world.

The chestnut trees of Europe tell a hidden story charting the fortunes of ancient Rome and the legacy it left in the ...

The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

Fortunately, for every just-too-popular Amsterdam, Barcelona and Venice there are a hundred other attractive European cities ...

Sitting in the lounge at LAX with one of those “too small to hold” teacups and saucers, I scanned the boards every two ...