Hollywood helped launch the Venice Film Festival in 1932. Its enduring ties to the Lido reflect decades of cinematic exchange ...
Ancient salt roads and itinerant anchovy sellers helped shape Piedmontese cooking. This history of a regional staple includes ...
San Gennaro’s blood liquefaction has inspired scientific theories, including thixotropy, but the sealed ampoule’s contents ...
Valentino, Coppola and the Venice Film Festival illuminate the shared history, immigrant roots and mutual influence of Italian and American cinema ...
Suspended high inside Milan’s Duomo, the Nivola carries the archbishop toward the tabernacle where the Santo Chiodo is kept, some forty meters above the cathedral floor (Original images created for ...
Long before modern finance, Venetian merchants were refining bookkeeping, risk management and international trade ...
Potatoes, tomatoes, capers, oregano and tuna tell the story of the Aeolian Islands, where water scarcity helped shape one of Sicily’s most distinctive salads ...
Troina’s vastedda cu sammucu combines elderflowers, cheese and cured meat in a bread tied to Norman history and the feast of San Silvestro ...
Gravina in Puglia’s two-level aqueduct bridge stretches across the ravine below the historic town (Photo: Massimo Santi/Dreamstime) First recorded in 1686, the bridge was built for a plainer purpose: ...
Caligula’s enormous Nemi ships combined luxury, religion and remarkable Roman engineering before fire destroyed them in 1944.