Italy

ITA Airlines starts service Friday with leased planes, a temporary name and a contracted-out ticket sales system.

Rome's traditional problems with garbage collection have now become a new tradition: hordes of wild boars feasting on the trash.

DrFumblefinger visits the historic home of the wealthy and influential Sforza family in Milan, and is especially pleased to see Michelangelo's final work,,the Pietà Rondanini.

Venice plays host to an unusual watercraft, built by an artist to drum up support for the arts during the pandemic year

Historic Ravenna, Italy is getting ready to grab a share of the cruise business that's being relocated from Venice.

There are a lot of great travel movies out there, but Samantha always enjoys watching Under the Tuscan Sun. It shows you that you can turn bad situations into good.

Even as it goes out of business, Alitalia keeps on generating news

A long-delayed system to limit crowding in Venice will be implemented next summer after a pandemic-caused delay.

Alitalia's ending operations in October, leaving behind a ticket mess and the possibility that its replacement may fly under its name. Confused? Read on...

Visitors are reported to have carried away as much as 13,000 pounds of Sardinia's protected beaches

Melting glaciers and a delicate environment could spell serious danger for villages near the mountain

DrFumblefinger shares some of the sights from his explorations of the alleys, walkways and canals of Venice.