Archeologists complain: Italy is burying its past
As laws change in Italy to favor development over preservation, archaeologists worry that the country's ancient heritage is being lost.
As laws change in Italy to favor development over preservation, archaeologists worry that the country's ancient heritage is being lost.
Under the Basilica di San Francesco in Ravenna lies an earlier church, whose mosaics, flooded by rainwater, can be seen through an opening in the floor.
Italy is about to join France in trying to turn food waste into a resource for those in need, but taking a different tack on incentives.
A new stadium for FC Barcelona, built around the existing field, and a competition for design of a removable retractable roof for Verona's ancient arena.
In Europe, it's generally easy to locate a pharmacy by searching for a lit-up green cross sign, but in Bologna, we found some special signs...
Italy has submitted papers for Neapolitan pizza to be recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage on the list of "intangible" cultural assets.
A small village in the mountains above Lake Maggiore traces its roots to Scottish mercenaries who wintered there in 1525 and never went home.
A museum that hits all the marks in surveys is one that almost never comes to mind, doesn't promote itself, and hasn't a working phone number!
A children's drive to raise funds to buy an unspoiled island off Sardinia has led a woman to return the bag of sand she took from there years ago.
Pompei will open more areas to the public, and create new pathways in an effort to spread out the crowds that endanger the fragile area.
A trail of fat betrays thieves who broke into a bar and stole the cash, the TV and seven legs of Iberico ham...
In Italy's northernmost Alpine region, where German is the mother tongue, a 550-year-old farm that's now a guesthouse and restaurant.
Italian students at a middle school in the Italian Alps have started a crowdfunding campaign to buy an island.
Torcello, the most distant of Venice's islands and once a rival of Venice, has almost no residents, but two splendid ancient churches.
Carved in precise detail, these two 'skinned men' hold up a canopy over the anatomy teacher's chair in Bologna's University medical school.