Matter of decorum. The Municipality of Rome complies with the Bolkenstein directive and therefore puts street positions up ...

The wait is almost over for those of us who have been obsessing over Emily Cooper’s love life since 2020. Netflix drops all 10 episodes of Emily in Paris Season 5 on December 18, and this time, our ...

Baroque churches containing artistic masterpieces, gurgling fountains, cocktails clinking on rooftop terraces, freshly baked pizza bianca—these are some of the sights, sounds, and scents that await ...

A woman holds images of José Gregorio Hernández while observing the Vatican's canonization ceremony on a big screen in La Candelaria Square in Caracas, Venezuela, on Oct. 19. Credit: OSV News ...

Having never been to Italy before, I was very excited to see what its capital city had to offer – and it certainly didn’t disappoint. After leaving rainy England and landing in Rome’s significantly ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Renaissance masterpiece Villa Medici, built c1540, is the wedding-cake-perfect white travertine and marble ...

The Western Roman Empire famously ended in A.D. 476 when its last emperor abdicated the throne. But the city of Rome continued on. So what happened to the "Eternal City" after it was no longer the ...

FeatureAs famous as the Renaissance palace they surround, the gardens of the French Academy in Italy have just been redesigned by artists and landscape architects. Initiated by the director of the ...

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One of the best pieces of real estate in Rome actually belongs to France. The Villa Medici, a Renaissance villa, sits in the heart of the Italian capital, high up on Mount Pincio, with seven hectares ...

There, she prayed on her knees before a painting of the Virgin Mary, beseeching God for the grace to enter the Carmelite convent at the age of 15, a request that she also boldly made during an ...