Nestled between Calabria and the Amalfi coast lies Palinuro, a small seaside resort with beautiful coves and beaches. If you want to make it your home, our property of the week could be for you. LocationPalinuro is a small town in southe Sale o, which gets its name from the main character of the leg...

Applause for 'Yumi', the robot conductor. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFPItalian tenor Andrea Bocelli's voice soars to the rafters of the Tuscan theatre, but all eyes are on the orchestral conductor beside him - a robot with an apparent penchant for Verdi. The concert in the heart of Pisa is a world first,...

An Italian football fan holds a flag bearing the head of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. Photo: Giulio Napolitano/AFPItaly's MPs on Tuesday voted in favour of a law which would introduce prison sentences for the production and sale of 'fascist propaganda', including souvenirs and other prod...

A Touareg tribesman walks in the Meggedat valley, northwest Libya, in the desert of the weste Ghat District. Photo: Taha Jawashi/AFP.Correspondents for The Local Italy spoke to a people smuggler in southe Libya who said Italy's plans to pay people not to engage in human trafficking are working. But ...

A volunteer stands next to a donation box during a charity event in Turin in 2016, whose profits were to help the population hit by the quake in Central Italy. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP.A survey by Italy's national association of notaries, which monitors charity donations in Italy, found that 32 m...

Activists hold a picture of Giulio Regeni and candles as they take part in a demonstration in front of the Italian Parliament. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP.Authorities in Egypt have arrested a lawyer whose human rights group opposes enforced disappearances and is linked to one such case involving murde...

A bronze statue of Zeus recovered by Italy's cultural heritage squad in 2010. Photo (not related to story): Tiziana Fabi/AFP.Most of the works of art were stolen from churches in southe Italy and some are nearly 500 years old. Italian police have recovered more than 100 works of religious art follow...

An aerial view of flood damage to Livo o. Photo: Vigili del FuocoAfter a weekend of torrential rain and flooding across large parts of Italy, search efforts for two missing people were taking place on Monday amidst continued bad weather. Summary: At least six people reported dead in Livo o Two peopl...

Tourism in Italy boomed in summer 2017, with an increase in visitor numbers expected to continue throughout the colder months. In total, almost 50 million people spent the night at an Italian hotel during June, July, and August this year. The exact number was 48.3 million, according to figures share...

Venetian canal. Photo: SarahTz/FlickrIf you're planning to travel to Venice, it's well worth lea ing a bit about the local dialect before you go. Natives of Venice have a strong sense of regional identity; this is clear in the support for independence movements, and the many organizations which have...

Greeting fans before his final match. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFPA whole new challenge awaits former AS Roma legend Francesco Totti as the Serie A club retu to the Champions League group stage on Tuesday against Atletico Madrid. The 40-year-old former player will swap his Roma shirt for a suit as he a...

Flood damage to homes in the Livo o area. Photo: STR/AFPSearch teams on Tuesday mo ing found the body of a 67-year-old man killed in heavy flooding in the Tuscan city of Livo o over the weekend. The discovery brought the total death toll to eight, after six other bodies were found on Sundayxa0and on...

The winning pistacchio flavour. Photo: Dino BuffagniAn Italian competition to find the best gelato in the world has come to the conclusion after three years of searching, that when it comes to perfect ice cream, there's no place like home. The Gelato World Tour is coordinated by thexa0Carpigiani Gel...

Giancarlo Cancelleri, pictured in 2012, was selected as the party's candidate for regional gove or. Photo: AFPA court in Palermo has 'suspended' the result of the regional primaries of the Five Star Movement party, presenting a potential setback just two months ahead of the Sicilian regional electio...

File photo of Solfatara. Photo: Daniel Enchev/FlickrThree members of the same family died in a volcanic crater in Pozzuoli, near Naples, Italian police said on Tuesday. A couple, aged 42 and 45, and their 11-year-old son died at the Solfatara crater, while their other son, aged seven, survived. Acco...

Director Guillermo Del Toro receives the Golden Lion for Best Film with the movie "The Shape of Water" during the award ceremony of the 74th Venice Film Festival on September 9, 2017 at Venice Lido. P"The Shape of Water," a dazzling sci-fi romance by Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro, won the cove...

Italy's Chamber of Deputies, the Lower House of Parliament. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPOne of the distinctive features of the Italian political landscape is the large number of parties, some of them encompassing a wide range of ideologies and some focusing on a single issue or region. The smallest amo...

A three-year old girl was the only survivor on Sunday of a flood that killed her family, as fierce rainstorms swept Italy and devastated the Tuscan city of Livo o, killing at least six people. Four people from the same family were found dead in a flooded house in the city, where 40 centimetres (16 i...

File photo of an Asian Tiger mosquito. Photo: AFP/Eid MediterraneeDespite the recent death of an Italian child from malaria, scientists believe the disease is unlikely to retu to the country. Researchers Emanuele Giorgi and Donal Bisanzio explain why. A four-year-old girl from northe Italy has died ...

An aerial view of flood damage to Livo o. Photo: Vigili del FuocoAfter a weekend of torrential rain and flooding across large parts of Italy, search efforts for two missing people were taking place on Monday amidst continued bad weather. Summary: At least six people reported dead in Livo o Two peopl...