A photo taken on August 23rd, 2017, shows the remains of Amatrice. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFPResidents in Amatrice, the town worst hit by a fatal earthquake one year ago today, gathered to mou the neighbours and friends they lost in the disaster. At exactlyxa03:36 amxa0on Thursday, the town clock...

News that water shortages are due to the needs of visiting cruise ship passengers has left a sour taste in some Sicilians' mouths. The Sicilian capital of Palermo is used to water crises but the latest has left residents irate. Hundreds of homes in the port city were left without drinking water due ...

Photo: Ministero dei beni e delle attivitá culturali e del turismo (MiBACT).They've safeguarded thousands of pieces of art damaged in earthquakes in the last 12 months. Meet the people making sure Italy's churches, artefacts and cultural heritage sites are being restored for future generations to en...

A screenshot from the advert. Photo: YouTubeA sex toy commercial is being run on Italian television for the first time, testing attitudes towards sex and women. The advert for the pleasuring device aired on satellite channels Realtime, NOVE and DMAX for the first time in July but is now also being s...

One year after an earthquake struck the Amatrice region – and less than 24 hours after another struck the island of Ischia in the Gulf of Naples – Italy on Thursday will remember the 299 victims killed in the August 23rd, 2016, disaster that still haunts the country. Survivors will hold a candle-lit...

The view from the palazzo Seneca in Norcia. Photo: Palazzo Seneca.A hotel in Norcia, Umbria, where a deadly earthquake destroyed much of the town in October 2016, has been named Best Hotel in 2017 by a prestigious luxury tourism association. Parts of the town centre are still pulverized and many of ...

The Peutinger Table. Reproduction by Conradi Millieri - Ulrich Harsch Bibliotheca Augustana. Wikimedia CommonsDid all roads really lead to Rome? History lecturers Caillan Davenport and Shushma Malik investigate whether there's any truth behind the proverb. We all know the phrase “all roads lead to R...

Firefighters extract a body from the debris of a collapsed building, after two floors collapsed in Torre Annunziata, a town near near Naples, on July 7, 2017. Photo: Renato Esposito/AFPAs Italy reels from another earthquake, experts wa ed Wednesday that widespread illegal construction is putting mil...

Residents in the Italian region of Abruzzo were left shocked when a bear ran through a town's cobbled streets. The town ofxa0San Sebastiano dei Marsi in Abruzzo, central Italy, received an uninvited and larger-than-usual guest at its recent patron saint festivities: A bear.xa0 The Abruzzo National P...

Photo: Vigili del Fuoco.Firefighters battled throughout Tuesday in dramatic search and rescue efforts after a 4.0 magnitude earthquake hit Ischia the previous night. Three young brothers, including a baby aged just seven months, were from the rubble of buildings that collapsed, killing two people. P...

An earthquake hit the popular Italian tourist island of Ischia, off the coast of Naples, causing several buildings to collapse on August 21, 2017. A 3.6 magnitude earthquake struck Ischia on Monday, pA magnitude-4.0 earthquake struck the Italian holiday island of Ischia, causing destruction that lef...

Updates from Italy where a magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck the island of Ischia, taking at least two lives, on the night of Monday August 21st. What we know so far: A Magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck the island of Ischia, 30 kilometres from the city of Naples Two people have been confirmed dead so fa...

Beach-goers in Nice witnessed a surprising sight last Thursday afte oon as a 40 metre-long yacht caught fire just off the Mediterranean coast. The 40-metre yacht that caught fire and sunk before the eyes of stunned tourists near Nice last Thursday belonged to an Italian industrial tycoon, Diana Brac...

Photo taken on May 17th 1976 of a nun showing a church destroyed by the Friuli-Venezia earthquake. Photo: AFPA 4.0 magnitude earthquake killed at least two people when it struck Ischia on Monday, August 21st. An earthquake on the same spot 134 years earlier killed more than 2,000 people. Monday nigh...

Italian firemen and emergency workers search through rubble of a collapsed house in Ischia, on August 22, 2017, after an earthquake hit the popular Italian tourist island off the coast of Naples. PhotItaly should have had sufficient measures in place to protect people from a 4.0 magnitude earthquake...

Saint John the Baptist, attributed to Caravaggio. File photo: Aris Messinis/AFPWorks by several major European artists will go on display in Rome, Milan, Genoa, Florence, Vicenza and Pistoia this autumn. A feast for the eyes across the north of the peninsula. Several new exhibitions by landmark Ital...

Two of 114 egg samples tested in Italy have shown traces of the insecticide fipronil, Italy's health ministry said Monday, making the country the latest to become embroiled in a Europe-wide scandal The ministry did not specify where the insecticide traces were found. Thexa0samples came from Italian ...

This home offers the chance to live under half moon ceilings in Apulia, surrounded by thousands of fruit trees. Location Photo:xa0Gate-Away.com San Vito dei Normanni and the northe Salento Puglia is one of most sought-after Italian regions where to buy a second home in Italy. Its sun-kissed coastlin...

Renowned Italian architect Stefano Boeri has argued that public spaces should be redesigned to include natural barriers such as giant plants to protect pedestrians from possible terror attacks. Boeri is the brain behind the sustainable residential building projectxa0Vertical Forests, the first of wh...

The announcement came as security was raised after vehicle attacks in Barcelona and elsewhere, and a widely-reported wa ing from the Islamic State group that Italy is next on its hit list. Administrative expulsions, which are not subject to any appeal, are one of the main planks of Italy's strategy ...