As ash and lava spewed out of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., everything stopped for people in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The devastating volcanic eruption was visible to the occupants of nearby ...

Divers recently photographed and researched the underwater remains of an ancient Roman villa, photos show. Photo from the Superintendence of Archaeology Fine Arts Landscape Southern Etruria A team of ...

A piece of Gucci history is up for grabs in Rome, and it comes with a price tag of a cool $14.2 million. This estate, occupying 4,000 square feet, was built in the 1950s by Aldo Gucci, the son of the ...

For travelers and even agents this barrage of historic homes-cum-resorts poses a problem: namely how to tell one from the other. They are all historic. They have all been carefully restored. Moreover, ...

ROME, June 3 (Reuters) - A Dutch tourist has defaced a frescoed wall in an ancient Roman house in Herculaneum, near Naples, damaging a building that survived the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in ...

Italy became a nation in 1861 when most of the Italian peninsula united under King Victor Emmanuel II, the then-king of Sardinia. Prior to this, Risorgimento, as it was known, consisted of a number of ...

Lake Como is an undeniably gorgeous destination in Northern Italy. While we’ve visited other bucket list spots in northern ...

Archaeologists in Miseno, Italy, unearthed a monumental 1,900-year-old home where the eruption of Mount Vesuvius could be seen, photos show. Photo from the Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and ...