As tourists frolic in Venice’s rising waters, locals fear for the city’s treasures
The city suffered one of the worst episodes of flooding in decades this week. But saltwater has long been Venice’s enemy, and global warming and...
Migrants were welcome. Then came a murder, and an election.
From tolerance to fascism, a town does a soul turnaround.
The pizza! The pizza! UNESCO recognizes Napoli’s gift to the world
UNESCO’s Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage put the roughly 3,000 pizza makers, or pizzaiuoli, of Naples on its Representative List of...
Too big to sail? A plan for Venice’s cruise-ship armada
A group of local, provincial and national officials approved, after years of debate, a plan to divert cruise ships weighing more than 96,000 tons farther...
Italian Mafia’s ‘boss of bosses’ dies in prison at 87
Salvatore Riina, the Mafia’s murderous “boss of bosses,” who earned multiple life sentences and the nickname the Beast for his cruelty and for unleashing a...
Italy may battle jellyfish invasion with a knife and fork
The jellyfish invasion has now reached the point where there may be little to do but find a way to live with huge numbers of...
Scorned by Europe, Greece embraces China’s patronage, but at what price?
While Europe was busy squeezing Greece, the Chinese swooped in with bucket-loads of investments that have begun to pay off.