A city larger than many in Europe at the time was perched in the mountains.

My idea of the ultimate road trip is a drive that’s fun; a trip that’s easy to do and where the driving is enjoyable because ...

The Via Francigena was Europe’s overland spine, and it’s now growing in popularity as a slow-travel option through the ...

A court in Rome rules that the first 12 migrants sent to Albania should be brought back to Italy. An interview with a fellow escaped soldier is part of the research that helped identify the grave.

The New York Times/Siena College Poll has earned a reputation for accuracy and transparency. But as with any poll, there are limits to just how much you can derive. By The New York Times The New ...

Italy has broadened its legislation on surrogacy, which has been illegal in the country since 2004, to now criminalize “surrogacy tourism” in countries like the United States and Canada ...

Torrential rain has triggered landslides and flooding in northern Italy, severely disrupting transport. Emergency operations were launched in the Tuscan provinces of Siena and Livorno on 17 October.

A special immigration court in Rome ruled that the 12 migrants, sent to the camp at Gjader not far from the Adriatic coast in northern Albania, should be brought back to Italy because they were ...

Italy has made it illegal for couples to travel abroad to have a baby via surrogacy. A bill, passed on Wednesday, extends a ban that forbids surrogacy within Italy to include those who travel to ...

Italy passed a bill that criminalises couples who seek surrogacy abroad on Wednesday, following a seven-hour debate in Parliament. The bill was initially presented by Carolina Varchi, a member of ...

The glowing works from Siena, now at the Met ... veined as it is with traces of Constantinople, Paris and an Italy budding into Renaissance. At the time the painting was done, around 1300 ...

This is the physical context, and the experience, that a museum cannot fully reproduce but can hope to evoke in bringing the magnificent paintings of late medieval Italy to life for modern viewers.