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Italy is an open-air museum. From the north to the south of the boot, architecture dating back to the Roman Empire and UNESCO World Heritage Sites fill the towns, keeping their history alive. Italy is ...

Thinking of going to Sicily, but worried about getting stuck in crowded, high-traffic areas? Consider venturing into the ...

"Portals, Pilgrimage, and Crusade in Western Tuscany," the first book to explore medieval travel along Italy's pilgrimage routes, was published this month by Princeton University Press to much ...

"I've always loved living here; I've always felt very lucky to live here," said Ludovica Sannazzaro. Correspondent Seth Doane asked, "Did it settle in that you were living in a castle?" "Not at first, ...

A Medieval skeleton discovered in Italy has shown "signs of decapitation" and is believed to be the first case of a "torture wheel" in the country. The research, published in the Journal of ...

More than 700 years ago, a medieval "case of raw violence" ended a young man's life with four sword blows to the head, according to a new study of the medieval "cold case." "The individual was ...

Wealthy Italian Jews were blackmailed into buying the freedom of black Jewish slaves from Africa by locking them in a prison to be gang-raped by Muslim inmates and Christian forced laborers. The ...

A sip of unpasteurized sheep or goat's milk may have spelled doom for a medieval Italian man. A new genetic analysis of bony nodules found in a 700-year-old skeleton from Italy reveal that the man had ...