ROME -- With competition from the monuments of Ancient and Christian Rome, it is not surprising that few tourists find time to visit the capital’s Museum of the Liberation in Via Tasso.

OSTUNI--Rising in shimmering white out of a lone hill, towering over miles of Apulian olive plains and gazing across the Adriatic lies this dazzling city, otherwise kno

ROME -- A 12^thcentury ivory crucifix, known as the “Canosa Cross”, that vanished from the Cathedral of Sabina in Apulia in the 1960s was eventually traced to an antique dealer in Paris i

AIDONE, Sicily -- The inhabitants of this small and remote town in central Sicily packed the local archeological museum today to gaze at “their” statue, which until recently was a star exhibit of t

No one was prepared for the dizzying pace of Pope John Paul II’s global travels as the Polish pontiff’s beatification in the Vatican approa

FURORE– Hidden away in the Lattari mountains high above the Amalfi Drive, the little town of Furore had a visibility problem.

ROME — Relics are an easy target -- David Farley hones in on probably the most bizarre — Christ’s alleged foreskin which for hundreds of years was preserved in Calcata,

MATERA — Few people in this heart of southern Italy speak English, slow time is the rule, from 3 to 5 pm over late lunch, life seems to stop. Public transport is lacking.

ROME — Disagreement over an international tribunal investigating the murder of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri has brought down a Beirut government.

FLORENCE — The “Sydney Bronzino” is at the centre of attention because of a splendid exhibition in Florence.  It is the first-ever exhibition devoted to the Renaissance

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PERUGIA  — The city of Perugia has staged some fine art exhibition