An unusual hotel, scattered throughout the community, is breathing life back into deserted villages.

Italy is to become the first country in the world in which the study of climate change will be made compulsory in schools, the education minister announced on Tuesday.

How to make the mayor of Bologna lose his temper 

Italian authorities have closed roads and ordered the evacuation of huts on the Italian side of Mont Blanc, following warnings that part of a glacier could collapse at any moment.

Sicilian chef Carmelo Chiaramonte tells police the drug is for researching “new flavours”.

Burano, the beautiful fishing village in Venice. It is said that the houses were painted in different colours so the sailors and fishermen could identify their houses as they came in from the sea.

The last Lamborghini Gallardo has left the company’s production line in Sant’ Agata, marking an end to the Italian manufacturer’s most successful ever model. In total 14,022 Gallardos were made in a 10-year production run, almost matching the total number of all other Lamborghini cars built since the company was founded in 1963.

Dan Brown’s new thriller, Inferno is set primarily in Florence, Italy, and Brown shows his readers hidden spots of wonder in that well-known city at every turn of the page. Brown’s famous character, symbolist Robert Langdon, picks up after the “Da Vinci Code” and “Angels and Demons” and is asked once again to save the world. Readers immediately turned Inferno into a best-seller and even those familiar with Florence found exciting new places to explore through Langdon’s adventures.

The woman who kissed a riot policeman during protests near the northern Italian city of Turin in November has been detained for "sexual violence" and "offence to a public official".

With its greenery and crumbling ruins, the small island of Poveglia in the Venetian Lagoon seems a pleasant enough place.

Supreme court overturns 60-year-old's conviction for sexual acts with minor, saying verdict did not take into account 'amorous relationship'

Italian police on Wednesday issued arrest warrants for 90 suspected members of a Naples mafia clan and seized assets worth millions of euros, including dozens of well-known pizza restaurants in Rome. One suspect, a 42-year-old Roman man charged with extortion, killed himself by jumping off his fourth-floor balcony when police arrived at his home to arrest him, police said.

Coca-Cola actually had a campaign in the summer of 2011 to encourage Italians to drink Coke with their meals. This might not seem radical to Americans, but this is the land where people drink water or wine at mealtime.

After nearly 12 hours of deliberations Thursday, the court reinstated the guilty verdict first handed down against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in 2009.

Well, this one’s horrifying. The New York Daily News ispointing people’s attention to a story from Italian newspaper Il Mattino. Apparently a 50-year-old man in the northern region of Lombardy in Italy was adopting cats from nearby shelters only so he could cook them and serve them as meals.

The Italian state arrived in the heartland of the Camorra mafia this month bearing a backhoe. Police officers in polished black boots posed for television cameras as the backhoe clawed into an overgrown field, searching for barrels of toxic waste or some other illegal industrial sarcophagi.

A diver died Saturday while working on the shipwrecked Costa Concordia, apparently gashing his leg on an underwater metal sheet while preparing the wreck for removal, officials and news reports said. Italy’s civil protection agency, which is overseeing the removal of the Concordia from Tuscany’s coast, said the diver hailed from Spain.

Milan is a famous city of Italy. It has both the historic as well as modern attractions.

Italy's navy has rescued 1,123 people from inflatable boats in the space of 24 hours, as clandestine migration from North Africa reaches record levels.

Manarola may be the oldest of the towns in the Cinque Terre, with the cornerstone of the church, San Lorenzo, dating from 1338. The local dialect is Manarolese, which is marginally different from the dialects in the nearby area. The name "Manarola" is probably dialectical evolution of the Latin, "magna rota". In the Manarolese dialect this was changed to "magna roea" which means "large wheel", in reference to the mill wheel in the town. Photo by Dominic Kamp.