Never mind the usual drink and drug offences… quirky, eccentric incidents seem to surround some of those who make music the same way ...

Letizia Battaglia was born in Palermo, Sicily, in 1935 and was among the first women reporters in Italy. She died in 2022. She travelled the world with her pictures and won several awards for her ...

Expect to hear both Italian and German while exploring, as the local culture and architecture is a blend of Italy and Austria ...

What happens when we make friends across borders? Two writers talk about their British-Italian friendship – and the ...

She saw the mafia tearing Italy apart in the 1970s ... capturing the hardships and poverty of life in Palermo. There are some incredible photos here. Excellently composed, shockingly ...

Rome is famously chaotic, and a fascinating mix of very old-meets-very-new: you’ll find wifi hotspots at ancient monuments, over 900 churches and nearly as many electric Bird scooters, and an Apple ...

A British couple bid €5,000 (£4,200) to win an abandoned house in Sicily they had never seen before — and now they have three years to renovate it or risk losing it.

Lyndsey and Rob Mosley, a British-Irish couple from London, were searching for a holiday home in Italy for their young ... its proximity to the sea and to Palermo [in the north-west].” ...

A total of 1,200 officers were involved in the operation aimed at dismantling mafia clans in several districts of the capital ...

“Cosa Nostra,” the mafia syndicate based in and around Palermo, terrorized Italy in the 1980s and 1990s, but has since been overtaken as Europe’s most powerful mob by the Calabrian ‘Ndranghet ...