Fresco painting is a technique that dates back thousands of years. Although exact techniques varied from century to century, ...

Seven years after it was destroyed by ISIS, the iconic Al-Hadba minaret in Mosul, Iraq, has finally been restored. Last week, the adhan, or Islamic call to prayer, was broadcast from the rebuilt ...

What are stores' 2024 Black Friday hours? When some national and Portland-area destinations will be open Black Friday isn’t all it used to be, but for retailers, it’s still the holiday shopping season ...

“Everything is finished by hand so that the result is an almost identical replica of the Gothic frame that was there.” Macron and his wife, Brigitte, visit the restored interiors of the cathedral.

Step inside Pompeii and discover life in the ancient city before the fateful eruption of Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago. Pompeii is an extraordinary new immersive experience that combines ...

My friends were starting to buy houses or get married, but I wasn't interested in these pursuits. Instead, I started to think about traveling and taking an "adult gap year" in Italy. I lived there ...

Frank Bienewald/GettyImages Those who manage the Pompeii archaeological site have recognized that they have reached a tipping point. Getting this level of interest is good for Italy and its ...

A faltering village in Italy is offering houses for 1 euro to Americans upset with the results of the presidential election. Be forewarned, though, say a couple of experts in being an expat.

ROME, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Same-sex civil unions in Italy rose in 2023 to a six-year high, the country's national statistics office said on Friday, but at the same time LGBTQ groups say the current ...

The House of the Greek Epigrams was an impressive home in northeast Pompeii once decorated with lavish frescoes. It was destroyed in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. The researchers modelled it, ...

In the lead-up to an administration change, you might hear someone say they're leaving the country for good. A small comune on the island of Sardinia in Italy is listening. Ollolai, a town of ...

Nov 20 (Reuters) - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy acknowledged the Crimea peninsula, seized by Russia in 2014, would have to be restored to Ukrainian sovereignty through diplomacy.