This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. A writer named Gianrinaldo Carli told a story that became famous in Italy in the 1760s: A stranger ...

Women dress up for the annual Befana procession in Viterbo, Italy. The January 6th Epiphany holiday is celebrated across Italy - but where did it come from? (Photo by TIZIANA FABI / AFP) Italy ...

A coastal European city offering both sandy and pebbly beaches has been dubbed the “the city of the two seas”. In Taranto, ...

Shira Klein, chair of the history department at Chapman University, said there is a popular misconception about Italy’s treatment of the Jews during World War II. That "good Italian" myth ...

The vineyards of Italy’s Cinque Terre are so strenuous and costly to work that their 4,000-year-old history of winegrowing flirts with its end. In a late chapter of his book “Italy in a ...