In the 14th century, the Italian villa was a large country house ... turbulence and unsanitary conditions of the streets and piazzas. Both types of villa were often surrounded by formal gardens. Like ...

A piece of Gucci history is up for grabs in Rome, and it comes with a price tag of a cool $14.2 million. This estate, ...

Here, in an extract from the book, we take a look at Viterbo, a delightfully under-discovered province in the Lazio region of ...

The villa had frescoes, now housed in Anzio's Civic Museum, a thermal plant, several floors, and a nymphaeum (a grotto dedicated to a nymph). You can walk around the ruins and see a formal garden ...