The 2026 Winter Games are off to a promising start for host nation Italy with gold, silver and bronze on the first day of medal events.

Speedskater Francesca Lollobrigida has won host Italy’s first gold medal of the Milan Cortina Games by taking the women’s ...

White Lotus' star Sabrina Impacciatore performed a time-traveling musical number at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.

Is it at all surprising that dignified, low-stress train travel is having such a revival? I’d come to Italy to experience La ...

Inside a church just outside Naples, people known as femminielli gathered for La Juta, a centuries-old Candlemas pilgrimage ...

From the bustling streets of Milan to the hills of East Tennessee, two people are finding ways to stay connected to their ...

Born in Naples to an Italian father and a Colombian mother, 16-year-old Giada D'Antonio is the youngest athlete on Italy's ski team at the Milano Cortina Games and the only one from the southern ...

Isabeau Levito, 18, is a figure skater who was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Burlington County, New Jersey.

Faced with surging visitor numbers and declining snow cover, some small Italian ski towns are imposing limits on day-trippers ...

The buses from Naples arrive in a steady stream, unloading thousands of people in brightly coloured ski outfits into the small ...

From finding authentic eats near Milan's Olympic venues to discovering the best of the country's art exhibitions in the coming months, our weekly newsletter La Bella Vita offers you an essential ...

Cast your mind back to 1965, when Hobart was a quiet, conservative, and close-knit city, still very much defined by its geography, its port, and its longstanding industries. With Mt Wellington looming ...