Italy’s UNESCO World Heritage cities in Italy serve up hill towns with frescoed basilicas, elegant medieval centres, grand merchant palaces on marble-lined streets and cave quarters cut into ...

Three World Heritage sites in Cyprus and a fourth in Italy have been given "enhanced protection" status by the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which ...

Rome is the headline act, but Italy’s Roman ruins outside Rome deliver ancient drama with fewer crowds and gentler prices. Think evocative ports, theatres and mosaics, with straightforward trains and ...

The World Heritage Committee today added four sites to UNESCO’s World Heritage List and one extension to an existing transnational natural site in Europe. The new cultural sites are located in Italy, ...

Each summer, as millions of tourists swarm into historic towns full of monuments and museums, a predictable kind of headline is sure to follow. “Uffizi Gallery visitor damages painting in botched ...

From the ancient charm of Ptuj in Slovenia to the cobbled streets of Bruges in Belgium, the medieval towers of San Gimignano in Italy, and the baroque beauty of Zamość in Poland, there are countless ...

Scungio said at the opening ceremony that the exhibition was organized to celebrate the long-standing cooperation between the two countries' cultural heritage ...

Dec. 10 (UPI) --The United Nations' cultural heritage organization on Wednesday recognized Italian food as an intangible aspect of Italy's heritage, the first national cuisine to be formally protected ...

ROME (AP) — Italian food is known and loved around the world for its fresh ingredients and palate-pleasing tastes. The U.N.’s cultural agency gave foodies on Wednesday another reason to celebrate ...