IT WAS EVENING outside the walled Renaissance city of Lucca. The geometric outlines of the church of Santa Maria Assunta were fading in the distance, blending with the hillside’s dusky blue. My ...

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Hotels ranked on industry awards, guest reviews and hotel class ratings Unbiased content created by U.S. News editors Photo tours of select hotels by local experts Navigate forward to interact with ...

Roberto Vezzani is the librarian of the Collodi Foundation Library that contains 6,000 Pinocchio books including "pop-up" ...

It is a moonless, midsummer night, and I’m in the woods, walking single file through wild chestnut and silver fir trees in the remote Apennine Mountains of Tuscany, 90 minutes northwest of Florence.

Although Italy has no shortage of enchanting holiday destinations – the Amalfi Coast, Cinque Terre, Puglia and Sicily, to name just a few – there’s something particularly magical about Tuscany. This ...

TUSCANY, ITALY — Chirping nightingales interrupt the silence of a spring Tuscan night. The windows in my hotel room have been tugged open, allowing the intermittent sound to spill inside along with ...

Everyone loves Italy. Below, A-List travel advisor Andrea Grisdale shares where to go — and, just as importantly, when's the best time to do it. Put on your jacket and venture out into Rome in January ...

Luxury book publisher, Assouline, is renowned for its covetable, coffee-table books which are celebrate the wonder of travel. From Ibiza to Capri, Marrakech to Mykonos, the publisher is known for a ...