Italy

The remarkable Alice Rohrwacher on buried treasure and directing without a safety net

Foreigners snapping up the properties don't always know what they are taking on

Racist discrimination in the game is becoming more noticeable than ever. Does Italy intend to do something about it and is the solution to the issue black and white?

Salemi’s status as capital lasted a mere 24 hours, but the pride its residents feel today is immeasurable.

In the city’s Piazza della Libertà, a few kilometres from the Italian-Slovenian border, thousands of migrants dream of a better world

South West Bank delves into the historic struggles Palestinians have faced

The Italian revolutionised children’s education and established the schools that carry her name all over the world to this day

In Italy, one famous Neapolitan pizzaiolo is daring to change the city’s view of putting pineapple on pizza

His great contemporaries are gone, but the director is still shaking his fists – and miraculously, his films are getting even better

Quo Vadis is fun but Rossellini's neorealism showed us Rome as it was

The brain drain of talent from the poorer south to the richer north has created a crisis in the country’s health sector

The new Enzo Mari exhibition at London’s Design Museum offers a rare glimpse at the artist's intentions

The Italian will be forever remembered for a wordless walk in a Viennese cemetery

Thanks to a letter about delivery, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula was finally attributed to its great master

It is sad and diminishing that our government is now effectively telling an important community it is no longer wanted

In Italy, food is political capital and Ferrero products are no exception

Locals have opted to negate the fact that Lawrence’s vision of Italy wasn’t entirely idyllic

At every step of my breathless and frustrating journey, Gatwick Airport was able to cash in on the unexpected delays

This new music shines a light on the Carnic Alps, one of Europe’s most obscure regions with a fast-fading culture

Verona’s infamous star-crossed lover can’t help today’s hopeful romantics

For centuries, the city has had an inclusive relationship what locals call the femminielli, celebrating the joy and glamour of the third sex

Exploring the surprising link between a small town in the shadow of Mount Etna and the most celebrated siblings in English literature

Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner’s home region of South Tyrol is still largely German-speaking despite being in Italy for over 100 years

Italy is far from the Wild West but the country’s gun laws need attention

Is the prime minister’s amendment a push for sports culture or a faint echo of the country’s fascist past?

How an illiterate model reinvented herself as one of Italy’s greatest modern painters

The story of the fateful real-life race that inspired Michael Mann’s Ferrari movie

Residents of one south Italian village are reversing the negative meaning of being a "cuckhold"

The singer almost came to embody the nation’s revival before it all ended at the dawn of a decade that could have been made for him

Jannick Sinner’s victory at the Australian Open proves that Italians, like us all, love a winner

With only 20 of his works left in the world, the National Gallery is hosting the first exhibition devoted to the Renaissance master

The country’s cheesy heritage is up for dispute