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Crime and Seduction in Venice | Julie Miller | Italy, Veneto, Venice

Within five minutes of arriving in Venice, I had bruised my knee, dropped my laptop computer, broken the heel off my shoe and my mother had been robbed. It certainly wasn’t what I expected from a city known as "La Serenissima".

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Eating & Drinking in Florence | Lee Marshall | Italy, Tuscany (Florence), Florence

Leftovers also play a role in the filling soups and mushes that take the place of pasta as the classic Florentine primo

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Hidden Venice | Fiona Duncan | Italy, Veneto, Venice

There are plain churches in dusty squares that shelter masterpieces of Venetian art; crumbling palazzi encasing wildly rich interiors; high walls that hide lush private gardens; rooftop terraces with birds' eye views

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La Dolce Vita | Benjamin Ergas | Italy, Amalfi Coast, Positano

The silhouettes of Stella, Scopolo, and Il faraglioni di mezzo are receding gently onto the horizon as our boat sails away from the isle

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Lake Garda | Lee Marshall | Italy, Italian Lakes, Lake Garda

Garda is the largest and the most comfortable of the Italian lakes. You might dally with Orta, or lose your head over a little flirt like Iseo - but Garda is the lake you come home to

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On Italians | AA Gill

To be born male and Italian is to have won first prize in the Lottery of Life. This is one of nature’s incontrovertible truths...

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Sicily | Lucretia Stewart

Sicily's best-known export is the Mafia, which, despite the best efforts of certain brave and incorruptible judges, continues to flourish

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Unforgetable Capri | Lee Marshall | Italy, Capri and Ischia, Capri

“Capri makes you forget everything,” said one illustrious visitor to the island in 1910. It was not Oscar Wilde, André Gide, or Rainer Maria Rilke, though they all came, saw, and waxed lyrical. It was Vladimir Illich Lenin

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