The tiny hamlet has faced a devastating earthquake and the pandemic, but the spectacular beauty of its Piano Grande keeps it alive. Morning mist, and fields of flowering poppies, in Umbria’s Piano ...

It may not be hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk — it would need to be “near 150 degrees Fahrenheit,” says Smithsonian magazine, adding that a 1933 L.A. Times article helped popularize the myth ...

Every year, the fields of Umbrian village Castelluccio come alive with colour as part of an annual spectacle known as 'La Fiorita' (the flowering or blooming). Poppies, daffodils, violets and others ...

Seven years after an earthquake virtually erased Castelluccio di Norcia from the central Italian map, almost nothing has been rebuilt in the town, which sits above the vast, high-altitude meadow in ...

CASTELLUCCIO DI NORCIA, Italy – Some houses are collapsed outright, pancaked piles of stones and plaster. A pair of skis stick out. Some are cracked open neatly, exposing living rooms frozen in time.

The lentil fields of Castelluccio, in central Italy. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Every year, the fields of Umbrian village Castelluccio come alive with colour as part of an annual spectacle known as 'la ...

Travel during the summer of 2020 hasn’t been what many of us expected or wanted. COVID-19 restrictions have kept many vacationers home and traveling to Europe is out for the time being thanks to a ...

CASTELLUCCIO, ITALY- (May 30, 2018)- Olive oil is a staple of Italian cuisine. It's been that way for thousands of years. And new chemical analysis conducted on ancient pottery proves the liquid gold ...

Federico Castelluccio, former star of “The Sopranos” and a Baroque art expert, unveiled the rare 17th-century painting by artist Guercino that he discovered and lovingly restored in Italy last week.