Italy

Ketty La Rocca’s early death brought a sudden halt to her witty, melancholy outsider art

For centuries it was the city’s literary salon. Now, Antico Caffè Greco’s doors are shut

Mysterious, graceful and defiant, Cardinale transcended the male gaze and wrote her own legend

Italy’s one-euro homes are becoming a nightmare for local authorities – so they’re selling them off

Born in 1991, Acutis’s canonisation marks a first for the Roman Catholic Church – he will become its first millennial saint

Indie director Jim Jarmusch scooped the award with Father Mother Sister Brother - but what does this say about the future of film festivals?

Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice is a masterfully savage comedy of murder and capitalist ruin

The Italian government has given the green light to the Strait of Messina Bridge, a €13.5bn project to build the longest suspension bridge in the world – but not everyone is on board

The days of La Dolce Vita are long gone – people no longer aspire to classic elegance

An abandoned kiosk near St Peter’s Square has become one of the city’s most creative addresses

Teaching errors made in the country’s classrooms are now making their way up to university level. Textbooks should be binned and the Italian education system needs to be rewritten

Beneath the peak of Monte Soratte near Rome is a vast, eerie tunnel complex – an underground graveyard of the German troops who died there

If more Italian hospitals were made as welcoming as the Rizzoli, patients would be less scared to go inside in search of help

No red carpets, no gaggles of reporters, no nonsense – just the chance to see all the great films you’ve missed

Extreme summer heat, driven by climate change, is putting off tourists and having a devastating effect on the Eternal City’s economy

After two years of droughts, farmers are being forced to find new, innovative ways to grow ingredients for the classic Italian dish

Big-money galleries are moving in, but an underpaid, precariously employed workforce isn’t convinced

Like right wingers everywhere, the Italian government hates immigrants - it also can’t carry on without them. Which means only one thing

If Rousseau is right, it’s not just Venice and Bezos that are sinking. We all are 

Her autobiography shows that the western queen of the far right is almost impossible to pin down

Daily Mail columnist Stephen Glover has hit out at those making fun of the Amazon tycoon's gaudy wedding. Perhaps he should look closer to home

The Amazon boss is getting married here in the city. But locals don’t want their hometown turned into a playground for the global super-rich

Italy’s blue bloods don’t have the money to maintain their historic properties – so they’re giving them away

The Belgian is – temporarily – replacing Tintoretto in one of the Venice’s sacred spaces. But first he wants to talk about Trump

Enzo Suma’s Archeoplastica project turns pollution into art shaped by the sea – to make a point

The people of Naples speak their own language, have their own style, eat their own food and drink their own wine

In southern Italy, the village of Agnone has been hiding a secret: since the middle ages, they have been making its church bells

Robert Prevost may have been born American, but his experience, views and values are as far from Trumpian as were his predecessor’s

Is Italy’s most famous director all style and no substance?

‘When did anti-fascism become controversial?’ Director Joe Wright on the future of M: Son of the Century, his streaming series about Italy's fascist dictator

Deep inside the Vatican, in a highly secret location, a group of carpenters were tasked with creating a very special casket