Italy

Ski-slope bump or influential person? Two similar-sounding but unrelated words have merged

The FBI director's spinner was furious at reports he was in Italy for the ice hockey final. But there he was...

When I heard that ICE would be attending the 2026 Winter Olympics, I was shocked - but not surprised

An icon’s death marks the end of the era of brilliant individuals who lived like deities

Slovenia is obsessed with strapping on skis and flying into the void – and they’re expecting to be in the medals at the Winter Olympics

From Mariupol to Tehran, Cecilia Sala’s new book captures young people forced into extraordinary acts of resistance

Alessandro Mendini turned corkscrews into characters and armchairs into art. An exhibition of his work is on at the Estorick in London

Seventy years after Cortina first hosted, a very different Games returns to the town that once hosted Hemingway and Bond

Behind locked doors in museums and archaeological sites, priceless works gather dust while the world waits outside

Terranera, a tiny mountaintop hamlet of 50 residents, doesn't organise its festivities by the Christian calendar or tradition

An extraordinary Florence show brings together the friar-artist’s sacred visions and the Medici politics that shaped them

One restaurant in Bari has done the unthinkable. And it’s not about the money

The San Ciro in Milan is legendary. But it was too shabby to host the Champions League final - which can only mean one thing

Nick Trend’s new book explores the places where Giotto and Leonardo constructed a country’s heritage

Nava Golchini dreams of the day she can go home and perform. Gabbeh, her debut album as NAVA, turns hyperpop into protest

From September to early October, red wine gushes from Rome’s central two fountains. Forget the Trevi, this is what you need to see when you visit

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