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LECCE, Italy -- In Italy, everything begins - or ends - with an espresso. There was a beaming September sun shining on the narrow Via Torino the Sunday morning we arrived early in Rome. From where we ...

On a trip to this thrumming Italian city about 15 years ago, art historian Michael Stoughton hoped to visit a famous Baroque church in the Sanita neighborhood of Naples. An Italian friend said no — ...

Before Italians invented opera, the oratorio and the cantata, they created madrigals — highly experimental secular songs for a small group of singers whose voices weave and combine in often unexpected ...

An architectural masterpiece and emblem of Sicilian Baroque, the golden-hued Noto Cathedral lights up in the sunshine of Sicily's Hyblaean mountains. Fully restored after its 1996 collapse, it now ...

Brooklyn-born French director Eugène Green's latest baroque reverie on the cathartic power of art is both grating and richly gratifying. Four centuries ago, Catholic Rome harnessed the emotional force ...

Outdoor seating sits in the courtyard of Palazzo Zimara in Lecce, Italy. Palazzo Zimara also has a concierge team that can curate local experiences, city tours, cooking classes, and access to private ...

In Modica, staircases appear without warning and Baroque façades emerge around every corner. Levelled by an earthquake in ...

The annual summer festival presented by Jeffrey Thomas and the American Bach Soloists is a buoyant feast of musical performances, lectures, master classes and other events, all built around a theme ...

When Matteo Renzi took office, he promised to wreck the old structures that have been slowing Italy down for decades. But on Sunday he was hit by the wrecking ball himself, writes Andreas ...