Covered arcade in St. Mark's Square, Venice, at night, just as the area is beginning to empty and people are beginning to close up.

A lonely woman sits on the sidewalk in San Giovanni in Galdo, Campobasso.

An unexpected snow in Loreto Aprutino, Pescara, Abruzzo

An impromptu artists exhibition was occurring on a Sunday morning in Trapano, Sicily

The extraordinarily beautiful, if rather higgledy-piggeldy town of Noto, in Sicily

A street vendor in Palermo

We came across this group of young people giving a spontaneous demonstration of local dancing in a square, in Palermo, Sicily

A man walks through Lucca with a bouquet of flowers for someone special.

Castello Medievale di Roccascalegna

A taste of pasta coated in pesto is shared between friends.