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by Teresa Fisher | Mon, 10/19/2009 - 10:18

Pictures by John Heseltine The site of Siena was originally an Etruscan settlement that later became the Roman city of Sena Julia, founded by Senius, son of…

Travel

Cloister Garden of the Santa Chiara Monastery, Naples, Campania

by Carla Passino | Tue, 09/09/2008 - 05:24

It is hardly what you’d expect cloistered nuns to gaze upon during the course of their silent lives. Bold scenes of boar hunting, bowling, dancing, even a…

Travel

Scilla, Calabria

by Carla Passino | Tue, 08/19/2008 - 06:38

Words by Carla PassinoUnder a pale silver moon, the sea is a glossy sheet of molten obsidian. But flickering in the distance, the lights of Sicily dance on the…

Travel

Eremo di Camaldoli, Tuscany

by Carla Passino | Tue, 08/12/2008 - 09:43

Words by Carla PassinoAn intricate forest of firs and beech. A steep, forbidding road. A last bend, and then the Benedictine Eremo di Camaldoli, hidden behind…

Travel

The Rilke Path

by Carla Passino | Tue, 08/05/2008 - 09:36

Words by Carla PassinoAchingly white limestone cliffs rise sharply from a cobalt blue sea. A lone sailing boat leaves a soft wake in the water, and the silence…

Travel

Castello di Fénis

by Carla Passino | Thu, 07/10/2008 - 07:24

Perched on top of a small verdant hill near Aosta, the austere silhouette of the Castello di Fénis stands sentinel over a large field peppered with geese and…

Lifestyle

Minister storms off TV show as gay rights row heats up (Video)

by ITALY | Mon, 03/12/2007 - 06:51

A gay rights' row heated up in Italy on Friday after a Catholic minister walked off in a TV debate about a draft bill granting legal recognition to same-sex…