A prisoner named "Valentine" was said in one tale to have written a note signed "from your Valentine" to his jailer's ...

A teenager with a peanut allergy collapsed and died just minutes after eating dinner in Rome. The 14-year-old ... was on the first day of a family holiday in the Italian capital when the tragedy ...

Umbria is also home to a town known as the ‘mini Rome’ due to its incredible Roman ruins and architecture. Recognised as one ...

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The Salvation Army raised $78,000 over the holiday season through the Red Kettle and Angel Tree campaigns, exceeding their ...

The romantic holiday has been celebrated for centuries, but the history behind it is much darker than red roses.

Boutique hotels could well be your first choice on holiday: small ... And to find one in a tourist trap like Rome is something to cheer about. Hotel Vilon is pretty much as good as it gets ...

The eternal city has launched a bold crackdown on key boxes, the self-check-in safes that have become a symbol of overtourism.

Some of Rome’s prized monuments have reopened recently ... we’ve got 65 million passengers here and that’s not just holidays, that’s a huge amount of domestic traffic ...