Beware of putting all your trust in one man when it comes to Italian museums.

If you love books and reading and live in Rome, Santa Susanna is a welcome oasis.

The moment a language turns foreign is when you have to speak it.

In Parco Regionale Sassi di Roccamalatina, keep an eye open for Gandalf.

Once-upon-a-time, a Milan foundry made bronze bells for all the world to hear.

Fall for a city (Naples) and it becomes your puppy: You protect it from all harm.

Learning to speak Italian can leave you exposed to the peanut gallery.

Calcata is smaller than a Manhattan city block, but at least as quirky.

Emilia into Tuscany: To the lake and up the mountainside, mushrooms aplenty.

Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast can give you a warped vision of Italian habits.

Red squirrels and petrified springs in a sprawling park near Brianza.