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Italians pack Speedos as Dolomites lake hit by soaring temperatures
Glacial lake is usually icy cold even in summer, and efforts to halt Alpine glaciers melting considered to too little and too lateMountain trekkers, packing essentials before heading for the glaciers...
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Holiday ideas: tips and trips
The freshest lobser in Sweden, hiking in the Alps and three beautiful boltholes in ScotlandTake me there: Sweden's Weather IslandsSweden's lobster season kicks off next month, heralding a six-week...
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The Venice that most tourists miss
As the Venice Biennale of Architecture kicks off today, we head to Cannaregio and discover a neighbourhood largely unchanged by the city's tourist hordes. Its bars, restaurants and shops are great...
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My top 10 restaurant meals in Italy
After a decade in Italy, the Observer's Rome-based correspondent Tom Kington lists his 10 most memorable meals in the country, ranging from a simple calzone in Sicily to a five-course restaurant...
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Walking the Amalfi coast
Doing the Amalfi coast on foot, our writer finds sleepy villages, deserted pathways, tiny pebble beaches, and food as spectacular as the viewsDomenico was sitting silently by the deserted monastery,...
View ArticleVerona: Italy's opera city - video
Opera director Gianfranco De Bosio and and Lorena Marin, a teacher at the Opera Academy, explain how their lives have become intertwined with the beautiful northern Italian city of VeronaLindsay...
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Art of the state: fascist Italy's paintings go on show
An exhibition in Florence strives to present 1930s Italy as a cauldron of experimentation. Instead, it's a bleak journey into the aesthetic lifelessness of a totalitarian societyIn 1938 Adolf Hitler...
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Bologna's new ice-cream museum charts history of the Italian treat
A new ice-cream museum just outside Bologna charts the rise of the Italian sweet and offers visitors the chance to taste historic flavours and even create their own gelatoSweet treats through the...
View ArticleNew Italian ice-cream museum opens in Bologna – in pictures
A new museum charting the history of the Italian gelato opens tomorrow just outside Bologna. Visitors can taste historic flavours and try their hand at making their own, while displays chart the rise...
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Vatican in row over 'drunken tourist herds' destroying majesty of the Sistine...
Author Pietro Citati calls for limit on crowd numbers to preserve Michelangelo's art in Vatican City, RomeA fierce row has broken out over the future of the Sistine Chapel, after one of Italy's most...
View ArticleFlorence for free – a walking tour
Determined to get away from the crowds in Florence, and see some of the world's most greatest artistic treasures for free, Amy Raphael sets off on a church crawlGiulio FrigieriDebbie LawsonAmy Raphael
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Florence for free
From Michelangelo to Giotto, the exquisite art in one of the world's most beautiful cities costs nothing – if you know where to look. Our writer goes on a church crawl• Follow an interactive version of...
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Snowboarding and spa treatments in Tuscany
An indulgent snowboarding and spa break in Tuscany lets our writer and her sister hit the slopes before recovering and 'taking the waters'The cosy scent of woodsmoke hangs in the evening air as we sit...
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European strikes, cancelled flights and your rights
Holidaymakers are languishing in UK airports instead of lounging on Mediterranean beaches following a general strike over austerity cutsThousands of holidaymakers hoping to fly to Spain, the Canary...
View ArticleArt in the heart of Sicily - video
Residents of Gibellina, in Sicily's Belice Valley, explain how the town recovered from an earthquake to become an international centre for contemporary and performing artsLindsay PoultonMichael Tait
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Vicenza – more than a Palladian masterpiece
North Italy's hidden gem, Vicenza is coming out of the shadows of its famous neighbours. John Brunton steps back in time…It is Thursday morning, market day in Vicenza, and I am walking through crowds...
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Restoration of Roman tunnels gives a slave's eye view of Caracalla baths
Tourists will see 'maniacal Roman perfection and incredible hydraulic technology' in labyrinth under Rome's Caracalla bathsIn the middle of a patch of grass amid the ruins of the Caracalla baths in...
View ArticleA festival with bite: Night of the Taranta in Salento, Italy – video
In the tiny region of Grecìa Salentina in southern Puglia, a folk dance first created by women working in tobacco fields as a response to the bite of the tarantula is now celebrated in the form of La...
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Low-cost holiday destinations in 2013
Survey reveals the holiday resorts where your money will go further … and those where you'll need a pretty pennySpain has regained the crown as the cheapest European holiday destination for Brits, with...
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January travel news and holiday deals
Every Monday throughout January we round up the best travel deals, new openings and things we like in a bid to banish the winter bluesDEALSEarly Booking Offer in SicilySiracusa on Sicily's southeastern...
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