Fly over Lecce, the "Florence of the South," a golden-hued masterpiece located in the heart of the Salento peninsula. The ...

In this southernmost region of the country’s bootheel, the Ionian Sea is to the west, the Adriatic to the east, and the countryside is filled with stone walls and twisted olive trees, fields of long ...

If you're looking for your own piece of Italy's sunkissed Salento region - at a bargain price - you could be in luck. Photo by Gabriella Clare Marino on Unsplash As if the sunny south-eastern tip of ...

Endless travel fantasy fulfillment has long been an Italian specialty. Think of the early-Renaissance glory of Siena, Palermo’s exotic Moorish roots, and the aqueous fever dream that is Venice.

Right off the bat, this isn’t a review or even a “First Bite” of these two new restaurants that have opened in the past few weeks. I haven’t visited either one of them yet, but let this be an impetus ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

It should come as no surprise that Italy, the home of the Vatican and birthplace of Catholic religion, has more than a few churches …so do we, for that matter. It’s the presence of Rastafari in ...

Salento, famed for white sand beaches, is frequently compared to the Maldives. This all-inclusive hotel is the perfect base Cathy Toogood has worked as a travel journalist for more than 15 years, ...