From southern Sicily to Puglia, Italy is full of villages and small towns where Baroque art has left a spectacular mark. Here ...

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Rent bikes for out-of-town excursions through the landscapes so celebrated in the art ... over to Sicily. The largest island ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors.

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Deacon of the Church of England, Carrie Pemberton Ford, center, speaks, Sunday, May 4, 2025, after attending a Mass in the Sicilian village of Porticello, southern Italy, for the victims of the ...