5) Keeping that Christmas Tree Up: You won't find any Christmas trees on the curbs or doorsteps right after the holiday. In Italy, the tree goes up and is decorated on December 8th, for the Feast ...

White olives known as leucocarpa, or leucolea, is a rare variety of olive tree, mainly found in the south of Italy, or “Magna Graecia.” credit: wikimedia commons / Art Anderson cc by 3.0 White olives ...

Originally designed under Napoleon's rule, the Italian flag was heavily influenced by another “Tricolore”-- the French flag. Though the national Italian flag would go through many different iterations ...

Chocolates made in Italy have been recalled nationwide for a packaging problem that can be a serious health problem.

As the winter holidays draw to an end, you may be preparing to take down the Christmas tree and decorations in your Italian home. But how can you dispose of your ‘albero’ the right way? The winter ...

An iconic Alexander the Great mosaic found at Pompeii got its roughly 2 million pieces from quarries that extended far beyond ...

The best way to get around Joshua Tree National Park is by car. To reach Joshua Tree, most visitors fly into Palm Springs International Airport (PSP), which is about 50 miles east, or via Los ...

Others maintain that Ms. Sala’s arrest was a tit-for-tat response to Italy’s detaining of an Iranian national, Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi, who stands accused of furnishing Tehran with drone ...

The discovery that scurvy, a debilitating illness caused by vitamin C deficiency, could be treated with citrus fruit ...

Joshua Tree National Park is my favorite desert landscape. There’s something magical about its collection of tan, monzogranite boulders, craggy peaks and hidden oases with lush palms and cool pools.

A first-of-its-kind analysis of Alexander the Great's mosaic uncovers its global origins and remarkable artistry from ancient ...

The General Sherman Tree – the world's largest tree by volume – stands 275 feet tall and measures more than 36 feet in diameter at its base. Visitors call the tree magnificent and humbling ...