Besides the Holy Doors, other factors have contributed to the high number of people visiting Rome and other parts of Italy to ...

The contemporary art installation was audible via speakers in the portico, or entrance, of St. Peter’s Basilica.

A couple of hours before I join Trafalgar Tours’ seven-day Italian Holiday, I meet an older American woman on the edge of ...

Planning a trip to Italy this year? You’re likely going to have to consider your plans a bit more than in previous years, as this one’s special: it’s the Jubilee Year, a Roman Catholic religious event ...

Peter eventually died from a fatal axe wound to the head. His body was taken back to France and Rome via New Zealand ... Within a few years of Saint Peter Chanel’s death, most of the island ...

Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the ...

It was an experience of courage and hope because even though we do not have a common language, we still tried to speak to one ...

This feast celebrates the dedications of two of the four major basilicas of Rome.

According to a Live Science report, a 2,500-year-old Etruscan tomb decorated with wall paintings has been uncovered in ...

What I now like about it is something I have always loved about Tomb Raider but struggled to put into words. Take the opening levels, which I think dump you into Rome in the modern era.

Italian archaeologists have uncovered a complex, ancient necropolis that may shed new light on the elite members of an ...

The basilica of Santa Maria di Cosmedin, famous for the Mouth of Truth, houses a skull attributed to Saint Valentine, adorned ...