Taranto is a city almost surrounded by water. Set on the arch of the Italian boot, in the region of Puglia, it sits between two seas, the open Mar Grande

Some castles crown a hill. This one is a small mountain in its own right. The Castello Aragonese rises off the eastern shore of the island of Ischia, in the

There are castles built to frighten, and there are castles built to impress, and every so often you find one that seems to have been built simply to be beautiful.

On a rocky point jutting out into the blue waters of the Gulf of Trieste, in the far north-east of Italy, stands a castle so white and so perfectly placed

In the heart of the elegant city of Ferrara, in the north of Italy, stands one of the most striking castles in the country, a great red-brick fortress with four

At the very tip of a long, narrow peninsula reaching out into the blue waters of Lake Garda, the largest and one of the most beautiful lakes in Italy, stands

In the heart of Milan, one of Italy’s greatest and most modern cities, stands a vast red-brick fortress that seems to belong to another age entirely. The Castello Sforzesco is

Verona is a city that most people visit for love. It is the city of Romeo and Juliet, of balconies and star-crossed romance, of a great Roman amphitheater where opera

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On the northeastern shoulder of the Iberian Peninsula, along the Mediterranean between the Pyrenees and the sea, live the Catalans, a Romance people with a language, a history, and a