It’s home to the Amalfi Coast, Capri, Pompeii and Naples, Italy’s third-largest city, plus limoncello and buffalo mozzarella.

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. A writer named Gianrinaldo Carli told a story that became famous in Italy in the 1760s: A stranger ...

This story appears in the February 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a crisp summer morning in Degioz, a slate-roofed village in northern Italy, Luigino Jocollè is sharing the local ...

Must-sees include Saint Vigil Cathedral, where the Council of Trent was held in the mid-16th century, and Buonconsiglio Castle, the Gothic-meets-Renaissance seat of the prince-bishops with its notable ...

Check out Naples’s aquarium (the oldest in Europe, with 200 different species of fish and marine plants) and the Museo Nazionale Ferroviario (National Railway Museum), which enthralls children ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... the Borgias with a powerful ally in northern Italy. 1494—France’s Charles VIII allies with ...

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This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... mountain road into the hinterlands of Calabria, mainland Italy’s southernmost region. As the road climbed through ...

An enduring myth, based on the writings of the 13th-century explorer Marco Polo, that pasta was brought to Italy from China, rose from a misinterpretation of a famous passage in Polo’s Travels.

Venice is everyone's dream city. —Gillian Price What to see at the Venice Biennale this year What to see at the Venice Biennale this year Ultimate Italy: 14 ways to see the country in a new ...