For centuries, the Republic of Venice ruled the seas. But one of its greatest legacies, and a distinctive feature of the region's landscape today, is the collection of nearly five thousand Venetian villas scattered over its mainla…

I first left Verona after high school. The city where I was born and raised was stifling me, I found it too provincial and, in any case, I wanted to see the world, discover new places, hear different languages, experience new cult…

Legend has it that, just after the end of the war in 489 AD between Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, and the Roman general Odoacer, the starving people of Verona were granted exceptional permission to eat the many horse carcasse…