In 2023, historian Silvano Vinceti claimed to have identified a bridge that appears in the background of the Mona Lisa as the Romito di Laterina bridge in Italy’s Arezzo province.. Vinceti’s ...

Mona Lisa's mysterious background decrypted by art-loving geologist “When I came to Lecco, I realized he had painted the 'Mona Lisa' here,” said Renaissance specialist Ann Pizzorusso. Get more ...

Voters in Italy, the third largest eurozone country, are going to the ballot box this Sunday, and are likely to vote in a rightwing government with possibly a neo-fascist prime minister. Here's how we ...

James May’s new documentary Our Man In Italy has spooked some fans after a ‘ghost’ appears to be walking in the background. The Prime Video series sees May travel from Palermo to the ...

1947 - Italy cedes land and territories under peace treaty. 1948 - New constitution. Christian Democrats win elections. 1951 - Italy joins European Coal and Steel Community, the forerunner of the EEC.

The background. Italy operated a total of four nuclear power plants starting in the early 1960s but decided to phase out nuclear power in a referendum that followed the 1986 Chernobyl accident. It ...