As you twist and turn along the roads that head away from Rome, up and through the verdant hills that billow through Tuscany, castles begin to crown distant peaks like ornate figurines in a wedding ...

It’s a truism in travel writing that the best places are the hardest to get to. But on a recent visit to Tuscia, in northern Lazio where it nuzzles up against Tuscany and Umbria, I realized that ...

If you’ve ever dreamed of waking up in a castle in the Italian countryside (and, like, who hasn’t dreamed that), today is your lucky day. Italy is giving away 103 of its castles — for free. In an ...

You know when you were a kid (and also still now), you dreamed of running away to a beautiful country and living in a castle like a real-life Disney Princess? Well thanks to Italy - the bringers of ...

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Picture this: a weekend spent basking in the sun, sipping delicious wines, hiking past incredible scenery, and exploring more than 800 castles in one of Italy's best-kept secret destinations. Sound ...

Ever dreamed of owning a frescoed Renaissance castello or a rural estate in Tuscany? Now's the time for great deals. In the wake of the euro crisis and rising public debt, the Italian government is ...

If you’ve ever wanted to live in an Italian castle for the low low price of absolutely nothing, today is your lucky day. Thanks to a new scheme by the country’s government-run State Property Agency, ...

A 19th-century, 43,000-square-foot castle in Sicily, Italy, is on sale for $6.6 million. The property was originally built to be a museum, and later used for films like "The Godfather III." The castle ...