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 ...

Have you ever watched a show like ‘Game Of Thrones’ and thought, “My life would be a lot more interesting if I lived in a castle!”? Well, it might not be Winterfell, but you can actually make that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Italy is giving away free castles, farmhouses and historic sites in the hope that it will boost its faltering regional tourism sector. Via their Facebook page, Italy's department of Infrastructure and ...

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 ...

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, ...