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 ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

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 ...

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 ...

Italy Quiz, Part 2 When it comes to loving wine and pasta, everyone's a little bit Italian. But there's much more to this Mediterranean nation. Test your basics of Lo Stivale, "the boot." ...

It was the evening of day 2 of 10 on my Swiss Trains and Italian Lake District itinerary through National Geographic ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The white plastic bags fluttering in the treetops of the Italian Alps intrigued Fabrizio Sergio. The Italian ecologist ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... world of papal politics at the height of the Italian Renaissance and during the tumultuous ...