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More Eastern Europe: THE REAL ROMANIA THE BEST VALUE IN EUROPE BY ROAD, RAIL AND RIVER HIDDEN BEHIND THE CURTAIN I also wanted to go down to the Old City, visit a few museums and buy a warm pretzel from a street stall.

TANAISTE Eamon Gilmore last night insisted the Vatican Embassy was always on a hit list of closures -- contradicting his own department's previous explanation.

The temperature levels were way below normal in Paris last Tuesday at the Cathedral of St.

A delegation of senior British politicians is to visit Pope Benedict in Rome and it is understood a possible Papal visit to Northern Ireland could be on the agenda.

More than 116,390 visitors trooped through "Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus" by the time the traveling show at the Detroit Institute of Arts closed for good at 10 p.m. Sunday - beating the museum's attendance projections by 6,000 tickets.

Benetton are facing fierce oppositon from Venice conservationists over shopping conversion plans for the historic Fondaco dei Tedeschi on the Grand Canal.

We've teamed up with scheduled leisure airline Monarch to offer one reader the chance to win a pair of tickets on one of the airline's new routes in Italy, Croatia or Greece for summer 2012.

Henry Ossawa Tanner deserves a kinder fate than to have a major retrospective of his work sandwiched between Zoe-mania and Vincent van Gogh.

Venice is one of those cities where the to-do item most often recommended isn't a museum or visiting a historical ruin or a gallery it's an activity that just calls for roaming around, entranced, at the everyday sights and sounds of this beautiful city.

When I began writing my 12th book, I didn't know if it would be literary fiction or chick lit.

Citalia has a week-long break just outside this pretty Italian town for A 395 per person.

One of my biggest fears while studying abroad is that I will begin to neglect Florence - that I'll spend so much time traveling on the weekends I'll begin to take my four-month home for granted.

A family in northern Italy has recently discovered they are related to Rick Santorum, one of the eight Republicans hoping to be the next president of the US.

The scaffolding that has long been a part of the Colosseum in Rome will finally come down after its top-to-bottom cleaning.

As Valentine's Day approaches, we explore all of Paris' glittering allure. "During a visit to Paris for work, I took this image from the Louvre courtyard at sunset just before a storm moved in from the east," iReporter Frank Childress said.

GENOA - Palazzo Ducale: Van Gogh and Gauguin's Journey; American and European masterpieces spanning two centuries, with works by Van Gogh , Gauguin and various American artists such as Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, Mark Rothko, Richard Diebenkorn and Caspar David Friedrich; until April 15.

Learn to fall in love again with a break away inspired by Valentine's Day. Sarah Marshall selects getaways suited to every type of twosome MOST suitors seek a key to their loved one's heart, but couples in Rome take the opposite approach.

Just about everybody loves Italy. However, to be truthful, after short stops in northern Italy in 1971 and '74, I did not have an overwhelming desire to return until an article in my favorite travel magazine, International Travel News, changed all that.

Meadowlark Lemon, an ordained minister, comes to Fairfield University's Open Visions Forum to discuss his life, including his many years as the "clown prince" of the Harlem Globetrotters and his new book, on Monday, Feb.

The Grand Canyon's dizzying glass skywalk and the venerable Golden Gate have been named the world's top bridges in a new survey by Travel + Leisure .