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Long before the 2003 movie "Under the Tuscan Sun," Americans had a love affair with Tuscany, the Italian region that is home to Florence, Siena and a hundred charming less-famous hill towns.

As other social needs have taken priority in economically turbulent times, however, the country's budget for maintaining and restoring some of its greatest tourist attractions has been drastically reduced.

One Direction's Harry Styles greeted a bunch of his fans in Milan, Italy as the guys were leaving their hotel this month.

Karima el Mahroug stands in a court in Milan, Italy, Friday, May 24, 2013. The woman at the center of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal has denied in court ever telling a former roommate that she had sex with the then-premier. Karima el Mahroug appeared for a second day of testimony Friday at the trial of three former Berlusconi aides ... (more)

"The heart is really a miraculous organ. It beats 72 times a minute throughout our life, which means billions of times in our lifetime.

The festival founded in Charleston by the late composer Gian Carlo Menotti opens Friday on the steps of Charleston City Hall with a brass fanfare, speeches and a shower of confetti.

At an historic press conference yesterday, two groups fighting to end church terror against children formally joined forces and announced the launching of a public campaign commencing in Rome on September 20.

European Hotel Managers Association c/o Secretariat - Hotel Quirinale - Via Nazionale 7 Rome, 00184 Italy Phone: +39 06 481 88 88 Fax: +39 06 478 80 826 Visit Website Hans Koch was elected as the new President of the European Hotel Managers Association and will run the office for the next 3 years from 2103 to 2105.

International buyers of Tuscan palazzi or villas on the Adriatic have rarely had it so good.

Venice's gondolas are expensive. Buy a three-day pass for the far more affordable vaporetto - canal boat-buses. Photo / Thinkstock All the old English couple probably wanted was to be out of the rain, but when you choose a restaurant as your refuge you need to order something.

Intro: O Sole Mio 1. Long Walk Home 2. My Love Will Not Let You Down 3. Out in the Street 4. Hungry Heart 5. We Take Care of Our Own 6. Wrecking Ball 7. Death to My Hometown 8. Spirit in the Night 9. Rosalita 10.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band resumed their European tour following a week off with a show at the Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples, Italy on Thursday.

The British-based NGO named 24 EU states in its annual report on rights abusers out on Thursday .

Two members of the cast have already been named for summer awards, less than a week after the film premiered in Cannes and opened in Italian cinemas.

Lamborghini's Egoista concept, unveiled earlier this month at the company's 50th anniversary celebration in Bologna, Italy, isn't planned for production, but it does have a purpose: countering critics who think the automaker has lost some of its design edginess.

Karima el-Mahroug's is escorted outside the Milan's Law court by two Carabinieri police officers after giving her testimony at the trial of three former Berlusconi aides accused with procuring her and other woman for prostitution, in Milan, Italy on May 17, 2013.

Reconstruction efforts in Emilia Romagna in Italy are proceeding slowly a year after two powerful earthquakes wrecked homes and businesses in this rich farming and medical industry region.

The MGallery Collection's second address in Venice boasts an exceptional location since it is the first hotel on the Island of Murano, which has been a renowned glassmaking center for centuries.

Saviano is one of Italy's leading cultural figures. He's internationally-known for writing the incredible book "Gomorrah" , which spawned the equally incredible film of the same name , denouncing the Camorra Mafia's effect on Napoli " Gomorrah" has been situated within the New Italian Epic movement, as an Unidentified Narrative Object Saviano was ... (more)

One of Leonardo Da Vinci's strangest paintings, "The Adoration of the Magi" was commissioned for the altar of the monastery of San Donato a Scopeto, near Florence, in 1481.