Auguri! I exclaim to a couple after stumbling by accident upon their marriage proposal. The new bride-to-be acknowledges my ...

If you want to know why we can't have nice things, the answer is that there are too many people in "we." And that's especially true at tourist hotspots, which is why Italian officials are putting a ...

Portovenere, a Riviera gem overlooking the Gulf of La Spezia, more romantically known as the Golfo dei Poeti for all the literary figures who came to swoon over the area’s astounding natural beauty, ...

When I first came to the Cinque Terre, then an isolated stretch of the Italian Riviera south of Genoa, it was a classic “back door”: a string of five pastel-hued hamlets, gently and steadily carving a ...