There's something to be said for planning an international trip at the last minute. It starts out like this: "I should have planned earlier." On the other hand, you never can plan early enough. The ...

A 14th-century villa in the hills overlooking Florence, Italy, has hit the market for €12 million (US$13 million). Surrounded by cypress trees, vineyards and olive groves, the quintessential Tuscan ...

In Florence, the streets teem year-round, restaurants overflow, and even with a ticket booking system, queues jostle to visit the Uffizi. Urbino, by contrast, offers Renaissance splendour without the ...

As we’ve had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly dose of travel dreaming can be good medicine. Here’s one of my favorite European memories from Florence — a reminder of ...

Known as the birthplace of the Renaissance, Florence is a treasure trove of art, architecture, culture and cuisine. The city’s Duomo, Ponte Vecchio and Uffizi Gallery are a few of the attractions ...

Once home of Da Vinci, Caravaggio and Botticelli, hotbed of the 15th century artistic Renaissance – modern Florence is about more than the Old Masters, as the Italian city’s storied heritage and world ...

FLORENCE — Thousands of people from across Alabama and the Southeast were on hand Saturday for the first day of the Alabama Renaissance Faire at Wilson Park. The faire is a non-profit, educational, ...

Graduate Seminar on Machiavelli and His World; Professionalization for History Graduate Students; Theory and Practice of History; Seminar in Catholic Church and Modern Science; Seminar in Medieval and ...

HistoriCity: Florence is a mission-based survival citybuilder/colony sim that challenges players to rebuild Renaissance Florence in the aftermath of the Black Plague. Overcome recurring droughts, ...