In Italian they call it Il bel far niente, “the beauty of doing nothing.” It was hot and humid in Rome, and the city was lousy with sweaty tourists. I’d finished my business in Italy, and had ...

In Italian they call it Il bel far niente, “the beauty of doing nothing.” It was hot and humid in Rome, and the city was lousy with sweaty tourists. I’d finished my business in Italy, and had ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Contempt, Jean-Luc Godard's acclaimed 1963 film, contains a movie within a ...

I looked around as we emerged from the crowded bus into the seaside piazza, and I knew our gamble had paid off. White, sandy beach skirted the deep blue waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea that lay straight ...

In 1957, the first fragments of statues were discovered at Sperlonga, Emperor Tiberius's pleasure palace from the first century A.D. But when Italian officials tried to take the relics to Rome, the ...

When summer arrives, celebrations of the solstice happen all over the world. In Italy, la dolce vita unfolds in Sperlonga, between Rome and Naples, in the middle of a coastal stretch called the ...

After the magnificent limestone crags at Finale Ligure, the second stage of the Petzl Legend Tour Italy stops off at Sperlonga, the hotspot for sport climbing development in Central Italy during the ...