As you twist and turn along the roads that head away from Rome, up and through the verdant hills that billow through Tuscany, castles begin to crown distant peaks like ornate figurines in a wedding ...

For almost a millennium, the Castle of Antognolla has punctured a skyline of seemingly endless rolling forested hills. Once the site of a Benedictine monastery, it has been a battlefield to bloody ...

It’s a truism in travel writing that the best places are the hardest to get to. But on a recent visit to Tuscia, in northern Lazio where it nuzzles up against Tuscany and Umbria, I realized that ...

Built on a rocky outcrop by the sea, Castel dell’Ovo overlooks the Gulf of Naples and is considered the oldest castle in Italy.