Castiglione, who lived for many decades in China before his death, served during the reigns of three successive Qing emperors ...

As Italy blossoms into spring, Rocco Forte Hotels invites guests to embrace the season’s beauty through vibrant floral traditions and Easter celebrations in Rome, Florence, Sicily and Puglia.

Basil First on the list of great herbs to plant in spring is basil. An aromatic and flavorful herb, basil (Ocimum spp.) grows about one to three feet tall and wide, depending on species and cultivar.

Green, it could only be green ,” says Italian architect Antonio Girardi, as if the color of nature could not help but enter, ...

Blending biophilic beauty with functional living has long been a design hallmark. But beyond a well-placed fiddle-leaf fig or ...

My grandfather was working for another Italian family,” his grandson Bob Mellano tells us. “They would go up into the hills, cutting foliage, greens, and wildflowers, then bring them down by horse and ...

They can all be sown in the same way – in individual 5cm pots under cover. Plant outside once all risk of frost has passed, after hardening off the plants for at least a couple of weeks. Cucumbers do ...

F or the best part of a year, I worked as a gardener at a private estate in Val d'Orcia, a region of Tuscany that feels much like the land that time forgot. South of Siena, Val d' ...

Italian President Sergio Mattarella visited Hiroshima on Saturday where he laid flowers at the cenotaph for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in Peace Memorial Park. It marked his first visit ...

Hiroshima, March 8 (Jiji Press)--Italian President Sergio Mattarella made his first visit to Hiroshima on Saturday, laying flowers before the cenotaph for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in ...

In Italy, Festa della Mamma, or Mother’s Day, celebrates women’s achievements in all aspects of Italian society ... decorated to look like the bright yellow blossoms of the mimosa flower and is an ...