Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Nestled on the side of a hill in Umbria, Italy is an unusual sight: a ...

British planners in 1943 proposed that Greece would take control of southern Italy as part of a rejected plan to dismember it ...

If you believe the stereotypes, Italy's north and south might as well be two separate countries. But how different are they really? Here we take a closer look at Italy's famous regional differences.

It turns out that not all roads lead to Rome, after all – at least, not in a literal sense. A new map of the empire's ancient ...

Into the big office of Benito Mussolini at Palazzo Venezia last week bustled U. S. Publisher Paul Block to tell the Dictator that “I find Italy greatly improved under Fascism and tremendous loyalty to ...

In the urban waters off Naples, shoals of bream, wrasses, as well as crustaceans, mollusks and bryozoans are returning after ...

The 2025 Giro d’Italia begins in the Albanian port city of Durres, before taking in Slovenia on its way to Italy, finishing in Rome on Sunday 1 June. Here is a stage-by-stage look at the route. A ...