Places

By Ines Keane Most pictures show five colourful villages. The land around them is the bigger story, and it is […]

By Ines Keane Start with a number that sounds wrong. According to Wikipedia, Urbino had 14,786 people in April 2017.

By Ines Keane Ask how long the wall is and you get three answers. About six kilometres, says the national

By Ines Keane Rooms are the easy part. More than 500, says the national tourism board. Mantua, in south-eastern Lombardy,

By Isla Quinn Wood huts. Lights. A square that smells of cinnamon and woodsmoke. That is the picture, and it

By Rafe Calder Nobody wrote down when the Arena was built. That is the plain fact behind a building that

By Ines Keane Ask three sources how long Bologna’s porticoes are and you get three numbers. That is not a

By Isla Quinn Pale, almost blonde. That is how Italy’s national tourism site describes the colour of Lecce’s seventeenth-century buildings,

By Isla Quinn Grey cones. UNESCO counts over 1500 structures in two quarters, each one a small house under a

By Isla Quinn Four kilometres of wall. Eleven bastions. No siege. That is what the sources say about the defences