Frescoes depicting mythological themes adorn the walls and ceilings of this historic mansion set outside the city of Lucca, while its gardens feature stone nymphs, a peschiera (fish pond) and a number ...

Two centuries after Napoleon’s younger sister called it home, a historic villa outside Lucca, Italy is back on the market — an exceedingly rare chance to own a property entwined with the Bonaparte ...

This exclusive use villa in Tuscany’s Chianti region has a superlative design and setting. But what really sets it apart is its array of activities for guests to get under the skin of Tuscan life.

The villa that was featured in the 2003 movie Under the Tuscan Sun — which fed filmgoer fantasies of buying and restoring an Italian countryside villa — is being sold by a couple who owns a Sonoma ...

Food Network is adding more than a dash of Italian flair to its next big primetime cooking competition, shooting the eight-episode series on-location in a Tuscan villa where 10 competitors live ...

Enjoy La Dolce Vita with friends and family at a luxury Tuscan Villa One of the most memorable aspects of a Tuscan villa holiday is spending time with family and friends. A private villa escape is a ...

Stephen Lewis and Christian Scali met the old-fashioned way, as Scali likes to call it: at a Starbucks in Los Angeles’ West Hollywood neighborhood. It was spring of 1997, and Scali, a law student, was ...

REDDING, Conn. (WTNH) — Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to live in a home where great ideas and legendary books were born? Now is your chance as esteemed author and the “father of ...

This rustic 11th-century stone farmhouse in the heart of Tuscany was once owned by the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Just three years after completing the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, ...

We were about to depart, regretfully, from our Tuscan villa when our hostess, Dorella Sarperi, made it a point to emphasize that she was the person in the kitchen when meals were prepared for guests.

The medieval town of Certaldo is a central spot for exploring Italy’s Tuscany region. The hilltop walled city is roughly a 45-minute train ride away from cultural monument-filled Florence and 40 ...