Brescia, Italy, was one of the first Western cities devastated by the pandemic. It has adopted a famed ancient statue, “Winged Victory,” as the emblem of its recovery — and a prod for visits.

This was Italy’s pandemic epicentre, and it was terrifying. More than two years on from those indelible scenes, I want to see a different side of Brescia and Bergamo.

ROME — Italy’s northern Lombardy region, where Europe’s coronavirus outbreak erupted last year, asked the national government Thursday for more vaccines to help stem a surge of new COVID-19 ...

BRESCIA, Italy — No matter where his career has taken him, Mario Balotelli’s home has always been here, in an apartment block sandwiched between a Volvo dealership and the campus of the ...

A satirical exhibition in Brescia, Italy, has enraged Chinese officials. But for local politicians, museum officials and the dissident artist Badiucao, it’s a matter of free speech.

Mario Balotelli's adoptive family still lives in Brescia, and he's returned there with its Serie A club.