Matera, situated in the southern reaches of the country, has received a lot of attention in recent years as a medieval Italian village of note. Its renowned historic centre bears the name "i Sassi ...

The steeple hints at what lies beneath the surface: namely, Curon, an Italian village that was flooded by the government in 1950 to create an artificial lake. Last week, reports BBC News ...

The official language of Coumboscuro is Provençal, an ancient medieval ... of an indigenous Italian sheep called Sambucana, also known as Demontina. While many of the village’s younger ...

This stunning mountaintop village is just 16 miles from Pisa and 37 from Florence, but a world away from the crowds that ...

With more and more dwindling Italian towns offering up neglected ... to purchase all of the neglected homes in the medieval district of the village, which has been pretty much abandoned since ...

Christmas is year-round in Greccio, a small cliffside village in Lazio. The reason? This is where St Francis of Assisi created the first-ever nativity scene in a cave in 1223. The medieval village ...

Italian fashion magnate Brunello Cucinelli ... Atop the cypress-forested hill is a medieval castle that Cucinelli has restored for his living quarters and a school. Nearby is a library open ...

From the desolate medieval village of Craco ... Craco is a ghost town in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. More than a thousand years ago Craco was a busy city. It was abandoned ...