In Ravenna, the king admired mosaics from the 5th and 6th centuries in the Basilica di San Vitale and the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, both UNESCO World Heritage sites. The Mausoleum has a tiled ...

During his recent visit to Italy, the King went to Ravenna. While there he viewed some of the city’s remarkable mosaics in ...

Six huge multimedia installations at an immersive exhibition are set to enthral the city with the rare opportunity to see 2,000–year–old mosaics, depicting the style and taste of Romans in their ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, presided over the Easter vigil Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.

Catholics celebrated Easter Vigil in the Holy Night at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Saturday, marking what Pope ...

Pope Francis declared the Sagrada Familia architect “venerable,” the second step in the beatification process. He still must ...

Archaeology buffs might find the Basilica di San Clemente interesting as it's a veritable nesting doll of churches. It's a second century pagan temple, underneath a fourth-century church ...

How the worst travel day of my career turned outMoscow. May of 1971. I went on to enjoy every day of my eventual career in travel. But I never forgot this worst travel day of... Getting your share ...

A sequence of quakes in Assisi in 1997 killed at least ten people and destroyed a series of world-renowned frescoes in the Basilica of San Francesco. In 2002, twenty-seven schoolchildren died in ...

As a prominent voice in the senior living field and an award-winning author, Jill Vitale-Aussem has made it her mission to change the culture of senior living and care and empower older adults to lead ...