This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). It’s Friday evening and the midsummer heat is at last beginning to fade. On central Via Maqueda, amid Baroque churches and dilapidated ...

St. Rosalia is believed to have been born around 1130 to a family of Norman origin that boasted to be descended from Charlemagne. Capella di Santa Rosa, St. Rosalia's Chapel inside of the Palermo ...

Tourism has turned some Italian streets into monochromatic eating zones. Some officials have banned the opening of new ...

The Italian island of Sicily is – perhaps more than any corner of Europe – a layer cake of civilizations. On one island, visitors can marvel at a well-preserved Greek temple, admire the glittering ...

PALERMO, Italy - In a rundown neighbourhood of Sicily's capital Palermo, a whitewashed old farmhouse that accommodates pilgrims now offers two rooms to tourists for bed and breakfast after a ...

Set on a "glittering" bay against a sweeping mountain backdrop, Palermo is the most "adorable and underrated" city in Italy, says Stanley Stewart in Condé Nast Traveller. For millennia, the Sicilian ...

Monreale's cathedral, built by William II, dates to 1172 and is now part of a larger UNESCO World Heritage Site that also encompasses the Royal Palace and the Palermo Cathedral, among other sites.

(ANSA) - Trento, September 4 - Tourists were shocked on Thursday after seeing bathroom direction signs prominently featured in an altar at Palermo's landmark cathedral. Two large signs reading "WC ...

While residents in Rome, Florence and Venice have staged protests due to overcrowded streets, housing shortages and crowds, the overtourism boom is helping southern cities like Palermo, according to ...