Reporting from Florence, Italy — There’s no bad way to see Italy. I’ve done parts of the country by train, by rental car and on foot, on multiple trips from Florence, Padua and Rome, and it’s never ...

Reporting from Florence, Italy — At a London symposium one chilly night, there was talk of Italian wine and palm trees, warming our winter-weary souls. Then I was handed a glass of pale rosé by an ...

Planted amid rolling hills and celebrated Chianti Classico vineyards—the hotel's proprietor has a winery with an annual output that is regularly applauded by Wine Spectator—this upscale medieval ...

As we've had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly dose of travel dreaming can be good medicine. Here's a reminder of the fun that awaits us in Europe at the other end of ...