In most big cities and heavily touristed areas in Italy, hotel and restaurant staff, shopkeepers, and museum attendants will almost certainly speak at least some English. But venture to smaller towns ...

Why are Italians dressing as fish? One of these words explains it. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP An annual vote in an Italian newspaper has shortlisted 15 of the "most representative" words from the news ...

Musicians pictured during a boat parade before Venice's Regata Storica. Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP From making the most of September in Italy to unpacking untranslatable Italian words, our weekly ...

An eight-year-old boy in Italy came up with "petaloso" — which means full of petals. With help from his teacher, it may become an official word in the Italian dictionary. Now we turn to the story of a ...