Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle ...

The fascist movements of 20th-century Europe had a sweeping impact around the world, in ways that still reverberate today. And travelers have an advantage when it comes to learning from this history: ...

Yet, against the odds, the Halsted A&A Foundation has managed to secure an extraordinary piece: an early 1st-century CE Roman statue of ... as the Capitoline and Vatican Museums.

I've been working as a tour guide in Rome since 2008, and it only seems to be getting more crowded with tourists. Instead, go ...

The Monte Carlo of Ancient Rome was a resort city where emperors and other elites could indulge their wild side amid affairs ...

Rome is easily the closest thing you'll ever find to a time machine. Photo / I arrived by sea, pulling in at Civitavecchia ...

My sojourn started with famed architect Antoni Gaudi’s stupendously imaginative House of Bones in Barcelona and ended with the colossally creepy Capuchin friars’ “Bone Church” in Rome.

Here, in this relatively unknown museum ... ll examine this important statue and related works and wrap up our tour by discussing Michelangelo's later career in Rome, culminating in the painting of ...

Left: a Roman sculpture of Cleopatra VII wearing a royal diadem, mid-1st century BC (around the time of her visits to Rome in 46–44 BC ... between 30 and 40 BC in the collection of the Vatican Museums ...

The site has been turned into a museum, and about 835,000 tourists visit it each ... Heritage site and visited by about 5 million people annually. Surrounded by Rome, Italy, Vatican City is ...

such as St. Peter’s Basilica or the Vatican Museums, which require prior security checks. However, there are other entrances flanked by high walls, such as Porta Santa Ana, Piazza del Sant ...