VERONA, Italy – A huge, angry stone face looks down on visitors through giant spires of cypress trees at Giusti Garden. The intimidating mask was originally designed to breathe fire, probably the only ...

VERONA, Italy » A huge angry stone face looks down on visitors through giant spires of cypress trees at Giusti Garden. The intimidating "mascherone" was originally designed to breathe fire, probably ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LAGO MAGGIORE, Italy — When I was growing up in Italy, it was nearly a mandate for well-heeled northerners to summer on the sun-warmed lakes at the foot of ...

Planning a post-vaccination vacation this year? Chances are, you’ll be spending a lot of time outdoors. With destinations slowly opening up for tourism again, and travelers tentatively booking flights ...

She thought it a shame that the Italian Cultural Garden in Cleveland -- the only Italian Cultural Renaissance garden in the United States, she says -- lost its luster. "In Italy, gardens are part of ...

Joyce Mariani created "Opera in the Garden," a free outdoor concert that takes place each summer in Rockefeller Park's Italian Cultural Garden, to celebrate Italian immigrants' contributions to the ...

During the Italian Renaissance when architects and artists like Raphael and Michelangelo were redefining ideas of culture and beauty, the art of landscaping blossomed. In the gardens of the nation’s ...