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 ...

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 ...

A 1970s monument to modern architecture is sailing through the test of time in the picturesque hills of Italy’s Chianti region. The long, two-story villa, with strong horizontal lines and a flat roof, ...

In the cellars of Il Palagio di Panzano wine estate, 20 miles south of Florence, Monia Piccini is clambering energetically up ladders and on top of the wine tanks, swishing and swilling the vino with ...

As a young man, our guide, Mario Acciai, was born and raised just outside of Florence. His farming family chastised Mario, youngest of seven, for being a daydreamer, singing, and disappearing to play ...

Since moving into the Chianti, Italy, property in the ’70s, the shoe designer René Caovilla has, together with his kin, made the traditions of the ancient region his own. By Gaby Wood Photographs by ...