
A wooden carving of Christ on the cross recently attributed to Renaissance giant Michelangelo headed off on tour around Italy Wednesday after proving a big draw at the Italian parliament earlier this year.

Police on Tuesday charged the mayor of a small Sicilian town after they discovered a baboon being kept in captivity in the municipal park.

The town council of Salemi, in Sicily, is selling 3,700 earthquake-wrecked houses for a pittance to anyone who agrees to restore them sympathetically in under two years

More than a thousand solar panels are to be set up on land seized from the Mafia in Sicily, officials said Wednesday.

An extremely rare and very well preserved Byzantine baptismal font has been found on an island off the western Sicilian coast near Trapani.

The remains of an ancient Roman ship and its cargo were discovered on Monday off the coast of Trapani on the north-western tip of Sicily.