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French countryside, Italian style: why fly from Paris to the Mediterranean coast when you can catch a fast train?

You can take Italy’s ‘red arrow’ fast train even if you’re not in Italy

A business class trip passes in a blur of bucolic French countryside and Italian food and wine.

  • Chrissie McClatchie

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Comacchio has the canals of Venice, without the crowds.

Italy’s ‘Little Venice’ is so overlooked even many Italians don’t know it

This small lagoon town, close to the Adriatic coast, is another of those tiny jewels in Italy’s vast treasure chest of cultural riches.

  • Justine Costigan
The new Lake Como Edition.

Como FOMO intensifies with new hotel opening

This famed area of Italy, much loved by the Byron, Napoleon and, of course, George Clooney, has turned a new page with the arrival of the Lake Como Edition.

  • Julietta Jameson
Arriving in Venice feels like stepping into a dream.

This ‘impossible’ city doesn’t make sense, but it makes my heart soar

The first time I arrived here, it felt like I’d stepped into a film set – or, perhaps, a dream.

  • Lee Tulloch
“The town is beautiful, so life is beautiful too”: Citta della Pieve lies near the border between Umbria and Tuscany.

Forget pizza and pasta: Italy’s best food is a sandwich in this hilltop town

The true foodie must look beyond Rome or Naples. Round the back of a church, to be precise, in a small, hole-in-the-wall sandwich shop.

  • Russell Higham
Halgren on the third day of competition following the combined slalom.

‘I am a rock star’: Meet Patrick Halgren, the showman of the Paralympics

The loudest athlete at the Paralympics, Halgren speaks about his twin brother’s death and learning to ski in Australia.

  • Frances Howe
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Michael Milton returns to the Paralympics in Milano Cortina, 20 years after his last Winter Games.

‘A bit pathetic’: Six-time gold medallist makes emotional Paralympic return

Since competing at his last Winter Games in 2006, Michael Milton was diagnosed with his second and third cancers, and he was only just cleared to ski after breaking his femur.

  • Frances Howe
Livorno’s coloured houses and new fort sit on its canals.

People skip this delightful city for Pisa. This is why you shouldn’t

Most travellers bypass this underrated stop en route to Pisa or Florence, but what I discover is an unexpected highlight best explored on foot.

  • Kate Armstrong
Australian mother Catherine Birmingham with her British husband, Nathan Trevallion, and their children. 

‘Empty inside’: The Australian family fighting Italy for their ‘unschooled’ children

The authorities in Abruzzo have taken a dim view of a couple’s off-grid style of parenting.

  • Amelia Adams, Natalie Clancy and Nichola Younger
Pilgrims honour the bones of St Francis during the first public display inside the St Francis Basilica.

‘Gives me goosebumps’: Thousands flock to Assisi as St Francis’ bones go on display

The display caps an 800-year saga over his bodily remains and confirms the enduring appeal to Christians of venerating a saint’s relics.

  • Nicole Winfield and Gregorio Borgia