Every year, around this time, Italy enters its most colorful season: market stalls are filled with peonies and poppies, ...

There’s not much that says “Italian summer” quite like a hilltop town carpeted in vibrant petals. Each June, Genzano di Roma, a short train ride from Rome, bursts into colour for the Infiorata di ...

Lakefront Verbania in Italy’s Piedmont seeks to attract flower lovers with its mild climate, spectacular gardens and wild nature. By Elisabetta Povoledo Even as the group of flower aficionados ...

In Italy, however, to present a living man with a chrysanthemum is to wish him bad luck, for chrysanthemums are considered ideal flowers for graves. Last week, short-sighted Japanese Emperor ...

The term Infiorata, which translates from the Italian language as “decorated with flowers,” refers to an ephemeral artistic creation of flower petals laid down in an eye-catching design on a city ...

Lilytopia features the famed Piazza San Marco, traditional gondolas and more ...

Italian farmer Alessandro Mazzuoli might only ... It means less work, but the flowers are smaller, and the stigmas are smaller, too.” Yields can also vary from year to year.