Although it has only 27,181 acres with a limited production compared with other Italian regions, Calabria offers more than 100 indigenous grapes, the highest number in Italy.

Basilicata. Basilicata is the least-known of southern Italy’s regions, hemmed in to the east and west by Puglia and Campania, and by Calabria to the south.

But it didn't look that way in 1974 to Vincenzo and Maria Dito, newly arrived in Oakland from Calabria, the region at the foot of Italy's long boot. The bread here was bad. The tomatoes were worse.

Basilicata is the least-known of southern Italy's regions, hemmed in to the east and west by Puglia and Campania, and by Calabria to the south. One of Italy's poorest areas, it has recently become ...

Italy’s unification, in the mid-19th century, has been interpreted by many scholars as a conquest of the feudal south by the north’s Savoy kingdom in what was essentially a civil war.

High waves and strong winds dashed a wooden boat against rocks on the coast of Calabria, in southern Italy, killing at least 59 migrants. By Gaia Pianigiani A wooden boat carrying 130 to 180 ...