Siena, Italy News

Erica and Warren Pole on their wedding day, with the Fiat 500. The Jaguar XKR was the ideal car for my carefully planned, cross-continental marriage proposal mission.

I felt like an ant looking up this stairway leading to the Sienese fortification of Massa Marittima, a beautiful Tuscan village.

A comprehensive overview that explores the prospects and progress of synthetic inhibitors to target cell cycle kinases in cancer forecasts that "novel compounds with increased potency, improved kinase specificity and favorable drug like properties will soon be available for clinical evaluation." The article, which is featured in the July 2009 ...

Today is the anniversary of the first zeppelin flight. On this day in 1900 German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin managed to successfully try his first air vehicle, which later came to be known by his name, a oeZeppelin.a Today is also the birthday of German poet and novelist Herman Hesse .

Giuseppe A GingilloA Zedde rode Gia Del Menhir to victory in the Palio bareback horse race around Siena's main piazza on Thursday, giving his Tartuca neighborhood its first Palio victory since 2004.

Then there are strange and weird holidays that really have no meaning besides the mere purpose to have an excuse to celebrate something.

A new analysis of the incidence of breast cancer in Italy per 100,000 women between the ages of 0 to 84 from 2000 to 2005 shows a 72 percent spike above official estimates issued by the Ministry of Health, with the sharpest uptick of +28.6 percent found in the youngest group studied .

Though Montepulciano is all over today's news as the location for the filming of Twilight sequel New Moon , it was mentioned merely in passing in my guidebook when my family and I toured Tuscany last summer.

Crowds in the Piazza del Campo at Siena: but finding happiness, even in idyllic surroundings like Tuscany, isn't always easy In a world of economic crisis, war, famine, commuting, stress and worry it is sometimes hard to see the beauty in life.

Ever since "Under the Tuscan Sun," everyone wants to live in Tuscany, drink red wine, and eat Tuscan food.

Karen von Hahn Friday, Jun. 12, 2009 03:01PM EDT M y husband called me yesterday from Italy, where he is on a business trip, which is hard to bear.

Cosimo was the great-great-grandson of Lorenzo the Elder, the son of Giovanni di Bicci and brother of Cosimo the Elder , and was thus a member of a branch of the Medici family that had taken an active part in Medici affairs but had played no political role.

Siena's horse race around its central square, Piazza del Campo , is one of Italy's most famous palio festivals.

Is Taylor Lautner in a holding pattern with Disney babe Selena Gomez? Taylor, the hunky teen werewolf and one of the stars of the New Moon movie is said to be dating Selena but there romance may have stalled.

ALMOST any connoisseur of the world's great coasts falls hard for Sorrento, Positano and Amalfi .

War, what is it good for? A lot, it could turn out. Lethal warfare drove the evolution of altruistic behaviour among ancient humans, claims a new study based on archaeological records and mathematical simulations.

The first thing you might think of when you think of a Chianti is a robust, teardrop-shaped bottle in a straw basket.

Tuscany, like Provence, is one ofA those A destinations in Europe now.A The light is superb, the people lovely, the food and drink remarkable.A But we've had a bit too much Tuscan sun in books and the cinema in recent years.

On the heels of successful business, education and leisure tours to China, Ireland, and Portugal, the Porterville Chamber has announced plans to offer a fall tour to Italy.

Some specialty hotels become the focal point of a vacation because of their singular qualities.