Italy On This Day

First Italian to win the Tour de France Bottecchia triumphed despite coming from a poor background Ottavio Bottechia, who was the first of t...

Fascinating city retains influences from past rulers The harbour of Trieste in 1885, when it was still under the control of Austri...

Catastrophic flood may have killed 2,500 The Vajont Dam, pictured before the disaster of 1963, was considered a triumph of  engineer...

First of two disasters to rock Italy in the same year Tolmezzo in Friuli Venezia Giulia was said to have been close to the epicentre ...