As Italy prepares to lift its lockdown, it is increasingly clear that something went terribly wrong in Lombardy, the hardest-hit region in Europe's hardest-hit country. Epidemiologists now say the ...

While the rest of the world has its eyes on the outcome of Catalonia’s tussle for independence from Spain, two of Italy’s most prosperous regions voted overwhelmingly in favor of greater autonomy from ...

On March 28, with the COVID-19 death toll soaring, the mayor of Brescia in Italy's wealthy north pleaded with neighboring regions to show more solidarity in battling the pandemic. "If we still have a ...

After a gap of 50 years, the fearsome Muro di Sormano returns to the route of the Tour of Lombardy in 2012. The short but devastatingly steep climb is the great novelty of this year’s race, which ...