For years, small towns in Italy like Mussomeli and Sambuca di Sicilia ... Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC LA's News Headlines newsletter.

I spent most of my holidays as a child in Tropea, Calabria, a quiet but beautiful coastal town in Southern Italy where my family ... I love shopping at small businesses in the area.

Italy's south, known as the "Mezzogiorno", is in dire need of a lift. In the 10 years to 2022 almost 200,000 young graduates left the southern ... small hometowns and commute to larger cities ...

Running up the thigh of Italy for about 250 miles ... a place of forts and garrisons, with a small civilian population concentrated in two small harbor towns, Porto Ercole and Porto Santo Stefano.

Photographer: Stephanie Gengotti/Bloomberg East of Naples near the town ... of the southern regions. The new route between Bari and Naples overcomes barriers that have hampered Italy since the ...

Italy's New High-Speed Rail Line Looks to Reverse Depopulation, Lift Southern Economy ... people to keep living in their small hometowns and commute to larger cities to work, rather than uproot ...

Puglia and Basilicata are home to some of Italy's oldest ruins-and some of its most unforgettable places to stay.

Take a photographic tour through the country’s effort to revitalize its rural towns Left ... in northern Italy. Right, the largely abandoned southern village of Pentedattilo.

Tucked away among a grouping of islets off Italy's northeast coast, the fish-shaped city of Venice is made up of six neighborhoods, called sestieri. The small ... Marco on the southern edge ...