The Amalfi Coast is a playground for the jet set. Here are our most luxurious picks for where to stay, from high-class hotels to villas with sparkly sea views.

Big flavours, colossal culture, monumental architecture and extravagant experiences. Rome is a blockbuster European city break.

Our inside guide to the Italian fashion and design capital, with expert tips from Giorgio Armani, Giovanni Paradiso, and more.

In Treviso, the probable birthplace of the famed Italian dessert, DIANNE BORTOLETTO discovers the origins of tiramisù are trifled.

With more than 330 Michelin stars lighting up its culinary landscape, how do you decide which Italian fine-dining experience to embark on? PETER GILMORE shares his guide to Italian icons.

During a cruise of the Mediterranean Sea with port stops in Italy, KATRINA HOLDEN discovers la dolce vita on board the new-look luxury ship Crystal Serenity.

A solo trip doesn't have to mean cheap eats and hostels. This is our guide to nailing the solo trip in the Tuscan renaissance city of Florence.

A lovingly restored 18th-century villa and a glamorous shorefront resort at Lake Como are the stuff of dreams. Now, Passalacqua has landed the top spot in the World's Best 50 Hotels.

It doesn't get much sweeter than this.

Food and life are entwined in this humble port region. After a decade in her adopted home town, chef Anissa Helou shares her best finds.

A new wave of openings has hit the coastlines of the Mediterranean since we last visited. Here is the latest and greatest line-up of what we've been missing.

Italy's largest lake, Garda, may be less glamorous than Como, but it has a character and sweet microclimate all its own.

Culinary and intellectual tradition define one of Italy’s most vibrant cities.

A bottle of Brunello tastes better in the Tuscan countryside, just as a glass of prosecco is best enjoyed by a Venetian canal. Insiders from the wine industry divulge their favourite places to drink in Italy.

Grand architecture, a wealth of culture and brio to boot, do you need another reason to spend a couple of days in Italy’s forgotten city? Oh, it’s the birthplace of pizza.

The most luxurious carriages have new features that evoke the past and future of train travel.

Where to eat, drink and indulge in Italy's gastronomic capital.

A 101 on Italian chef Massimo Bottura's Modena restaurant, which was awarded top spot in the World's 50 Best Restaurants list for 2018.

A new collection, The Best of AA Gill, draws together some of the fearless, feisty and unfailingly funny late writer’s finest pieces. Among them is this gem, taken from the column he wrote for Gourmet Traveller for more than a decade.

Heading to Italy? Italian-Australian chefs share their picks of what and where to eat back in the old country.

Genoa, the coastal town that gave the world pesto, Christopher Columbus and Renzo Piano, holds surprises around every corner. John Irving explores its labyrinthine lanes.

From one end of the boot to the other, Italy’s favourite fast food is the surprising subject of a new wave.

A sense of faded grandeur once cast a pall over Turin, but after a facelift and an infusion of creativity the former Italian capital exudes dynamism and could just be the country’s best-kept secret.

What to do when your home is a 1910 Art Nouveau palace on the shores of Lake Como but you're running out of room?

Welcome to the Maremma, a former wild frontier that’s home to charming medieval villages and restaurants rich in regional tradition. John Irving introduces his favourite corner of Tuscany.

The Aztecs may have first cottoned on to cocoa and it has become a calling card for the Swiss and Belgians but Turin is the real chocolate capital of the world, writes John Irving.

Venice seduces with its intoxicating mix of history, mystery, art and architecture. Melbourne restaurateur and Biennale patron Rinaldo Di Stasio shares his favourite haunts and secret corners of this special city.

Bergamo’s ancient honey-coloured walls, empty piazzas and pealing church bells provide Leila McKinnon with the Italy of her dreams.

From Paloma Picasso and Kate Winslet to Elizabeth Gilbert and Carla Zampatti, friends of Gourmet Traveller share with us what they like to do “when in Rome”.

They're Italy's best-kept secret. Eight tiny islands scattered off the north-east coast of Sicily; the Aeolians. From party-central Panarea to the therapeutic charms of Vulcano's steaming mud pools.