NUORO, Italy, Feb 7 (Reuters) - In Nuoro, a remote city on the Italian island of Sardinia, a high stone wall rings the local prison, a fortress-like complex once renowned for holding high-profile mobsters and convicted terrorists far from the mainland.

Michela Marcato, 54, has been blind since birth. She and her partially sighted partner were touring the site amid a new effort by Italy to make its myriad artistic treasures more accessible to people with blindness or low vision and enhance how all visitors experience and perceive art.

The American singer Mariah Carey, a featured performer, took the stage at San Siro stadium, a century-old landmark in Milan, opening with “Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu,” better known as “Volare.” Other featured performers will be Andrea Bocelli and the Italian rapper Ghali.

How far back does the rich history of Italian olives and oil stretch? My new research, published in the American Journal of Archaeology, synthesizing and reevaluating existing archaeological evidence,

MILAN (AP) — All the worries, strife and scrutiny that lingered around the construction of the main hockey arena for the Milan Cortina Olympics dissipated as the first game there into a celebration for the host country.

Turin, Piedmont’s provincial capital, as seem from the Duomo. Located in the foothills of the western Alps, the city is Italy’s fourth largest. Credit...Enea Arienti Flocking To Turin has Baroque architecture,

Tournament underdogs Italy got the party started in front of their home fans on Thursday, earning its first-ever women's ice hockey win in an Olympics with a 4-1 victory over France in front of a raucous crowd at Santagiulia Arena.