Charles H. Traub managed to capture what was called La Dolce Vita (the Sweet Way) – the street life of Italy in 80s when everything was simply great there.

La Dimora di Metello is an amazingly beautiful hotel located in the caves of Matera, in southern Italy. It has become popular among people who like unique and usual places to stay in.
 

Designed by Luciana Pia, this apartment complex in Turin, Italy is to help clean the city’s air and offer locals a place to go that is a refuge in the inner city.

Last Wednesday, sister Cristina Succia, 25, stunned the judges of Italy's The Voice by performing an amazing interpretation of Alicia Keys' 'No One'.
 

The Domus Civita is a house located on the top of the Etruscan tombs and caves in Italy. Originally built in XIV century, the owners have attempted to preserve all the natural beams, stone walls and floors while transforming this natural cave into a comfortable living space. The house has been fully restored, maintaining all historical value, and now boasts a heated pool and wine cellar.

Let’s have a look at IBM’s new high tech office buildings in Rome, Italy. They’ve been entirely renovated and largely expanded to give this amazing futuristic-like environment full of LEDs.

If you happen to be in Italy on the last day of school for high schoolers then you can witness their awesome tradition of throwing food at each other (lots of eggs and flour) and traipsing through fountains.

Giuliano Mauri started to construct this cathedral in 2001. He died in 2009, but his project was completed in 2010. It is one of the most impressive pieces of 'natural architecture' on Earth.

This is the World Cup of pizza that was held in April in the northern part of Italy. The pizza makers acrobatically twirled some of the best pizza dough to win.

Welcome to the Hermitage of San Colombano. It was named after an Irish Saint and built in 1319. The Hermitage has certainly held up well. It is located in Italy between Rovereto and Vivenza. The building is erected on the side of a mountain and is very large and very beautiful.

Although there were protests in the streets of Rome, Silvio Berusconi won a no confidence vote by three votes. Obviously, he is not a popular ruler. There were probably some very unhappy Romans when they heard the news.

Angela Scognamiglio, weighing 170 kilograms (375 pounds), was proud to win the title of "Miss Chubby" at a beauty contest held in Italy this year. The 33-year old winner beat all the 30 other contestants of this category. She was moved to tears and happy to prove that a woman doesn't have to be skinny to be beautiful. What do you, guys, think?

The new beauty queen of Italy is a chubby woman who weights in at 170 kilograms (375 pounds) at the age of 33. Her name is Angela Scognamiglio. Being “Miss Chubby” feels “very moved”, Angela assures. This unusual beauty contest was held in the village of Forcoli, near Pisa.

In the beginning of July there was a car accident in Italy. A truck that carried about 2 million euros in coins overturned. The van burst, and all the coins worth 1 and 2 euro ran across the highway. No wonder that when the sum of money was finally collected it missed about 50 thousand euros.

Ordinary Italian fisherman Roberto Godi caught an unbelievable catfish when he went fishing on the River Po at Mantova, northern Italy.