Base yourself in this handsome villa on Tuscany’s timeless coastline and discover the region’s Etruscan history, says Rosie Paterson

No matter how many photographs you see of the magnificent Duomo in Florence, nothing prepares you for the real thing. Turn the corner into Cathedral Square and the huge confection of pink, white and g

THE sun is blazing down from a cloudless blue sky as I arrive at The Myrtles, a historic plantation in the town of St Francisville, Louisiana, around 30 miles north of the city of Baton Rouge. On such

Nick Dakin-Elliot, who gardens in Tuscany, is still moved by the Italian hilltop gardens that command some of the most beautiful views in the world

This Halloween season, explore some of Britain’s eeriest corners

Some say that the mysterious Dunstanburgh Castle Walk is haunted by a spooky 16th-century knight, Sir Guy the Seeker. His ghost allegedly floats around Dunstanburgh Castle grounds searching for a lost