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Tell us about a great time you had in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna, from well-known places such as Parma, Modena and Bologna, to out-of-the-way spots The Italian region of Emilia Romagna is particularly blessed when it comes to visitor appeal: slow food and fast cars, busy cities and unspoilt hills, glitzy seaside and sleepy villages. We’d like…

Addition to Cornish art gallery, which is buried out of sight in a cliff, will house contemporary art shows Tate St Ives will reopen this weekend after an 18-month closure and a long, drawn-out £20m expansion project requiring machines to pound the Cornish cliffside to remove blue elvan, the hardest rock in the British Isles.…

Those caught lighting up could face a year’s imprisonment as the government seeks to end pollution and drain damage on Thai beaches caused by discarded cigarette butts Thailand is to ban smoking on some of the country’s most popular tourist beaches, with the prospect of up to a year in prison for those caught lighting…

The Tudor warship that sank in the Solent in 1545 – and was raised 35 years ago today – is beautifully presented within its revamped setting and comes with fantastic artefacts and hands-on activities In 1545 the Mary Rose, the pride of Henry VIII’s naval fleet, sank in the Solent during a battle with the…

Rome’s Maam gallery exhibits artists from all over the world, who often incorporate the site’s previous use as a slaughterhouse into their work, or are inspired by the lives of its residents Museums are usually hushed places that fall silent when the doors close at the end of the day. But one museum in Rome’s…