In this edition
No dispatches in today's edition.
Recent headlines from this bureau
- Italy's third heatwave strains southern crops as temperatures near 42C
- Calabria keeps Cuban doctors despite US pressure
- Global oil surge tests Italy's energy shift as extraction pressures mount
- Matera braces for prolonged heat as July heatwave peaks
- Record heat returns to southern Italy as Basilicata braces for summer stress
- Matera eyes tourist conduct codes as Lake Como imposes dress fines
- European court orders Italy to compensate woman after rape case dismissed
- Drought opens path for salt inland as southern farms brace
Geography & climate
Continental in the mountains, Mediterranean on the coasts.
Mountains and badlands between two seas; the Sassi of Matera, the Val d'Agri oilfields.
Economy & culture
Oil and gas (Italy's largest onshore field), agriculture, the Matera tourism boom, automotive.
Matera, once 'the shame of Italy', now a film set and capital of culture; a sparse, ancient South.