Roughly 12 inches tall by 8 inches wide, Italy's wine windows look similar to a church's and are usually framed in stone or wood, with small hatch-style doors that open outward.

Florence's historic 'wine windows' are making a comeback. For nearly 500 years, visitors to this romantic Renaissance city have sipped Tuscan wines from buchette di vino, tiny openings in the ...

Ingrid K. Williams has reported on northern Italy, where she lived for over a dozen years, since 2010. As tourism returns to prepandemic levels across Italy, travelers itching to visit Florence ...

With the Alps as a background, Turin, Italy’s fourth-largest city, is elegant, photogenic and rich with history. Skip to content Skip to site index. 36 Hours. 36 Hours in Turin, Italy.