If you want to get a taste of true rural Italian culture, then take a short drive from Rome to this stunning lakeside town with unique character.

The separatist Süd-Tiroler Freiheit party, which has been climbing the polls, put out a campaign poster showing a pair of feet on a morgue table with a sign reading: "The doctor didn't know German".

My dad started in his late 20s when he and my mother moved to Germany for work. There, eager to make friends, my parents ...