Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren's Roman villa

Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren's home in Rome captured by LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1964.

Treading Flowers

Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer on their villa near Rome, Italy, January 1960

Vintage Christmas Window Displays

Vintage Photos: Holiday Window Displays at Stores Around the World on Conde Nast Traveler here.

United Kingdom, 1907

Washington, D.C., 1930

New York City, 1939

New York City, 1947

New York City, 1950

Sophia Loren, Rome, 1953

Paris, 1965

Hamburg, 1980

Vogue

Piazza San Marco, Venezia

Vogue Australia, 1966

Twiggy at Place du Trocadéro, Paris

Twiggy, Place du Trocadéro, Paris, March 1967.

Photographed by Gilles Caron

Olympics

Italy has hosted three of the modern Olympic Games. In 1956 they held the Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, in 1960 the Summer Olympics in Rome, and in 2006 the Winter Olympics in Torino.

Audrey in Roma

Audrey Hepburn and Mr. Famous, Rome 1961

Elio Sorci

Chairs

Palermo, 1960

Enzo Sellerio

Ho capito che ti amo - Wilma Goich

Wilma Goich singing Luigi Tenco's Ho capito che ti amo in 1964.

Jack Kerouac

A drunk Jack Kerouac is interviewed by Fernanda Pivano in Milano, Italia in 1966 for RAI. Pivano translated not only Kerouac's novels into Italian, but the works of many others including Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.