The Santa Maria Field Office for the California Department of Motor Vehicles will close at 5 p.m. Friday for approximately ...

Just off Florence's Piazza Santa Maria Novella, where a church of the same name has stood since 1360, sits another cathedral of sorts. It may not look like it from the outside but inside, it's ...

Santa Maria Novella is probably the world’s oldest apothecary. It was started in 1221, when there were outcasts living in Florence, Foà says.