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Amalfi Coast

Famous for its extraordinary beauty and its iconic medieval cliffside Mediterranean fishing villages, it is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site...

Assisi

Around 1000 BC a wave of immigrants settled in the upper Tiber valley as far as the Adriatic Sea, and also in the neighborhood of Assisi. These were t...

Bologna

Bologna is a historical city. Although it is known and loved by all Italians, it is less well known among foreign visitors. It is the capital and larg...

Capri

Capri is an Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples, in the Campania region of Sout...

Chianti

The Chianti area in Tuscany is one of the most beautiful in the whole region, as well as the most well-known and appreciated by visitors from across t...

Cinque Terre

Cinque Terre which means Five Lands, is part of the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Cinque comprise the five small coastal villages of Riomaggiore, Ma...

Classe

The Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe is an important monument of Byzantine art near Ravenna, Italy. When the UNESCO inscribed eight Ravenna...

Cortona

Cortona, Italy is one of the oldest hill towns in Tuscany and is featured in Francis Mayes book Under the Tuscan Sun. Cortona's medieval streets a...

Florence

Florence is a relatively compact historic city situated along the borders of the Arno River in the middle of the Tuscan hills. During the Renaissance...

Genoa

A historical port city in northern Italy, the capital of the Region of Liguria. Genoa today, as a tourist attraction, is often shadowed by cities such...

Herculaneum

A town close to Naples in Campania, Italy. It is named after the ruined Roman city which forms its main attraction. Herculaneum was destroyed by an er...

Italian lakes

Countless tourists flock to Italy and go no further than the historic and art-filled cities of Rome and Florence. Others swoon their way through Venic...

Italian Riviera

The Italian Riviera is essentially another name for the coast of Liguria, one of the country's smallest but most intriguing regions, lying to the...

Lake Como

Lake Como is situated in Como (Province) in Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is part of the Italian Lake District. Popular with visitors for well over 100...

Lake Garda

There are small towns located all around Lake Garda. The north of the lake seems to be more for the people who enjoy a quiet, peaceful holiday, but a...

Lake Maggiore

Lake Maggiore is a large lake located on the south side of the Alps. It is the second largest lake in Italy and the largest in southern Switzerland. T...

Milan

Milan is the capital of Lombardia, the richest and most populous region of Italy. The city, the second largest in the country, is best known as an eco...

Montepulciano

Montepulciano is a walled hill town in Tuscany, built on a sloping and narrow limestone ridge in the heart of the Vino Nobile wine growing area. It...

Naples

The capital of the Campania region. The city is the third most populated municipality (city proper) of Italy, but the second metropolitan area, after...

Pisa

Pisa is best known for the world famous Leaning Tower, but those who come here with their mind already made up that the Tower is the only thing to see...

Pompeii

Pompeii is in Campania, Italy, not far from Naples. Its major attraction is the ruined ancient Roman city which was engulfed by Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79....

Positano

Positano was a port of the Amalfi Republic in medieval times, and prospered in the 16th and 17th centuries. But by the mid-19th century, the town had...

Praja a Mare

Praja a Mare is an undiscovered pearl in the Calabria region of Italy, the perfect place for travellers looking for a place off the beaten track. This...

Rome

No city in the world equals the history of the Eternal City. Founded 2700 years ago, Rome long reigned as Caput Mundi, or Capital of the World. Monume...

San Gimignano

San Gimignano rises on a hill (334m high) dominating the Elsa Valley with its towers. Once the seat of a small Etruscan village of the Hellenistic per...

San Quirico

San Qurico, is of origins, undoubtedly, Etruscan. This is testified by findings of cinerary urns and other funeral objects and vessels, now kept in th...

Sardinia

A large island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, between the Balearic islands and the Italian peninsula and south of Corsica. Beautiful scenery, lovely seas and...

Sicily

Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy and it i...

Siena

Siena, like other Tuscan hill towns, was first settled in the time of the Etruscans (c. 900–400 BC) when it was inhabited by a tribe called the...

Sordevolo

Sordevolo is a comune in the Province of Biella in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) northeast of Turin and about 7 kil...

Turin

A large city of about one million inhabitants, is set in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, a one-hour drive from the French border and slight...

Tuscany

A region on Italy's west coast, on the Tyrrhenian sea. It is one of the most popular places to visit in a country that is itself one of the most p...

Vatican

Perhaps the Vatican needs no introduction. The center of Catholicism, and encompassing the Vatican City state, as well as the surrounding Roman neighb...

Venice

One of the most interesting and lovely places in the world. This sanctuary on a lagoon is virtually the same as it was six hundred years ago, which ad...

Verona

Because of the value and importance of its many historical buildings, Verona has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Verona preserved many ancien...

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