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Italy Travel Guide featuring articles, images, and links to books, hotel reservations, flights, and car rental.

See Magnificent Milan On Foot

Milan is a treasure trove of gorgeous architecture and impressive landmarks that have been around for centuries and the best way to see all of them is by going on…

Expat Advice For An Italian Move

Photo by Vincent Versluis on Unsplash Italy boasts the third largest economy in the Eurozone, and with its abundance of culture, friendly people and history, it's an exciting country to relocate…

Various Images of Italy

Various images of Italy and Italian landscapes Italy offers unlimited sources of inspiration, whether taking photographs or painting. We have selected various images of Italy from the North to the…

The Call to My Adventure in Italy

Why travel? Why to Italy? A friend handed me a book one day. “Here,” she said. “A gift,” she said. “It’s magic.” I felt a tingle as I touched the…

Venice: La Serenissima

Venice: The Most Serene I cannot remember when I first heard of, or learnt about, La Serenissima, but it would have been many years before my first visit. Of course…

Walking at night in Florence, Italy

[caption id="attachment_299" align="alignleft" width="246"] Courtesy of https://www.mijnstacaravaninitalie.nl[/caption] Night in Florence? Being a solo female traveler there are two things I am always hearing. The first is that I’ll end up…

Visit Italy now!

Why visit Italy now? Italy is perfect for romantic Couples Fall for Italy's inspiring beauty, as seen in cities like Venice, Rome and Verona, home of Romeo and Juliet. All…

Region of Puglia – Apulia

[caption id="attachment_153" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Gargano, Puglia[/caption] Puglia was for centuries a strategic province, colonized, invaded and conquered (like its neighbors, Calabria and Sicily) by just about every major power of…

Region of Campania

[caption id="attachment_148" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Bay of Naples[/caption] The region immediately south of Lazio, Campania, marks the real beginning of the Italian south or mezzogiorno. It's the part of the south…

Region of Abruzzo

[caption id="attachment_143" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Barrea (Parco Nazionale, Abruzzo, Italia)[/caption] The name Abruzzo appears to derive from the Latin form Aprutium. The name Aprutium, however, was not in use in Roman…

Region of Lazio

[caption id="attachment_138" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Rome[/caption] Of all Italy's historic cities, it's perhaps Rome, in the region of Lazio, which exerts the most compelling fascination. There's more to see here than…

Region of Emilia-Romagna

[caption id="attachment_135" align="aligncenter" width="800"] One of the many castles in Emilia Romagna[/caption] Set between Lombardy and Tuscany, and stretching from the Adriatic coast almost to the shores of the Mediterranean,…

Region of Liguria

[caption id="attachment_127" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Portofino[/caption] There's an unexpected change as you cross the border from Nice and Monaco: the Italian Riviera (as Liguria's commercially developed strip of coast is known)…

Region of Veneto

[caption id="attachment_124" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Venezia[/caption] The first-time visitor to Venice, in the region of Veneto, arrives with a heavy freight of expectations, most of which turn out to be well…

Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia

[caption id="attachment_119" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Abbazia Rosazzo in Friuli[/caption] The geographical complexity of Friuli-Venezia Giulia - around eight thousand square kilometres of alps, limestone plateau, alluvial plain and shelving coastlands -…

Region of Lombardy

[caption id="attachment_116" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Lake Como[/caption] Lombardy, Italy's richest and most developed region, often seems to have more in common with its northern European neighbours than with the rest of…

Region of Piedmont – Piemonte

[caption id="attachment_113" align="aligncenter" width="800"] The Alps in Piedmont[/caption] Many of the dishes in Piedmont's (Piemonte) swankiest restaurants derive from the tables of the Piemontese aristocracy, in particular the Savoy dukes…

Region of Trentino-Alto Adige

[caption id="attachment_105" align="aligncenter" width="800"] The Dolomites as seen from Lake Misurina[/caption] Trentino-Alto Adige is something of an anomaly: a mixed German-Italian region, much of which has only been part of…

Visiting Italy on a budget

A brief guide on how to plan an affordable vacation to Italy The richness of Italian life is an irresistible lure - from its cuisine and architecture to its fashion…

Top 5 Must-See Beaches In Italy

Italy features some of the finest beaches in the world From Caribbean-like stretches of soft sand to coves nestled along rocky shores, this country offers a diverse selection of seaside…

Via Francigena (Via Romea)

The Pilgrim's road from Canterbury to Rome It doesn't take long to pick them out: men and women of all ages, most carrying backpacks and using tall walking sticks, dressed…

Region of Sicily

[caption id="attachment_164" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Selinunte, Sicily[/caption] Sicily (Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia) is an autonomous region of Italy in Europe. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest surface…

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