italy Travel guide

umbria - Umbria is well known as the "Green Heart of Italy". The principle products from the region include sausages, cheese, dairy products, legumes and truffles. The region's...
bologna - Bologna is one of the oldest cities in Italy and the site of Europe’Äôs oldest university. It’Äôs a charming town, due largely to the imaginative use of brickwork. A total 45km of...
capri - Charming local towns, extraordinary hospitality as well as excellent, well laid-out tourist facilities open Capri's beautiful to its many visitors from all over the world....
rome - It doesn't matter how much time you have got to spend in Rome, it won't be enough. The popular saying "Roma, non basta una vita" (Rome, a lifetime isn't enough)...
sorrento - Holiday resort of world-wide renown, Sorrento boasts a remarkable agricultural production; oranges and lemons in fact, as well as olives and walnuts, are the symbol of Sorrento....
florence - The Medici 'Segnoria' came to an end in 1737. Florence was part of the Duchy of Lorena till 1865 when it joined the Italian Unity. Florence was the capital of this reign till...
amalfi coast - The Amalfi Coast is a magical place of the South of Italy. It is made up of lots of small romantic towns. Houses and hotels are perched in spectacular locations to capture the...
portofino - Soft and bright, delicate and vigorous colours. Few places can rival Portofino for its harmony of colours, colours that blend, contrast and complement each other. Only here does...
positano - If Disney were to turn its hand to creating a Mediterranean theme park, it would look like Positano, all confetti pinks and peaches, flowers and flash-bright clothes. The houses...
turin - "Do you know Turin?" asked Nietzsche. "It is a city after my own heart ? a princely residence of the seventeenth century, which has only one taste giving commands...
tuscany - One of the most fascinating things is the diversity of the regional cultures within Tuscany. Tuscany is divided amoung 10 Provinces and each has it’Äôs own flavor and heritage....
venice - Venice is lovely city full of monuments which draw the largest crowds are the Basilica di San Marco - the mausoleum of the city's patron saint - and the Palazzo Ducale - the...

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