Italy Travel Guide
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Where else in Europe can you find the blend of great art, delicious food and wine, and human warmth and welcome that awaits you in Italy? This Mediterranean country has made a profound contribution to Western civilization, producing some of the world's greatest thinkers, writers, politicians, saints, and artists. Impressive traces of their lives and works can still be seen in Italy's great buildings and enchanting countryside.
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Regions in Italy
Cities in Italy
- Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore
- Abbazia di San Galgano
- Abbazia di Sant'Antimo
- Acireale
- Agrigento
- Alassio
- Alba
- Albenga
- Alberobello
- Albisola Marina
- Amalfi
- Aosta
- Aquileia
- Arezzo
- Ariccia
- Ascoli Piceno
- Asolo
- Assisi
- Asti
- Bagnaia
- Bard
- Bari
- Bassano del Grappa
- Bellagio
- Bergamo
- Bologna
- Bolzano (Bozen)
- Bomarzo
- Bordighera
- Bormio
- Bressanone (Brixen)
- Breuil-Cervinia/The Matterhorn
- Brunico (Bruneck)
- Busseto
- Caldaro (Kaltern)
- Caltagirone
- Camigliatello
- Camogli
- Canazei
- Caprarola
- Castel del Monte
- Castelgandolfo
- Castellina in Chianti
- Castello di Miramare
- Castello Fenis
- Castelmola
- Castrovillari
- Catania
- Cefalu
- Ceglie Messapica
- Cernobbio
- Cervo
- Chiavari
- Cinque Terre
- Cividale del Friuli
- Colle di Val d'Elsa
- Como
- Cortina d'Ampezzo
- Cortona
- Cosenza
- Courmayeur/Monte Bianco
- Cremona
- Deruta
- Diamante
- Enna
- Erice
- Faenza
- Ferrara
- Finale Ligure
- Florence
- Frascati
- Gallipoli
- Gardone Riviera
- Gargnano
- Genoa
- Greve in Chianti
- Gubbio
- Herculaneum
- Imola
- Imperia
- La Spezia
- Lago di Carezza
- Lecce
- Lerici
- Levanto
- Loreto
- Lucca
- Madonna di Campiglio
- Mantua
- Maratea
- Marostica
- Marsala
- Martina Franca
- Matera
- Mattinata
- Merano (Meran)
- Messina
- Milan
- Modena
- Monreale
- Montalcino
- Montefalco
- Montepulciano
- Mount Etna
- Naples
- Narni
- Naturno (Naturns)
- Nemi
- Nervi
- Ortisei (St. Ulrich)
- Orvieto
- Ostia Antica
- Ostuni
- Otranto
- Padua
- Paestum
- Palermo
- Palestrina
- Panzano
- Parma
- Passo dello Stelvio
- Pavia
- Perugia
- Peschici
- Piacenza
- Piazza Armerina
- Pienza
- Pisa
- Polignano a Mare
- Pompeii
- Portofino
- Portovenere
- Positano
- Radda in Chianti
- Ragusa
- Ravello
- Ravenna
- Rende
- Riva del Garda
- Rivoli
- Rome
- Rovereto
- Sacra di San Michele
- Saluzzo
- San Gimignano
- San Remo
- Santa Margherita Ligure
- Saturnia
- Segesta
- Selinunte
- Sestriere
- Siena
- Siracusa
- Sirmione
- Sorrento
- Spello
- Spoleto
- St. Vincent
- Stresa and the Isole Borromee
- Taggia
- Taormina
- Taranto
- Tivoli
- Todi
- Trani
- Tremezzo
- Trento
- Treviso
- Trieste
- Tropea
- Turin
- Udine
- Urbino
- Valnerina
- Venice
- Verbania
- Verona
- Vesuvius
- Vicenza
- Vieste
- Viterbo
- Volterra
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