Top Reasons to Go

Sacra di San Michele: Explore one of the country's most spectacularly situated religious buildings.

Castello Fénis: This castle transports you back in time to the Middle Ages.

Monte Bianco: The cable car ride over the snowcapped mountain will take your breath away.

Turin's Museo Egizio: A surprising treasure—one of the world's richest collections of Egyptian art outside Cairo.

Regal wines: Some of Italy's most revered reds—led by Barolo, dubbed "the king wines"—come from the hills of southern Piedmont.