Italy

Sicily,Island of Godfather
2011-11-11, Sicily, Italy. By: bur

First of all i have to admit that i love this country,i love every place of Italy.What a beautiful place and what a friendly and crazy people you have Italy !!! Sicily is one of my favourite places...

Florence
2011-04-02, Florence, Italy. By: dvacation

Visiting Tuscany would not be complete without exploring Florence. Founded by Julius Caesar in 59 BC, Florence was the epicenter of Renaissance movement in 1500's. It is a place where arts, architectu...

Cortona
2011-04-01, Cortona, Italy. By: dvacation

Heading towards Cortona, Cortona's medieval architectures and steep narrow streets situated on a hillside are the distinguishing characteristics of this town. A maze of slim alleys filled with delis, ...

Siena
2011-04-01, Siena, Italy. By: dvacation

Driving towards Siena, I discovered a nifty feature. When I crossed the middle lane without turning my turn signal on, the departure lane warning system vibrated the steering wheel. It vibrated like m...

Greve in Chianti
2011-03-31, Greve, Italy. By: dvacation

Arriving at Greve, we switched our minds from devouring curves to devouring Tuscan delicacies. Greve in Chianti is synonymous with the famous wine for a simple reason; the Chianti originated here. Thi...

SR 222
2011-03-31, Tuscany, Italy. By: dvacation

The morning sun did not shine on my face. The roasters did not wake me up. It was my intrusive alarm from my mobile phone that did it. This place was just too tranquil to do anything this early. But w...

Montespertoli
2011-03-30, Montespertoli, Italy. By: dvacation

Montespertoli, tucked in a brow of the Tuscany picturesque emerald hills covered by vineyards, olive groves, and sunflowers, was our first glimpse to one of the famous wine countries in Europe. We wer...

Lamborghini Factory
2011-03-29, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. By: dvacation

Many people visit this Northern Italy region named Emilia-Romagna for many world-famed attractions. The genius of man and the mystery of nature gave birth to the Renaissance movement here. Legends suc...

Pisa, Italy 19-21 Oct '11
2011-10-20, Pisa, Italy. By: odomo

My mother-in-law,the wife and I took a two day holiday to Pisa, Italy the other day. We took a Ryan Air flight from Brussels South airport in Charloi, Belgium to Galilei airport on the edge of Pisa. W...

Thats It Mona
2011-10-11, Tuscany, Italy. By: frankieboy

10/9/2011 What an amazing man. Da Vinci not me. He was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, ca...

Under a Tuscan Sun
2011-10-10, Tuscany, Italy. By: frankieboy

10/4/2011 The Vatican was an amazing display of sculptures, painting, frescoes and treasures with the highlights for me being Rodin’s The Thinker and the Sistine Chapel with the famous God touching t...

The Pope needs to cover his overhead
2011-10-04, Rome, Italy. By: frankieboy

10/3/2011 Long but interesting day walking around the Coliseum, Trevi fountain and various other historical aspects of Rome. The Coliseum is an amazing structure of architectural wonder. And the even...

Tropea or Heaven
2009-07-19, Tropea, Italy. By: bur

I like sea sand beach,who doesn't like ? When i think of a summer holiday,i just think about lying on a beach,sunbathing,yupping my coctail and feeling the sea's fresh air...and yess Tropea is the pla...

The Serendipity of Vicenza
2011-08-30, bergamo alps, Italy. By: rupertini

I have a free day before my next destination, so I headed for Bassano del Grappa up in the mountains. Then Murphy.s law changed.. me plans.. & serendipity took over. It was 20hrs and going from the a...

On the way
2011-08-18, Bergamo Alps, Italy. By: rupertini

Ciao a tutti, amici e famiglia....Just like you in Tejas, am burning...the turista is complaining & having much gelato, my favorite ...is bacio...which means Kiss. I went back to the bella italiana ...

A day in Siena, home of the Palio!
2011-04-06, Siena, Italy. By: hankster

Spent my birthday in Siena, the beautiful medieval town. Siena at one time challenged Florence as the seat of power in this area. But, they were nearly wiped out by the black plague and became a small...

Some of our time in Florence
2011-04-05, Florence, Italy. By: hankster

Just a few pics of Florence from this trip. The weather stayed spectacular, if not a little warmer than we anticipated. There is so much to see in this wonderful Tuscan town, you cannot see it all in ...

Just a little Sorrento
2011-04-04, Sorrento, Italy. By: hankster

Even though we stayed in Sorrento at the wonderful Casa Astarita again, I took very few pictures. Still one of my favorite places in Italy though.

Our day in Capri
2011-04-03, Capri Island, Italy. By: hankster

We met my friend Costanzo and his wife Julia and took a boat around the island and then spent some time up in Capri Town enjoy this wonderful island. There is so much history here, but then Capri was ...

A beautiful drive on the Amalfi Coast
2011-04-02, Sorrento, Italy. By: hankster

We spent the entire day visting the cities along the Amalfi Coast, has to be one of the prettiest places on earth! Positano has become such a mecca for the rich and famous, it seems a shame, while nex...

A day in Pompeii
2011-04-01, Pompeii, Italy. By: hankster

We started our trip after landing in Rome and taking the train to Naples and meeting Gaetano for our ride to Sorrento, our base for the next few days. We went to Pompeii and spent the entire day in th...

Admiring the villas
2009-10-27, Vicenza, Italy. By: Jensy

Our last day in Veneto. We were sad we had to leave that land. We liked a lot the culture and art, the food, the people. Before going to the airport we had time to see one more villa by Palladio i...

Vicenza: a city of harmony and beauty....
2009-10-26, Vicenza, Italy. By: Jensy

Unluckily we had to say goodbye to Marostica because we had booked another hotel in Vicenza. Vicenza is a delightful city, this is what everybody says , but Marostica was already in our heart and we w...

Marostica: a place to taste good italian food!!
2009-10-25, Marostica, Italy. By: Jensy

Another day in this splendid land. Began our morning going to the market of Marostica just to see what there was on sell. We stopped on the cheese stall and let the owner make us taste some of the loc...

Wonderful Marostica: the hills, the castles....
2009-10-24, Marostica, Italy. By: Jensy

We woke up at eight o’ clock and had an abundant breakfast at Due Mori. We were now ready to go sightseeing this fabulous little town. We visited first the famous chess square. The Chess game is playe...

The city of young people......
2009-10-23, Padova, Italy. By: Jensy

Early wake up because we had just a day to visit Padova and in the late afternoon we had to drive all the way to Marostica. We had some wonderful Espresso in the hotel and a big breakfast with soft cr...

Ready to bite Veneto....
2009-10-22, Venice, Italy. By: Jensy

Venice is not the only lovely and beautiful place in northern Italy. We have visited the city of gondolas two years ago and we liked it, but did not love it. It’s a matter of facts that Venice is a dy...

To Venice
2011-01-17, Venice, Italy. By: binajesal

We took a train from Zurich to Venice (via Milano Central). The connecting time was 15 minutes and we were late by 10 minutes while reaching Milan.(Unlike swiss trains the Italian trains are not very ...

Florenceeee!
2011-01-16, Florence, Italy. By: vrwilson

Heyyy!! I've been in Italy for about 3 days now and am finaly getting used to some stuff. IT was pretty confusing at first, but I'm finally getting the hang of the roads! The girls in my apartmen...