BellaOnline Forums Travel and Culture European Travel Italy? Where to go?

Hi all special you Rueben and welcome

Great culture, yeah. if we assumed Persian the first culture and heritage!! Italian will be second surely. lol
Just kidding

I second the idea of an Italian-American forum!
Ellen
(My mom is half-Piemontese and half-Soranese; Sora is in Lazio)

Another wonderful place to visit in Italy are the Italian lakes, particularly Como and Maggiore... They're both a day trip from Milan and some of the inhabited houses around the lake date back to Roman times!

Tony, you'll love it!! We only had two weeks in italy last October but saw heaps in just four days in Rome. Here's a couple of helpful sites - www.stuardtclarkesrome.com and www.astheromansdo.com

We spent some time up in Tuscany in the Arezzo region, staying at Sansepolcro and doing tours out from there. We only had two days in Florence and it was so beautiful - we walked around in the rain for the two days. Then we caught the fast train down to Rome, stayed overnight and flew out in the morning.

Now we are looking up rentals in Florence for the next trip. We'd love to stay about a month there and travel around to San Gimignano, Siena, the Cinque Terre, possibly Venice - if we can afford to do so!! I am in love with Italy, I could easily live there. The history is incredible!!

Savanah

Hi all!I agree with all of you! Italy is a wonderful place!Although it's cliche my favortie places are still Venice and Florence.. Everything is so pretty there

I spent a wonderful week last October on Ischia, an island in the Bay of Naples. Beautiful, less overdeveloped than Capri, with small towns, hot spring spas, vineyards, gorgeous sea views and lots of history to explore. By October the tourist trade (mostly Germans looking for the spa experience) dwindles and so do the prices. I loved it!

I feel a little foolish as I've just noticed that the originator of this thread, Tony Verdigi, posted in November 2004! And here I was saying that he'll love it, in 2008! Oh well, I hope he did indeed love his time in Italy! I suppose he could tell me more than I, myself, experienced!

We've just had a house guest, a young man we met in Italy, stay with us for five days. He lives in Milan. His mother is a London girl and married an Italian. He has never visited England but speaks perfect English so the last few days haven't been at all a strain as far as language goes.

We're looking forward to going back next year - fingers crossed!

Cheers,
Savanah

BellaOnline ALERT: Raw URLs are not allowed in these forums for security reasons. Please use UBB code. If you don't know how to do UBB code just post here for help - we will help out!

Here is a sample Italian Itinerary,BellaOnline ALERT: Raw URLs are not allowed in these forums for security reasons. Please use UBB code. If you don't know how to do UBB code just post here for help - we will help out!

I visited Calabria about five years ago. It was fabulous.