Country Info
- Rome
- Capital
- Euro (EUR)
- Currency
- 57,679,825
- Population
- IT
- Country Code
Italy Slideshow
Top Hotels in Italy
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Crowne Plaza Venice East-Quarto d'Altino
334 reviews -
Grand Hotel Capodimonte Sorrento
571 reviews -
Unaway Hotel Bologna Fiera
25 reviews -
NH Trieste
114 reviews -
Milan Speranza Au Lac Stresa
82 reviews
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Holiday Inn Express Bologna-Fiera
126 reviews
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BEST WESTERN Hotel Galles Milan
484 reviews
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Excelsior Hilton Palermo
235 reviews
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Boscolo Milano
156 reviews
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Hotel Le Conchiglie Riccione
52 reviews -
Best Western Hotel Universo Rome
359 reviews
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The Westin Excelsior Florence
445 reviews
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Hotel Regina Baglioni Rome
192 reviews
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The Free Beach Club Costa Rei
166 reviews
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Florio Park Hotel Terrasini
95 reviews -
Il Ciocco Hotel Castelvecchio Pascoli
42 reviews
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Holiday Inn Milan-Rho Fair
121 reviews
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Zanhotel & Meeting Centergross Bentivoglio
31 reviews
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Ibis Firenze Nord Sesto Fiorentino
205 reviews
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B4 Bologna Tower
108 reviews
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Airport Hotel Verona Villafranca di Verona
133 reviews
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Regina Palace Stresa
244 reviews
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Hotel Castelli Montecchio Maggiore
30 reviews
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Novotel Firenze Nord Aeroporto Florence
278 reviews
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Grand Hotel Parco Dei Principi Rome
334 reviews
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NH Concordia Sesto San Giovanni
50 reviews
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Windsor Hotel Milano
191 reviews
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Torre del Barone Club Sciacca
110 reviews
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Una Hotel Century Milan
435 reviews
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Grande Albergo Sole Palermo
77 reviews
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Holiday Inn Milan Linate Peschiera Borromeo
63 reviews
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UNA Hotel Scandinavia Milan
116 reviews
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Ambasciatori Palace Hotel Rome
226 reviews
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BEST WESTERN Grand Hotel Guinigi Lucca
135 reviews
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Hotel Gattapone Spoleto
32 reviews
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Hotel Albani Roma Rome
283 reviews
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Grand Hotel Parco del Sole Sant'Agnello
267 reviews
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Esplanade Hotel Pescara
48 reviews
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Una Hotel Brescia
34 reviews
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Grand Hotel Duca d'Este Tivoli
58 reviews
Italy
Travel Blogs from Italy
Off to Croatia...
This is a top pick! ... just said (in Italian) 'I'm English', and he thankfully went away, after saying English, English.... Odd-ball. The trains in Italy seem so much better than the ones in England from my experience, and so much cheaper: it was over 3 hours to get from ...
Goodbye again for awhile Sue
This is a top pick! ... her hours to make. We hope that some of the family will visit us in Australia one day. We drove on all day until Cuneo, Italy where we slept in a skate ramp park. We were a bit concerned at the number of youngsters around us, but they were very noisy ...
Pirates of the Mediterranean
This is a top pick! I'm in Sicily now having just spent the last few days on a sailboat going around the Mediterranean a bit. I think I may have expected too much beforehand - beautiful beaches, cool islands, hot weather, that sort of thing. The sailboat was probably about ...
Syracuse: an expedition indeed
This is a top pick! Syracuse, toward the southern tip of Sicily, was a major power in the ancient world, which is why the name probably sounds familiar even if you haven't the foggiest where it is. I didn't either but from what I'd heard on the grapevine I thought I should ...
AN ENDLESS SEARCH FOR GELATO
This is a top pick! ... , and we enjoyed watching other people being attacked by killer pigeons in the Piazza. An interesting parallel between Hong Kong and Italy: fake Louis Vuitton and Gucci purses are everywhere - often sold directly in front of the real stores (and probably ...
"Wish You Were Here"
This is a top pick! ... tacky tourist glass. Less of the red, green or blue with gold paint and new novelties to grab the tourist dollar this time around. Packing up tonight for tomorrow's marathon four-train trek across the width of Italy to Riomaggiore on the Cinque ...
Carnival in Castrovillari
This is a top pick! Castrovillari (CS): Carnival - Pollino Carnival and International Folklore Festival. Enogastronomic exhibitions, concerts, serenades in the evocative corners of the ancient village and the three traditional processions of floats and masked groups are ...
San Gimignano
This is a top pick! Went to San Gimignano today. It's a cute little town, perched high on a hill overlooking the Tuscan countryside, and is famous for it's medieval towers (they wer built by powerful families, and were a sign of wealth). Only 13 towers remain, but at one ...
David Has Big Hands
This is a top pick! One hour by train from Florence the town of Pisa well known world wide for it's Leaning Tower. Obviously we wanted to see one of the wonders of the world, although to be fair we didn't actually know it was one until we read it on a sign next to the ...
Days Like These
This is a top pick! ... free call number for Iberia, an affiliate with QANTAS, and pointed out the payphones across the road. Just one slightly major problem, in Italy all the public phones use cards, no coins and it seems that no one sells the cards required to use them. So ...
Mama mia, Italia!
This is a top pick! ... signs of water damage and disrepair and then by foot, exploring the many little alleys and squares. Our first two days in Italy were also spent enjoying Italian cuisine... pizza, pasta, pizza, pasta... all washed down with delicious (and cheap) vino. ...
Venice: Fireballs and Hangovers
This is a top pick! We took the toll road north from Florence towards Venice. When we got to Bologna we somehow managed to take the wrong turn and started heading towards Milan. The first exit we came to was 15 km later, a quick illegal u-turn later and 15 km back and we ...
Firenze
This is a top pick! Firenze (Florence): I've been to Florence 5 times and it's a beautiful city. Small alleys leading to big piazzas and high buildings. The high buildings cause me personally a bit of distress due to my complete lack of any sense of ...
Roma
This is a top pick! Oh what a city! If I could have I would have changed our itinerary. I would have shortened our stay in Florence from 5 nights to 3 and extend Rome from 3 nights to 5. This city is incredible (and incredibly hot - beware!). There's so ...
Pompei
This is a top pick! After leaving Rome we drove south to our next destination: Capo Vaticano and the beautiful azure blue waters of the Calabria region. But not so fast, how could we possibly not stop at Pompeii? Right, we couldn't, so we stopped and let ...
Back to Normality....but Not for Long.
This is a top pick! So after 4 days of Italy the time came to pack up and fly back to London to start the same weekly routine. It's always so depressing when the good times end and you have to go back to work, especially when you hate your job. I ...
Sicily
This is a top pick! Short trip to Sicily - Cheap flights Stanstead-Palermo on Ryan Air. One day and night in Palermo, then hopped on the train just along the coast to Cefalu where we did very little except sit on the beach by day and stuff ourselves with Pizza, fresh ...
Guess What? More Canals!
This is a top pick! Because we couldn`t get two nights at the same hotel we had to move to a different one but we already checked to see where exactly it was the night before so we knew where to go. There is lots of things to see in Venice like churches and museums but we ...
The Eternal City
This is a top pick! ... Steps were excellent in the late afternoon with a bottle of bubbly. From there we went to the biggest outdoor concert in Italy, outside St. John Lateran and grooved to all sorts of Italian bands, including there version of Linkin Park. We ate well ...
Venice, Italy
This is a top pick! ... we saw an opera. La Traviata is a classic Italian tragedy and is possibly the most famous opera in Venice if not all of Italy. The show was in a very small personal setting with a chamber Orchestra sitting just one row in front of us and the stage so ...
Too hot to think of witty titles at the moment
This is a top pick! We bought a train ticket to Rome. It gave us a ride on a bus to Chiusi instead. Admittedly it was a very scenic ride along the ridges of Tuscan hills through Tuscan villages to Chiusi where it met a train. But it was not fast and it was very ...
Brenner Pass
This is a top pick! ... flushed and bothered by the heat. The drive along the Brenner Pass, Austria which becomes the Brennero Pass because it passes into Italy for a short way, was a deviation we hadn't planned on but turned out to be a breathtaking, windy, steep, ...
Hot and spicy in Sicily
This is a top pick! After a couple of months of Italian classes I was starting to get itchy feet again. The apartment had been lovely- so nice to have a home base, a kitchen, a washing machine and a chance to spread out. Gemma and Subana were in town, so we celebrated with ...
breezy toscano living
This is a top pick! ... rest of the afternoon. - great little leather shop with really nice stuff; the old crafts and trades are kept alive all over Italy in a myriad of small scale, high quality businesses. - had a really good chat with the owner, very interesting bloke. ...
Siracusa
This is a top pick! Siracusa is without question one of the most historically important places on the planet. As mentioned in our previous entry, countless military forces have invaded Sicily over time. Siracusa has often been the first port of call for the invading ...
Romeo, Romeo, where for art thou Romeo...
This is a top pick! ... of their own lover's (including ours). The city just feels romantic. The old town is perfectly laid out with Italy's first pedestrian only streets lined with beautiful buildings, ancient ruins, and gelato shops. Maybe that is why Shakespeare ...
Florence
This is a top pick! IMH: 'Blessed with beauty, wine and an unparalleled artistic legacy, Tuscany's a region that largely lives up to its press. Its fabled rolling landscapes have long been considered the embodiment of rural chic.' Our campsite in Florence was ...
The Night Italy Won the World Cup
This is a top pick! ... we laughed our way through a bottle of limoncello. I do remember seeing a couple of plays on a tv in a nearby cafe, but when Italy kicked that last shoot out goal, I was drunkenly running to the beach with Carolyn and Eef in tow. When we arrived on the ...