Your Ultimate Italy Travel Web Site

Welcome to travelitalytravel.com . We're a relatively new site but we already have the web's largest collection of indexed articles devoted to all aspects of travel in Italy with a focus on Italian wine, food, and culture. Keep coming back; we'll be adding more articles including some of our own. Read the articles before you plan your next Italian vacation.

The guest articles are written by many, many authors some of whom have devoted their lives to the pleasures, and occasional complexities of touring or living in Italy. We don't necessarily agree with their point of view. But we know you will appreciate these articles and keep coming back for more. Our paper and electronic wastebaskets are filled with articles that didn't make the cut, saving you the time and effort of bothering with them. To enhance your reading and viewing experience we classified and organized selected articles, added a summary and a teaser-quote to each article and illustrated most articles with a beautiful representative photograph. We also added a mini-home page for each section such as Central Italy or The Expatriate Life (in case you just can't bear to leave Italy) and an alphabetical author list.

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Central Italy

As you can see on the map right in the heart of Italy there are six distinctive regions, each worth touring for days on end. Starting at the western coast and heading in a clockwise direction they are: Tuscany, the Marche, Abruzzi, Molise, Lazio (also known as Latium), and Umbria.

Are you interested in wine, in food, in historical sights? Central Italy has it all. We have split out the articles on Tuscany which appear in a separate section.

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Florence Italy

They say good things come in small packages. The city of Florence is quite compact. You could cross it in a half-hour. Or you could spend weeks and barely scratch the surface. As the capital of Tuscany, you just know that the wines can be great. And the art. Florence is THE city of the Italian Renaissance.

Don't look for our own Florence articles, we are saving them for among the last. But we are sure that you will appreciate the guest articles.

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Northern Italy

As you can see on the map northern Italy consists of eight distinctive regions, each worth touring for days on end. Starting at the western coast and heading in a clockwise direction they are: Liguria, Piedmont, Aosta Valley, Lombardy, Trentino Alto-Adige, Fruili-Venezia Guilia, Veneto, and Emilia Romagna.

The north of Italy includes both German and French speaking regions. In addition to the usual Italian attractions you can indulge in skiing and other winter sports. And one of the northern Italian cities (do you know which one?) is a world-class fashion capital. Not that you can't find great Italian fashion all over the country.

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Rome

Roma, non basta una vita. Rome, one lifetime is not enough. We have included nine guest articles. Perhaps we should have included ninety. While Rome is known for excellence in almost every human endeavor, it no longer rates high on the wine scale. However, you can order fine Italian wines in most Roman restaurants. All in all don't miss the Eternal City.

Don't look for our own Rome articles, we are saving them for among the last. But we are sure that you will appreciate the guest articles.

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Southern Italy

As you can see on the map southern Italy consists of six distinctive regions, each worth touring for days on end. Starting at the western coast and heading in a clockwise direction they are: Campania, Apulia, Calabria, and Campania on the mainland. The two major islands are Sicily to the south and Sardinia to the west. Perhaps nowhere else are the contradictions as huge. You have jet-setter paradises (make sure to bring plenty of Euros) and areas almost, but not quite, untouched by the Twentieth Century.

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Tuscany

There is something about Tuscany that puts this region of central Italy at the top of almost every tourist list. Actually there are lots of things about Tuscany that justify its extreme popularity. The sheer physical beauty, the physical beauties (if you get my drift), the artwork, and the wines many of which are out of this world or close to it.

Don't look for our own Tuscany articles, we are saving them for among the last. But we are sure that you will appreciate the guest articles.

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Venice

After a hard day navigating the canals of Venice in a gondola you may want to relax in a Venetian restaurant such as illustrated here. A local specialty is liver, but we will forgive you if you order something else. And there will be no trouble finding a local wine to accompany the food. Then it's off to the Venice Film Festival (in season). And out of season? We think that you will manage somehow.

While we haven't written articles about Venice yet, we have posted a few articles on other attractions in the Veneto region.

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Our Italian Travel Articles

In dozens and dozens of articles we have visited almost all the twenty Italian regions. In most cases we needed two or more articles to cover each region's multiple attractions. We didn't forget to talk about the local wine and food as well as the more spiritual attractions. Come to think of it, fine Italian wine and food are quite spiritual. Each article includes a sample menu and discusses local wines.

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Our Italian Travel Capsules

Not our capsules. Our Italian travel articles tend to be a bit long. So we are rewriting them as approximately 400 word capsules. Once you read the capsule you may be tempted to read the full article before buying your tickets. Keep coming back, I am going to have a capsule to accompany each full-blown article

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