Culture, History, Design, Fashion, Food, Colours, Tastes. If you haven't figured it out yet, we're talking about Italy. And there’s so much more tell about it – and that’s what you are going to discover following this blog. Today is the day of the top 5 favorite destinations for foreigners in Italy. So it’s time to start!
5 place – Amalfi Coast One look at the Amalfi Coast and you may believe that you've found heaven on earth. That's the kind of spellbinding effect this stretch of Italian coastline tends to have on the 5 million annual visitors who cross its mesmerizing paths. Located in Campania is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Sky-high costal cliffs display vibrant vegetation and multicolored towns live side by side with the disarming turquoise waters of the Mediterranean. This is the glamorous place that has the power to take tourists even during the winter season. Just take a stop in a bar on the cliffs, seat back, relax and remeber to yourself how much beautiful life is – before paying the bills (sigh!).
4 place - Pisa
Following another maritime republic, have you ever heard about “Campo dei miracoli”? The Leaning Tower of Pisa, actually the campanile for the adjacent cathedral, is a well-known Italian icon, and forms the masterpiece of a UNESCO World Heritage site that also includes the cathedral, baptistery, and Campo Santo.
The highlight of the impressive baptistery is Nicola Pisano's intricately carved free-standing pulpit, a masterpiece of Romanesque sculpture. Completing the ensemble is a museum displaying some of the most beautiful gold and silver work of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
3 place – Venice
Do you want to marry your girl but don’t know where to go? So just take this tip, prepare your luggage and book your hotel in Venice – and not the Californian one. That’s a city to fall in love where streets are made of water, whose buses are boats, and where the songs of gondoliers linger in the air. These are probably the reasons foreigners prefer this magic city, and its major attraction to tourists is the city itself. So before taking a gondola ride let’s visit Piazza San Marco where you can drink an Italian coffee paying not less than 10 euros (sigh!).
Piazza San Marco is surrounded by several of its top tourist attractions such as the Doge's Palace and overlooking both is the tall Campanile. Rialto Bridge is another step but we definitely recommend Murano and Burano island to get the best glass masterpiece battled in Europe only by Bohemian Crystal.
2 place – Florence
The showcase of the Italian Renaissance, the city can looks like one giant art museum. The Duomo, the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore is a landmark of world architecture, topped by its gravity-defying massive dome. This is the place which the most famous artists of history took inspiration.
If you need and overdose of Reinassance art, this one it’s definitely the right place to take a step on which you can find marble-inlaid bell tower by Giotto and the octagonal Baptistery with its incomparable bronze doors by Ghiberti.
The must visit place in Florence is absolutely the Uffizi Gallery which contains real masterpiece. After that take a look at Pitti Palace, stroll through the Boboli Gardens and explore the artisans' studios and workshops of the Oltrarno, or shop for leather in Santa Croce.
1 place – Rome
Both for its history as the capital of much of ancient Europe and for its present day role as one of Europe's most vibrant cities, for most tourists travelling to Italy, Rome it is definitely the best city to visit on their bucket list.
Relics of its ancient glories—the Colosseum, the Forum, the Pantheon, the Appian Way, and the Palatine Hill with the vast riches of the Vatican as the top attractions, Rome is not simply a good place to take pictures jumping into the history.
Discovering Rome means discovering the streets and alleys of Trastevere; sip morning cappuccino in cafés; window-shop on the Via Veneto; and toss a coin in Trevi Fountain, so you can return again and again if luck – and not force such as Star Wars - will be with you.
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