It’s starting today a new blog on my website and I’m so excited about it. This one to take care of my Italian soul that desire to share with all of you the magic places must be discovered in Italy.
It will be a long trip all around my country to find out not simply wonderful landscapes and trails but even traditions from Trentino Alto Adige to Sicily and with a keen eye for the Italian cuisine obviously.
So just seat back, relax, and enjoy your flight. Let’s make it real starting from the top 5 places to visit in Italy! If you are planning to visit Italy for your next trip and you are looking for the best possible tips such as the best city, food and whatever, stay tuned with this blog because that’s what you are going to see.
Thanks to its beaches, mountains, lakes, islands and cities full of arts and history, Italy it’s definitely one of the well-known most beautiful country all over the world. A land to visit for the perfect holidays – even if time is short and a weekend is all we have in our pocket. Excited to discover the most beautiful Italian cities to visit? To help you planning your next holidays, let’s take a look at this travel guide with the best attractions to don’t miss it. Before the departure be sure to book your hotel – it’s quite difficult to find an available one.
First step: Rome
The first must visit place in the Italian chart it’s definitely Rome. The Eternal City is literally an open sky museum full of monuments, churches included historical squares and the smallest European state, house of the Pope: the Vatican City. According to tradition, it was founded on April 21, 753 BC by Romulus and during its three millennia of history was the first metropolis of the West, the beating heart of one of the most important ancient civilizations, which influenced society, culture, language, literature, art, architecture, urban planning, civil engineering, philosophy, religion, law and customs of the following centuries.
Must visit:
Colosseo
Fori Romani Fontana di Trevi
Piazza Navona
Pantheon
Piazza San Pietro
Basilica di San Pietro
Musei Vaticani and Cappella Sistina
Second Step: Venice
The Doge city with its canals, gondolas and typical bacari is a perfect destination for a romantic weekend in Italy. The city has been for 1 100 years the capital of the Serenissima Republic of Venice and is known as the Serenissima. For its urban peculiarities and for its artistic heritage, it is universally considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world, declared, together with its lagoon, UNESCO World Heritage Site, which has helped make it the second Italian city after Rome with the highest tourist flow.
Must visit:
Canal Grande
Piazza San Marco
Basilica di San Marco
Palazzo Ducale
Ponte dei Sospiri
Murano, Burano and Torcello Island
Third step: Florence
Cradle of the Renaissance, Florence offers an impressive cultural heritage and is home to some of the most important works of art in Italy and around the world. The city of Machiavelli and Leonardo Da Vinci belongs to a different era which traditions and arts come together. Of inestimable value are the artistic, literary and scientific legacies of geniuses of the past such as Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Giotto, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Lorenzo de' Medici, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Galileo Galilei.
Must visit: Duomo Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore Cupola del Brunelleschi Campanile di Giotto Battistero di San Giovanni
Galleria degli Uffizi
Galleria dell’Accademia David di Michelangelo
Piazza della Signoria Palazzo Vecchio
Basilica di Santa Croce
Ponte Vecchio
Piazzale Michelangelo
Fourth step: Verona
Verona is considered the city of love, the Shakespearean city of Romeo and Juliet but also the seat of attractions and symbolic monuments, first of all the suggestive Arena di Verona. The city, founded by the Romans, has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO for its urban peculiarities and for its artistic and cultural heritage.
Must visit:
La casa di Giulietta
Piazza Bra Arena di Verona
Piazza delle Erbe
Basilica di San Zeno Maggiore
Castelvecchio
Fifth step: Naples
It was among the most important cities of Magna Graecia and played a considerable commercial, cultural and religious role towards the surrounding Italic populations. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, in the eighth century the city formed an autonomous duchy independent of the Byzantine Empire; later, from the thirteenth century and for more than five hundred years, it was the capital of the Kingdom of Naples; with the Restoration it became the capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies under the Bourbons until the Unification of Italy.
Must visit:
San Gregorio Armeno Spaccanapoli Napoli sotterranea Maschio Angioino Posillipo
Piazza del Plebiscito
Castel Nuovo
Museo Cappella Sansevero
Quartieri spagnoli Mergellina Via Caracciolo And you, what do you think about our tips? If you want to add yours, feel free to comment the post and stay tuned for a new one: “The top 5 regions to live in Italy”.
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