Italy packs astonishing variety into one boot-shaped peninsula. Rome layers ancient ruins over baroque squares; Florence and Tuscany roll out Renaissance art and cypress-lined hills; Venice floats on its canals. The south turns dramatic along the Amalfi Coast and around Naples and Pompeii, while the Dolomites soar in the north and Sicily simmers with Greek temples and volcanoes. Regional cuisines, dialects and rivalries run deep, and every piazza seems built for lingering…
The Trevi Fountain owes its global fame to Fellini's “La Dolce Vita” (1960). “Roman Holiday” had already crowned the Eternal City.
Each year about €0.99 million in coins is fished out of the Trevi Fountain and donated to charity.
Choose foodie Bologna over the crowds of Florence. An eSIM makes everything easier: Trenitalia tickets, skip-the-line Colosseum slots, and Google Translate to dodge tourist-trap menus.