ITALY FOR TOURISTS
Things to do and places to stay in Italy
Tourist info, museums and parks
The official site for the Italian
State Tourist Board contains useful information on travel in Italy,
including local tourist offices.
Musei
Online contains information on museums in all of Italy, with a searchable
database by geographic location or by museum type.
If you want to get away from it all, you can find information on Italy's
parks and nature reserves on the Italian
National Parks Portal.
Slow Travelers is a community of people interested in a different type
of travel. Their website has general travel
information on Italy and beyond, including lists of vacation rentals,
reviews of places people have stayed, survival guides, restaurant and
hotel reviews, trip reports, travel notes, photo gallery, and a very
active travel message
board.
For more information everything from travel to art and culture, try Italy Magazine, the Number 1 print and online magazine for lovers of all things Italian.
B&Bs, farmstays and villas in Italy
If you'd like to experience small town atmosphere or the countryside just out of Rome, SabinaSi offers vacation rentals in the Sabina area of Lazio. They also organize weddings and special events as well as theme tours of the area.
If your travels take you further afield, in the Piemonte region we recommend Villa La Favorita near Alba where you can also try their wines including
Nebbiolo d'Alba and Grignolino Piemonte as well as organic fruit.
Apartment rentals in the historic center of Massa Marittima, in Tuscany near the beach. Rent directly from the owners.
Tuscany villa rental near Florence, Italy, Villa di Collina offers luxury accommodations with swimming pool, for rent year round directly from the owners.
Perlatoscana offers vacation rentals and farmhouses in Tuscany, including the areas near Siena, Saturnia and Monte Argentario at the seaside as well as their own extra virgin olive oil.
Arezzo Tuscan Apartments, located in lovely mediaeval Arezzo, near Florence in Tuscany, offers holiday rental accommodation in charming, quality apartments and B&Bs.
Visit TripAdvisor.com to read articles and reviews about hotels and attractions in Italy.
Self catering property listed on Homelidays.com: Self Catering Italy
Tuscany Villas with Pool
Guided Tours in Italy
Context Travel organizes small group walking tours in Rome, Florence, Venice and Naples. The tours, or "walking seminars" are led by
architects, historians, and art historians and give intellectually curious travelers an
in-depth cultural experience.
Avventure Bellissime offers several tour options throughout Italy: day
tours of the Veneto region of Italy including the villas of Andrea
Palladio, the world-famous wines of Veneto & Friuli and the Dolomite
mountains as well as tours of Florence and walking and canal boat tours in Venice.
Transportation
For train travel, tickets and timetables, visit the TrenItalia
website.
If you're traveling by car, the Società
Autostrade SpA website has information on Italy's motorways.
Italian Food and Wine
If you want to learn to cook or experience an authentic Italian dinner, umbriacooks4U offers both full day cooking classes and private dinners in Umbria near Perugia. Or if you're renting a villa in the area, they'll come to you.
Italy boasts hundreds of little known varietals and denominations that
never get mentioned beyond the country's borders -- gems awaiting discovery.
Subscribe to 'Kyle
Phillips's Italian Wine Review' and you'll read about those and
much, much more.
Mangiare Bene
is the English version of the most popular Italian internet recipe archive
and guide to Italian cooking.
Beyond Italy
Find B&B's, Guesthouses and Inns at Bedhunt.com
For vacation rentals from private owners throughout the world, see ferienhausmiete.de
Dunaflat affitta 15 appartamenti nel centro di
Budapest, tutti di proprietà.
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