Country guide
Guides to Italy
Every city in Italy we have published a guide to, and everything we would tell a friend before they went.
- Cities
- 3 cities
- Written up
- 42 places
- Reading
- 17 min in total
- We can book
- 26 places
Rome
Three thousand years stacked on top of each other, four pasta dishes worth arguing about, and more tourists than any of it was built for.
14 places6 min read
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- FlorenceThe Renaissance in walking distance, a steak the size of a brick, and a city centre that fits inside a twenty-minute stroll.
14 places5 min read
- VeniceA city with no cars, thirty million visitors a year, and about fifty thousand residents left. Stay the night and you get a different one.
14 places6 min read
City outlines © OpenStreetMap contributors
- Da Enzo al 29
- Trapizzino
- Mercato di Testaccio
- Roscioli
- Hotel de Russie
- The Rooms of Rome
- Hotel San Anselmo
- Colosseum and Roman Forum
- Pantheon
- Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel
- Gianicolo terrace
- Ostia Antica
- Tivoli
- Orvieto
- Trattoria Sostanza
- All'Antico Vinaio
- Mercato Centrale
- Il Santo Bevitore
- Palazzo Guadagni
- Hotel Lungarno
- Ad Astra
- Uffizi Gallery
- Duomo and Brunelleschi's dome
- Piazzale Michelangelo
- Boboli Gardens
- Siena
- Chianti
- Lucca
- Cantina Do Mori
- Al Timon
- Rialto fish market
- Trattoria Alla Madonna
- Ca' Maria Adele
- Il Palazzo Experimental
- Ca' Pozzo Inn
- Basilica di San Marco
- Gallerie dell'Accademia
- Vaporetto line 1, end to end
- Castello and the Arsenale walls
- Burano
- Torcello
- Murano