Discover Italy

Italy is a country of art cities and astonishing food — Rome’s ancient core, Florence’s Renaissance, Venice’s canals and Milan’s design scene — wrapped around the Alps and Dolomites in the north and a coastline from the Amalfi to Sardinia in the south.

Travel here is regional: Tuscany’s hill towns and wine, the lakes (Como, Garda), the Amalfi coast and Naples’s pizza-and-Pompeii south. Trains tie the cities together; the coast and islands run on summer.

Top places in Italy

• Rome — The Colosseum, the Vatican and fountains — millennia of history, family-friendly.
• Florence — Renaissance art, the Duomo and Tuscan hills on the doorstep.
• Venice — Canals, cicchetti bars and a slow gondola sunset — unlike anywhere else.
• Amalfi Coast & Naples — Pizza’s birthplace, Pompeii and Europe’s most dramatic coast road.
• The Dolomites — Jagged peaks, summer hiking and winter skiing in the Italian Alps.