tour to italy?

Question

what do all think about travelling in italy?

Answer 1

Its a lovely country. Great food. Nice people.



Definately recommend go to Venice (I know everyone says its magical and its in all the TV travel shows) but it is wonderful. We stayed on the lido and travelled over by ferry - magical!



Verona is nice (once you escape the ring road)



Have fun if you go



robert

Answer 2

If I had five hours to type a response to you, I wouldn't have enough time to tell you all the wonderful things to do in Italy! I used to live there and find it the most fascinating, interesting and peaceful place on Earth. I will be moving back there in a few years and in the meantime conduct tours of Italy from the U.S.



If I can give one piece of advice, it would be to make one two decisions:



1. Do you want a more relaxed vacation or a more organized trip?



2. What do you most want to see (in terms of history, shopping, sightseeing, wine country, mountains, etc.)?



If you answer those first, then you will have a good basis on which to plan a trip should you so choose.



If you want more help, edit your question and I'll send my email!

Answer 3

Situated in Mediterranean Europe, Italy has land frontiers with France in the north-west, Switzerland and Austria in the north and Slovenia in the north-east. The peninsula is surrounded by the Ligurian Sea, the Sardinian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, the Sicilian Sea and the Ionian Sea in the south and the Adriatic Sea in the east. Italian is the language of the majority of the population but there are minorities speaking German, French, Slovene and Ladino.





Geographical Profile

There is a great deal of variety in the landscape in Italy, although it is characterized predominantly by two mountain chains: the Alps and the Apennines. The former extends over 600 miles from east to west. It consists of great massifs in the western sector, with peaks rising to over 14,000 feet, including Monte Bianco (Mont Blanc), Monte Rosa and Cervino (the Matterhorn). The the chain is lower in the eastern sector, although the mountains, the Dolomites, are still of extraordinary beauty.



At the foot of the Alpine arc stretches the vast Po Valley plain, cut down the middle by the course of the river Po, the longest in Italy (390 miles), which has its source in the Pian de Re (Monviso) and flows into the Adriatic through a magnificent delta. The Alpine foothills are characterized by large lakes: Lake Maggiore and the lakes of Como, Iseo and Garda. The Apennines form the backbone of the peninsula, stretching in a wide arc concave to the Tyrrhenian Sea. The Corno Grande (Gran Sasso d'Italia) is the highest peak. A large part of central Italy is characterized by a green hilly landscape, through which the rivers Arno and Tevere (Tiber) run. The southern section of the chain pushes out to the east forming the Gargano promontory and, sloping down further south, the Salentine peninsula. It then proceeds to the west with the Calabrian and Peloritano massif stretching across the Strait of Messina into Sicilia. The principal islands are Sicilia, rising up to the great volcanic cone of Etna (10,860 feet) and Sardegna. The main archipelagos are the Tremiti Islands in the Adriatic Sea, the Tuscan Archipelago, the Pontine Islands, the Aeolian Islands and the Egadi Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Sicilia.

Answer 4

I have toured round Italy, it is the most wonderfu lcountry in the world in my opinion. Places you really have to check out in your tour are:



- Milan - home of shopping!



- Venice - Amazing, totally different to anything else you'll see with the canals and the atmosphere



- Florence - Amazing colours, Uffizi gallery



- Sienna - Again, phenomenal colours, everything just seems so warm-coloured there!



- Pisa - to see leaning tower of course! It is weird to look at!



- Rome - The best of them all - phenomenal to walk round, interest round every corner.



- Sorrento - beautiful next to the sea...



- Pompeii - utterly fascinating, quite eerie to walk round



And if you get time, pop down to Sicily, which is also amazing - and visit Palermo, Sicily's capital, Syracuse for the awesome historical value, and Taormina to catch some rays on a gorgeous beach! Oooh, and Agrigento, which has nine of the best preserved Roman temples.



As you can see, I am a big fan of the country, you definitely should go!

Answer 5

Well yes... actually Italy was the birth place of the Romans and they brought up entertainment to the world.



there are many achitectual sites you can see there and amazing cities like the river city venesia you can enjoy Pizza at its best and Italian Ice cream :)

Answer 6

I thought Italy was fantastic...the history, etc., brilliant. The only complaint was the bathrooms are the worst I've ever been in, they smell awful, no toilet seats. You even have to bring your own TP at times.

Answer 7

It is always a wonderful experience