Italy
The Italy many travelers dream about, this compressed realm of undiluted beauty has been a chic resort ever since the Caesars... (more)
Florence gave birth to the Renaissance and changed the way we see the world. For centuries it has captured the imagination of... (more)
The region of Liguria (known to pleasure-seekers as the Italian Riviera) has northern Italy's most attractive stretch of coastline... (more)
Lombardy is a region that offers something for everyone. Milan is the country's business capital and the center for everything... (more)
Naples is extraordinary, and it is the Neapolitans who make it so. Is it a sense of doom from living in the shadow of Vesuvius... (more)
Only in Rome can you sip cappuccino at a café in front of the Pantheon, buy grapes at a centuries-old market, and have... (more)
Sicily has beckoned seafaring wanderers since the trials of Odysseus were first sung in Homer's Odyssey. Strategically poised... (more)
Turin, Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta
Capital of the Piedmont region of northwest Italy, Turin -- Torino, in Italian -- had many claims to distinction before being... (more)
Tuscany, or Toscana, lies in central Italy, midway down the peninsula, with miles of coastline on the Tyrrhenian Sea. Rolling... (more)
Birthplace of saints, heart of Italy, and home to some of the country's greatest artistic treasures, Umbria is at once ancient... (more)
Cliches come to be reborn in Venice, where all the picture books in the world won't prepare you for the sight of its gilded palaces... (more)
