Wherever you go in Italy, there are mansions, palazzos, loggias, statues, fountains, amphitheaters, arches, temples, museums, and galleries, masterpieces of humanity, a remarkable collection that you couldn’t find elsewhere in the world. 

Starting in Rome, filled by the ruins of the Roman Empire, you discover San Pietro and the Pantheon, Fontana di Trevi and Piazza Navona, Colosseum and Piazza de Spagna. North of Rome is Umbria with the Orvieto Cathedral and picturesque towns.

Tuscany stands at the heart of Italy. In Medieval Siena, each year in July runs the Palio, the traditional horse race. Close by are the “torre” de San Gimignano and Florence of Michelangelo, close by is Pisa with its “Torre Pendente” and Lucca with its beautiful architecture. Besides are Pienza, Montepulciano, Volterra, Certaldo, and Arezzo trailing towards the landscaped fingers into the sea of Cinque Terre.

Further, is Serenissima Venice built on its crisscrossing of canals, Padova with the amazing church of San Antonio, Palladio’s Vicenza, “Romeo and Juliet”’s Verona, Ravenna’s mosaics, Bologna’s towers, Parma and fashionable Milan. 

South of Rome is Napoli, with its magnificent museums containing the art collected by the Farnese cardinals, Pompei destroyed by the Vesuvio and Paestum with its best-preserved Greek temples from Magna Grecia.

Costiera Amalfitana is a 50km asphalt belt cut in the mountain winding through the beautiful cities of Sorrento, Positano, Amalfi, Ravello, and Salerno. From Sorrento, you can board a boat to the Island of Capri, with its towns of Capri and Anacapri while more south, in Basilicata, you can sleep in the caves of Matera. Close by are the beautiful towns of Puglia, with the impressive Romanesque cathedrals of Barletta and Trani and the pilgrimage places of Promotorio Gargano, San Giovanni Rotondo, and Monte Sant’Angelo as well as the pointed “trulli” houses of Alberobello.