A trip to Italy will be unlike any other trip imaginable. A beautiful, confounding, exciting, educational experience that will be remembered for a lifetime. Italy is mountainous to the extreme, with hundreds, if not thousands of tiny villages clambering the mountainsides, some reached on narrow twisty roads, some so isolated we never found an access road, and hundreds more that were marvelous and delightful as we drove past.

Italy is crowded with beautiful, friendly, congenial people who welcome us, confuse us, charm us, disturb us, enrapture us, discombobulate us, and ensure that we have a fascinating vacation.

After extensive travel through many European countries, in addition to the ancient cities with thousand-year-old structures, we also remember modern cities with modern buildings. However, after 117 nights in 63 different places during eight trips to Italy, beautiful Italy, we don't remember anything that wasn't a few hundred, or even a couple of thousand years old. It's hard to imagine so much splendor, so many paintings, sculptures, and works of art, the myriad of palaces and cathedrals, the multitudinous ruins of the ancient architectural art.

Just imagine walking the streets of Rome where Caesar walked; through Emperor Hadrian's "Villa Adriana" at Tivoli; among the excavated ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD; in and around the Greek Temples at Paestum, and at Agrigento, Sicily; up and down the steep streets in Urbino, the birthplace of Raphaël, artist and architect of St. Peter's Basilica; and to the edge of the huge quarries at Carrara, where the marble block Michelangelo used for his statue of David was found.

It would take a lifetime to see even half what this marvelous land has to offer.

Our experience, both in reading and in writing about ancient points of interest, is that there's just not much in common between what was seen, and what was written.

Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27	Northeast Italy Venice, Beautiful Venice The Lake District Northwest Italy Milano to Modena Bologna, Ferrara, Padova Ravenna, San Marino, San Leo Urbino, Gubbio, Spoleto, to Todi Assisi, Perugia Italian Riviera, to Genova and Portofino Cinque Terra to Torre Del Lago Puccini Pisa and Lucca Florence, Fiesole, Arezzo San Gimignano, to Siena Montalcino to Roma Roma More Roma Tivoli to Pescara Ostia Antica, Anzio, to Pozzuoli Naples Monte Cassino, Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Pompeii Sorrento, Capri, Amalfi Coast Paestum, and to the Toe of Italy The Toe to the Heel Puglia, Italy's Heel Sardinia Sicily Appendix

We have spent at least one of our 117 nights in Italy, in the places listed here. At several, such as Rome, Florence, Mestra, Punta Sabbioni, and San Marino, we spent nights in more than one location.

Anguillara Assisi Avigliana Bologna Cagliari (1) Cala Gonone (1) Camp. S Giov Cannigione (1) Carrera Catania (2) Chiavari Cortina Ferrara Ferry, Sardinia   to Sicily Fiesole Florence Forli Fusina Galiano d. Capo

Imperia Lake Iseo Lettojannie (2) Levanto Livino Mestra Milan Modena Monrupino Monterosso Nocera Umbra Pescara Pinata al Mare Pisa Pompeii Portofino Pozzuoli Puccini Punta Sabbioni Rome

Salerno San Gimignano San Marino San Remo San Teodoro (1) Sarzana Siena Sorrento Soverato Spoleto SS Valentino,   Italy to Greece Stresa Taranto Terme d. Torre Tivoli Torino Urbino Venice, Lido

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