ReidItaly.com travel map of Italy

The Eternal City, Italy's amazing layer cake of ancient ruins, cobbled streets, Renaissance paintings, medieval neighborhoods, baroque palaces, and the art of living la dolce vita, the Italian sweet life.

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Florence was the cradle of the Renaissance, hometown to Michelangelo, da Vinci, Boticelli, and Brunelleschi's dome—not to mention Dante, juicy steaks, leather crafts, and Chianti wines.

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La Serenissima is a city of stone that seems to float on the water, its Byzantine palaces, moscaiced churches, and crooked alleys laced with canals and knit together by hundreds of tiny foot bridges.

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The original Jet Set destination, a series of pastel villages tucked along one of Europe's most dramatic coastal drives, and just offshore: the fabled island of Capri where emperors and Golden Age Hollywood starlets once dallied.

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» Postiano
» Ravello
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Florence (which has its own section) is part of Italy's most storied region, a countryscape of medieval hilltowns, hills cloaked in Chianti vineyards, and cathedrals frescoed by Renaissance masters just outside Florence.

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A collection of colorful fishing villages and old pirate coves strung like pearls along the southern tip of the Italian riviera and linked by ancient goat paths so you can hike from town to town through the Mediterranean macchia.

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» Manarola
» Corniglia
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This sun-kissed, seafood-loving region south of Rome was settled by Greeks and vacationed in by everyone from Roman emperors to Grand Tourists. From the chaos of Naples to the tranquillity of Capri, the chic resorts of the Amalfi Coast to Pompeii and other cities destroyed by Vesuvius.

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» Pompeii
» Herculaneum
» Amalfi Coast
» Capri
» Mt. Vesuvius

The long, shimmering tendrils of the Italian Lakes are snuggled into the deep-cleft valleys of Alpine foothills. The lakes are dotted with sailboats, the shores strung with fishing villages, medieval castles, lavish Renaissance palazzi, ancient ruins, and sumptuous gardens that spill right down to the water's edge.

» Lake Como
» Lake Maggiore
» Lake Garda
» Lake Iseo
» Lake Orta
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