GITravel, April 17, 2012 7:01 pm. How can the self-appointed world style capital be covered in anything less than a book? Especially when it is a major industrial, financial and commercial centre which has become one of Europe’s...
GITravel, January 13, 2012 5:18 am. Turin Italy, approaching this major industrial city on the River Po through endless dreary suburbs, it’s hard to imagine what lies ahead – a pleasing if slightly grubby centre with gracious Baroque...
GITravel, April 13, 2012 5:00 pm. Once the wealthiest city in Europe, traveling to Venice Italy is arguably also the most beautiful. Built on wooden piles in the middle of a lagoon on Italy’s Adriatic coast, Venice wears...
GITravel, December 21, 2011 4:00 am. Florence Italy is the cultural centre of Italy, and perhaps of the Western world. Crammed with galleries, wonderful buildings and world-class art treasures, this unspoilt late-medieval city clearly demonstrates its importance in...
GITravel, January 6, 2012 3:23 am. ”See Naples and die” goes the old phrase – but things aren’t quite as bad as that, even though Italy‘s third-largest city has plenty of rough areas and is home to the...
GITravel, December 27, 2011 6:30 am. Palermo Italy, The main city and capital of Sicily was settled in the 8th century BC by Phoenicians attracted by the natural harbour beneath the looming bulk of Mount Pallegrino. Palermo fell...
GITravel, December 28, 2011 8:40 am. Bologna Italy. Despite suffering considerable bomb damage in 1944, Bologna‘s historic centre, the second largest in Europe (after Venice), contains a wealth of important Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque monuments which offer countless...
GITravel, December 13, 2011 3:26 am. Visit Milan to see a modern, stylish and energetic Italy. Visit Reggio di Calabria Italy on the toe of Italy’s ‘boot’, just across from Sicily, to experience something very different. Here the...
GITravel, December 16, 2011 3:24 am. Strategically located where the River Adage emerges from the Alps onto the Northern Italian plain, Verona Italy is near Lake Garda on a loop of the fast-flowing river. It is a city...