Best places to visit in italy

Florence is best for renaissance art. Can't beat the Uffizi Galleries & The David. Also Galileo's grave, Palazzo Vecchio, Giotto's Bell Tower, all kinds of cool stuff.

But I'm really fond of the ancient Roman structures in Rome. The Pantheon was the largest dome on Earth for 1300 years!! A foot bridge, the Pons Fabricius has been in use since 62 BC!! And of course one can wander the Forum, where all the legendary Romans met and debated. Of course the Coloseum is super impressive.

One of my favorite churches is Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri, a very open and airy church which was converted from a Roman bath to Christian worship. The Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore dates to 432 CE.

For more antiquities, visit the Vatican Museum. Ancient Rome raided the ancient world and brought back sculptural treasures from Egypt and Greece. Many of the treasures that survived the various sacks were collected into the Vatican Museum in later centuries. The collection is staggering.

Of course Rome has plenty of impressive renaissance churches; St Peters first and foremost. The Villa Medici in the Borghese gardens has some spectacular Bernini sculptures. I could go on and on.

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20 miles west of Rome (near a commuter rail stop) is the ruins of Ostia Antica, once Rome's port city. It's not as well preserved as Pompeii (and much smaller) but if you can't get to Pompeii, Ostia is pretty cool.
[b]https://www.rome.net/ostia-antica[/b]

I voted 3 (Rome, Venice and Milan) and will add Tuscany too. The problem is that the first 3 are riddled with tourists, especially during the summer season, so I would suggest you go in Autumn or Spring, you also avoid hot sticky weather that way.

Italian Pizzas are fantastic but don't order one with pepperoni as it doesn't exist there unless you find an American Pizzeria there. Pepperonis are an American invention/creation.An italian can confuse it with you ordering peperoncino which are thin red or green peppers and it has nothing to do with peperonis at all☺️

I'm not sure it's the best since it is the only part I have truly visited and my wife was visiting relatives and tracing her heritage, but Sicily is an interesting amalgam of cultures--from architecture and food to people and traditions --- given how many times it has been conquered. Or as they prefer to say, how many cultures they have absorbed, from Greeks to Moors to Celts and Vikings to Romans and more modern day Italians, French, and Brits. And for those inclined towards necrology, there is an almost morbid fascination with death from the huge, high-stacked crematoriums (ground is too precious or too rocky for cemeteries) to the "drying chairs" in the crypts beneath the cathedrals. You'll find pizza, but it may not be like anything you expected because it will carry the influence of other culture's cuisine as well. Or as my wife's aunt who grew up in the U.S. and we took with us kept saying, "they just don't cook Italian here". Sort of like saying the Chinese don't know how to cook Chinese because they don't have chop suey.

The most beautiful place in Italy is, of course, [b]Treviso[/b], a city and comune (municipality) in the Veneto region of northern Italy.
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I prefer rome for the history aspect. Besides, i get to see the coliseum!

Try Matera for something a little different

I’ve only been to Rome, Sienna, Florence and Venice. Also did a side trip to Pisa. Other than the leaning tower, nothing much there.

I suggest you travel in the fall. I was there on October 2017 and Rome was still too hot 🥵 for me.

Out of the 3, I prefer the food in Florence.

Where is Naples?? If you want the best pizza that city is mandatory, and I'm saying it as a northerner.

Next I'd go with: Rome, Florence, Venice and Bologna. Somewhat smaller / less touristy like Verona (generally known for being Romeo's and Juliet city) may be nice too.

I live in Venice and it's a damn clusterf*ck rn; worth seeing it at least once, sure, but I'd avoid it in this period. Heck, maybe I'd even visit it in winter/fall/spring if I were you, I'll never get why tourists seem to want to see it in summer when it's a hot humid crowded hell.

@SW-User Venice is great but busy, Florence is stunning and Bologna is a foodie paradise but my favourite place in Italy is Matera very historic and unusual

Amalfi Coast was awesome...Rome is amazing - but I haven't been to the others so really can't say one is better than the other...

I have voted for Florence from your list, but if you have the time and means go off the beaten track somewhere. For instance, if you were based in Bologna, take a train to Cremona or Modena. And try Umbria.

In Florence you can walk the same streets where daVinci walked by Michelangelo. If you go there, eat at Il Latini. Let the waiter order for you.

I was always partial to Tuscany. I am planning another visit there next year. Florence is nice too.

i have only been to Rome and Naples. both beautiful. i will be staying in Milan in October

Great pizza all over Italy 😋

If you want good pizza, don't go to Italy.

🤔..........I've visit all of them except Bologna.....

Liguria, the coast in north west Italy 🇮🇹

Lake Como. Rome is kinda of awful

Florence is missing on your list.

Dove e la Sicilia qua?

Venice. Turin. Palermo

Skip Pisa

Going in October

Out of those I'd say Rome, but you almost can't go wrong wherever you go in Italy

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Venice is amazing for it's uniqueness. I found the pasta to be best in Venice.

Milan was too much like any major European city in my opinion.

Pisa was pretty small besides the tourist attractions.

I enjoyed Florence but I don't remember too much of what I did there besides museums.

Rome is cool but it's not as nice looking as you think from movies. However the history there is amazing.