Travel & Holidays Favourite places in Italy

Hey PC team
We are planning 13 days in Italy in March and keen to get off the beaten track rather than just see major cities. Do any of you have any suggestions of favourite places etc?

 

Isle of Capri, Rome, Venice, Milan, Pizza (walk up the tower), Macaroni, Florence (watch the monks work with gold and leather).

 

We were there in May this year- go to the Cinque Terre. It's simply incredible. You can hike from town to town - amazing!

We also stayed at a fantastic air BnB in Tuscany and hiked in the forest there - also incredible and literally walking where even most Italians wouldn't go.

Happy to give you the name if you like - it's an old Tuscan farmhouse and the owners Eugene and his Dad Pietro are just gorgeous. We loved them.

 

One of my favourite topics... go North and then hit Lugano and St Moritz.

Lago Maggiore and Lago di Como, eye candy

 

Definitely the Dolimiti..followed by Sardinia.

 

Palmanova, Udine - looks pretty cool from Google maps.

Massive greenbelt around an old town. Much nicer than Canberra.

 

Did you visit one of the spaghetti farms near Macaroni? There's a red light district near Ragú - quite saucy too.

 

Stressa on Lake Maggiorie...Regina Palace Hotel amazing.

Capri...really pretty/glamorous island not far from Amalfi Coast.

Amalfi Coast including...Positano, Ravello or Amalfi itself.

 

Top picks from my visit last year Cinqueterre, Sorrento, Positano, Ravello, Capri - Blue Grotto many places in Sicily- Erice, Agrigento. Towards Florence San Gimignano is must. Sienna is worth seeing as well. Stayed in Airbnb throughout the trip. Happy to share the details if you like.

 

Definitely Cinque Terre

Fabulous string of towns that line the coast. A ferry ride between the towns or catch the train.

Would be worthwhile spending a few days there.

 

No. But I did go to the ancient city of Salami. The tour guide advised me not to wonder the streets alone at night. He reckoned that Vespa riding locals use their salamis as weapons lol.

 

Venice, Piazza San Marco.

You get lost in the endless alleyways of treasures and the adventure never ends.

 

I have lived in Italy cumatively close to 6 months over many trips. You can't go far wrong anywhere in Italy. My favs are:

Praiano and the Amalfi in general
Capri
Rome and The Castelli Romani
Venice and Burano
Bolzano
Sienna and Florence
Orvieto

Next trip I'm going to puglia and Sicily so can't yet comment on these places other than i plan to go to alberobello, Gallipoli, and Taormina

 

thanks jess, i'd love to have a look at the tuscan farmhouse. sounds exactly what we hope to do. meet locals, stay in some places out of the major cities. don't think we'll be able to squeeze in cinque terre this trip, we really wanted to do the amalfi coast instead.

 

wow that is amazing! i am not sure we will be able to get up to the north in our short trip. doing the amalfi pulls us south. we hope to get to lake garda so hopefully that will be just as beautiful

 

it does look like canberra on the map!!

 

amalfi coast is number one on our list. we have booked an amazing airbnb apartment in positano so plan to get to capri (i've been before and loved it but my fiance has not been to italy at all).

 

Farmhouse at 10km from Florence (2) - Bed & Breakfasts for Rent in Bagno a Ripoli (Firenze), Toscana, Italy
This is the link - Pietro cooks and we used to sit with a wine and chat with him, it was just lovely. Gorgeous people.

 

thankyou! i'd love details of any great airbnbs. that's what we plan to do the whole trip. i have already booked positano, but if you had any good ones near florence that would be great.

 

looks perfect. i'll check our dates and lock a few nights in!