Tips for Italy Travel

Italy is a beautiful and historic country with world famous remarks, anything from pizza, pasta, wine, to mafia, Roman ruins and renaissance palazzo.  Italy travel is a must have trip in every tourists’ travel handbook.  Italy is a country that has so many beautiful and interesting things for tourists to come find down, learn, and experience.  It has unique and distinguishing culture with thousands years of Roman history, association of Vatican, world famous gourmet foods, friendly and cheerfully people.  Italy is a small country with multiple cultural gems that never bores tourists regardless if they choose to stay there for one day or one year.  In Rome, visitors can spend days or weeks visiting historic landmarks, Roman ruins, enjoy exquisite foods and wine.  Speaking about Italy, haute couture is what come to minds immediately.  For those who are madly in love with Italian fashion can make their way from Rome to Lombardia, capital of Milan, the country’s capital of fashion and business.  In Milan, tourists can spend all their time visiting small or big fashion houses, all of which are unbeatable “Italian”.  From here you can drive for one hour to get to Bergamo, an upper Old Town whose every corner offer you something interesting to see and feel.  Speaking of Italy no one can skip Venice and Verona, the world most famous floating city which is in the north east of Italy.  Make sure you make hotel reservation as early as possible, these small floating city with grid like canals never have enough room to board last minute visitors.

Italy is also famous for its one of a kind landscapes with beautiful vineyards. For any tourists who possess serious sense of culinary may enjoy the provinces of Piemonte, Barolo and Barbaresco, the world famous wines made from world famous grape Nebbilio.  The capital of Piemonte is Turin where art lovers are satisfied for their thirst of museums, modern art, music and books.  Turin is considered Italy’s most notable culture life yet a center of industrial and multimedia sector.   

No one can call a trip completed without setting foot to Tuscany where better than paintings landscapes and picturesque towns and villages are gifts from God.  Florence, Lucca, Siena and Cortona are most popular towns for tourists.

Aside from many beautiful things that Italy has to offer, it is also known as the hub of world most notorious crime society called Mafia or Cosa Nostra, hailed from Sicily in early 19^th century.  Although these organized crime activities have been significantly reduced but it still represents Italy in some way.  As tourists you may not be the target of these large crime organizations but maybe victim of violent crime as you travel in big cities like Rome or Florence.  Pickpockets or purse snatchers are most popular crimes.

To prevent loss, make sure to carry your important document such as passport, air tickets, credit cards and your money in a secured wallet that can be wonder under your clothing.  Always note emergency hotline numbers for reporting lost or stolen of ATM or credit cards.  Make sure to make copies of your cards and keep them in separated places like underneath of your luggage.  Always in vigilance, use common sense when seeing strangers approaching you in crowded public places such as metro station, markets.  You can wear your bag in front of you so that you can guard it.   Taking extra cautions can save you time and troubles so that you can maximize your enjoyment in Italy.