2 Week Italy Travel Itinerary - Any suggestions?

Question

This will be my first trip to italy, and while I want to see the mayor sites, i would like to see some pretty villages too.

Answer 1

everyone just gave you the places to go but in the worst of order! the only person that gave you a good route was 'eyeonthe..'

i live in florence, visited almost all of italy except sicily.

to cover the best in 2 only weeks, this is what i would do:

1. skip milan completely (diry town, nice monuments, but if you ONLY have 2 weeks, go for whats better in italy, besides milan is huge, so if you go there, you have to spend more than two days in seeing everything unlike florence or venice).

2. starting point: VENICE. stay there two or three days, NOT because its huge and you need to see all of it, but because its incredibly beautiful and it worth it staying a couple days.

3. next stop, FLORENCE. florence is tiny you can see the entire town in one day, but again stay there 3 to 4 days to visit all the churches and muesums PLUS to visit the towns around florence.

4. while in florence, take a day train to: LUCA or SIENA or SAN GIMIGNANO (highly recommended) or PISA (all these are 1 day trips you can come back to florence in one day)
im telling you this because its a hassel to move your luggage from one town to another just for one day. like i sad, pisa, siena, luca, ecc are towns you can visit and see all in one day. and plus florence is alive during the night time, while in for example, san gimignano, its all closed after 7, same with luca, and siena, its not like they remain alive after 10 like flroence)

5. next stop ROME stay there 3 to 4 days, huge huge town, need to either rent a car or just take the subway from one spot to another.

rent a car, and go to naples, the reason why i recommend you to go by car is because naples is not a very pretty town and its the type of town you want to stop and stay there for the night, plus its also not a pretty site arriving there as a tourist with all your lugage in one hand and no place to go.

6. IF you still have time, next stop. NAPLES (1 day visit, dirty town, but the ONLY thing i like is the SOTTERRANEO di napoli, best thing to NOT miss!! its the underground of naples, they give tours year round)

so with a car, go to naples, visit it all in one day, and then go off to POMPEII the next day, (you can find a hotel along the road or sleep in the car at a Autogrill (i once did that with my bf on a wild trip there) visit pompeii the next day and from there if you still have time, drive directly to the Costiere Amalfitana.

Drive along the entire coast and visit Sorrento, Amalfi, Positano, ecc...MUST go by car, its a hassel going by bus, you could never stop by bus to take fotos of the cliffs and coasts.

to SICILY, its too far away and by then in only 2 weeks, you wouldnt make it, trust me.

have a good trip!

Answer 2

Take a train or rent a car. Fly into and start from Milan, drive or train to Lake Como, then go to Venice, then to Florence, then Pisa, then down the coastline to Rome (skip Naples), then to Pompeii, then head to Reggio and take the ferries to Sicily.

In Sicily go straight to Taoromina, which is just south of Messina. Taoromina may be one of the most beautiful small villages in the world. It is full of history (Caesar used to summer there) and natural wonders (Mt. Etna smokes her head off just south and the Ionic Sea beckons to us on the cliffs). Fly back home from Catania, which is just an hour from Taoromina.

That's eight cities/villages in fourteen days. You might want to skip some of the spots so you can spend more time at the remaining ones. But, whatever you do, don't pass up the chance to see and enjoy one of the most wonderful places on Earth...Taoromina.

Answer 3

Naples, Pisa, Florence, Venice, Messina, Rome,and all stops along the way. Fall in love with Italy where ever you rome.

Answer 4

Journeying on to Florence through the Tuscan countryside: Lucca, Pisa and other delightful towns dot the road to Pisa where who are guested of the Agostini family Villa di Corliano. The family - and 2 resident ghosts - still welcome guest at the Villa, much as it they were at the height of its fame in the 1770’s.

The stay at Bagni di Pisa (health giving waters are still offered to an international clientele) and visit Pisa during one of the city’s festivals, staying at the Agostini Palace to enjoy the best view of the festivities http://www.provincia.pisa.it/pisalive/it/Pisalive/pisalive.html

The Villa http://www.villacorliano.it has hosted many illustrious guests such as Gustavus III of Sweden, Christian II of Denmark, the Royal Family of Great Britain, Benedict Stuart Cardinal of York, General Murat, Luigi Buonaparte, Paolina Borghese, Carlo Alberto of Savoy, the poets Byron and Shelley, and various other personages from the history books.

The area of the Pisa hills was already an attraction for enlightened travellers in the first half of the 1700s with the growth of the thermal spa of San Giuliano, which became a fashionable spot for the well-off classes. The mansions on the road along the hills, already renowned as places of gentle idleness and relaxation in the heart of the countryside and also for their small industrial facilities for the transformation of agricultural products, soon assumed the characteristics of true leisure resorts, just like those narrated by Carlo Goldoni and which we can continue to enjoy today.

The Relais dell’ Ussero at the Villa Agostini della Seta di Corliano is on the road which runs along the foot of the hills from Pisa to Lucca, passing through the small town of San Giuliano Terme. The Villa is a historical fifteenth century mansion surrounded by a centuries old park. It is a property of great charm in which the owners offer, in 12 rooms and 2 suites, a relaxing stay immersed in the beauties of the local countryside.
Guests, if they like, can join in the day to day activities of the villa. They can have relaxing strolls in the park, potter around in the gardens, chat or have dinner with the owners in the farmhouse of the villa – today a high class restaurant http://www.ladycarlotta.it/

They can also organize all the necessary details for your meetings, convention, weddings at 1700’s small private church or at 1400’s sky garden or at the park of the Villa or at the oldest Italian cinema http://www.lumierecinema.it/ restructured with modern audio visual technologies on 2004 near the historic Caffè dell’Ussero, founded on 1775 and seat of the meetings of the first Italian Congress of Scientists on 1839. Last but not least you do not forget a very good ice cream at the old “diacciaia” (now De Coltelli gelateria http://www.decoltelli.it/ ) of the Ussero palace.

Answer 5

Well, I would advice the main cities....like Venice, Milan, Firenze or Pisa (or both since they are pretty near), Rome and Isola D'Elba is very nice as well!

Answer 6

the region of umbria is full of beautiful villages and the most wonderful, nice people. we loved spoleto, deruta, and perugia in particular. we stayed in a villa near spoleo and just loved the area!

Answer 7

1 ROME
2 VENICE
3 MILAN
4 BOLOGNA
5 FLORENCE
If you love sea side go to Genova and then to Portofino, San Fruttuoso by boat.
If you love mountain don't miss the region Val d'Aosta or Trentino Alto Adige or Piemonte.

Answer 8

POSITANO in the region near NAPLES.
POMPEII near NAPLES
FRASCATI just outside of ROME
POZZUOLI near NAPLES Sophia Loren grew up there