Italy is a country rich in traditions, of art, culture and history, it is one of the countries to the world among the more visited, for his beautiful monuments, for his irresistible nature and conformation. The art and the music are surely the circles of excellence of the Italian culture more known in the world. The Italian music starts to bloom in Five hundred, with the Renaissance music that, above all with Monteverdi, it acquires its more innovative lines in the slow Five hundred, with the birth of the lyric work, kind in which the Italian will see the record for centuries. All over the world famous Italian Operistis are Rossini, Toscanini, Puccini. The Italian instrumental music has seen a less lasting period of flowering, assembling mainly (even if not only) itself in the Baroque period, but it has been crossed by artists of epocale importance however, what Palestrina, Corelli, Vivaldi, the already quoted Monteverdi as well as, in the following centuries, Paganini and the same Verdi. In Italy, thanks to the different civilizations that have left deep signs of their passage, numerous splendid rich cities of monuments and works of art that actually go from the most ancient archaeological areas to the finds of Roman epoch to the most recent works exist. Numerous monuments (buildings, historical abodes, archaeological recoveries) and straight whole cities, declared Patrimony they have been Unesco of the humanity: Rome, Venice, Florence, Pisa, Pienza, the Five Earths, the Eolie's Islands .
Greek civilization has left numerous temples and theaters (mainly in Southern Italy, you are enough to think about the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento), the etruschis have mainly left graves and necropolis (very meaningful the testimonies in Umbria, Campania and Latium, for instance the necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia), the Romans, instead, a lot of more meaningful testimonies, mainly, obviously, to Rome: roads give to the aqueducts, from the numerous amphitheaters to the most famous known monuments all over the world in the arena in Verona, the Colosseum, the arc of Costantino and the zone of the Imperial Holes. But the continuous history, and here therefore the sumptuous testimonies of the Italian Renaissance and its protagonists, the splendid residences Sabaude in Piedmont(15 buildings seventeenth European monumental architecture symbol and eighteenth century) actually to the most modern works of architecture of the XX century. But the most beautiful Italian monuments are not found only in the above-suitable cities but also in the smallest and ignored suburbs of province, Italy, in fact, is not only Rome, Florence, Perugia, Verona but in every city of our Peninsula there are monuments, buildings, churches and basilicas, monasteries, archaeological areas of inestimable value that deserve to be visited.
Touristic districts in Italy
Abruzzo »
Abruzzo is a region in Italy, its western border lying less than 50 miles due east of Rome. Abruzzo borders the region of Marche to the north,...
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Basilicata »
Basilicata is a region in the south of Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Apulia (Puglia) to the north and east, and Calabria to the south,...
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Calabria »
Calabria (Latin: Bruttium), is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian peninsula. It is bounded to the...
To see in Calabria
Chiesa Madre "Maria SS.Immacolata" - Ceppo dei Fratelli Bandiera
Campania »
Campania is a region of southern Italy in Europe. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous...
To see in Campania
Palazzo Reale - Maschio Angioino - Duomo di San Gennaro
Emilia Romagna »
Emilia-Romagna is an administrative region of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. The capital is Bologna; it...
To see in Emilia Romagna
Fontana del Nettuno - Torre degli Asinelli - Pinacoteca Nazionale - Piacenza Cathedral - St. Antonino's Cathedral - Basilica di San Savino
Friuli Venezia Giulia »
Friuli-Venezia Giulia is one of the twenty regions of Italy, and one of five autonomous regions with special statute. The capital is Trieste. It...
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Lazio »
Lazio, also called Latium in English, is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, and Marche to the north, Abruzzo to the east,...
To see in Lazio
Colosseo - Pantheon - Fontana di trevi - Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore - Piazza Navona - St. Peter's basilica - Basilica of St. John Lateran - Basilica di San Clemente - St. Francis Church - Palazzo Marini
Liguria »
Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. Its capital is Genoa. It is a popular region with...
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Lombardia »
Lombardy (Italian: Lombardia, Western Lombard: Lumbardìa, Eastern Lombard: Lombardia) is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan....
To see in Lombardia
Duomo di Milano - Castello Sforzesco - Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio - Mantua Cathedral - Palazzo Ducale di Mantova - Palazzo Te
Marche »
The Marche (plural, literally "the Marches", originally referring to the medieval March of Ancona and nearby marches of Camerino and Fermo) are one...
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Molise »
Molise is a region of Southern Italy, the second smallest of the regions. It was formerly (until 1963) part of the region of Abruzzi e Molise (with...
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Piemonte »
Piedmont (Italian: Piemonte; Piedmontese and Occitan: Piemont; French: Piémont) is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. The capital is Turin. The main...
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Puglia »
Apulia is a region in southeastern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Òtranto and...
To see in Puglia
Le grotte
Sardegna »
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily). The area of Sardinia is 24,090 square kilometres (9,301 sq mi). The...
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Sicilia »
Sicily (Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia) is an autonomous region of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708...
To see in Sicilia
Duomo di Catania - Chiesa di San Benedetto - Fontana dell'Elefante - Cattedrale di Palermo - Palazzo dei Normanni
Toscana »
Tuscany (Italian: Toscana) is a region in Italy. It has an area of 22,990 square kilometres (8,880 sq mi) and a population of about 3.6 million...
To see in Toscana
Palazzo Vecchio - The Cathedral of Florence - Basilica di San Lorenzo - Palazzo Pitti - St Mark's Basilica Florence - Duomo di Siena - Piazza del Campo - Piazza dei Miracoli - Villa medicea di Cafaggiolo - Barberino di Mugello - Castello di Barberino - Barberino di Mugello
Trentino Alto Adige »
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol is an autonomous region in Northern Italy. It consists of two provinces: Trento and Bolzano-Bozen. The region was...
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Umbria »
Umbria is a region of central Italy. Its capital is Perugia. It has an area of 8,456 km² and about 900,000 inhabitants.
Umbria is a region of...
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Valle D'Aosta »
The Aosta Valley (Italian: Valle d'Aosta or Val d'Aosta, French: Vallée-d'Aoste or Val-d'Aoste, Franco-Provençal: Val d'Outa) is a mountainous...
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Veneto »
Veneto (Latin Venetia, Venetian Vèneto), is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 4.8 million, and its capital is Venice. Once...
To see in Veneto
Arena di Verona - Casa di Giulietta e Romeo - St. Mark's square - St. Mark'sBasilica - Doge's Palace - Bridge of Sighs - Grand Canal - Rialto Bridge - Castel San Pietro - Torre dei Lamberti
