Italy Bucket List Places To Visit Part 1

If you love Italy for its beautiful squares, historical monuments and delicious food, then keep reading for Italy bucket list places to visit part 1.

In this guide, you will discover the Top 5 cities and regions to visit in Italy with a list of the main attractions of each of them. Ideal for getting an idea of ​​your next travel destination.

So what to do in Italy?

Set off now to discover the most beautiful places of interest: Rome, The Amalfi Coast, Capri, Sicily and much more!

Rome: the capital

Let’s start off on this guide of places to go to in Italy with the capital, Rome, which attracts millions of tourists every year but which, contrary to what one might think, is only the third city visited in Italy in number of tourists behind Florence and Venice.

Rome is a magnificent city which also has the advantage of being easily explored on foot. It presents a concentration of ancient monuments, beautiful squares and museums.

To see in priority during your trip to Rome:

• The Coliseum
• The Roman forum
• The pantheon
• Trevi Fountain
• Piazza Navona

If you are visiting Rome, be sure to take a trip to the Vatican City, which has many places to visit.

• St. Peter’s Square
• St. Peter’s Basilica, the largest basilica in the world
• The Sistine Chapel and the major work of Michelangelo: The Last Judgment
• And all the Vatican museums

Milan: city of fashion

Milan is the capital of fashion and design with many luxury boutiques and showrooms of renowned designers but if you have decided not to heat up your credit card too much, it also offers many historic buildings to visit.

A short tour of things to see in Milan:

• Piazza del Duomo and its magnificent Cathedral of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin. Be sure to climb to the roof for the panoramic view.
• The Sforza Castle and the Parco Sempione which is just behind
• The Vittorio Emmanuel II gallery and its huge glass roof, a luxury shopping hotspot
• The Brera art gallery and its very rich collection of paintings by Italian masters such as Raphael, Bellini or Caravaggio.
• The monumental cemetery: visit the flamedio, burial place of great personalities and the cemetery with its stelae, each one more unusual than the other.

Florence: artistic city

Florence, undoubtedly the most beautiful city in Tuscany, brings together an incalculable number of museums and palaces of Renaissance art which gives it a very rich cultural heritage. It houses half of the works of art preserved throughout Italy.

And you were not mistaken: it is the most visited city in Italy. So, will you be one of the 15 million tourists taking a tour of Italy this year?

Florence must-sees:

• The Duomo and its piazza with a magnificent view
• The Uffizi gallery and its profusion of famous paintings
• The basilica San Miniato al Monte with its panorama over Florence. A word of advice: go there for the sunset
• Piazza della Signoria: a veritable open-air museum
• Cupola del Brunelleschi: after climbing 400 steps, a 360 degree view of Florence. Remember to book your tickets in advance to avoid the queue.

And don’t forget to take a trip to the Tuscan countryside, reputed to be the most beautiful in the country!

Pisa: leaning city

When we think of Pisa, the first image that comes to mind is that of its leaning tower, the symbol of the city.

But there is more to see and you can take advantage of half a day or a day to visit many other places:

• The piazza dei Miracoli, tourist center of the city where all the tourist coaches pour out. And for good reason, it concentrates all the famous monuments of the city:
• The Tower of Pisa, the visit of which will still cost you 20€ (better to be warned, it may surprise you as a price)
• The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption
• The Baptistery of Saint John of Pisa
• The Camposanto Monumentale Cemetery
• The piazza dei Cavalieri: small typical Italian square and with fewer tourists
• Borgo Stretto: Mecca for shopping and ideal place to eat or have a drink with its many restaurants

Venice: romantic city

Venice is the second most visited city in Italy. It is the ideal place for a weekend or a romantic getaway with its many canals and gondola rides, it couldn’t be more romantic.

It is in February that the city attracts a considerable crowd from all over the world to celebrate and participate in the very famous Venice Carnival.

Places of interest to visit in Venice:

• Piazza San Marco: heart of the city and domain of the pigeons
• Saint Mark’s Basilica and its golden mosaics
• The Doge’s Palace
• The Bridge of Sighs: the most famous bridge in Venice
• The islands of Murano (world center of glassmaking) and Burano with its houses

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