Best place to visit in Italy??

Question

I want to take my mom to Italy but don't know what the best place to visit would be. We want to go somewhere with these amenities:

Beautiful views (countryside)

Great Food

Museums, Italian culture, architecture, etc

We are NOT interested in wine tasting or anywhere too touristy or trendy...

What would be the best place for us to visit?

Answer 1

grr! italians!

they steel my soda and South Park video game!

Answer 2

great place is venice and then rome.You can visit others cities like milano naples and sicily island of course.But the best place is VENICE!

Answer 3

When?

1-Roma

2-Siracusa

3-Firenze

4-Treviso

5-Volterra and San Giminiano

6-Padova

7-Bologna

8-Rimini (in summer!!!!)

Answer 4

In order to meet all your requirements in one place, I advice you to visit Piedmont.

Of course a lot of place in Italy have all these and more, but Piedmont now is underestimated by touristic value (except for skiing).

Incidentally, is one of the three main region for wine as well, but nobody will force you to drink! :)

Answer 5

The first could be Rome..

Florence ... not much good food...

Venice... not much good food...

Naples ... try absolutely the pizza ;-)

Answer 6

RIMINI  ,  RICCIONE, SAN MARINO

Answer 7

maybe Naples ive never been there great going to amalfi coast or the southern countryside.  but also florence wasn't bad. great shopping and also tuscany isnt far away.  also perugia.  not a big tourist town alot of countryside.  but also gubbio and assissi are not far from perugia and rome and florence you can do as a day trip.

Answer 8

There is one place I highly recommend:

Sardegna (Sardinia) is the second largest island in the Mediterranean and is formed by a series of mountainous massifs, hills and narrow highlands. The coasts are jagged and rocky, interspersed with some of the most beautiful, clean sandy white beaches in the Mediterranean Sea in every shade of turquoise and sapphire. The seaside landscapes, especially on the Costa Smeralda (the Emerald Coast), are among the most beautiful in the world. Numerous small, enchanting islets are scattered in front of the coasts.  The island has lush green valleys, lagoons of pink flamingos, rugged hilly landscape covered in olives and vineyards and cork trees; haunting polyphonic music (launeddas), village festivals, exquisite cuisine and fine wines; it holds the remains of the various civilizations that passed through its central Mediterranean position; the island was ravaged by a succession of invaders, each of them leaving some imprint behind: Roman and Carthaginian ruins, Genoan fortresses, a string of elegant Pisan churches, not to mention some impressive Gothic and Spanish Baroque architecture.

Museums:

The National Archaeologic Museum of Cagliari is the most important museum in the island: prehistoric tombs, megalithic temples and tombs, the famous small bronzes and a documentation of the Punic and Roman periods. In Sanna, we can visit the archaeologic and ethnographic sections of the Sanna Museum and the Pinacoteca. In Nuoro, the Regional Museum of the Costume is interesting. The Antiquarium Alborense of Oristano Houses paintings of the sixteenth-century Sardinian masters and an archaeologic section.

Art:

Very ancient and peculiar remains of the prehistoric and protohistoric eras are the megalithic "Tombs of the Giants"; the "domus dejanas" (houses of the witches), tombs dug into the rock; and the "nuraghi". The nuraghi, truncated cone towers in huge stone and fortified dwellings of the earliest inhabitants, number about 7,000 and can be found all over the island. Phoenician and Roman remains have come to light at Tharros and Nora; there are Roman relics at Porto Torres and Cagliari. The Gothic-Catalonian style thrived in the island under the rule of the Spanish House of Aragon.

To be visited:

Santa Teresa di Gallura, the Arcipelago di La Maddalena, Isola Rossa, the archaeologic excavations of Tharros and the cork-oak woods at the foot of the Gennargentu. Join the feasts (Sagre); see the ceramics, hand-woven carpets and tapestries, filigree silver and gold jewellery (esp. the well-known "bottoni sardi"), bronze statuettes, local costumes.

Answer 9

Great food: anywhere. Cities with the most things to do or see: Rome, Venice, Florence, Milan. As a tourist you can spend a month in Rome and you still wouldn't have seen everything.

The Colosseum, Vatican City, St. Paul's Cathedral, The Vatican Museum is huge, Il Foro Romano (ruins of old Rome, are just a few of the must do/see. There are many others, you should buy a guide book available at a good book store.

Answer 10

TURIN TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TORINO TURIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 11

hey i went to italy and rome was great go there =) i also went to sicily which is very pretty but HOT HOT HOT i also went to Naples but its very... dirty there.

Answer 12

Rome is good, especially for the history, but way too touristy.

Pisa is a little quainter.  Napoli and Palermo.

Answer 13

Trieste

http://www.triestetourism.it/

Answer 14

sicily is the best place for country side and views. i would suggest a city where my moms side of the family lives~Catania... its awesome

Answer 15

Bologna is nice this time of year.. Also, check out the Sisteen Chapel

Answer 16

go to Giardini Naxos, Sicily

Answer 17

Hi laila!, good! to see you!, well I go to Italy too so I can help you!, well my friends tell me that Rome its a wonderful place and venezia! too so I recommend you that you have to go to that places!. I hope that my comment has help you. My english its not so good i'm from venezuela. Bye and! be careful

Answer 18

Rome, Vatican, Pisa, Venice, Florence, Naples.