Has anyone taken a roadtrip in Italy?

Question

We are planning 2 week vacation in Italy.We plan on rentinga car for the stay.How long will it take for us to travel from Tuscany - Milan.Milan - Venice.

Is it better to stay one week in Tuscany and see Rome,Florence,and some of the villages there and then move to Milan or the North and stay there to see Venice,Dolomites etc...

I just wanted to know my options...

Thankyou in advance

Answer 1

We rented a car for Tuscany and all the small hill towns in the surrounding area for a week.then we dropped off the car in Milan For Milan a car is a big Hassel maybe you can drop off the car in Milan and then take the train to venice and stop off in verona (one our favorite cities) a car is not needed in Venice and cost a small fortune to park it in the garage.

Answer 2

I have made a list of places I would recommend anyone to visit when coming to Italy.

Depending on what you prefer (fashion, entertainment, art, history, summer vacation, food, trendy) I have made a note, next to each city, where you can have any of the above.

Supposing you begin visiting Italy from the northern part, here is the listing of cities/town I prefer:

Milan (fashion, entertainment)

Turin (history, art)

Portofino, Rapallo (summer, trendy)

Lake Como, Lake Maggiore, Lake Garda (summer)

Genoa (history, summer)

Verona (history)

Venice (history, art)

Parma, Modena, Ravenna, Ferrara (history, food)

Bologna (history, food, entertainment)

Florence (history, art, fashion)

Pisa, Lucca, San Gimignano, Arezzo (history, art)

Forte dei Marmi (summer, entertainment, trendy)

Chianti Region (food)

Perugia, Cortona, Gubbio, Siena , Spoleto (history, food, art)

Rome (history, art, food)

Naples, Caserta (history, art, food)

Capri, Ischia, Sorrento coast, Amalfi coast (summer, food, trendy)

Palermo, Syracuse, Agrigento, Trapani (history, art, food)

Costa Smeralda (summer, entertainment)

Obviously the food is excellent anywhere in Italy, and in any city you walk through history. This is a simple guideline, in order to give you an idea what you can find, depending where you go.

For your hotels, I definitely recommend you to visit the following website: http://www.italyvip.com

For more informations or tips about Italy, you can contact me at: [e-mail]

Buon viaggio

Answer 3

Unless you want to run around for 2 weeks I would try to limit it, I personally love Tuscany, there is so much to see and do and Italians like to take their time and enjoy life so things can be slow sometimes! Remember you are on vacation! Florence is wonderful, I really like Sienna as well and a lot of the little villages around, like San Geminiano. Be careful driving, the roads are very curvy in Tuscany and Italians drive fast! Have a wonderful time!

Answer 4

Put in Italy in Yahoo search.  Print out a map and plan your vacation first. Driving in Italy is challenging.  Some places are better reached by train--eg. Venice.  Figure out where you will be staying.  It might be better to go to the most remote southern places by train.  Venice is expensive; however, there is a little island named Lido.  If you stay on Lido and buy ferry passes, every time you leave Lido you are in Venice.  Morano Glass factory is on Lido.  You might want to stay two days on Lido.  From there you could explore Venice properly.  Then after you decide where your next town is working northwards, then you might consider picking up your car and driving thence.  Get out your map and plan your itinerary properly.

Boaz.