I do not know where to go Rome or Italy?

Question

this would be for vacation so please help!.!.

Answer 1

Rome is great theres lots to see. The Vatican city, catacombs, Sistine Chapel, Pantheon, Colleseum, & Spanish Steps.

My favorite city is Florence. The scenery is amazing! I went to the Uffizi Museum which has incredible art and on the top floor is a huge terrace with a spectaculer view of the city. They also have the doma, a beautiful cathederal. The Galleria Academia. Lots of shops. Its a great place to take some really beautiful shots.

Answer 2

Rome is pretty gorgeous and there's a lot of stuff to see and do  but it can be crowded with tons of tourists and the Romans are usually a bit rude. There's a lot of other beautiful places in Italy like Florence, Venice and Milan for some shopping :D

Answer 3

well it depends on what culture you like better im a big gladiator fan so totally i would go to ROME  to see the colleseium..i can't spell it though lol...have fun wherever you decide to go!

Answer 4

um.................you do know that rome is italy????????????

Answer 5

If you wanna do a great vacation i  would recommend you: Torino, Venezia, Firenze, Siena, Roma, Napoli.

Answer 6

Go to Tuscany. The food and scenery are amazing!

Answer 7

Rome is very very beautiful!! I live there and i think is the most beautiful in italy.. full of history.. and everythink you need.. in every moment of the day

Answer 8

i highly recommend rome. there is always something going on and there is so much history here.

here is a website to help you see some stuff to do:

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-27...

Answer 9

Italy!!!

Geography

Italy, slightly larger than Arizona, is a long peninsula shaped like a boot, surrounded on the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea and on the east by the Adriatic. It is bounded by France, Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia to the north. The Apennine Mountains form the peninsula's backbone; the Alps form its northern boundary. The largest of its many northern lakes is Garda (143 sq mi; 370 sq km); the Po, its principal river, flows from the Alps on Italy's western border and crosses the Lombard plain to the Adriatic Sea. Several islands form part of Italy; the largest are Sicily (9,926 sq mi; 25,708 sq km) and Sardinia (9,301 sq mi; 24,090 sq km).

Government

Republic.

History

The migrations of Indo-European peoples into Italy probably began about 2000 B.C. and continued down to 1000 B.C. From about the 9th century B.C. until it was overthrown by the Romans in the 3rd century B.C., the Etruscan civilization dominated the area. By 264 B.C. all Italy south of Cisalpine Gaul was under the leadership of Rome. For the next seven centuries, until the barbarian invasions destroyed the western Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., the history of Italy is largely the history of Rome. From 800 on, the Holy Roman Emperors, Roman Catholic popes, Normans, and Saracens all vied for control over various segments of the Italian peninsula. Numerous city-states, such as Venice and Genoa, whose political and commercial rivalries were intense, and many small principalities flourished in the late Middle Ages. Although Italy remained politically fragmented for centuries, it became the cultural center of the Western world from the 13th to the 16th century.

In 1713, after the War of the Spanish Succession, Milan, Naples, and Sardinia were handed over to the Hapsburgs of Austria, which lost some of its Italian territories in 1735. After 1800, Italy was unified by Napoléon, who crowned himself king of Italy in 1805; but with the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Austria once again became the dominant power in a disunited Italy. Austrian armies crushed Italian uprisings in 1820–1821 and 1831. In the 1830s, Giuseppe Mazzini, a brilliant liberal nationalist, organized the Risorgimento (Resurrection), which laid the foundation for Italian unity. Disappointed Italian patriots looked to the House of Savoy for leadership. Count Camille di Cavour (1810–1861), prime minister of Sardinia in 1852 and the architect of a united Italy, joined England and France in the Crimean War (1853–1856), and in 1859 helped France in a war against Austria, thereby obtaining Lombardy. By plebiscite in 1860, Modena, Parma, Tuscany, and the Romagna voted to join Sardinia. In 1860, Giuseppe Garibaldi conquered Sicily and Naples and turned them over to Sardinia. Victor Emmanuel II, king of Sardinia, was proclaimed king of Italy in 1861. The annexation of Venetia in 1866 and of papal Rome in 1870 marked the complete unification of peninsular Italy into one nation under a constitutional monarchy.

Italy declared its neutrality upon the outbreak of World War I on the grounds that Germany had embarked upon an offensive war. In 1915, Italy entered the war on the side of the Allies but obtained less territory than it expected in the postwar settlement. Benito (“Il Duce”) Mussolini, a former Socialist, organized discontented Italians in 1919 into the Fascist Party to “rescue Italy from Bolshevism.” He led his Black Shirts in a march on Rome and, on Oct. 28, 1922, became prime minister. He transformed Italy into a dictatorship, embarking on an expansionist foreign policy with the invasion and annexation of Ethiopia in 1935 and allying himself with Adolf Hitler in the Rome-Berlin Axis in 1936. When the Allies invaded Italy in 1943, Mussolini's dictatorship collapsed; he was executed by partisans on April 28, 1945, at Dongo on Lake Como. Following the armistice with the Allies (Sept. 3, 1943), Italy joined the war against Germany as a cobelligerent. A June 1946 plebiscite rejected monarchy and a republic was proclaimed. The peace treaty of Sept. 15, 1947, required Italian renunciation of all claims in Ethiopia and Greece and the cession of the Dodecanese islands to Greece and of five small Alpine areas to France. The Trieste area west of the new Yugoslav territory was made a free territory (until 1954, when the city and a 90-square-mile zone were transferred to Italy and the rest to Yugoslavia).

Italy became an integral member of NATO and the European Economic Community (later the EU) as it successfully rebuilt its postwar economy. A prolonged outbreak of terrorist activities by the left-wing Red Brigades threatened domestic stability in the 1970s, but by the early 1980s the terrorist groups had been suppressed. “Revolving door” governments, political instability, scandal, and corruption characterized Italian politics in the 1980s and 1990s.

Italy adopted the euro as its currency in Jan. 1999. Treasury Secretary Carlo Ciampi, who is credited with the economic reforms that permitted Italy to enter the European Monetary Union, was elected president in May 1999. Italy joined its NATO partners in the Kosovo crisis. Aviano Air Base in northern Italy was a crucial base for launching air strikes into Kosovo and Yugoslavia.

In June 2001, Silvio Berlusconi, a conservative billionaire, was sworn in as prime minister. He pledged to reduce unemployment, cut taxes, revamp the educational system, and reform the bureaucracy. His critics were alarmed by the apparent conflict of interest of a prime minister who also owned 90% of Italy's media. He was accused of Mafia connections and was under indictment for tax fraud and bribery. Found guilty in three out of four of his trials, he was acquitted in all of them on appeal. Several other cases are pending.

In Nov. 2002, Giulio Andreotti, who served as Italy's prime minister numerous times between 1972 and 1992, was sentenced to 24 years for ordering the Mafia to murder a journalist in 1979. At 84, however, he was deemed too old for prison.

At the end of 2003, Italian food giant Parmalat was accused of a massive accounting fraud scheme—$5 billion the company claimed was in fact nonexistent.

In April 2005, regional elections had disastrous results for Berlusconi's center-right coalition. The dismal state of the economy was blamed for the poor showing. In parliamentary elections held April 2006, the center-left Union coalition led by Romano Prodi won 49.8% of the vote and Berlusconi's House of Liberties coalition won 49.7%—a mere 25,000 vote difference. Berlusconi refused to concede and called for a recount. He eventually relented, and Prodi was given the go-ahead by the newly installed president Giorgio Napolitano to form a government. Prodi served as prime minister once before (1996–98) and also as president of the European Union. Prodi's government proved fragile almost immediately. Indeed, he submitted his resignation in February 2007, just nine months into his term, after a key foreign-policy vote about the deployment of troops to Afghanistan and an expansion of a U. S. military base failed in the Senate. Days later, the Senate, facing the prospect of Silvio Berlusconi returning to power, narrowly passed a vote of confidence in Prodi's government. Prodi remained in office, surely to face similar obstacles in the near future. And he did. In January 2008, the Udeur party bolted from his coalition, costing Prodi his majority in the senate. He survived a no-confidence vote in the lower house of parliament, but lost in the senate, 161 to 156, forcing his government to resign. Parliament was dissolved, and elections were set for April. Berlusconi saw the crisis as an opportunity for a political comeback. On April 15, 2008, with help from Northern League support, Berlusconi and his center-right government won elections ensuring him a third term as prime minister.

On May 8, 2008, Berlusconi was sworn in for his third term as prime minister and announced his cabinet choices, including Franco Frattini as foreign minister and Giulio Tremonti as economics minister. Berluconi's cabinet remains dominated by center-right politicians and includes few women.

Answer 10

I suggest Tuscany or the Amalfi Coast or Venice...all beautiful, i recommend a tour, as you will get to see more of Italy that way than if you go along alone...have a great time!

Answer 11

Depends on how much time you have to spend in Italy, and what time of year.  If only a week or so, then stay in Rome as there is so much to see.  

However, if you have more time than this you could try Rome, Naples, the Amalfi coast.  Or Rome, Florence, Venice (my favourite Italian city).

If you're not sure where to go then buy a guidebook and work out an itinerary based on the time you have, and what you are interested in.

Answer 12

Uhhh.. Just get out!

Answer 13

I went to Rome for a two week vacation this past March, I spent almost the entire time in Rome. I went with one other friend, we pretty much didn't leave the city except for one day. I have to say, I regret that. Rome is an absolutely beautiful city, and I do not regret going there this spring. There is plenty to see and do, but it is also very tiring and very expensive (mind you Im 20 and Im saying this), the people are very rude, (and I have been to many other places in Europe, the Romans were by far the rudest). My friend and I were pretty ambitious and so we would set off in the morning and walk around the city until night fall, and by the fifth day we were there we were out of things to do. We had seen all the major sites, we were going down small streets which was kinda romantic but at the same time upsetting because I thought of all the other places in italy we could have been seeing.

The one day we left Rome we went to Vinci (that is the medieval town where Leonardo is from). THAT WAS AMAZING!!! We set up a tour with a guide who met us at a train station and took us through the town and then took us for a tour of a vinyard and out to lunch, the guide spoke english. Amazing. Oh, and then she took us to the city of Florence. which is also amazing, and like I said before, I wish we had spent maybe two nights there instead of all ten in Rome.  

So. I would highly recommend staying in Rome, because it is very much worth it, and granted i don't know how long your stay is, but maybe you should plan 5/6 days in Rome, enough to see a lot of the city but not tire of it, then go to Florence, Naples and Pompeii. Because they each are so different, and we didnt have the expenses to do our trip properly.

And since your going over there seriously check out this site, these people are so kind and gave us amazing memories.

www.ariannandfriends.com

Answer 14

ive been to Rome and its pretty cool.. i dont really remember it becuase i was only eight..

Answer 15

ok, ummm rome is in italy.. and i;ve lived in italy for 10 years and i was born there and everything so i've been to Rome and i was 4 and  kinda remember, it was pretty nice i remember all of the architecture and everything.

Answer 16

u can visit Turin, Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, Palermo in a week;-)

Answer 17

You do know that Rome is in Italy right?