Italy tour?

Question

i will go to italy in january, to my friend's home in Bari. my plane arrives to and departs from rome, so i thought maybe i'll have a trip to north italy. but i only have 3 days to visit north. can i visit venice, rome and florence in this short time?

p.s : i will use trains for transportation, but if you have any better advices, please write over here. thanks anyway!

Answer 1

3 Days?!?

maybe It's not Enough... but it's possible

...rome-florence tooks 1:30 hours by train, florence-venice tooks 3 hours by train....

if you are <25/30 i advice you to enjoy florence or venice by night...and book your hotel in florence or venice.... by the way florence is cheaper than venice, even if florence is not that cheap..then i advice you to book the hotel in florence

4 the guy below me ---don't cut and paste... lira doesn't even exist anymore... in italy, there is the euro now, and 1 euro = 1,5 dollars

Answer 2

3 days is not enough to see any 1 of those places.  Pick one and see it - you might as well start with Rome because as you say that is where you fly from!

Trains are a great way to get around Italy.  For more Italian travel tips check out http://HowToTravelTips.com

Answer 3

Venice, Rome and Florence are so full of things to see! I think you won't have the time to visit all of them. If I were you I'd choose only one of them, beacuse it's really impossible to do in other ways. I suggest you Florence (where I live :D): in this city you can find everything you like visiting, as you know it's full of beautiful monuments and museums (you absolutely have to see the Uffizi), there are also lots of shops and pubs. And, trust me, the countryside around is fantastic. I also suggest you to go to "Piazzale Michelangelo", from there you can see all the city.

If you're travelling by train remember that if you don't want to spend much time on the train you will have to buy a quite expensive ticket...I'm sorry!

Anyway.. take a decision and enjoy your travel!

Answer 4

Three days is not enough time to visit Rome, Florence and Venice. You could get to each city in that time, but you'd have very little time to see anything. You're better off spending your time in Rome and taking the time to explore a bit. A reasonable alternative is to spend two days in Rome and a day in Florence. The travel time on the train is a little more than an hour and a half if you take the Eurostar - it's more expensive, but more comfortable and faster. Taking an intercity train adds an hour to the trip; the regional trains take about 2 hours longer.

Florence to Venice is another 3 hours on the train.

It's an 8 to 10 hour trip from Bari to Venice. If you're thinking of taking the train from Venice to Rome to get your plane, that would be a 4.5 to 5 hour trip.

Answer 5

You don t have much time but that doesn t mean you can't do it.:) I would take a  plane from Bari to Venice  stay there one day.Then take the train from Venice to Florence stay here all day and then leave for Rome( the distance from Florence to Rome is about 2 hour train ride and there are a lot of connections). Once in Florence I would take a tour ( they have a tour that is called hop on and off it goes around the city center and takes you to the most important monuments In rome there is the same kind of bus ( which leaves from the train station termini) Otherwise stay in Rome and get organzied tours that go to Florence( day trips) Here is a company that does these types of day trips http://www.appianline.it/

enjoy your stay in Italy

Answer 6

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http://loosea.com/Italy-trip-report/

We are definitely talking about a warm and friendly nation here.  This

nation is so friendly that the leading cause of injury is getting passionately

embraced by strangers.  One time we were at a restaurant near Rome eating a

medium-sized Italian lunch consisting of enough pasta to feed Lithuania for

six months, and we happened to mention that the wine tasted good.  So the

restaurant owner insisted that everybody in our party had to go see his wine

cellar, which involved climbing down a set of steep rickety stairs into the

kind of dark, dank, spider-infested basement that you often see in horror

movies, wherein some doomed character goes slowly down the stairs while

dramatic music plays in the background and the theater audience is shouting,

"DON'T GO DOWN THERE, YOU FOOL!" because they know there's a lunatic lurking

in the darkness with a machete and an industrial staple gun.  This basement

was like that, only it was occupied by something even more dangerous than a

homicidal maniac, namely, numerous barrels of wine, which the restaurant owner

insisted that we had to drink many samples from, and quite frankly we wonder

how we got out of there.  In fact some members of our party may still be down

there with the spiders, and we urge you to stop in and see them (the spiders)

during normal visiting hours.

      

     Speaking of normal visiting hours, Italy doesn't have any, as far as we

can tell.  Nothing is ever open when it's supposed to be open or closed when

it's supposed to be closed, nor does it cost what it's supposed to cost.

Also, the buses never seem to go where they're supposed to go.  We realize

we're making a sweeping generalization here, but as Giraldus Cambrensis so

eloquently put it in Topographia Hibernica, "tough ****."  Nevertheless we

urge you to spend some time in this country, although as a precautionary

measure you should lose a couple of hundred pounds first.

      

                             What to See in Italy

                                        

     The major city is of course Rome, which got its name from the fact that

the Romans used to live there before the Fall of the Roman Empire.  Their

mother warned them that this would happen.  "If you leave your empire there,

it's going to fall!" she said, but unfortunately they did not understand

English.

      

     Nevertheless, the Romans built many large broken objects that you should

definitely see, such as the Renaissance, the Piles of Seemingly Random Dirty

Stones, and the Colosseum, which was the site of Super Bowl I.  You must also

visit Vatican City, where you may see the famous Sistine Chapel, which the

famous Anthony L. "Michael" Angelo had to paint--Believe It or Not!--while

lying on his back, because due to a contractor error the Sistine Chapel is

only 18 inches high, so comfortable clothes are recommended.  The Vatican is

also the home of the Pope, who, if you pound very hard on his door, will be

happy to come out and entertain the kids by twisting balloons into hilarious

animal shapes.  Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each

year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an

enormous open sewer; and Florence, home of one of Michael Angelo's most famous

works, the Leaning Tower of Pisa.  Southern Italy is the site of the

incredible village of Pompeii, which nearly 2,000 years ago was buried under

tons of volcanic ash and is therefore invisible.  We don't know why we even

brought it up.

      

                               FACTS AT A GLANCE

                                        

Unit of Currency: The Lira (1,000,000,000,000,000 lire = Nothing)

Unit of Time: "A Few Minutes" (A Few Minutes = Two Days)

Hand Gestures: Permitted

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http://loosea.com/Italy-trip-report/