Italy travel guide
Before you go to Italy
- Currency
- EUR €
- Emergency number
- 112 / 113
- Plug type
- Type F (Schuko), Type L (Italian 3-pin)
- Tap water
- Tap water safe in all cities (Rome tap water is particularly good)
- Tipping
- Optional but appreciated
- Bargaining
- Not expected
- eSIM
- Available
- Card networks
- Visa, Mastercard, Amex
- ATM fees
- Usually free at bank ATMs; avoid Euronet (~EUR 5-6)
Cities in Italy
- Rome Italy's Eternal City — a 2,800-year-old metropolis layered with ancient ruins, Renaissance masterpieces, Vatican grandeur, and a vibrant…
- Venice Built on 118 small islands across a shimmering lagoon, Venice enchants with gondola-filled canals, Byzantine basilicas, the Grand Canal,…
- Florence The cradle of the Renaissance, Florence dazzles with Uffizi masterpieces, Brunelleschi's iconic dome, cobblestone piazzas, and…
- Milan Italy's financial and fashion capital blends Gothic grandeur (the Duomo), Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, designer boutiques on Via…
- Naples Chaotic, passionate, and wildly delicious — Naples gave the world pizza, is the gateway to Pompeii and Herculaneum, and stares at Mount…
- Cinque Terre Five ancient fishing villages — Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore — cling to precipitous Ligurian cliffs…
- Verona Romeo and Juliet's city enchants with a perfectly preserved 1st-century Roman amphitheatre still hosting summer opera, medieval piazzas,…
- Palermo Sicily's baroque capital is a heady collision of Norman, Arab, Byzantine, and Spanish cultures expressed in golden palatine chapels,…
- Pisa Far more than its famous leaning bell tower, Pisa boasts a magnificent Piazza dei Miracoli ensemble of white Carrara marble cathedral,…
- Amalfi The medieval maritime republic perched on limestone cliffs above a turquoise sea, Amalfi is the spiritual heart of the UNESCO-listed Amalfi…
- Turin Italy's first unified capital impresses with its sweeping Baroque arcaded boulevards, the mysterious Shroud of Turin, the Mole Antonelliana…
- Positano Italy's most photographed village — pastel-painted houses cascading down vertiginous cliffs to a pebble beach — Positano is the…
- Siena A perfectly preserved medieval city on three hills in the heart of Tuscany. Siena revolves around the iconic fan-shaped Piazza del Campo,…
- Bologna "La Grassa, La Rossa, La Dotta" — the Fat, the Red, the Learned. Bologna is Italy's culinary capital (home of ragù, mortadella,…
- Catania Sicily's second city crouches at the foot of active Mount Etna, rebuilt in black volcanic lava stone after a devastating 1693 earthquake…
- Bari Apulia's lively Adriatic capital is known for the Basilica di San Nicola, old-town nonne rolling handmade orecchiette on doorsteps, a…
- Sorrento Perched on tufa cliffs above the Bay of Naples, Sorrento is the classic gateway to Capri, Pompeii, and the Amalfi Coast, famous for…
- Lecce The "Florence of the South" — Lecce's soft golden lecce stone yielded Italy's most exuberant Baroque architecture, adorning every church…