With so much to see and do in the Italian cities, the smaller towns and villages often get overlooked. But with fewer visitors, they offer Italian charm on a smaller, and quieter, scale. From Sicily to Piedmont, we’ve shortlisted nine charming small towns in Italy you should try and visit.
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Three Italian destinations make TIME’s World’s Greatest Places 2021 list. Compiled from nominations by TIME’s international network of correspondents and contributors, the list has an eye toward those offering new and exciting experiences.
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The Slow Food movement was born in Italy; designed to counteract the fast-food-rollercoaster of the world it celebrates local culinary traditions. Slow Travel followed in its footsteps.
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Italy Tour Guide Sarah Cater rides the Dante train from Florence to Ravenna. In the year celebrating the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death, she discovers the town where Dante finally settled after years of exile.
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The Hypogeum, or ‘backstage’, of Rome’s Colosseum is fully open to the public for the first time. The restored walkways allow visitors to fully explore the underground tunnels and chambers of the 2,000-year-old monument.
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There I was, half-way between the North Pole and the Equator. I hadn’t intended to be straddling the 45th parallel but there I was, at Taglio di Po. It was 2013 and I had read in the local paper about the official opening of the cycle route that ran along the river Po, past Taglio […]
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