City: Italy
Top Things to do in Italy
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Italy from Europe region, is best know for Points of Interest & Landmarks. Discover best things to do in Italy with beautiful photos and great reviews from traveller around the world here!
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1. Sassi di Matera
Overall Ratings
5 based on 11 reviews
Reviewed By Vladimir1998 - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Sassi di Matera are something everyone should see at least once in their life. Considered one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world, Matera is a completely fascinating town. We saw it on a day trip, but it's great if you can spend 2 or 3 days here and explore the whole area and all the crypts and caves.
There are 2 districts worth seeing: Sasso Caveoso and Sasso Barissano - I personally liked the first one more, but really both are great. You can get quite a cheap 6 euro ticket to see 3 of the cave churches (Madonna de Idris e S. Giovanni in Monterrone, Santa Lucia alle Malve, San Pietro Barisano), which I really recommend. It can be bought at any of these churches.
The whole town is like a labyrinth, so you might get lost a few times and Google Maps couldn't help too much (unless you want to walk on the car roads, which is dull). But that's part of the charm and I'd say it's completely worth it.
2. St. Peter's Basilica
Overall Ratings
5 based on 32 reviews
Arguably one of the finest Cathedrals in the entire world, St. Peter's is the spiritual center of the Vatican and the product of many of Italy's great Renaissance's architects, among them Bramante, Raphael and Michelangelo.
Reviewed By desinerg - Sydney, Australia
Join a tour to avoid ridiculous queues and hours of waiting and get to hear and appreciate the history. The basilica is extraordinary and in some ways grotesque in the grandeur.
3. Gardaland Park
Overall Ratings
4 based on 14 reviews
Live the adventure of Gardaland Resort, the first destination to have fun in Italy! Unforgettable emotions are waiting in the incredible Amusement Park, in a completely themed Aquarium and a fairy-like hotel.
Reviewed By AgaKan - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Gardaland resort is a great place to spend great time with whole family. The youngest children had a good time with attractions designed for them. The older ones - grandpa and parents :) - could collect large doses of adrenaline while riding on roller coasters - incredible infrastructure.
We had really fun staying there!
4. Acquario di Genova
Overall Ratings
4 based on 13 reviews
The Acquario di Genova was built on the occasion of the Expo ’92, a celebration of the fifth centenary of the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus, with the intention of restructuring and enhancing an area full of history and traditions, located in the heart of Genoa’s historic centre, the Porto Antico (the old port). It’s the biggest aquarium in Europe.
Reviewed By Kwassie - Stellenbosch, South Africa
We found the whole experience rather average for the price of the ticket. 3 of the Exhibitions we specifically went to see were closed, although that wasn’t mentioned where you bought the tickets.
Overall I think we are just so spoiled by the quality and diversity of wildlife that we have in SA that it is not worth spending money on it in Europe.
5. Egyptian Museum of Turin
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 18 reviews
The Museo delle Antichità Egizie is the only museum other than the Cairo Museum that is dedicated solely to Egyptian art and culture. Many international scholars, since the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs Jean-François Champollion, who came to Turin in 1824, spend much time pouring over the collections. It was Champollion who famously wrote, “The road to Memphis and Thebes passes through Turin”.The collections that make up today’s Museum, were enlarged by the excavations conducted in Egypt by the Museum’s archaeological Mission between 1900 and 1935 (a period when finds were divided between the excavators and Egypt).The Egyptian Museum in Turin has begun 2009 an important project which wants to widen spaces in order to enhance the collections through modern museographical and museological criteria. The Museum will be open all over the period of restoration and the New Egyptian Museum inauguration is scheduled for the year 2015.
Reviewed By saona4me - cambs
A place well worth visiting. It doesn’t top the museum in Cairo but it’s definitely good, slightly confusing how it’s laid out. Spotlessly clean. The artefacts couldn’t have been presented any better than they were. Definitely glad I went.We thank you for your visit and your review!
6. Ortigia
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 11 reviews
This offshore island was occupied by the Greek colonists who fortified it and constructed the earliest structures, including the temples of Athena and Apollo, whose remains can still be seen today.
Reviewed By Giorgio C - Brussels, Belgium
This small tongue of land concentrates the best of Syracuse history, charming and food & wine amazing choices. Ortigia assumes a very special character during the evening when main buildings and historical heritages are superbly highlighted. Regrettably, the parking area is horrible, scaring, not sufficiently illuminated and dirty. This is often the price to pay in Sicily, besides astonishing angles yo may find dirt and abandon.
7. Piazza del Duomo
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 16 reviews
This large city square contains the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore, the third largest Cathedral in the world after St. Peter's in Rome and St. Paul's in London.
Reviewed By Mark H - Winston Salem, North Carolina
An interesting walk while getting to the Duomo. The Piazza is a great walking place with plenty of shops and cafes, but the Piazza is getting crowded with immigrants selling knock offs who have become more than entrepreneurial, now they are becoming just annoying and they hurt the overall experience.
8. Museo Cappella San Severo
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 15 reviews
Built in the late 1500s, this gem of Italian artistic heritage was greatly influenced by the famous Raimondo de Sangro VII, Prince of San Severo, a genius of science and invention.
Reviewed By LostALot22 - Lombard, Illinois
This place was like a mason's hall or something similar. The commissioned a bunch of artwork. it is some of the best that I have seen. The Jesus statue in marble is actually amazing. And the one on the wall with the fisherman is possibly more amazing. No pictures are allowed but it is awesome. And it's small so it won't talk you long.
9. Piazza del Campo
Overall Ratings
5 based on 11 reviews
Siena's main square is the site of the famous Palio horse races that take place in July and August.
Reviewed By hahabye - Orlando, Fl
Great place to sit in the sun, people watch, enjoy the sights, or even a meal! Very charming, old world piazza.
10. Scavi di Pompei
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 16 reviews
Home of the world's most famous volcanic disaster when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., Pompeii is now a significant archeological site that provides an amazing glimpse into the daily life of an average Roman town over two thousand years ago.
Reviewed By Viorel M
The site as a whole is fantastic considering its history however it was incredibly tourist unfriendly. Access is terribly poor if you go with a buggy or wheelchair and make sure that you book a guide as there is no information whatsoever on what you are looking at. We managed to cover quite a lot of ground with the buggy however but we were knackered by the end of the day.
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