Top destinations in Italy

ROME The interior of the Pantheon in Rome, Italy
The Eternal City, Italy's amazing layer cake of ancient ruins, medieval neighborhoods, Renaissance paintings, baroque palaces, and the art of living la dolce vita, the Italian sweet life.

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FLORENCE
The Duomo of FlorenceFlorence was the cradle of the Renaissance, hometown to Michelangelo, da Vinci, Boticelli, and Brunelleschi's dome—not to mention Dante, juicy steaks, leather crafts, and Chianti.

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VENICE
A gondola in Venice in front of Santa maria della SaluteLa Serenissima is a city of stone seeming to float on the water, its Byzantine palaces and crooked alleys laced with canals and knit together by hundreds of tiny foot bridges.

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AMALFI COAST & CAPRI
The original Jet Set dream destination, a series of pastel villages tucked along one of Europe's most dramatic coastal drives, and just offshore: the fabled island of Capri where emperors and Golden Age Hollywood starlets once dallied.

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» Ravello
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TUSCANY
Beyond Florence (so important it gets its own section, above) lies Italy's most storied region, a landscape of medieval hilltowns, hills cloaked in Chianti vineyards, and cathedrals frescoed by Renaissance masters.

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» San Gimignano
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CINQUE TERRE
A collection of colorful fishing villages and old pirate coves strung like pearls along the southern tip of the Italian riviera and linked by ancient goat paths so you can hike from town to town through the Mediterranean macchia.

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» Manarola
» Corniglia
» Vernazza
» Monterosso al Mare
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CAMPANIA
This sun-kissed, seafood-loving region south of Rome was settled by Greeks and vacaitoned in by everyone from Roman emperors to Grand Tourists. It is is defined by the chaos of Naples and the tranquillity of Capri, the chic resorts of the Amalfi Coast and ancient ruins of the Phlagrean Fields, the Cliento plains, and the Roman cities destroyed by Vesuvius.

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