Italy Travel Guide
We appreciate your interest in visiting Italy, our hospitable country. The site of the Italian Government Tourist Board has been created to meet specific American tourist needs; while navigating you will find useful information for planning your trip and discover all the best Italy has to offer: arts, gastronomy, fashion, natural beauties and cultural events.
Our country is renowned for its great tourist tradition, its unique artistic heritage, its beautiful cities, and its people and landscapes. Whatever your interests may be, Italy can satisfy them!
Travel to Italy
Featured Destinations from Europe
Lugo : Spain
Lugo is a city in northwestern Spain, the capital of the province of Lugo in the autonomous community of Galicia in Spain. The municipality had a population of 89,509 in 2002. The city was founded by Paulus Fabius Maximus and called Lucus Augusti in 13 B.C. on the positioning of a Roman
Tramore : Ireland
Tramore (Trá Mhór in Irish, meaning "big beach") is a seaside town in County Waterford on the southeast coast of Ireland. It is a popular resort for tourists in the summer and has 3 miles of beach and sand dunes looking out onto the Atlantic Ocean. The town is situated
Botosani : Romania
Boto?ani (population:129,000) is a city in Bukovina, Moldavia, Romania and it is the capital of the Boto?ani County. Origin of the name The name of the city probably has its origin in the name of a boyar family called Bota?, that lived in this place since the 11th century. The name of
Virginia : Ireland
Virginia (Acadh an Lúir in Irish) is a town located in County Cavan, Ireland. It is situated on the N3 road between Navan and Cavan on the shores of Lough Ramor.
Cugir : Romania
Cugir (Hungarian: Kudzsir, German: Kudschir) is a city in Alba county, Romania,about 45 kilometers south-west of Alba-Iulia, the capital of the county, and 300 meters above sea level in the Surianu Mountains. It has a population of 30,244 Numerous archeological discoveries prove that life in the region flourished as early as
Schull : Ireland
Schull or Skull (An Scoil in Irish) is a village in County Cork, Republic of Ireland. Located on the southwest coast of Ireland, in West Cork, the village is situated in a scenic and remote location. The village has a harbour, used for boating. The area, on the peninsula leading
Ferbane : Ireland
Ferbane (Féar Bán in Irish, meaning "white grass") is a small town on the north bank of the River Brosna in County Offaly, Ireland, between Birr and Athlone. Ireland's first milled-peat fired power station was commissioned by the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) at Ferbane in 1957. Since the station's closure in
Baia de Arama : Romania
Baia de Arama is a small Romanian town located in the Wallachian county of Mehedinti with a population of 5,724. The mayor is Nistor Buican-Paulescu. The Brebina river runs through the town, and it contains many Dacian ruins and other things one would expect to find in a small Wallachian
Thun : Switzerland
Thun (French Thoune) is a town in the canton of Bern in Switzerland with about 41,540 inhabitants (2003). It is located where the River Aare flows out of Lake Thun (Thunersee). Besides tourism, machine and apparatus engineering, the largest garrison of the country, the food industry and publishing are of
Van Gogh Museum
Opened in 1973, the Van Gogh Museum houses the collection of paintings bequeathed from the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo. The paintings were transferred to the Vincent Van Gogh Foundation in 1962 by Vincent’s nephew Vincent Willem Van Gogh, on the initiative of the Dutch government,
