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Art and Culture Holidays in Italy

‘Italia! Oh Italia! Thou who hast the fatal gift of beauty’ wrote Lord Byron on his Grand Tour in the 19th century. While it certainly wouldn’t be advisable to swim in Byron’s wake in Venice’s...read more
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Barging and Waterway Holidays in Italy

Barging is a beguiling way of exploring the waterways around Venice and Padua, including visits to some of Palladio’s grandest villas. You can moor overnight on Venice’s minor islands and find you have both moorings...read more
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Battlefield Holidays in Italy

Once a primitive backwater, inhabited by hunter-gatherers living in caves, by the 8th century BC the Etruscans and Greeks had begun Italy’s transformation to the centre of the ancient world. The Bay of Naples was one of...read more
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Beach Holidays in Italy

Everyone has their own version of an idyllic beach. With over 5,300 miles of shoreline bordering Italy and its islands, take your pick from hideaway pebbly coves to long crescents of golden sand to castaway...read more
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Camping Holidays in Italy

Wake up in the morning to the spectacle of Mt Vesuvius looming across the Bay of Naples or gaze across the lagoon to Venice. For a true taste of Italian life al fresco. camping puts you...read more
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City Break Holidays in Italy

City breaks are an Italian forte, mostly because the cities are built on a human scale and so well-preserved. It helps that they are gorgeously laden with art and archaeological treasures. But the advent of...read more
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Conference and Corporate Events in Italy

In the past, corporate clients were wined and dined but fobbed off with hideous ‘corporate hospitality’ as anonymous as Italy is charismatic. Now, inspired by changing tastes in the travel industry, a demanding clientele realises...read more
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Cruising Holidays In and Around Italy

No other sea encompasses so much as the Mediterranean, a voyage back in time. On an art cruise, the ports of call present a treasure trove of galleries, churches and classical ruins. But these balmy,...read more
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Cycling Holidays in Italy

You don’t have to be in training for the Giro d’Italia (Tour of Italy race) to enjoy the current soaring passion for cycling holidays in Italy.  Slow and gentle, or exhilarating and thigh-burning, cycling in...read more
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Escorted Coach Tour Holidays in Italy

Touring by coach is a fantastic way to experience the best of a country’s scenery, history and culture with the companionship of like-minded people.  Many travellers relish the thought of being able to relax and...read more
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Food and Wine Holidays in Italy

As befits the bastion of the Slow Food movement, Italy is a leader in food and wine tourism. The country is riddled with strade dei sapori (food trails) and strade del vino (wine trails). The foodie trail takes you...read more
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Garden Tour Holidays in Italy

Formal or wild, pocket-sized or manicured parkland, fountain-splashed or perched over the sea, a world of delights awaits in some of the world’s most celebrated gardens. The Lakes have a bewitching combination of snowy alpine peaks and...read more
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Golf Holidays in Italy

Even in Roman times there was a variation of golf— the ‘paganica’, played with a stick and a leather ball stuffed with feathers. Today, take your pick of picturesque courses, on former hunting estates or...read more
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Island Holidays in Italy

At a conservative estimate there are 700 official Italian islands — although most of these are little more than rocky outcrops. For an island get-away, take your pick among 30 inhabited castaway idylls. Elba is one...read more
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Lakes and Mountain Holidays in Italy

The French writer Stendhal pitied ‘those who are not madly in love with them’. Bewitching and glamorous, the sparkling Italian Lakes continue to seduce and inspire. Caught between the icy peaks of the Alpsand the pinnacles...read more
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Rail Travel Holidays in Italy

‘Slow Travel’ is all the rage, a way of exploring at a leisurely pace, and caring about your carbon footprint. Given the sultry scenery, the journey can be an end in itself. And, unlike the...read more
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Religious Holidays in Italy

It’s estimated that more than 85 percent of Italians are Catholics and, while only a small proportion attend Mass regularly, Catholicism still plays a major role in Italian rituals. Religious tourism has always been a...read more
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Self-Catering Holidays in Italy

Italy is more than a glorified art museum so catering to your own tastes can be as rewarding as the Renaissance art. The country is full of Leonardo da Vinci landscapes and Piero della Francesca...read more
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Ski and Snowboard Holidays in Italy

Italy has stunning scenery, excellent snowmaking systems, perfectly groomed pistes, challenging off piste – and some of the world’s best mountain food and wine. Add to that, fun and matchless Italian style, it’s no surprise that...read more
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Spas and Well-Being Holidays in Italy

As the land of well-being, Italy wallows in spa culture. The Romans pretty much perfected holistic water cures. Along the way, some spas became over-medicalised. But the scary-white-coats brigade have been banished from the best...read more
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Sporting Holidays in Italy

On the Lakes and seaside, in towns and cities, up in the hills and mountains there’s a sport for everyone in La Bella Italia – the most famous of all, of course, being ‘the beautiful game’. Bellissimo may...read more
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Study Tour Holidays in Italy

Let Italy bring out the secret student in you. It might be a love of the language, art history, architecture, opera, dance, wine, or contemporary design. Whatever your passion, indulge it in style. Whether it’s...read more
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Tailor Made Holidays in Italy

Tailor-made is just that –bespoke travel, from a slight variation on a standard package to the gold-plated à la carte service.Using local knowledge and contacts, our specialist operators can ‘fix’ festivals, events, anniversaries, full itineraries, property-viewing,...read more
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Tennis Holidays in Italy

Listen to the gentle thwack-thwack of tennis balls, punctuated only by melodic birdsong. Up your game — or just sit back and enjoy. We have chosen our Love Italy specialists for their on-court professionalism and...read more
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Villa and Apartment Holidays in Italy

Italy is quintessential villa country and bedazzles us with beds with a view. How would European art-house cinema have survived without saturation coverage of Tuscan tower-houses, gracious lakeside villas or Palladian piles? But even at the...read more