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Journeys in Italy

27 pieces in Italy, newest first. Every one ends with the trips that go there.

Italy travel guide

History

The Villa Romana del Casale and its mosaics

4 min read

Walking

Walking above Lake Como, on the old mule tracks

4 min read

Journeys

Calabria and the Strait of Messina, Italy's toe

4 min read

Walking

Umbria, between the hill towns of Assisi, Spoleto and Orvieto

4 min read

History

Taormina, the Greek theatre above the sea

4 min read

Cruise

The Amalfi Coast from the sea, and the road you avoid

4 min read

History

Monreale and Palermo, the Norman kings' golden mosaics

4 min read

Journeys

Lake Garda and Verona

4 min read

Culture

Naples, the old city between the castle and the volcano

4 min read

History

Syracuse and Ortygia, the Greek city on an island

4 min read

Walking

Walking the Sorrento peninsula, between the Bay of Naples and Amalfi

4 min read

First time

Rome in four days, and the order to see it in

4 min read

History

Florence, and the city the Medici paid for

4 min read

Walking

The Dolomites, Bolzano and the pale mountains

4 min read

Seasons

Christmas on Italy's warmer coasts

3 min read

Culture

The Italian lakes, and why nobody wanted to leave

4 min read

Rail

The railway that stitched Italy together

4 min read

History

Two cities Vesuvius buried differently

3 min read

History

The grand tour, and how it became a coach party

4 min read

Cruise

Cinque Terre, and the road that was never built

3 min read

Slow travel

The Tuscany you reach on foot

4 min read

History

Venice, built on the water it never quite tamed

4 min read

History

The war fought above the snow line

4 min read

Culture

Sardinia, older than Rome and in no hurry to say so

3 min read

Culture

Puglia, and the houses built to vanish overnight

4 min read

History

Sicily, where every empire wanted the same island

3 min read

Walking

The Path of the Gods, and the coast it looks down on

4 min read