Italy Vacation Guide: Plan Your Trip with Itineraries, Hotels and Things to Do from Rome to Venice

Plan an Italy trip that fits together

A first trip to Italy is a puzzle of timed tickets, fast trains and hotel choices. Some sights sell out weeks or months ahead, Venice charges day visitors on its busiest days, and the hotel you pick decides how much of each city you can see on foot. This guide follows the classic route from Rome to Venice and helps you decide where to go, how long to stay, what to book before you fly and where to sleep.

Where it takes you

• Rome and Vatican City, from the Colosseum, the Forum and the Pantheon to the Vatican Museums, the Borghese Gallery and Trastevere, with day trips to Ostia Antica, Tivoli, Orvieto and the Etruscan tombs of Cerveteri and Tarquinia • Naples, Pompeii and Herculaneum, the Amalfi Coast, Capri and Sorrento • Florence, from the Duomo and the Uffizi to the Oltrarno, with Siena, San Gimignano, Chianti, the Val d'Orcia, Pisa and Lucca • The five villages of the Cinque Terre, with the trails, trains and boats that link them • Bologna's food and porticoes, with day trips to Modena, Parma and Ravenna • Venice, sestiere by sestiere, with the access fee, the waterbuses and the islands of Murano and Burano • Milan's Last Supper and cathedral roof, the villas and ferries of Lake Como, the Borromean Islands of Lake Maggiore, Verona's Roman arena and opera festival, and a day trip to Sirmione on Lake Garda

Built for decisions

Itineraries from five days in Rome to two weeks across the country, with routes for the South, slow Tuscany and the northern lakes, are built around real journey times and the days museums close, with swaps for hot and rainy days and tips for traveling with children. Rome, Naples, Florence and Venice each come with an "if you only have one day" plan, and top choices are marked throughout. Hotels are chosen by neighborhood and nearest stop, from hostels and family-run guesthouses to small hotels on the Grand Canal, and a clear price key shows what to expect to pay.

The practical detail first-timers ask about

Which sights to book and when tickets are released. Entry rules for US travelers, including Europe's new Entry/Exit System. City tourist taxes, Venice's access fee and its days, and the rules that can earn you a fine. High-speed and regional trains, validating tickets, strikes, ZTL traffic zones and driving. Airport transfers, cards and cash, tipping and the cover charge, heat waves, acqua alta and what to wear in churches.

Understand what you're seeing

A short history from the Etruscans to the Republic, an introduction to Italian opera, a primer on art and architecture with a who's who of the great artists, the World Heritage sites along the route, Italian food and wine region by region, essential phrases with a menu reader, and a glossary of the words you'll meet on signs and tickets.

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E-bog: 6. november 2026