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DISCOVERY ITALY
This page on
our website is dedicated to our beautiful country and useful tips and links to
the Tour Operators that offer the best deal for your vacation.
With more than 43.7
million tourists
a year, Italy is the
fourth highest tourist earner, and fifth most visited country in the world,
behind France
(76.0 million), Spain
(55.6 million), United States
(49.4 million), and China
(46.8). People mainly come to Italy for its rich art, cuisine, history, fashion and culture, it's beautiful
coastline and beaches, its mountains, and priceless ancient monuments,
especially those from the Greek
civilization and Roman
civilization.
Italy has some of the
world's most ancient tourist resorts, dating back to the time of the Roman Republic, when
destinations such as Pompeii,
Naples, Ischia, Capri and especially Baia were popular with the
rich of Roman society. Pompeii
is currently Italy's third the world's 48th most visited tourist destination,
with over 2.5 million tourists a year.
Rome is
one of the most visited cities in the world, with an average of 7-10 million
tourists a year. The Colosseum
(4 million tourists) and the Vatican Museums (4.2
million tourists) are the 39th and 37th (respectively) most visited places in
the world, according to a recent study. Other main sights in the city include
the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain, Piazza Navona, St Peter's
Basilica, the Roman Forum,
Castel
Sant'Angelo, the Basilica of
St. John Lateran, the Spanish Steps, Villa Borghese park, Piazza del
Popolo, the Trastevere
and the Janiculum.
Apart from Rome, Venice and Florence are the top
destinations for tourism in Italy. Other major tourist locations include Turin, Milan, Naples, Padua, Bologna, Perugia, Genoa, Sicily, Sardinia, Salento and Cinque Terre. Two factors
in each of these locations are history and geography. The Roman Empire, middle ages, and renaissance have left many
cultural artifacts for the Italian tourist industry to use. Many northern
cities are also able to use the Alps
as an attraction for winter sports,
while coastal southern cities have the Mediterranean
Sea to draw tourists looking for sun.
Italy is home
to forty four
UNESCO World
Heritage Sites, more than any other country, including many entire
cities such as Verona,
Siena, Vicenza, Ferrara, San Gimignano, and Urbino. Ravenna hosts an
unprecedented eight different internationally recognized sites.
DISCOVERY ITALY
GENERAL
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travel packages contact claudio.damaro@evolutiontravel.it
ENIT
Italian government
tourist board
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