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To start finding places to visit in Italy simply choose a region (from the main menu) or, if your geography is a litle rusty, use our map of Italy. See also the 'most beautiful villages of Italy' and the towns and villages that have received the Italian Orange Flag award for sustainable tourism.
Travel guide for Alba, historical town in Piedmont, Italy with a cathedral and several important medieval buildings
This map of Italy shows the most interesting and attractive places and highlights, as reviewed on Italy This Way - just zoom in to explore any region and select a place to visit. Further down the page you can see a map showing the positions of each of the Italian regions.
The Liguria region of north-west Italy is one of the most beautiful stretches of coast in Europe, with resorts and towns including San Remo and Portofino and numerous picturesque villages including the stunning villages of the Cinque Terre.
Imperia is a lovely coastal city on the Liguria coast between the French border and Genoa. The city was formed by grouping Porto Maurizio, Oneglio and some surrounding villages in 1923 at the decree of Mussolini.
The small town of Sarnico is at the sothern end of Lake Iseo, one of the important lakes in northern Italy. Sarnico was once a fishing village, then an important quarry centre, then later a centre for silk production. Tourism and yacht building are the main industries in the town today.
Mont Blanc - or Monte Bianco in Italian - stands on the French-Italian border between Courmayeur and the Val d'Aosta (Italy) and Chamonix (France) and is the tallest mountain in the Alps at 4,810 metres high.
Travel guide for Pesaro, Italy, with its many historical palaces and monuments and impressive art gallery and museum - and a popular coastal resort
Rapallo was originally a traditional harbour town in the Liguria region, and is now the largest and most important seaside resort on the Mediterranean coast in north-west Italy. It is situated on the Gulf of Tigullio to the north-east of the Portofino peninsula
Fano is a town and beach resort on the Adriatic Sea at the north of the Le Marche region, south-east of Pesaro. Unusually for the resorts along this part of the coast, the history of Fano dates back 2,000 years - it was at one time the largest roman settlement on the Adriatic - and there are some interesting Roman and 16th century buildings and ...
