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A week in Italy-must see places?

  • 16-03-2009 4:57pm
    #1
    Lola87
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    I'm planning to spend a week or so travelling through Italy by train, from north to south, probably finishing up in Sicily. What cities, sites, attractions would you recommend visiting? I want to visit Rome, Pompeii, Amalfi coast but unsure of where else, so would love to hear ideas. Also if anyone can recommend good hostels for these places too. Cheers.


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  • #2
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Florence is always high on people's list and you can do a day trip to Pisa from there. I loved Verona as well


  • #3
    finbarrk
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    I would consider Pisa a must. Even if the tower didn't lean it would be magnificient. Venice also if possible. Anyway a week isn't half enough time and you'll be wrecked from all the travelling.


  • #4
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    finbarrk wrote: »
    I would consider Pisa a must. Even if the tower didn't lean it would be magnificient.

    I stayed the night in Pisa, in a little place called "Granche" I think, it is a hostel at one end of the Square where the cathedral and Tower are. Grotty little place, but cost me about €20 for the night.

    Pisa is two different cities, at night it is a realy lovely place with very few tourists because they all head back to Florence on on to Rome.

    We had a fantastic meal in a little alley off a square, it was marked up as "Touristico Menu" and included hakf a bottle of wine. We thought it would just be cheap and cheerful food with a dodgy but of plonk. I can safely say, if you had an Italian meal like that in Ireland you would pay through the nose for it. The Cuisine in Italy is just brilliant. The Wine was good too, I think the Italians don't export the good stuff.


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