 In
Italy there are a thousand ways to use your free time:
practising sports, cultivating hobbies, relaxing, developing
your culture, going to a concert, a play, a traditional
festival, or to watch a sporting event. Or, simply sitting
in a bar and enjoying a cappuccino or a glass of good
wine, or wandering around the beautiful towns - large
and small - admiring and visiting their churches, palaces,
monuments, castles, archaeological sites, museums, galleries,
squares and streets. In Italy there is no problem: just
being there is already the best way to spend your free
time.
Italian Regions, Provinces and Municipalities
Italy is a country which has succeeded in cultivating
the greatness of even its least noted cities, villages
and hamlets. There is scarcely a place in Italy that
has remained untouched by the waves of history, art,
folklore and culinary tradition, where a visit does not
afford a chance for reflection or even simple pleasure.
Art and museums in Italy
Every journey to Italy is a 'tour artistique'. There
are so many art treasures of such quality, spread so
well across the country. that Italy can rightly be considered
a bona fide open-air art gallery. No other country in
the world can boast the cultural and artistic treasures
of Italy. More than half the world's historical and artistic
heritage is found in Italy (source: UNESCO). Evidence
can be seen in every village. In this journey into Italian
art, we wish to give you as complete as possible a guide
not only to its museums, but also to its cathedrals,
churches and parishes, its monasteries and convents,
its villas, palaces and castles spread throughout the
country, its archaeological sites and the monuments that
adorn small towns and big cities alike. An endless journey
into culture and beauty.
Exhibitions and events in Italy
Art and culture, the pleasures of good food and music,
traditional crafts and expressions of collective religion,
folklore and contemporary art, opera and operetta, concert
and theatre seasons: in Italy the calendar of festivals
and events is practically endless. Day after day people
work weaving a continuous thread with the past and memory,
living and interpreting the present and imagining the
future in a crowd of festivals, rituals, exhibitions,
expositions, recitals and markets. Not a single interest
is left unfulfilled, not a single curiosity unsatisfied.
Where to sleep
Where to sleep in Italy? There is only an embarrassment
of choice. In addition to more than thirty thousand hotels
located in every part of the country, there are an additional
thirty five thousand addresses of campsites, country
farmhouses, bed and breakfasts, youth hostels, private
accommodation and so forth. A vast and diverse range
of solutions which includes the cheapest and the most
luxurious, the most simple and the most sophisticated – all, however, in keeping with
the tradition of Italian hospitality made up of attention, courtesy and care.Information
about other types of accommodation will soon be added to our national databanks
which currently include hotels and campsites.
Article © 2002-2006, Italian
Tourism Board
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