The Best Travel Writing About Italy: Page 3 of 28

"When ‘Neptune’s people’ first colonised the islands of the Venetian lagoon in the early 5th-century a unique trilogy was born: a glamorous skyline; bewitching colours and a maze of shining, iridescent waterways. Like Botticelli’s Venus - Venice..."

"Cocooned within its weathered walls, the red roofs of Lucca - city of light – lie open to the Tuscan sky. A modern, provincial capital surrounds the 16th-century, stone ramparts but all eyes incline involuntarily towards the sepia bastions and giant..."

"On moving to Florence a few months ago, I lost many misconceptions I had about the ebullient golden city, namely the realisation that it is, in fact, a glorified village. With the centro storico and its environ all navigable by foot, in..."

"“When I went to Venice – my dream became my address,” Marcel Proust wrote famously in one of his letters. To write about Venice is banal. But it is even more banal not to write about it. After my many visits to this amazing city..."