The Best Travel Writing About Italy: Page 10 of 28

"Rome’s most modern hotel opened in 2001 near the Termini station. Not the most salubrious of neighbourhoods but the hotel is utterly different from everything else Rome has to offer. A milk factory was razed and the 7-storey half hotel/half car-park..."

"At the beginning of September of each year, Venetians commemorate the procession of boats that brought the wife of the King of Cyprus into Venice in the 15th Century. Leading this procession (a replica today) was the Bucintoro carrying the Doge ,..."

"Charming country house style in this small Capri townhouse hotel, full of flowers, and offering seaviews from most of the large, elegantly tiled rooms. Furnishings are antique or antique styled, and rooms have small sit-out balconies. There are six..."

"It’s not hard to imagine why Under the Tuscan Sun author Frances Mayes fell under the spell of this diminutive Tuscan hilltop city. (Alas, the only thing I was “under” when I visited was the threat of frostbite—but that’s another story). It’s so..."