Category: Travel Planning

This category has articles on planning your trip, including packing lists, transportation,  safety tips, travel etiquette, dining (restaurant reviews, dining guides), accommodations, and events & festivals.

  • Five Things to Do in the Refreshingly Tourist-Free Marches Region

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    Le Marche is known as “Italy in one region,” for it has mountains, beaches, and beautiful hill towns. Here are the top 5 things to do in Le Marche.

    Palazzo Ducale in Urbino, Le Marche
  • 9 Romantic Places to Propose in Rome

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    Romantic Rome is a very popular place for couples. Nearly every cobbled street in the Eternal City, at least in the city center, inspires a romantic gesture, a kiss, or even a proposal. It is folly to try to list all of the romantic spots in Rome. But here are nine places — some obvious,…

    a group of people standing next to a brick wall
  • Spooky Rome: Some of the Eeriest Places to Visit in the Eternal City

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    From extensive catacombs to spooky church tombs, Rome is like an instant haunted house and is a great place to visit during Halloween.

    Skeleton tomb Rome
  • Italy Adds Two More UNESCO Sites: Mantua and Sabbioneta and the Rhaetian Railway

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    Time to add two more Italian sites to the UNESCO World Heritage List. In July, UNESCO inscribed the Po Valley towns of Mantua and Sabbioneta and the Rhaetian Railway, which passes through the Swiss Alps into Tirano, Italy. Both new sites are located in the region of Lombardy. Mantua (Mantova) and Sabbioneta were selected for…

    Palazzo Ducale in Mantua/Mantova