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Italy is a country located partly on the European Continent and partly on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia.

The land known as Italy today has been the cradle of European cultures and peoples, Italy’s capital, Rome, was for centuries the political centre of Western civilization, as the capital of the Roman Empire.

Modern Italy is a democratic republic. It has been ranked the world’s eighteenth most-developed country.

Italy has a diverse climate ranging from the Mediterranean to the continental sub tropical.

Italy is a beautiful country, a place of olive oil, pasta, wine, mafia and sunshine, roman ruins and renaissance palaces, Italy has a lot to give its tourists.

Italy though linked by rail and air is best savored when seen by road. It is scenic with a bounty of flora and fauna.

• Destinations.

Florence is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Located in the heart of Tuscany, a stunning province of hills and mountains, the Renaissance capital of the world, with famous sons like Leonardo, Dante, Machiavelli and Michelangelo, is a sight not to be missed.

Genoa is “the most winding, incoherent of cities, the most entangled topographical ravel in the world.”

Milan is a city like no other in Italy. It’s foggy in winter, muggy in summer, and is closer in outlook, as well as distance, to London than to Palermo.

Naples, in the shadow of the Mount Vesuvius, the fertile crescent of Campania cradles the Bay of Naples and the larger Gulf of Salerno. Some say, this is Italy’s most spectacular natural setting.

Padua, Extensively reconstructed after the damage caused by bombing in World War II, and hemmed in by the sprawl that has accompanied its development as the most important economic centre of the Veneto.

Palermo is the capital of Sicily and its largest city – stupendously sited in its own wide bay underneath the limestone bulk of Monte Pellegrino, originally a Phoenician, and then a Carthaginian colony.

Since the beginning of tourism, Pisa has been known for just one thing – the Leaning Tower, which serves around the world as a shorthand image for Italy.

Roma: the name inverts neatly to form ‘amor’. And that’s it – people tend either to love or to hate the place and Rome can reward you as no other city can.

Nobody arrives in Venice and sees the city for the first time. Depicted and described so often that its image has become part of the European collective consciousness, Venice can initially create the slightly anticlimactic feeling that everything looks exactly as it should.

With its wealth of Roman sites and streets of pink-hued medieval buildings, the easy-going city of Verona has more in the way of sights than any other place in the Veneto except Venice itself.