Travel to Italy

Browse listings of  Home Exchange, Vacation Rentals, B&B, Homestay (furnished apartments, villas, cottages, condos, farmhouses and other types of accommodations) by regions of Italy:

Vacation Rentals	Bed and Breakfast	Home Exchange	Homestay
Abruzzo	Abruzzo	Abruzzo	Abruzzo
Basilicata	Basilicata	Basilicata	Basilicata
Calabria	Calabria	Calabria	Calabria
Campania	Campania	Campania	Campania
Emilia-Romagna	Emilia-Romagna	Emilia-Romagna	Emilia-Romagna
Friuli-Venezia Giulia	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Lazio	Lazio	Lazio	Lazio
Liguria	Liguria	Liguria	Liguria
Lombardy	Lombardy	Lombardy	Lombardy
Marche	Marche	Marche	Marche
Molise	Molise	Molise	Molise
Piemonte	Piemonte	Piemonte	Piemonte
Puglia	Puglia	Puglia	Puglia
Sardegna	Sardegna	Sardegna	Sardegna
Sicily	Sicily	Sicily	Sicily
Trentino-Alto Adige	Trentino-Alto Adige	Trentino-Alto Adige	Trentino-Alto Adige
Tuscany	Tuscany	Tuscany	Tuscany
Umbria	Umbria	Umbria	Umbria
Valle d'Aosta	Valle d'Aosta	Valle d'Aosta	Valle d'Aosta
Veneto	Veneto	Veneto	Veneto

Last Minute Tips Before you Travel to Italy

• Time Zone: GMT/UTC +1 (+2 in summer) (Central European Time)
• Electricity: 220V, 50 Hz (bring an adapter/transformer for your hair drier, laptop, cellular phone etc.)
• Currency: Euro (Euro)
• Country Dialing Code: 39

Must See - Properties on UNESCO World Heritage List

• Rock Drawings in Valcamonica (Lombardy Region)
• Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura (Lazio region)
• Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with "
• Historic Centre of Florence (Tuscany region)
• Venice and its Lagoon (Veneto region)
• Piazza del Duomo, Pisa (Tuscany region)
• Historic Centre of San Gimignano (Tuscany region)
• I Sassi di Matera (Basilicate region)
• City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto (Veneto Region)
• Historic Centre of Siena (Tuscany region)
• Historic Centre of Naples (Campania region)
• Crespi d'Adda (Lombardy Region)
• Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta (Emilia-Romagna region)
• The Trulli of Alberobell (Puglia Region)
• Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna (Emilia-Romagna region)
• Historic Centre of the City of Pienza (Tuscany region)
• 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta, with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex (Campania region)
• Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua (Veneto Region)
• Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) (Liguria region)
• Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena (Emilia-Romagna region)
• Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
• Costiera Amalfitana
• Archaeological Area of Agrigento
• Villa Romana del Casale
• Su Nuraxi di Barumini
• Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia
• Historic Centre of Urbino
• Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula
• Villa Adriana
• City of Verona
• Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
• Villa d'Este, Tivoli
• Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-eastern Sicily)
• Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
• Val d'Orcia
• Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia

  Location
  Southern Europe, a peninsula extending into the central Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia

  Capital
  Rome

  Population
  61,261,254 (July 2012 est.)

  Italian Regions:
  16 regions (regioni, singular - regione) and 4 autonomous regions* (regioni autonome, singular - regione autonoma); Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia*, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardia, Marche, Molise, Piemonte, Puglia, Sardegna*, Sicilia, Toscana, Trentino-Alto Adige*, Umbria, Valle d'Aosta*, Veneto

  Largest cities of Italy
  Rome, Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Genoa, Bologna, Florence, Bari, Catania, Venice, Verona, Messina, Padua, Trieste

  Climate
  predominantly Mediterranean; Alpine in far north; hot, dry in south

  Ethnic groups
  Italian (includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and Albanian-Italians and Greek-Italians in the south)

  Religions
  Christian 80% (overwhelming Roman Catholic with very small groups of Jehova Witnesses and Protestants), Muslims NEGL (about 700,000 but growing), Atheists and Agnostics 20%

  Languages
  Italian (official), German (parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region are predominantly German speaking), French (small French-speaking minority in Valle d'Aosta region), Slovene (Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area)

  Government type
  Republic

  Background
  Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the regional states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI established a Fascist dictatorship. His alliance with Nazi Germany led to Italy's defeat in World War II. A democratic republic replaced the monarchy in 1946 and economic revival followed. Italy is a charter member of NATO and the European Economic Community (EEC). It has been at the forefront of European economic and political unification, joining the Economic and Monetary Union in 1999. Persistent problems include sluggish economic growth, low youth and female employment, organized crime, corruption, and economic disparities between southern Italy and the more prosperous north.

  Flag of Italy
  Design inspired by the French flag brought to Italy by Napoleon in 1797; colors are those of Milan (red and white) combined with the green uniform color of the Milanese civic guard note: similar to the flag of Mexico, which is longer, uses darker shades of red and green, and has its coat of arms centered on the white band; Ireland, which is longer and is green (hoist side), white, and orange; also similar to the flag of the Cote d'Ivoire, which has the colors reversed - orange (hoist side), white, and green

  Learn Italian in Italy
  

  • Italian Language School in Italy Scuola Leonardo da Vinci

  Italian Basic Words
  Hello! - Ciao!
  Hi! - Salve!
  Goodbye - Arrivederci! (formal)
  Goodbye - Ciao! (informal)
  Yes - Sì
  How are you? - Come sta? (formal)
  No - No
  Very good - Molto bene
  Thank you - Grazie
  Thank you very much - Molte grazie
  OK/Good - Va bene
  Good day - Buongiorno
  Good evening - Buonasera
  You're welcome - Prego
  Good night - Buonanotte
  It was nothing - Niente
  Please - Per favore
  Cheers! (toast) - Salute!
  See you later - Ci vediamo!
  Excuse me - Sorry! Scusa!
  Open - Aperto
  See you tomorrow - Ci vediamo domani!
  Closed - Chiuso
  Small - Piccolo
  Big - Grande
  

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