Slow Travel Italy - Vacation rentals, villas, reviews, hotels, restaurants, travel information

Find the information you need to select and book a vacation rental in Italy - a villa in Tuscany, a cottage on a farm in Umbria, an apartment in Rome - everything you need to make your decision is here.

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What You Will Find in this Section

	Trip Planning: Our favorite guidebooks, books about Italy, lists of Travel Agents, lists of Tour Guides and car services, descriptions of regions to visit, and more.
	Vacation Rentals: Read hundreds of reviews by other Slow Travelers. Lists of agencies, estates and sites for booking vacation rentals. See our SlowTrav Favorites.
	Hotels: Hundreds of reviews of hotels by region and notes on how to search for hotels and how to book them.
	Restaurants/Cafes: How to read the menus, how to order, how to pay, etc. Reviews by region of restaurants, caffes and gelaterias. Dean's Wine Notes: All about Italian wine.
	Instructions for Visitors: Survival guide for Italy: driving, parking, picking up rental cars at Rome or Florence airports, trains, Rome transportation, food shopping, phones, cell phones, Italian washing machines, etc. Language Lessons: Learn a little Italian for your trip. How to order in caffes and restaurants, count, pronounce place names.
	Accessible Rome: Seeing Rome from a wheelchair, general travel advice, which sites are accessible, how to get to them, maps showing routes. By Mary Murphy-Hanson
	Italian Fashion: What they are wearing this season, advice for what to pack, articles for each season by Judith Greenwood.
	Travel Notes: Things to do by region, travel guides, traveling with kids, lists of shops, where to go swimming, living in Italy, etc. ST Google Maps: Detailed, annotated Google Maps, made by Slow Travelers. Postcards: "Travel vignettes" - short stories about an event from a trip.

Photos of Italy: We have thousands of great travel photos.

Vacation rentals in Italy, cities and countryside. Use this site to learn more about Slow Travel.

Classified Listings

Classified Listings: Vacation rental agencies, listings by owner, hotels, B&Bs, travel consultants, tour guides, cooking schools, and more.

Slow Travel Community

Forums: Meet Other Slow Travelers! Ask your questions and join our discussions on our forums.

Submit Reviews: Send us reviews of vacation rentals, hotels, restaurants.

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What's New?

- Italy: Leaving Florence from the car rental areas

- Living Slow: Internal Affairs

- Italy: Siena

- Italy: Bologna

- Postcard: Sacro Monte di Crea

- Ginda's Umbria: Tuscany's Farmland

- The Origin of Italian Pottery

- Updated: One Day In Assisi

- Updated Italy: Travel Budget for 2008

- Living Slow: The House That Patience Built

- Slow Travel Favorite: San Potente

- Slow Travel Favorite: Live Like A Roman

... more of what's new

Sorrento Webcam

Sorrento Webcam: Many of us are addicted to this fabulous webcam.

Recommended Books & Maps

Recommended maps for planning your trip.

Italy, Instructions for Use

Chow Venice: Food and Wine

Read Our Trip Reports for Italy

Trip Reports is our most popular section! Read these travel journals written by other Slow Travelers. Learn from their experiences to plan your trip or just have some fun doing "armchair travel".

Latest Trip Reports for Italy

The Big Lasagna Tour-Four Friends, Eight Days in Rome during Easter Week 2008: March 15-24, 2008 Four friends spend eight days during Holy Week 2008, eating, drinking lots of wine and sightseeing in Bella Roma.

Family Vacation to Italy: Spring, 2008 Family Vacation: Rome, Florence, Sorrento and Amalfi Coast

Peace and Quiet in the Sistine Chapel? Unbelievable, but True: I spent two weeks in Rome during January 2008, discovering a more relaxed, friendly face to a fantastic city. With cooler weather and fewer crowds, Rome in winter feels very different than in other seasons to the extent that even a visit to that tourist magnet, the Sistine Chapel, can feel relaxed and even spiritual.

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