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.

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

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Recommended Books & Maps

Recommended maps for planning your trip.

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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

A Quick Trip to Bella Venezia!: 21-24 April 2008. This was a short two-day trip to Venice, my favorite city in Italy!

Our First Ever Trip to Italy! Roaming in Rome and Climbing in Positano: May 13-26, 2009. My husband and I took our first trip to Italy. It was perfect, thanks to SlowTrav advice. Rome for five nights and Positano for six nights.

Primavera in Italia 09: April 23 2009 through May 5 My wife and I on our fourth trip to Italy, with friends who have never been there.

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