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Italy - Travel Resources

On this page we collect links to good travel resource websites.

> See Leslie's Links for more online resources for travel to Italy, by region.

Slow Travelers Websites About Italy

These web sites belong to members of our message board.

Bill Thayer's Italy Gazetteer: Bill Thayer runs a very detailed and non-commercial site about Italy. His site has the following sections that would interest Italy travelers:

LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World is a site about Roman antiquity.
A Gazetteer of Italy contains lots of tourist information about all of Italy.
Bill also has a detailed Trip Diaries section about his travel in Italy.

www.janeandken.com: Jane's trip reports, recommendations and photos from Italy and several other destinations. Great pictures! Jane's another regular Slow Traveler and is a regular on the message board.

www.travelpod.com: Gavin Crawford's trip reports and photos on TravelPod. Gavin is a regular on our message board.

www.wired2theworld.com: Personal travel web site.

knowmark.ca: Trip reports from Steve and Susan from Canada.

zurer.com/journals: Jim Zurer Italian Journals.

www.sitestory.dk/rejser/indexe.htm: Eric from Denmark trip reports.

www.arttrav.com: An art historian's view of Rome and Florence.

www.sienaitaly.com: Steve's personal travel information for Siena and other place in Italy.

General Information for Italy

www.walledtowns.com: Information about walled towns in Europe. Site is not complete yet.

www.italiantourism.com: Italy Tourism for North Americans - run by E.N.I.T - official Italy tourism

www.initaly.com: Italy Online

goitaly.about.com: Italy for Visitors, run by About.com

www.wel.it: Welcome to Italy Online

www.italytour.com: Tourist information

www.dolcevita.com: Tourist information

www.discoveritalia.it: Discover Italia - tourist information, hotels, restaurants, maps

www.ciao-italy.com: Ciao-Italy. Links to lots of sites with Italy information

www.vatican.va: The Vatican

www.englishyellowpages.it: English Yellow Pages for Italy (website not working June 2002)

www.paginegialle.it: The Italian Yellow pages in Italian. Search on a restaurant name (in the "cosa" box - means what) and the town (in the "dove" box - means where) then click "cerca" to search. Some restaurants have a picture and descripion, some are just listings, most have maps to show you the location.

www.multimap.com: Web site of maps - lots for Italy

www.parks.it: Parks in Italy

www.deliciousitaly.com: Delicious Italy is an online food and travel guide put together by a team of freelance marketing and tourism professionals based in Rome

roma.katolsk.no : Chris Nyborg's personal web site about the churches of Rome.

www.italyfever.com: Web site by Darlene Marwitz, author of the book "Italian Fever"

www.traveltax.msu.edu: World Travel and Tourism Tax Policy Center (out of Michigan) has information about VAT tax in Europe and how to get refunds

www.virtualitalia.com: Virtual Italy. Information about Italy, Italian things in the US, travelogs.

Amusing Flash Movies about Italy and Europe

Bruno Bozzetto is an Italian film maker. He created some very funny Flash movies about Italy. Yes & No: Driving in Italy is a "must see":
www.bozzetto.com/flashfilms2.htm