Friday, October 10, 2008

Have you added Tuscany to your Holiday list?

Tuscany is fabulous place to visit in Italy, Florence is the most popular destination and there several small destinations that can enhance the Tuscany trip. Culture , Beauty of nature, exciting cities and Tuscany foods , specially Wine will drive to more memorable experience there.

Moving around Cities in Tuscany is not very difficult as other cities. You can rent a and drive your self, if your group is small, this is ideal, you all can enjoy your own way. But public transportation , bus and trains also available to move city by city.

Other than Florence, Siena, Pisa, Lucca and San Gimignano are other cities we have to visit to complete Tuscany trip.

Leaning Tower of Pisa is most popular attraction in Pisa and most of travelers go to Florence only also try to visit this place. By train you can go to Pisa from Florence by one hour. And Siena is one of the greatest medieval town in Italy. If you have time to visit Siena tall bell tower, you will amaze with views of the siena city. This is a small city with less crowd, but they are friendly and you can enjoy maximum there, even narrow street in Siena has different view of medieval ruins.

For wine , Chianti is the best place to visit. They are world famous for red wine. We can enjoy natural beauty in Chianti while slipping glass of red wine. Lucca is more famous for churches and some ancient medieval buildings. The Roman amphitheater is located in Lucca and is over in 1900 years old. The town center is completely enclosed by a brick wall built in the 16th century and you can take a walk along the top of the wall. San Gimignano is for hill towers, Originally it had 72 tower and now it is limited to 14 or more. Not to 72. natural sceneries with Hill is amazing

I may not detail about Florence on this post, It has to cover lot and I will write sperate post when I have spare time. I have cover Florence in several posts.

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Spring in Italy

This the best time to vist Italy> whether is mild, not hot as August and starting April is less crowd compared to september. But Entire May and june first week, crowd is high in most of destinations in Italy. Some times In Spring there are few days of rains. If you plan to visit any destinations in Italy in Spring, better to bring rain cort or umbrella. At rainy time dont expect to buy one on the street, street sellers will give you big bill. Bring sweater or sweat shirt too. It will help to warm you up. sometimes whole day you need to wam up. But most of the days, morning and evening warm up is enough. Day time can stay with normal clothes. My advise is to bring extra pair of shoes too, You may not wear sandles and go out.
Why I recommend this sprin is good for any destination in Italy ( specally Nothern areas) weather is perfect and less crowed, So you can easly move around and enjoy your vacation up to top. Do not worry about things to do in Spring, it is almost same as summer, most of places are open and street festivals are performing. shopes, restaurenst are open. sometimes you can gain from bit lower rates to Hotels and shopping items too.

Visiting gardens in your selected destination is must. you can enjoy beauty of spring blossoms.f you avoid main cities like Rome, Florence and visit to counrty side, you will enjoy the full beauty of Spring in Italy.Tuscany, Capri, Amalfi coast have great gardens to visit