Find A Phone Number In Italy

Italian phone numbers, phone codes and telephone directories

Phone numbers and phone codes in Italy are pretty easy to find online – and for free, mobile (cell) phones too (mobile phone numbers start with a 3, not zero). The telephone country calling code for Italy is 39. When calling abroad from Italy, the international call prefix [...]

Food in Central Italy

Food in Central Italy: a brief gastronomical tour!
Emilia Romagna; Tuscany; Umbria; Le Marche
Pomposa; Ravenna; Ferrara; Bologna; Modena; Parma; Siena; San Gimignano; Pisa; Lucca; Firenze (Florence); Arezzo; Montepulciano; Montalcino; Lake Trasimeno; Perugia; Assisi; Spoleto; Orvieto; San Leo; San Marino; Urbino; Ancona; Ascoli Piceno
Food in Central Italy may be the most familiar to tourists, but [...]

Food in Rome

Food in Rome and around: a brief gastronomical tour!
Rome and Lazio
Rome; Tuscania; Viterbo; Tarquinia; Cerveteri; Ostia Antica; Frascati; Monte Cassino
Perhaps the most savoury of all Italian regional cuisines, and perhaps due to its central location, the food in Rome and the surrounding district of Lazio offers an incredible variety of dishes and ingredients. [...]

Food in Northeast Italy

Food in North-east Italy: a brief gastronomical tour!
Trentino-Alto Adige; the Veneto and Friuli
Padua; Bassano del Grappa; Vicenza; Verona; Lake Garda; Trento; Bolzano; Cortina d’Ampezzo; Misurina; Trieste; Venice
Food in Northeast Italy often comprises dishes rich with creamy and meaty sauces, and risotto and polenta are often eaten instead of pasta.
Trentino-Alto Adige stretches from the [...]

Food in Southern Italy

Food in Southern Italy: a brief gastronomical tour!
Naples and Campania; Abruzzo, Molise and Puglia; Basilicata and Calabria; Sicily and Sardinia
Pompeii; Sorrento; Capri; Positano (Amalfi Coast); Bari; Matera; Castellana; Alberobello; Lecce; Taranto; Calabrian Mountains; Taormina; Syracuse; Ortygia Island; Piazza Armerina; Enna; Selinunte; Agrigento; Mondello; Palermo; Naples
The south of Italy, especially the far south, is a [...]

Food in Northwest Italy

Food in Northwest Italy: a brief gastronomical tour!
Liguria; Valle D’Aosta and Piedmont; Lombardy
Portofino (Cinque Terre); Genoa; Asti; Turin; Aosta; Vercelli; Milan; Cremona; Mantua; Stresa (Lake Maggiore); Como
It may be on the Italian side of the border, but the cuisine of Valle d’Aosta and Piedmont is strongly influenced by neighbouring France, as is much [...]

Food in Italy

Food in Italy: a brief gastronomical tour!
"The main characteristic of Italian cooking," according to the Italian Tourist Board website, "is its healthy balance, the excellent basic ingredients being simply cooked and retaining their original goodness and freshness. Simple and yet with such a variety of flavours and rich inventiveness in preparation, [...]

Italian Weights and Measures

Italian Weights and Measures and their equivalents

Units legally used in business in Italy
How to convert the metric system of weights and measures into their Imperial equivalents and vice versa

In general, weights & measures in Italy are metric, as in France.
Units legally used in business in Italy

Kilometre
1000 metres

Metre
 

Decimetre
1/10 of a metre

Centimetre
1/100 of a metre

Millimetre
1/1000 of [...]

Italy Travel

An Italy Tour is more than a Roman Holiday…
I love Italy. Travel in Italy should mean swanning round in a red Ferrari convertible between legendary hotels in legendary places like the Hotel Cipriani in Venice, the Hassler in Rome and Corbusier’s Punta Tragara in Capri.
Not just a dream…
Unfortunately this kind of Europe tour must remain [...]

Tour Routes in Italy

Suggested Tour Routes to make the best of your holiday in Italy
A Suggested Route around Italy
A comprehensive tour of Italy would take a long time, and if limited to the usually visited sights would omit many interesting experiences. However, here is my offering, and I’d say this was a 24 day minimum (excluding Rome):
Note: links [...]