italy vacations

Italian food is very popular throughout the world. Pasta comes in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and is served with many different types of sauce. Pizza also comes in different varieties. With both pasta sauces and pizza the basic ingredients are...

As is characteristic of Mediterranean regions the vegetation of Italy consists of trees such as the olive, orange, lemon, palm, and citron; as well as fig, date, pomegranate, almond trees, sugarcane and cotton. The vegetation of the Apennines is similar...

Small enough to be classified as an island but big enough to be a universe unto itself, Sardinia lies about 120 miles west of the Italian peninsula. Its coastline is probably Europe's most spectacular. Its waters teem with fish and shellfish. Its broad...

Milan's history as a capital city goes back at least 2,500 years. Its fortunes ever since - both as a great commercial trading center and as the object of regular conquest and occupation - are readily explained by its strategic position at the center...