Italy Travel Guides
10 guides covering festivals, events, city tips and local know-how for Italy.
City guides (3)
- Best places to visit in Italy in 2026City guidesWhere to go in Italy in 2026 — Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan and Naples compared, with real 2026 entrance prices for the Colosseum, Uffizi, Doge's Palace, the Last Supper and more.
- Best cities to visit in Italy in 2026City guidesRome, Florence, Venice, Milan and Naples compared for 2026 — history, art, canals, fashion and food, with best season and real entrance prices for each.
- Things to do in Turin, Italy: museums, arcades and nights outCity guidesWhat to do in Turin — a major Egyptian collection, the cinema museum inside the Mole Antonelliana, the Savoy royal palaces, kilometres of arcaded streets and a theatre season that runs from autumn to spring. The third-busiest city for events in Italy, after Milan and Rome.
Events & festivals (3)
- Italy's Sagre & Patron-Saint Festivals 2026: Palio di Siena, San Gennaro, Redentore & the Alba Truffle FairEvents & festivalsWhen Italy's most famous traditional festivals fall in 2026 — the Palio di Siena's two annual races, Naples' Festa di San Gennaro, Venice's Festa del Redentore and Alba's white-truffle fair — with sourced dates and the rule behind each.
- Milan nightlife guide: clubs, live music and aperitivo in ItalyEvents & festivalsWhere to go out in Milan — the aperitivo hour, the Navigli, Isola and Porta Venezia bar districts, the converted-factory live-music venues, and how to get home once the metro stops. Italy's densest night-out calendar, with the upcoming gigs we track listed below.
- Italy events calendar 2026-2027: what's on, month by monthEvents & festivalsA month-by-month guide to what is on in Italy — the open-air summer season, autumn food fairs, the indoor theatre and concert season that runs from September to spring, Christmas markets and Carnival, plus the public holidays that shift everything around them.
Practical & planning (3)
- 2 days in Rome: itinerary with prices (2026)Practical & planningA 2-day Rome itinerary with real 2026 entrance fees — the Colosseum, Vatican Museums, the Pantheon, Galleria Borghese and a daily cost breakdown.
- 2 days in Florence: itinerary with prices (2026)Practical & planningA practical 2-day Florence itinerary with real 2026 entrance fees — the Uffizi, Accademia, Palazzo Vecchio, Pitti Palace and the Duomo, plus what it costs.
- Public holidays in Italy 2026-2027: what closes and when to visitPractical & planningEvery national public holiday in Italy, what actually closes on each one, the local patron-saint days that shut a single city, how August works, and which months to travel in to avoid the lot.