Italy
Ancient ruins, Renaissance cities, the long road south.
Skip-the-line tickets, guided tours and day trips the length of Italy. The Colosseum and the Vatican, the Uffizi and the Grand Canal, Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast and the islands beyond.
Only in Italy
Three things you can only do here.
Cathedrals and old towns fill every corner of Europe. These three you can do nowhere else on earth: the arena where Rome watched the games, the chapel Michelangelo painted on his back, and a whole city stopped mid-morning by a volcano.
Ancient Rome
Stand inside the Colosseum.
Fifty thousand Romans once packed these tiers for the games. You can still walk the arena floor, climb the upper rings, and cross straight to the Forum and Palatine where the empire was actually run. Nowhere else lets you step into the ancient world in the middle of a living capital.
- 1 Colosseum, Roman Forum & Palatine Guided Tour
- 2 Rome: Colosseum, Roman Forum, Palatine with Multimedia Video
- 3 Rome: Colosseum, Forum, Palatine Hill Entry & Audioguide App
The Vatican
Look up in the Sistine Chapel.
The smallest country on earth holds the densest mile of art anywhere: Michelangelo's ceiling, Raphael's Rooms, kilometres of galleries, and St Peter's rising over the square. Go at opening and the Creation of Adam is almost yours alone.
- 1 Vatican: Museums & Sistine Chapel Entrance Ticket
- 2 Rome: Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel Skip-The-Line Ticket
- 3 Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel & St Peter’s Basilica Tour
Frozen in AD 79
Walk the streets of Pompeii.
When Vesuvius buried the city it preserved a whole Roman town: cart-ruts, frescoes, bakeries and all. You walk the same lava-stone streets the Romans did, with the volcano that did it still on the skyline. There is nowhere else quite like it.
- 1 Pompeii: Entry Ticket and Guided Tour with an Archaeologist
- 2 Pompeii: Small Group Tour with an Archaeologist
- 3 Pompeii: Skip-the-Line Entrance Ticket with Audio Guide
The coast south of Naples
Where the cliffs drop into the bluest water in Italy.
South of Naples the land falls into the sea: the lemon-terraced towns of the Amalfi Coast, the Blue Grotto glowing under Capri, Sorrento on its cliff above the bay. The boats leave each morning, and the water is the colour postcards promise.
Boat trips along the coast →Start here
Book this one before anything else.
If you do a single thing on your trip, make it this. The one ticket more travellers in Italy book than any other.
The classics
Italy's Most Popular Tours & Tickets
The Colosseum, the Vatican, the Uffizi, the Grand Canal. The experiences at the top of almost every first trip to Italy.
By city
Pick a city.
Each one is a trip in itself. Rome for the ruins. Florence for the Renaissance. Venice on the water. Naples for the chaos, the pizza and the coast south.
The bucket list
The sights you came to see.
The Colosseum and the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo's David. St Mark's and the Last Supper. Pompeii under the volcano. The names that put Italy on every list, and the ticket for each.
Plan the trip
Three ways to see Italy.
Italy is really several countries sharing a flag. Pick the one you came for, then build the trip around it.
Venice
A whole city built on the water.
A hundred islands stitched together by canals, with no cars and no roads, only boats and bridges. Ride the Grand Canal by gondola, stand under the gold mosaics of St Mark's, tour the Doge's Palace, then take the slow boat out to the glassblowers of Murano and the painted houses of Burano.
- 1 Venice: Grand Canal Gondola Ride with App Commentary
- 2 Boat Trip: Glimpse of Murano, Torcello & Burano Islands
- 3 Venice: Grand Canal by Gondola with Live Commentary
The Eternal City
Rome, from the ground up.
Two thousand years stacked on top of each other: the Colosseum and the Forum, the Vatican and the Pantheon, fountains around every corner. If you book three things in Rome, start with these.
The Renaissance city
Florence, where it all began.
Michelangelo, Botticelli and Brunelleschi, all within a few streets of the Arno. The David in the Accademia, the Uffizi's galleries, the dome you can still climb. Our three favourites for a first day in Florence.
South of Rome
Naples, Pompeii and the coast.
Pizza where it was invented, a Roman city frozen under Vesuvius, and the boats out to Capri and the Amalfi Coast. Three days out we'd build a southern leg around.
The classic route
The Grand Tour: Rome, Florence, Venice.
First time in Italy? The route travellers have followed for three centuries. One week, three cities, a fast train linking each, and no wasted day.
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