According to Roman insiders, the best way to see the Vatican is through a guided walking tour. If you’re interested in history and art, a professional tour guide will be able to walk you through the highlights of the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter’s Basilica, among other attractions. These tours take up about three to four hours altogether. A professional tour guide will also be able to provide more attentive service and bring you around to certain sections of the Museums that are not typically offered in a standard itinerary. For instance, a walk around the Pinacoteca Vaticana art gallery is just one of these value-added services. Guides are also authorized to take guests from the Sistine Chapel directly into St. Peter’s Basilica, an option which is not made available to individual tourists. The Vatican Museums are a must-see for guests: there are several different sections available […]
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Great news for all our readers! To kick off 2015, Tour Italy Now’s very own Founder and President, Dominic Siano, will be speaking at the Insider’s Italy panel during one of this year’s biggest travel events, the New York Times Travel Show 2015! The New York Times Travel Show is an annual three-day event that will be held from Friday, January 23, 2015, thru Sunday, January 25, 2015, at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. This event puts the country’s top travel experts and professionals all under one roof. The exhibition will feature exciting and highly-educational talks, seminars, and discussions about travel, as well as trade pavilions, international culinary demonstrations, and entertaining cultural performances. Last year, the event had an attendance of more than 23,000 visitors, and about 250 speakers in 60 panels were featured. Also present were over 520 exhibitors representing more than 150 international and domestic destinations. […]
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With summer winding down, we’ve been thinking about how we’d hoped to get to the beach more often, not just any beach of course but a beach in Italy … This slide show on CNN.com, right HERE, really gave us a serious case of wanderlust with a fixation on Italy’s islands. Check out these stunning shots of Capri, Sicily, Sardinia and the delightful island of Panarea in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the southwestern coast of Italy. Of course fall is a great time to get to an island in Italy. The weather can be warm enough to take a swim, or loll on one of those striped chaises on the beach. Speaking of Italy islands, here are a few fun facts about them. There are, according to this Wikipedia entry, 60-plus islands in the Mediterranean as well as 20-plus Islands in Italian lakes. Behold this list of enticing Mediterranean islands. […]
