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Do not go in August to Italy! Since the resorts are hopelessly overcrowded. The prices climb to dizzying heights, and often half-board is compulsory. During the summer, the towns and museums are empty burst, they at Easter and long weekends. Good seasons are May / June and September / October, but many resort hotels close at the end of September. A guaranteed good weather there are long gone, come mid-August, the first heavy storm, and even in summer it can sometimes uncomfortable einregnen. Anyone wanting to experience Venice bearable empty and affordable, should go in November or January. The winter season includes Easter, the altitude of the Italian Alps and snow cannons to guarantee white slopes.

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Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana), is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within the Italian Peninsula, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland.
Italy has been the home of many European cultures, such as the Etruscans and the Romans, and later was the birthplace of the movement of the Renaissance, that began in Tuscany and spread all over Europe. Italy's capital Rome has been the center of Western civilization, and is the center of the Catholic Church.
Today, Italy is a democratic republic, and a developed country with the 7th-highest GDP, the 8th-highest Quality-of-life index, and the 20th-highest Human Development Index rating in the world. It is a founding member of what is now the European Union (having signed the Treaty of Rome in 1957), and also a member of the G8, the Council of Europe, the Western European Union, and the Central European Initiative. Beginning January 1, 2007, Italy became a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. (...) more....

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Car: The most traveled route to Italy, the Brenner motorway toll from Austria to Italy's South Tyrol. From Switzerland to come primarily through the 17 km-long St. Gotthard tunnel and through the Ticino to northern Italy. In addition, there are numerous mountain passes (some toll road), but in the winter months are usually not passable. A convenient, but in the season did not approve an alternative car trains (tel. 018 05 24 12 24, www.autoreisezug.de). Driver's license and vehicle registration are required. Highways in Italy are toll from a few sections in the south. In inner cities, there are fee-parking bays with machines. At all airports and major railway stations, you will find car rental companies (credit card required). Ask for cheap holidays and weekend rates! Reservations prior to travel are often cheaper. Deals for car rental is also available at www.marcopolo.de. Train: There are two main routes to Italy: The one leads through Switzerland and the St Gotthard tunnel, the other from Austria via the Brenner Pass. During the peak travel season, it is absolutely necessary, a sleep or Liegewagenplatz, possibly a seat reservation long in advance. Plane: Many budget airlines fly from various airports in Germany to Italy: Air Berlin (Milan, Rome), German Wings (Bologna, Milan, Rome), Hapag Lloyd (Bari, Bergamo, Naples, Pisa, Venice), Ryan Air (Bari, Bergamo, near Rimini, Forli, Pescara, Pisa, Rome, Treviso, Trieste, Verona), Intersky (Elba, Naples, Venice ), from Austria: Sky Europe (Florence, Venice), from Switzerland: Jonio Airlines (Brindisi).

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Passport required. Visa not required for tourist or business stays up to 90 days. (**90-day period begins when entering Schengen countries.) For longer stays, employment, or study, a visa is required and must be obtained in advance. For additional information, consult the Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven St., NW, Washington, DC 20008 (202/612-4400) or nearest Consulate General: CA (310/820-0622 or 415/931-4924), FL (305/374-6322), TX (713/850-7520/1), IL (312/467-1550/1), MA (617/542-0483/4), MI (313/963-8560), NY (212/737-9100), PA (215/592-7329) or TX (713/850-7520). Internet: www.italyemb.org. Mention tripwolf when you contact American Passport following the link below to ensure eligibility for special rates and services.

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At the counter, an espresso costs about 1 euro, who is drunk sitting at the table, can easily be doubled for the same drink, lie down, in places with a high of tourists and the three or four.

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Spiffy foundation of the kitchen, the pasta - and after Italy's wine country provides, each region to the right wine. A menu begins with antipasti, starters such as salami, ham, pickled onions, eggplant, artichokes, seafood, followed by the primo ( First course), a pasta dish, a soup or risotto, which is secondo (main course) meat, steamed, grilled, or fish, often just a barbecue, and with vegetables of choice (contorno). The report concludes with creamy desserts such as zabaglione and zuppa inglese or cake that is dipped into sweet fortified wines. Ristorante, trattoria, osteria, locanda - categories, to which we are now able to hold it. Is more helpful to look at the menu and ambience and the guests are (it Italian?). The once classy wine bar is now called osteria enoteca, or wine bar: Noble drops in the calice (chalice) to 2.50 to 10 euro a glass, cheese and sausages. Coperto added to the bill, the price of bread and cover (between 1 a.m. to 5 p.m. euros), which is always awarded on the menu. The service, unless expressly advertised as a non compreso, is included in the price. The kitchens of the restaurants open between 12.30 and between 19.30 and 14 clock and 22 clock. Pizzerias generally heat their stoves until midnight. Wen day hunger attacks, which can in a bar, panini (sandwiches), tramezzini (occupied toast sandwiches) and sweet pieces of dough to get. Is drunk as an aperitif Campari, prosecco, fruit cocktails or nonalcoholic Crodino, a grappa as a digestif, which is also in the Espresso can flip - this is then a caffè corretto. Mineral water is drunk or gassata naturale, so with or without carbon dioxide, and end of the beloved espresso.

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Before you leave to go to Italy, be sure to rent "A Room with a View."
Two great movies focusing on Rome are "La Dolce Vita," and "Open City."

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In all public places including bars, restaurants, airports, etc. Smoking is strictly forbidden - and they consider themselves off! Entering a restaurant, you control does not work immediately on a table. The chief will assign you a table. Of course you can express your wishes to be considered like, unless the table is not reserved. Please do not go in shorts or with uncovered shoulders churches, of course, especially not during the service.

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In Italy, it is never boring. There are Carnivals, medieval tournaments and music festivals - some examples: Carnival is celebrated in various ways: in Ivrea, Piedmont politico with an orgiastic oranges battle in Venice with spectacular masquerades, Viareggio in Tuscany with a non-satirical floats. Easter is the time in Catholic Italy moving processions Particularly impressive is the night train of the penitents who Penitenti in Puglia Taranto or) the resurrection of Christ in Sulmona (Abruzzo: La Madonna che Scappa in Piazza. The world-famous opera festival in the Roman arena in Verona. Maggio Musicale Fiorentino: International Festival of Music in Florence (www.maggiofiorentino.com) Pescara jazz, among the many jazz festivals during the Italian summer, one of the best. www.pescarajazz.com Arezzo Wave: For five days, playing on the best rock-pop groups of new trends, a festival of top class. www.arezzowave.com

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Unfortunately, we don't have much English information about Italy, but we have more information in other languages German, French, Italian, Spanish. Here is the automatic translation by Google:

The first warning of course applies to the street thieves and Autoknackern. Especially on mail and handbags in public transport should be well, you're not careful. Also it contributes fundamentally to the city stroll, the handbag and the camera on the side facing the wall, never on the street. The safest way of chest and abdominal pockets. In the hotel you should ask for guarded garages. Those who expect the purchase of counterfeit branded goods - such as Gucci - Prada and Louis Vuitton bags are caught - to be fitted with very high fines. To avoid unpleasant surprises, it is recommended In many cases, before asking the price, for example before the start of a taxi, at the order room, before the use of an auto repair shop or if the Tuscan steak, fiorentina, or fish, ordered their prices on the menu frequently per 100 g (are etto) awards. If at first glance, reasonably priced tourist menus in crowded cities, many a restaurant gets its profits come in through a service charge and over-priced drinks.

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Some health insurance companies have equipped their policyholders even with the new European Health Insurance Card EHIC, which you present in Italy in the hospital or the local health department ASL (Agenzia Sanitaria Locale). If not, it does even the old Form E-111 Who wants to secure extra to take out a travel insurance. Keep this in any case the evidence of your expenses at physician and pharmacy, and put it on your local box office on mostly trouble-free refund. A tip: The emergency department of hospitals (Pronto Soccorso) helps in general very fast, good and approachable.

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