This video explains The Roman Guy's top tips for visiting Venice on a day trip from Rome. Where to eat, how to get reservations to museums, how to get around, the best hidden gems and what are the top sights to see for first time visitors.
This video explains The Roman Guy's top tips for visiting Florence on a day trip from Rome. Where to eat, how to get reservations to museums, how to get around, the best hidden gems and what are the top sights to see for first time visitors.
In the Venice episode of Dream of Italy (season two), host Kathy McCabe learns how to row a gondola. She's taught by 8th-generation gondolier Franco Grossi.
In gritty Naples, we go shopping Neapolitan style, dodge scooters in Naples' crazy traffic, explore the city's vibrant neighborhoods, admire exquisite ancient mosaics at the National Museum of Archaeology, taste pizza in its birthplace, climb the lip of Mount Vesuvius, and wander the amazing ruins of the Roman town it destroyed: Pompeii.
In this travel talk, Rick Steves describes Italy's top stops — the Cinque Terre, Milan, Venice, Florence, Tuscan and Umbrian hill towns, Rome, Naples, and more — and explains practical travel skills (eating, sleeping, taking trains, avoiding lines, and outsmarting pickpockets).