10 best places to visit in Italy: ranking update

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Three months after the last ranking posted, an update is necessary to the list of the 10  best travel destinations in Italy. Many more travelers joined Gadders and shared their experiences, giving their votes and adding their travel tips to the places they visited lately in Italy.

The parameters on which the chart is based? The beauty of the places first of all, but also the fun activities you can do and its nightlife, how much safe is staying in each place and how cheap is to travel there, and last but not least, talking about Italy it's impossible not to take in consideration the quality of food!

Ready to travel to Tuscany? Read this before

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Are you going to travel to Italy, precisely to Tuscany, for your first time? If you are not well prepared in Italian geography...maybe you'd better read this post first!

Today we have the pleasure to share with you the (hilarious) reflection of an authoritative Italy's blogger and expat! Krista Ricchi on her blog "Alla Fiorentina" says she moved from Southern California to Florence, in Tuscany, after falling in love with an italian. And thanks to her own experience, she can now teach you what's the most important thing you need to know before visiting Tuscany...

What to see in Florence? The mysterious holes on old town palaces

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It's no surprise that all foreigners coming to Italy have Florence on top of their to-see-list. But it's a shame when they tell they have no more time than 1 or 2 days to visit the city. This is a post of some time ago about Florence and its main attractions, perfect for a short travel. But Florence is an open air museum, whose 'rooms' would need days and days to be discovered and admired in each of its masterpieces.

And along the old town streets, the glorious past of Florence has left us a lot of curious and intriguing secrets. In fact, the key to these mysterious surprises is always in the intimate history of the city. The history made ​​by the people, their habits, their passions, their beliefs, etc.

A rule to find the best beaches in Italy

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When it's time to look for the most gorgeous beach for your next travel plans, the rule is one: the best one is the most hard to reach!
You are already imagining it: a place where no trains arrive, where buses are to big to pass through the narrow road, where the closest bar is one mile far. Where lazy tourists don't go and you are the boss. Where can you find such a place in Italy? Are you thinking at the Amalfi coast? Yes, an idyllic place, with incredible coves down the cliffs, like this... But you're wrong! You wouldn't find more than one meter of empty space among all the tiny beaches of the small villages along this coast. That's not a place 'hard to reach'.

Italy's Top 10 Travel Destinations: ranking update

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Two months ago we published the first ranking of the best travel destinations in Italy according to the experiences that many travelers shared on Gadders.eu, the new platform for social traveling.

With summer holidays almost ending we can now see how things changed.

The parameters on which the chart is based? The beauty of the places first of all, but also the fun activities you can do and its nightlife, how much safe is staying in each place and how cheap is to travel there, and last but not least, talking about Italy, the quality of the food!

5 Places to visit on a trip to Tuscany

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From its imperial natural beauty to its wealth in culinary and artistic treasures, Tuscany is truly an irresistible idyllic arcadia that will delight you in a lot of different ways. Famous for its surreal and dramatic scenery, Tuscany has spellbinding landscapes dotted with lush cypress trees, olive groves, medieval fortresses and rolling hills. A nirvana for food lovers and wine connoisseurs, this Italian haven is also known for its world-class cuisine and sumptuous local wines. To top it all off, Tuscany has a wide collection of exquisite art museums, and has been a home to several illustrious figures in the history of science and art.

What to see in Tuscany: Siena, between art and folklore

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The ramparts, one of many vestiges of the glorious medieval past of the city, still dot the hills surrounding the sweet Siena, which gave the world the color "sienna" (the typical reddish color of its buildings) and in the thirteenth century produced a thriving artistic movement called the Sienese school.
The growth of the city, in the heart of Tuscany, in that period halted abruptly because of economic crisis and epidemics, starting from the plague of 1348 that killed 65,000 of the 100,000 inhabitants. Fortunately Piazza del Campo, the most beautiful medieval square in Italy, was completed just in time with the pretty town hall and the emblematic Torre del Mangia and the Fonte Gaia.

9 best places to visit in Italy: the first ranking

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Thanks to the experiences that many travelers shared on Gadders.eu, the new platform for social traveling, during its two first months of life, we can finally discover what's the ranking of Italy's Top Destinations, by now!

The parameters on which the chart is based? The beauty of the places first of all, but also the fun activities you can do and the nightlife, how much safe is staying there and how cheap for a tourist and, of course, talking about Italy, the quality of the food!

What do you expect to see in first position? One of the amazing mediterranean beach places of south Italy? Or one of the gorgeous art cities envied all over the world? Or maybe a charming mountain resort of the Alps...

Tuscany tour through the Chianti rolling hills

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A “must see” when organizing a travel to Italy is a long tour through the charming Tuscany. But what is surprising is that many foreigners, above famous places like Florence, Pisa and Siena, prefer to visit the area that is just in the middle of these three cities, known as Chianti. Maybe the most renowned countryside, dotted with many villages that still maintain the aspect of medieval boroughs, to enjoy on a car, or even better on a Vespa, to feel truly Italian. An experience that actually few Italians have done.

The next stop of our blog’s travel is there, on the Chianti hills, and the following is just a bit more southwards, in the beautiful village of Cortona, on the border between Tuscany and Umbria.

There is not only one Leaning tower in Pisa…

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Loads of tourists coming to Italy stop there to stay just in one square, to walk around the green of the “Campo dei Miracoli” and admire theat worldwide famous Leaning Tower and then leave Pisa without even going to the city center… But what if they would know that there are other two leaning towers??

The bell tower of the St. Nichols church and the one of the church of San Michele degli Scalzi, both on the Viale delle Piagge, in the true city center. If you are going to travel to Pisa now you might discover something that even Italians don’t know…

In the past one of the four Repubbliche Marinare and home to one of the leading European universities, Pisa is one of the most important art cities of Tuscany.

A travel in the heart of Italy's art: visit Florence

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After Rome, the second gadders destination we are going to meet on our travel plan, could only be Florence, after all the second most known italian city in the world and the second most reach in art, culture and history of Italy… So full of things worth to mention that you can’t be satisfied with this post.

City of inestimable historical and cultural value, Florence is also one of the most distinctive and enjoyable places in Italy and has maintained the strong imprint of the small late-medieval center that contributed so much to the cultural and political development of Europe.