For me Italy is the number 1 holiday destination! I said that when I was 21 after visiting seventeen European countries and I say it now many years later and after seeing a lot more of the world. Why? Here it's in brief.

Italy is really a 'bel paese' (beautiful country), with its breathtaking coastline, like the Amalfi coast and the Cinque Terre, and a picture-perfect panoramic inner landscape, covered with olive trees, vineyards, figs, orange and lemon trees. Its lakes and mountains, jeweled with seaside and cliff-hanging towns, make Italy a real paradiso!