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Winter Morning in Florence

Christmas Night in Florence

Assisi is a hill town in central Italy's Umbria region. It was the birthplace of Saint Francis (1181-1226), one of Italy's patron saints. The Basilica of St. Francis is a massive, two level church, consecrated in 1253. Its 13th century frescoes portraying the life of St. Francis have been attributed to Giotto and Cimabue, among others. The crypt houses the saint's stone sarcophagus.

Rising above the river, Hadrian designed his massive circular tomb in 123-139AD. Aurelian fortified it in 271 as part of his city walls. It was the papal castle for 1000 years - a viaduct from the Vatican let the popes scurry here in times of crisis. Gregory the Great named it in 590 after a vision of St. Michael announced the end of a plague from its tower, marked by the bronze statue of a swo...

The Italian railway system is one of the most important parts of the infrastructure of Italy, with a total length of 24,227 km (15,054 ml) of which active lines are 16,723 km (10,391 ml). The network has recently grown with the construction of the new high-speed rail network.

Venice's majestic "highway", the Canal Grande, is only one of the 177 canals flowing through city, but at some 4 km (2.5 miles) in length, 30 -70 m (98 - 230 ft) in width and averaging 4.5 m (15 ft) in depth, it certainly earns its name. Snaking its way through the city with a double curve, its banks are lined with exquisite palaces, while on its waters colorful flotillas of gondolas, ferries, ...

Venice, the capital of Northern Italy's Veneto region, is built on more then 100 small islands in a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea. It has no roads, just canals - including the Grand Canal thoroughfare - lined with Renaissance and Gothic palaces. The central square, Piazza San Marco, contains St. Mark's Basilica, which is tiled with Byzantine mosaics, and the Campanile bell tower offering views of ...

Siena is a city of steep medieval alleys surrounding Piazza del Campo. The buildings around the square symbolize the golden age of the city, between 1260 and 1348, when wealthy citizen contributed to a major programme of civic building. Siena's decline began in 1348 when the Black Death arrived, killing a third of the population; 200 years later, many more died when the Florentines sieged and e...

Getting Around Florence

Florence and Tuscany Bus Trip

The Academy of Fine Arts in Florence was founded in 1563 and was the first school in Europe set up to teach drawing, painting and sculpture. The art collection displayed in the gallery was formed in 1784 with the aim of providing students with material to study and copy. Since 1873, many of Michelangelo's most iconic works have been in the Accademia, most famously David (1504).

Bologna is the capital and largest city of Emillia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is known as the Fat City for its rich cuisine, and the Red City for its red tiled rooftop and, more recently, its leftist politics. it is also called the Learned city because it is home to the oldest university in the world. bologna famous for its towers, churches and lengthy porticoes. The Portico di San Lu...

The "city of beautiful towers" - which were built in the 13th century both as a display of wealth and to serve as private fortresses - is one of the best preserved medieval towns in Tuscany.

At the heart of the San Lorenzo street market is the bustling Mercato Centrale, Florence's busiest food market. It is housed in a vast two-story building of cast-iron and glass, built in 1874 by Giuseppe Mengoni.

Brancacci Chapel - Florence