I remember visiting Miami one time, and chatting with a few freindly Americans. They claimed without any doubts whatsoever : Look at that beach...Only in America ! You don't have beaches like this in Europe hey !? . Me : "Ummmm. Sure it's very nice...But i guess you never been to Italy right ? 😅
I am Italian, the water temperature flactuate during the year. in winter can be 12-10° Celsius in Summer between june and october can be 25-29 ° , but It depend a lot of where in the mediterranea you are. In the North mediterranean and in Greece close to black Sea, It flactuate more between 10 to 29 ° In southern mediterranean Is differenti temperature flactuate a lot less ad un between 17 to 28°
@@vessillopirata3347 These days there are all these videos about how Americans don't know much about the world . But when i went there the first time, some 25 years ago i was really surprised how little most Americans knew (or cared ) about the rest of the world.
Italy never stops to impress you, I have been living here since I was born and I haven't seen even a bit of what my country has to offer, though we are a relatively a small country you have to consider that basically we are culturally a collage of smaller cultures.
i'm Swiss but i travel at least 4x a year through Italy! it has the most UNESCO Heritage places and monuments in the world, but i'm more fascinated by traveling through the landscape, visiting unknown towns, villages, it is so relaxing
@@Ezekiel903 It is a village in the province of Piacenza, in the Emilia Romagna region. Look for it on the internet. In the first comment I spelled the name wrong, but I have now corrected it
6:40 it's true. In Sardinia we have such beautifull coasts, but not only this: we have about 50.000 neolitic sites named " nuraghi", ancients military castles of " contract warrior" of ancient egiphtians, persians and Cartagine troupes, and other archeologic sites( the greatest punic necropolis of the Europe and roman anphiteathre dolmen and magics sites to the sun and stars culte like Stonehenge). But, yes, all people know it only for our coast.
Italy is wonderful. In the same moment you can see people skiing on the top of alpine chain on the north of the country and people swimming in the sea on the south. Also cuisine changes. Everywhere you go you can taste different food and always very good. The cuisine and wine are pure art, like monuments and pictures. 😉🇮🇹😘
There are 2 regions in Italy that really don't get enough recognition Umbria and Abrruzzo. The landscapes there can be really breathtaking, amazing nature and of course amazing food and they're not spoilt by tourism.
Tutto molto bello .. ma .. la TOP 10 per i paesi europei non basta !! Per l’Italia dovresti fare minimo la TOP 80/100 .. c’è davvero troppo da vedere x un turista .. e tutto quanto al 🔝 🇮🇹🔝🇮🇹🔝 L’Italia è davvero molto particolare x cultura, tradizione, architettura, cibo religione e chi più ne ha più ne metta !!
Yes the Gladiator - in particular the scenes of Maximus house and the Elysian Fields - was shoot in Val d'Orcia near to Siena in Tuscany (an UNESCO World Heritage site, for me the most beautiful place in Italy)
Hi, I'm from Italy (Apulia) and I can say that the Mediterranean is effectively warmer than Oceans in general, but it's not "hot water" because it is a big Sea, despite being a closed sea. Regarding Polignano a Mare, young boys usually do diving competitions jumping from the city to the sea (in specific point), but you can't go under inside the cliffs because there are no tunnels. Yes, the gladiator's scenes in Elysium were set in Tuscany, but San Gimignano's towers are not watchtowers. They were built from San Gimignano's Medieval Aristocracy as status simbols of their family's wealth and power. Another Italian city with towers like San Gimignano is Bologna, that had the tallest monument in Europe built before the Eiffel Tower. It is the Torre degli Asinelli, it's medieval and it's quite 97 meters, alias 319 feet (actually, is taller than the Liberty Statue).
Hey. I'm English (both parents English) but was raised and educated in Spain from the age of 2. I still prefer holidays in Italy, I've spent a lot of time in Italy. The video is good, but there is so much more to Italy than shown, Umbria is a region I would highly recommend, very similar to Tuscany but less spoilt by tourism. The Gran Sasso is spectacular, which is a region in the Apennines mountain rage that runs down the spine of Italy. Every region in Italy has something to offer and of course the food is amazing!!!!!
I'm from northern Tuscany but I loved my travel in Umbria last year, mostly because there's not that many consumerist kitsch turism which sadly affects my region, the whole country and the entire Europe...
14:26 a "fun fact" that I love about Florence cathedral.. the artist/engineer who did the dome was Filippo Brunelleschi, he discovered a genius way to build the biggest dome ever... So genius that when Michelangelo planned S.Peter's dome, almost 150 years later, he did that 1 meter smaller to show respect... I went there two years ago, and arriving in that little square with that glorious cathedral, for me is the true definition of breathtaking
Let me assure you, that it's only a little part of italian beauties. Out to turistics ways, however so much stuff (Roma, Venezia, Firenze, Napoli, Verona, Palermo, Milano, Torino, and so muche more), there are incredible attraction. Thousands of little cities or villages, in every part of italy, with art, culture, entertainment and wonderful natural landscapes. Take a car and go ahead, in any direction, and you will find something special. Not to mention the food, in every region there are traditional local specialities, one better than the other...
As a Italian, I really appreciate that people of other countries are interested in Italy, and that they have been there (I actually should say ‘here’ but nvm), I don’t really like Italy but I’m learning to love it, so I appreciate that people from other countries are learning to love Italy too!
@@lukazzmatizz4378 L'Italia è veramente bellissima, ma andare in paesi stranieri ti permette di conoscere culture differenti e aprire gli orizzonti. Io non viaggio all'estero solo per conoscere posti belli, ma viaggio all'estero soprattutto per conoscere mondi nuovi
Italy is of course endlessly interesting, with objects and remnants from every age. North-west of Rome there are for example places with interesting Etruscan burial chambers, some with the most beautiful paintings illustrating feasting in the after-life! Look up Cerveteri and Tarquinia. Orvieto is also a unique little place, a town/village on the flat top of a hill with vertical sides, sort of sticking up from the flat land around it. Quite close to Rome there are several villages, Frascati and the Albanian hills with two lakes, lovely place in summer. A little inland is the one and only original Tivoli, with a large garden constructed in the Renaissance for Cardinal d'Este, with running water everywhere (and of course sculptures). You can drive into Rome on the Via Appia, it still holds up today as in antiquity.
You are absolutely right!! What the video shows is incredible, but Italy has an INFINITE heritage...soooo underrate.. Greetings from Tarquinia! 🤗😉 ...Ps..Take a look at my city...you will be amazed😏🙌🏻
I have a problem with this kind of videos, and the problem is that, being "top 10", they leave out so much. In all of Europe, but expecially Italy, you'd feel restrained with a top 10 per region.
The gladiator scenes of the wife’s house and of the campi elisi were actually taken in Tuscany, close to the place shown in the video (in Pieve di Corsignano for the campi elisi and near San Quirico d’Orcia for the gladiator’s house) ;)
Piemonte and Veneto were completely forgotten, despite they own tons of UNESCO heritage's places and goods like Langhe, Monferrato, Roero, wines, truffles and so on.
Hi , we rented a bungalow first time in Italy just south of Rome ant it was from the second week of June and was a little surprised how cool the water in the Mediterranean was. Back in Sweden we got tips to go in september instead when the sun warmed up the Mediterranean throughout the summer , so we did and the difference was gigantic not only watertemperature but also in the air , after flying from Stockholm " takes around two hours to Rome " when autumn begins to be felt in Sweden and lands in Rome , it is hardly possible to breathe from the heat in Italy you encounter when you leave the plane . Now after the pandemic we will return for the sixth time . Same experience from the times we visited Greece. We usually call Italy our second homeland because if you place a needle at the far south of Sweden , turn the whole country so that north becomes south , we end up in Rome.
12:08, you’re right. The scene of the Gladiator house was filmed in Val d’Orcia (Tuscany) not in Spain. However in this video you saw only the 3% of the wonderful places you can find in Italy.
I visited Puglia region and nearby Matera city this summer, in august, it was hella hot but that place is amazzzzzzing. I totally recommend these places. Italy is so beautiful
Fun fact about Amalfi: it was one of the greatest trade republics of the post-Roman Italian Peninsula along with other 4 cities. It went into decline after losing its independence and autonomy to the heavily centralized Norman Kingdom that controlled most of Southern Italy at the time.
Yeah, the water in the Mediterranean gets quite cold in winter. You know, it's still winter - the temperature gets exchanged with the cold air as well, you know. But it's still way better than the rest of Europe.
Considerando che l'Italia è il Paese con più patrimonio artistico al mondo, solo questo dovrebbe far capire quanto vale la pena visitarla almeno una volta nella vita
Among the many things I recommend is a fairytale place, a daydream, the Abruzzo-Lazio-Molise National Park and always in Abruzzo the Costa dei Trabocchi
to answer some questions: Yes, Lake Como originated from a glacier, and no, the Mediterranean Sea is not at a constant temperature, one thing you may not understand is that the Mediterranean Sea is so large, therefore it obviously has its own currents, where I live (in the Adriatic precisely, therefore a "closed" sea, to the right of Italy to make you understand, so it may be that the temperatures are higher, plus, my city is in a gulf within a gulf lol)) it fluctuates between 10 degrees on average in winter and about 24 degrees in summer.
it's actually the other way around: its real name is flavian amphitheatre and colosseum is just a nickname it gained later on because of its proximity to a colossal statue of Nero. That's why there are no other colosseums in the world: the type of building is called amphitheatre, of which there are still a lot.
To answer your question at 5:20 , yes, lake of Como had a glacial formation like in parts of Scandinavia as you mentioned since the lake is on the doorstep of the alps. If anyone comes around here a boat trip around the lake is a must to experiences it in all it’s beauty 😊
Yes the lake had a glacial formation but also a fluvial one, the origin of the lake is still debated. The most probable hypothesis is that the origin of the lake was caused by deep river excavations reshaped by repeated glacial erosions in the last two million years. The atypical origin of the lake allows it to be te deepest one in Italy and the fifth in Europe; at its deepest it's 412 m. I'm fortunate enough to live near it, and yes it is beautiful.
I must say I really like this top10 for being less sterotipical and being a good sample across all the variety that Italy has to offer. At the same time a top10 Italian places to visit excluding places no less than Venice and Siena (just to name a couple from the top of my head) made me think that it would be very interesting to compare with other countries, put aside the top10s and focusing on entries let's say from 11 to 20 (or maybe from 11 to 50) and see what each country has to offer "in the long run". I guess Italy would have a remarkably "solid" and assorted long bench very few can contend with.
answering to the mediterranien temperature: the norther you are, the more it fluctuates, but in general is considered a warm sea. if you go near the tropics, like the african coasts, or some southern greek islands, the temperature will be around 30°C all year. I wouldn't say it's warm when it comes to genova or venezia (northen italy)
I go too Italy every weekend on prowalks TH-cam channel... You put the caption on English and you'll give you information and history. That's how I got through 2020 wishing I was somewhere else. 🤭
You should look at a world map. Naples is around the same latitude of New York. The med has a microclimate so not as cold. The water is around 22°celsius in the summer.
the water of the mideterranean sea is good to swim from May to October, but at times even for longer periods. It's not unusual to hear sicilians having a bath in January :)
Great video you reacted to ... but Venice should definitely be on any Italy top ten, in fact in any Europe top ten. Italy is an amazing country, so much to see - natural sights, historical sights, cities, towns, villages. I've been to Italy many times in the past 5 years (I live in Poland, so it's easy and cheap to fly there), including for Italian language courses in Venice and elsewhere.
You need to look up for Marche Region also...opposite to Tuscany ..on the other side of the Appenine Mountains and facing the Adriatic coast !! Beautiful Cities, the likes of Ascoli, Macerata, Loreto and Urbino, beautiful small lakes too ! ☺️
In Sardegna ci sono tante cose da vedere, purtroppo hanno fatto vedere solo alcune località costiere. Anche noi sardi abbiamo la nostra storia, le nostre tradizioni, il cibo, i monti e altri splendidi posti da visitare e restare incantati!
Very good video! Yes, all the prealpine lakes were created by glaciers (Lago Maggiore, Lago di Como, Lago d’Iseo and Lago di Garda are the largest ones). Mediterranean Sea is definitely warmer and generally calm compared to the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Gladiator was filmed in “Val d’Orcia” Tuscany. Greetings from Milano!
ma che 3%? sarà il 3 per 10.000.. ha preso le foto più belle, e il gargano? matera? le saline? i canali da venezia a trieste? Verona? Burano? Pietrapertosa? .. ma facciamo prima a togliere che a mettere..
@@mrmetalzeb4596 tu forse vivi su Marte ,vai in Sicilia, Puglia Sardegna 5 terre, Calabria, Toscana, tutte le regioni gira fatti un viaggio vieni in Italia, guarda,vedi con i tuoi occhi, e poi parli ......se non sei informato ,te lo dico io,per niente siamo lo stato che ha più siti UNESCO del mondo, un motivo ci sarà 🇮🇹❤️✈️🎩 ..
@@giuseppebordonaro365 Non proprio di marte ma quasi, sono di Venezia e ci abito. Le ferie normalmente le faccio qui e quest'anno era a Taormina e per 15 anni sono andato a Capri, qualche volta vado in Croazia o Slovenia perchè sono vicine ma perlopiù ho la barca quindi faccio giretti entro 100 km (2/3 ore a velocità accettabile). Per lavoro una decine di volte all'anno vado a Portofino e un paio a Ravello. Mica ho detto che il mare in Italia è brutto, solo che non dovete pensare che nel resto del mondo non ci sia nulla. Non è che magari un giretto fuori te lo devi fare tu? Comunque Giuseppe, te lo dico in rima: un tono pacato è sempre apprezzato. non è un caso di lesa maestà, ho solo detto quello che penso. relax.
@@mrmetalzeb4596 faccio qualche crociera, mi piace viaggiare,e a dicembre vado in Ungheria (Budapest) sono andato in alcuni paesi europei... sono bei paesi ,comunque guarda i video di alcuni youtube:the fabritz, anitapinter, john montoya, pamela kurt, places we love ,comunque w l'Europa, w l'Italia....ciao 🖐 e tanta salute e pace
A particular thing in the Dolomites and in general throughout the Alps, if you look closely there are crosses on the tops of the mountains, in ancient times it was thought that avalanches, falling rocks, and therefore also the sudden burial of mountain paths were caused by demons who lived at the top. So it was thought to build these crosses at the top to let the demons escape and prevent them from causing mischief and bringing death. Another wonderful thing about the Dolomites are the trenches and defense valleys throughout the Alps built during the WWI, still present and often in perfect condition and can be visited, especially in the north-eastern part on the border with Austria. At time 04:50 you can see one of this cross.
la temperatura del mar mediterraneo varia molto . va dai 12 C°-13 C° in inverno ai 27C° - 30C° in estate in superficie. Sotto i 50mt rimane costante a circa 14 C° tutto l'anno. Poi cambia dal Nord al Sud the temperature of the Mediterranean Sea varies greatly. it ranges from 12C°-13C° in winter to 27C° - 30C° in summer on the surface. Below 50m it remains constant at around 14°C all year round. Then it changes from North to South
Connor at about 11:20: "... the technology they had" - - - Has anybody mentioned that the church of San Clemente in Rome is worth visiting? It is within easy walking distance of the Colosseum. Irish monks have the care of it. Under the present church are the remnants of an earlier church, down under that even older layers, with a Mithraeum with a fine, carved altar to the god Mithras, especially worshipped by soldiers in antiquity and on (actually, there is a Mithraeum in London too), and remnants of Roman houses even, about 20 meters down, I think. And down through all the layers, there is an air shaft leading down to Cloaca Maxima, which runs below, it has served Rome for over 2000 years and still serves the Roman sewerage system. - Takes us down a peg or two to realise that those engineers and architects were up to it. Look at the dome of The Pantheon (Rome still), which is from antiquity - it was no mean feat to construct it so that it did not fall down. From Wikipedia: "Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome." It was studied not least when the great buildings were constructed in Florence in the Renaissance. On Capitol in Rome, look at the beautiful buildings of Michelangelo functioning as town planner in the Renaissance; he was active in the building of Palazzo Farnese too, close to the river (the Tevere). The French Embassy has it now, but the inside can for instance be seen in a film of Puccini's opera Tosca (recorded in 1976, with Kabaivanska, Domingo, Milnes). The filming was done in the 3 real places in Rome where the action takes place.
as a sardinian, im kind of disappointed by the way my island is preceived most of the times. yeah our beaches are mesmerizing, but there is SO MUCH MORE here. for starter, Sardinia is a micro-continent: from deserts to forests, there is all kind of endemic flora and fauna here. plus its a land full of misteries. our ancient history is a giant question mark for everybody. the island is literally covered by old ruins nobody is sure what they were for. the nuraghi, saint christina's well, the giants tombs, the domus de janas (houses of the witches), the thousands of monoliths scattered across the place: its a mess we're still figuring out XD. so definetely come visit us and enjoy our beaches, just keep in mind there is A LOT more around here ;)
When I saw the image of San Gimignano, I immediately recognized the towers and it as the town where the Scorpioni ladies were taken in the movie Tea With Mussolini.
Wife is half Italian. It was a privilege, that once in her life she got to go from the US to Italy, see a little of it, and spend time with her cousin in one of her ancestral villages in the hills E of Salerno. The Colosseum was paid for, by the spoil of the destruction of Jerusalem.
@@Steve-gc5nt We joke about it too, but I am criminal on my family side too ;-) ... I probably won't be able to visit any of my ancestral villages, since my people have been in the US since 1622.
@Marco In that neck of the woods, per "never surrender Japanese" there are probably descendants of Roman legionaries that are still hiding from Hannibal ;-)
Connor, due to your comment about the roads! I thought I'd offer up a lifesaving tip.. if you are, ever in a vehicle with no breaks! Quick thinking is a must remember to put the vehicle in reverse gear! Aim the vehicle towards fixed solid objects like trees and deliberately ( kiss ) or side swipe the objects do not hit any object head on. Unless your left with no choice.
Cool vid and reaction, of course what you saw is wonderful, no doubt about that. What is missing is what nobody, sometimes even I Italy, seems to care: Umbria, Abruzzo and Marche. Quiet little paradises rich in history and more true than most of other touristy places.
The Mediterranean Sea never gets too much cold, but in January, February and March the minimum is under 10 °C, so it's not exactly warm. But in Summer and in subsequent months the maximums can reach 28-29 °C, especially in Sicily, Tunisia and Greece. Lately it's becoming warmer and warmer, and it's not a good thing...
Connor, there’s an excellent top gear clip wher Hammond and clarkson race around lake como. It’s really funny but also shows you great views of the place, you should check it out
The surface temperature in the Mediterranean varies on average according to the zones from a maximum in summer of 20-23°C to a minimum in winter of 10-13°C while the average temperature of the surface waters of the oceans is 15°C.
What??? No Naples nor Venice??? Man, Naples and Venice are two of the best cities in the world, how could he forgot to mention? There are so many other stunning places in Italy, 15 minutes are simply not enough, but Naples and Venice should be in the list, 100%!
I am Italian however yes the climate is very mild and if you want to visit Italy it is very difficult to do it in the best possible way every small place is particular and beautiful eg braies lake craco polignano a mare split mountain of gaeta lake resia scarzuolaa park of monsters etc.
Love the channel. Ryans list of the Top 20 places in Greece is my all time favorite of his. It convinced me to take 2 solo trips out to the greek islands and they were some of the best days of my life
I remember visiting Miami one time, and chatting with a few freindly Americans. They claimed without any doubts whatsoever : Look at that beach...Only in America ! You don't have beaches like this in Europe hey !? . Me : "Ummmm. Sure it's very nice...But i guess you never been to Italy right ? 😅
Or Greece and Spain
@@gaia7240 Or Portugal, Croatia, Slovenia, ..etc,etc ;)
I am Italian, the water temperature flactuate during the year. in winter can be 12-10° Celsius in Summer between june and october can be 25-29 ° , but It depend a lot of where in the mediterranea you are. In the North mediterranean and in Greece close to black Sea, It flactuate more between 10 to 29 °
In southern mediterranean Is differenti temperature flactuate a lot less ad un between 17 to 28°
@@vessillopirata3347 These days there are all these videos about how Americans don't know much about the world .
But when i went there the first time, some 25 years ago i was really surprised how little most Americans knew (or cared ) about the rest of the world.
Sardina in italy forever!! ; )
Italy never stops to impress you, I have been living here since I was born and I haven't seen even a bit of what my country has to offer, though we are a relatively a small country you have to consider that basically we are culturally a collage of smaller cultures.
Gorgeous
Italy's position on map is simply outstanding :))
Ah yes i will be going there soon and my Italian grandma does not stop talking about Italy's beauty and now i see why
True ! The entire Life May Be not enogh to visit , enjoy , surprise,love, this small incredible country .
sei italiano e non sei mai uscito dalla tua città? avrai almeno visto Roma, Palermo, Milano?
i'm Swiss but i travel at least 4x a year through Italy! it has the most UNESCO Heritage places and monuments in the world, but i'm more fascinated by traveling through the landscape, visiting unknown towns, villages, it is so relaxing
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i live in venice aand my broyyhrt in lugano it's only the most know placethere was more and more in itali to see belive me sicily for esample
Have you ever visited an Italian town called Grazzano Visconti? It is a very characteristic place, absolutely worth seeing at least once
@@valentinavezzaro8465 where is the place located? region?
@@Ezekiel903 It is a village in the province of Piacenza, in the Emilia Romagna region. Look for it on the internet. In the first comment I spelled the name wrong, but I have now corrected it
6:40 it's true. In Sardinia we have such beautifull coasts, but not only this: we have about 50.000 neolitic sites named " nuraghi", ancients military castles of " contract warrior" of ancient egiphtians, persians and Cartagine troupes, and other archeologic sites( the greatest punic necropolis of the Europe and roman anphiteathre dolmen and magics sites to the sun and stars culte like Stonehenge). But, yes, all people know it only for our coast.
Italy is wonderful. In the same moment you can see people skiing on the top of alpine chain on the north of the country and people swimming in the sea on the south. Also cuisine changes. Everywhere you go you can taste different food and always very good. The cuisine and wine are pure art, like monuments and pictures. 😉🇮🇹😘
La variedad de paisajes también la tiene España , incluso más por el Atlántico y Cantábrico .
@@anacasanova7350 you wish
@@annalisaborsa9509 È invidiosa la tipa! Sta martellando con la Spagna in ogni commento...!!! 🤦♂️Ahahaha 😂
@@anacasanova7350 sempre invidiosi voi spagnoli.L' ITALIA E' UNICA
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@@gabrielesantucci6189 e' vero ...ma quanto ci invidiano gli spagnoli?
There are 2 regions in Italy that really don't get enough recognition Umbria and Abrruzzo. The landscapes there can be really breathtaking, amazing nature and of course amazing food and they're not spoilt by tourism.
Shhhh keep something secret ...
E la Liguria?
È già famosa
I'm Italian, from Venice in college in Perugia, Umbria, couldn't agree more tbh
l'umbria non esiste
Tutto molto bello .. ma .. la TOP 10 per i paesi europei non basta !!
Per l’Italia dovresti fare minimo la TOP 80/100 .. c’è davvero troppo da vedere x un turista .. e tutto quanto al 🔝 🇮🇹🔝🇮🇹🔝
L’Italia è davvero molto particolare x cultura, tradizione, architettura, cibo religione e chi più ne ha più ne metta !!
Nel video manca Venezia ... che da sola vale la top 10
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Hanno dimenticato Venezia, Verona, Borghetto sul Mincio, Lago di Garda, Torino, Genova, Mantova, Ferrara, Bolgheri, Populonia, Volterra, Castagneto Carducci, Assisi, Siracusa, Palermo....
Yes the Gladiator - in particular the scenes of Maximus house and the Elysian Fields - was shoot in Val d'Orcia near to Siena in Tuscany (an UNESCO World Heritage site, for me the most beautiful place in Italy)
Ho una casa in Val d'Orcia a Celle sul Rigo
Hi, I'm from Italy (Apulia) and I can say that the Mediterranean is effectively warmer than Oceans in general, but it's not "hot water" because it is a big Sea, despite being a closed sea.
Regarding Polignano a Mare, young boys usually do diving competitions jumping from the city to the sea (in specific point), but you can't go under inside the cliffs because there are no tunnels.
Yes, the gladiator's scenes in Elysium were set in Tuscany, but San Gimignano's towers are not watchtowers. They were built from San Gimignano's Medieval Aristocracy as status simbols of their family's wealth and power.
Another Italian city with towers like San Gimignano is Bologna, that had the tallest monument in Europe built before the Eiffel Tower. It is the Torre degli Asinelli, it's medieval and it's quite 97 meters, alias 319 feet (actually, is taller than the Liberty Statue).
You forget about Polignano a mare, Red bull diving competition
Hey. I'm English (both parents English) but was raised and educated in Spain from the age of 2. I still prefer holidays in Italy, I've spent a lot of time in Italy.
The video is good, but there is so much more to Italy than shown, Umbria is a region I would highly recommend, very similar to Tuscany but less spoilt by tourism. The Gran Sasso is spectacular, which is a region in the Apennines mountain rage that runs down the spine of Italy. Every region in Italy has something to offer and of course the food is amazing!!!!!
I'm from northern Tuscany but I loved my travel in Umbria last year, mostly because there's not that many consumerist kitsch turism which sadly affects my region, the whole country and the entire Europe...
14:26 a "fun fact" that I love about Florence cathedral.. the artist/engineer who did the dome was Filippo Brunelleschi, he discovered a genius way to build the biggest dome ever... So genius that when Michelangelo planned S.Peter's dome, almost 150 years later, he did that 1 meter smaller to show respect... I went there two years ago, and arriving in that little square with that glorious cathedral, for me is the true definition of breathtaking
Yeah!.. i am from Tuscany .. ❤ great Wine best place ever
Si io ho visitato tutta italia
@@lukazzmatizz4378 😀
🇦🇺I want to say hello from italy!/🇮🇹voglio dire ciao dall'italia!
5:06 i live in a city near lake como
👍🇮🇹👍welcome all in Italy because Italy is an open air museum✌😄😄😜
Confermo. Anche i paesini hanno storie meravigliose
Italy is too beautiful to describe in few words
Let me assure you, that it's only a little part of italian beauties. Out to turistics ways, however so much stuff (Roma, Venezia, Firenze, Napoli, Verona, Palermo, Milano, Torino, and so muche more), there are incredible attraction. Thousands of little cities or villages, in every part of italy, with art, culture, entertainment and wonderful natural landscapes. Take a car and go ahead, in any direction, and you will find something special. Not to mention the food, in every region there are traditional local specialities, one better than the other...
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As a Italian, I really appreciate that people of other countries are interested in Italy, and that they have been there (I actually should say ‘here’ but nvm), I don’t really like Italy but I’m learning to love it, so I appreciate that people from other countries are learning to love Italy too!
La gente paga per andare in paesi stranieri... quando hai il più bel paese del mondo. Visita l Italia e ti basta quella
@@lukazzmatizz4378 L'Italia è veramente bellissima, ma andare in paesi stranieri ti permette di conoscere culture differenti e aprire gli orizzonti. Io non viaggio all'estero solo per conoscere posti belli, ma viaggio all'estero soprattutto per conoscere mondi nuovi
@@CriticoPasseggero yo poetico
@@CriticoPasseggero Questo è esattamente il senso del viaggio all’estero.
Scoprire nuove culture
they say that grass is often greener on the other side. but trust me u guys have one of the "greenest" grass on mother earth. very lucky
Italy is of course endlessly interesting, with objects and remnants from every age. North-west of Rome there are for example places with interesting Etruscan burial chambers, some with the most beautiful paintings illustrating feasting in the after-life! Look up Cerveteri and Tarquinia. Orvieto is also a unique little place, a town/village on the flat top of a hill with vertical sides, sort of sticking up from the flat land around it.
Quite close to Rome there are several villages, Frascati and the Albanian hills with two lakes, lovely place in summer. A little inland is the one and only original Tivoli, with a large garden constructed in the Renaissance for Cardinal d'Este, with running water everywhere (and of course sculptures).
You can drive into Rome on the Via Appia, it still holds up today as in antiquity.
You are absolutely right!!
What the video shows is incredible, but Italy has an INFINITE heritage...soooo underrate..
Greetings from Tarquinia! 🤗😉
...Ps..Take a look at my city...you will be amazed😏🙌🏻
Italy, the best place in the world!
I have a problem with this kind of videos, and the problem is that, being "top 10", they leave out so much. In all of Europe, but expecially Italy, you'd feel restrained with a top 10 per region.
Top ten places for Italy doent even scratch the surface of the incredible beauty of the country.
The gladiator scenes of the wife’s house and of the campi elisi were actually taken in Tuscany, close to the place shown in the video (in Pieve di Corsignano for the campi elisi and near San Quirico d’Orcia for the gladiator’s house) ;)
Quando vedo questi posti sono fiera di essere italiana. Poi vedere la mia regione (puglia) è un onore.
Da Lecce 🤝🏻...PROSIT 🍻 & BuonaGiornata!!!
Puglia bellissima , il mare piu bello ke io abbia mai visto.🤩
@@melamarcia9922 mi fa felice sto commento 😉
Piemonte and Veneto were completely forgotten, despite they own tons of UNESCO heritage's places and goods like Langhe, Monferrato, Roero, wines, truffles and so on.
The dolomites are in Veneto region, but yes there's lots more.
My friend, you're right! The Gladiator scenes when Maximus goes to his family were filmed exactly there, Val d'Orcia, Tuscany ;)
Ryan Shirley is undoubtedly a skilled videomaker but we have to acknowledge that the beauty of Italy makes the job very easy!
Hi , we rented a bungalow first time in Italy just south of Rome ant it was from the second week of June and was a little surprised how cool the water in the Mediterranean was.
Back in Sweden we got tips to go in september instead when the sun warmed up the Mediterranean throughout the summer , so we did and the difference was gigantic not only watertemperature but also in the air , after flying from Stockholm " takes around two hours to Rome " when autumn begins to be felt in Sweden and lands in Rome , it is hardly possible to breathe from the heat in Italy you encounter when you leave the plane . Now after the pandemic we will return for the sixth time . Same experience from the times we visited Greece.
We usually call Italy our second homeland because if you place a needle at the far south of Sweden , turn the whole country so that north becomes south , we end up in Rome.
I need to get back to Italy, I have been there twice, at Milan and Lake Garda.
So much more to see.
12:08, you’re right. The scene of the Gladiator house was filmed in Val d’Orcia (Tuscany) not in Spain. However in this video you saw only the 3% of the wonderful places you can find in Italy.
I visited Puglia region and nearby Matera city this summer, in august, it was hella hot but that place is amazzzzzzing. I totally recommend these places. Italy is so beautiful
Fun fact about Amalfi: it was one of the greatest trade republics of the post-Roman Italian Peninsula along with other 4 cities.
It went into decline after losing its independence and autonomy to the heavily centralized Norman Kingdom that controlled most of Southern Italy at the time.
Yeah, the water in the Mediterranean gets quite cold in winter. You know, it's still winter - the temperature gets exchanged with the cold air as well, you know. But it's still way better than the rest of Europe.
Considerando che l'Italia è il Paese con più patrimonio artistico al mondo, solo questo dovrebbe far capire quanto vale la pena visitarla almeno una volta nella vita
The gladiator scene was shot in tuscany near Siena
Among the many things I recommend is a fairytale place, a daydream, the Abruzzo-Lazio-Molise National Park and always in Abruzzo the Costa dei Trabocchi
to answer some questions: Yes, Lake Como originated from a glacier, and no, the Mediterranean Sea is not at a constant temperature, one thing you may not understand is that the Mediterranean Sea is so large, therefore it obviously has its own currents, where I live (in the Adriatic precisely, therefore a "closed" sea, to the right of Italy to make you understand, so it may be that the temperatures are higher, plus, my city is in a gulf within a gulf lol)) it fluctuates between 10 degrees on average in winter and about 24 degrees in summer.
THE COLOSSEUM in Rome is known as The Flavian Amphitheatre because it was built by the emperor Vespasian from the Flavian family.
it's actually the other way around: its real name is flavian amphitheatre and colosseum is just a nickname it gained later on because of its proximity to a colossal statue of Nero. That's why there are no other colosseums in the world: the type of building is called amphitheatre, of which there are still a lot.
To answer your question at 5:20 , yes, lake of Como had a glacial formation like in parts of Scandinavia as you mentioned since the lake is on the doorstep of the alps. If anyone comes around here a boat trip around the lake is a must to experiences it in all it’s beauty 😊
Yes the lake had a glacial formation but also a fluvial one, the origin of the lake is still debated. The most probable hypothesis is that the origin of the lake was caused by deep river excavations reshaped by repeated glacial erosions in the last two million years.
The atypical origin of the lake allows it to be te deepest one in Italy and the fifth in Europe; at its deepest it's 412 m.
I'm fortunate enough to live near it, and yes it is beautiful.
I live at Lake Como...it is worth to visit us
I must say I really like this top10 for being less sterotipical and being a good sample across all the variety that Italy has to offer. At the same time a top10 Italian places to visit excluding places no less than Venice and Siena (just to name a couple from the top of my head) made me think that it would be very interesting to compare with other countries, put aside the top10s and focusing on entries let's say from 11 to 20 (or maybe from 11 to 50) and see what each country has to offer "in the long run". I guess Italy would have a remarkably "solid" and assorted long bench very few can contend with.
Venice Is the most beautiful city in the world.
Mountain made from erosion and glacier. Mediterranean climate always warm. Colosseum made during the reign of vespasiano and anded during Flaviano
Didn't include Pompei awesome and the view from Vesuvius over the bay of Naples wonderful!!
Venice?
Paestum is the better one for me, if you go like between 16:00-17:00 it's beautiful, one of the best days of my life
@@elisabettacarrubba2957 it would have been arrogant..
answering to the mediterranien temperature: the norther you are, the more it fluctuates, but in general is considered a warm sea. if you go near the tropics, like the african coasts, or some southern greek islands, the temperature will be around 30°C all year. I wouldn't say it's warm when it comes to genova or venezia (northen italy)
Yea Italy was amazing!
He gets such good pictures because Italy is that beautiful.
Greetings from Italy! Padova.
I go too Italy every weekend on prowalks TH-cam channel... You put the caption on English and you'll give you information and history. That's how I got through 2020 wishing I was somewhere else. 🤭
You should look at a world map. Naples is around the same latitude of New York. The med has a microclimate so not as cold. The water is around 22°celsius in the summer.
San Gimignano is in assassins creed 2. Beautiful
I am emotional With your reaction. I LOVE SO MUCH My country ❤️❤️
the water of the mideterranean sea is good to swim from May to October, but at times even for longer periods. It's not unusual to hear sicilians having a bath in January :)
As an italian, I'm happy that this country is so loved from the rest of world, such as USA.
Pure iooo
Italy Is a diamond.
Siamo noi italiani che siamo abituati a incularci a vicenda per sopravvivere, che roviniamo tutto 😂
@@TheZanzare Se metti il governo tedesco a governare l’Italia dopo un mese siamo tra le prime 5 superpotenze
@@shbevauzk sicuro
@@shbevauzk Non con Scholz, la sta affondando, ma la Merkel ora è libera e potremo chiedergli di candidarsi in Italia, io la voterei!
The mediterranean temperature differs throughout the year but it's still a warm sea compared to others
6:25 yes the mediterranean is a pretty closed sea so it's warmer than an ocean :)
Great video you reacted to ... but Venice should definitely be on any Italy top ten, in fact in any Europe top ten. Italy is an amazing country, so much to see - natural sights, historical sights, cities, towns, villages. I've been to Italy many times in the past 5 years (I live in Poland, so it's easy and cheap to fly there), including for Italian language courses in Venice and elsewhere.
Thw one and only time I have ever been seasick was going on a boat to Capri - worth it though! Rome is just breathtaking, one of my favourite places.
in Sardinia the sea in winter/spring is quite cold especially during and after storm surges with wind blowing from the north-west called "maestrale"
The Pisa tower and Piazza del Duomo are beautiful places too. They are in the same city and they are also in the same place!
Duomo is a generic cathedral name. Speciy the name plz.
You need to look up for Marche Region also...opposite to Tuscany ..on the other side of the Appenine Mountains and facing the Adriatic coast !! Beautiful Cities, the likes of Ascoli, Macerata, Loreto and Urbino, beautiful small lakes too ! ☺️
In Sardegna ci sono tante cose da vedere, purtroppo hanno fatto vedere solo alcune località costiere. Anche noi sardi abbiamo la nostra storia, le nostre tradizioni, il cibo, i monti e altri splendidi posti da visitare e restare incantati!
Si bravo. Italia miglior posto
Very good video! Yes, all the prealpine lakes were created by glaciers (Lago Maggiore, Lago di Como, Lago d’Iseo and Lago di Garda are the largest ones).
Mediterranean Sea is definitely warmer and generally calm compared to the Atlantic Ocean.
Part of the Gladiator was filmed in “Val d’Orcia” Tuscany.
Greetings from Milano!
Meno male che fai vedere solo il 3% dell'Italia , se era completo stavamo 3 settimane 😉😉 a vedere il video
ma che 3%? sarà il 3 per 10.000.. ha preso le foto più belle, e il gargano? matera? le saline? i canali da venezia a trieste? Verona? Burano? Pietrapertosa? .. ma facciamo prima a togliere che a mettere..
@@mrmetalzeb4596 tu forse vivi su Marte ,vai in Sicilia, Puglia Sardegna 5 terre, Calabria, Toscana, tutte le regioni gira fatti un viaggio vieni in Italia, guarda,vedi con i tuoi occhi, e poi parli ......se non sei informato ,te lo dico io,per niente siamo lo stato che ha più siti UNESCO del mondo, un motivo ci sarà 🇮🇹❤️✈️🎩
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@@giuseppebordonaro365 Non proprio di marte ma quasi, sono di Venezia e ci abito. Le ferie normalmente le faccio qui e quest'anno era a Taormina e per 15 anni sono andato a Capri, qualche volta vado in Croazia o Slovenia perchè sono vicine ma perlopiù ho la barca quindi faccio giretti entro 100 km (2/3 ore a velocità accettabile). Per lavoro una decine di volte all'anno vado a Portofino e un paio a Ravello. Mica ho detto che il mare in Italia è brutto, solo che non dovete pensare che nel resto del mondo non ci sia nulla. Non è che magari un giretto fuori te lo devi fare tu? Comunque Giuseppe, te lo dico in rima: un tono pacato è sempre apprezzato. non è un caso di lesa maestà, ho solo detto quello che penso. relax.
@@mrmetalzeb4596 faccio qualche crociera, mi piace viaggiare,e a dicembre vado in Ungheria (Budapest) sono andato in alcuni paesi europei... sono bei paesi ,comunque guarda i video di alcuni youtube:the fabritz, anitapinter, john montoya, pamela kurt, places we love ,comunque w l'Europa, w l'Italia....ciao 🖐 e tanta salute e pace
ha seriamente detto che il panorama che si vede attorno a San Gimignano è simile a quello francese??? ma questo è un'affronto!!!!!!!!!!!!
11:28 MY CITY OMG
A particular thing in the Dolomites and in general throughout the Alps, if you look closely there are crosses on the tops of the mountains, in ancient times it was thought that avalanches, falling rocks, and therefore also the sudden burial of mountain paths were caused by demons who lived at the top.
So it was thought to build these crosses at the top to let the demons escape and prevent them from causing mischief and bringing death.
Another wonderful thing about the Dolomites are the trenches and defense valleys throughout the Alps built during the WWI, still present and often in perfect condition and can be visited, especially in the north-eastern part on the border with Austria.
At time 04:50 you can see one of this cross.
in 2000, the scenes of the gladiator housing were shot in Tuscany :D
Go to palermo its the main city in sicily and its beautiful
McJibbin! Good evening! reall outstanding ~
when we get Corsica back you can review that too
When the top10 can afford to skip Venice, it pretty much says enough about Italy
la temperatura del mar mediterraneo varia molto . va dai 12 C°-13 C° in inverno ai 27C° - 30C° in estate in superficie. Sotto i 50mt rimane costante a circa 14 C° tutto l'anno. Poi cambia dal Nord al Sud
the temperature of the Mediterranean Sea varies greatly. it ranges from 12C°-13C° in winter to 27C° - 30C° in summer on the surface. Below 50m it remains constant at around 14°C all year round. Then it changes from North to South
Connor at about 11:20: "... the technology they had" - -
- Has anybody mentioned that the church of San Clemente in Rome is worth visiting? It is within easy walking distance of the Colosseum. Irish monks have the care of it. Under the present church are the remnants of an earlier church, down under that even older layers, with a Mithraeum with a fine, carved altar to the god Mithras, especially worshipped by soldiers in antiquity and on (actually, there is a Mithraeum in London too), and remnants of Roman houses even, about 20 meters down, I think. And down through all the layers, there is an air shaft leading down to Cloaca Maxima, which runs below, it has served Rome for over 2000 years and still serves the Roman sewerage system.
- Takes us down a peg or two to realise that those engineers and architects were up to it. Look at the dome of The Pantheon (Rome still), which is from antiquity - it was no mean feat to construct it so that it did not fall down. From Wikipedia: "Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome." It was studied not least when the great buildings were constructed in Florence in the Renaissance. On Capitol in Rome, look at the beautiful buildings of Michelangelo functioning as town planner in the Renaissance; he was active in the building of Palazzo Farnese too, close to the river (the Tevere). The French Embassy has it now, but the inside can for instance be seen in a film of Puccini's opera Tosca (recorded in 1976, with Kabaivanska, Domingo, Milnes). The filming was done in the 3 real places in Rome where the action takes place.
The temperature of the sea fluctuates, by if you reference and compare to ocean is definitely warmer.
He just saw tons and tons of pure beauty and he just talks about the quality of the images....americans.
12:15 Exactly "! The director shot many scenes of the film in Tuscany
4:00 no one mowes that grass, it growes like that
I have house in Baunei Cost since 1984...superb.
as a sardinian, im kind of disappointed by the way my island is preceived most of the times. yeah our beaches are mesmerizing, but there is SO MUCH MORE here.
for starter, Sardinia is a micro-continent: from deserts to forests, there is all kind of endemic flora and fauna here. plus its a land full of misteries. our ancient history is a giant question mark for everybody. the island is literally covered by old ruins nobody is sure what they were for. the nuraghi, saint christina's well, the giants tombs, the domus de janas (houses of the witches), the thousands of monoliths scattered across the place: its a mess we're still figuring out XD.
so definetely come visit us and enjoy our beaches, just keep in mind there is A LOT more around here ;)
I’m live in Sardinia and I can tell you that water can be very cold in summer as well so you can immagine how cold is gonna be in winter.
When I saw the image of San Gimignano, I immediately recognized the towers and it as the town where the Scorpioni ladies were taken in the movie Tea With Mussolini.
Wife is half Italian. It was a privilege, that once in her life she got to go from the US to Italy, see a little of it, and spend time with her cousin in one of her ancestral villages in the hills E of Salerno. The Colosseum was paid for, by the spoil of the destruction of Jerusalem.
That sounds like the plot of Godfather 1. Did she have to get out of the US to "let things cool down"? 🤭
@@Steve-gc5nt We joke about it too, but I am criminal on my family side too ;-) ... I probably won't be able to visit any of my ancestral villages, since my people have been in the US since 1622.
@Marco Commune di Perdifumo ... S of Paestum
@Marco In that neck of the woods, per "never surrender Japanese" there are probably descendants of Roman legionaries that are still hiding from Hannibal ;-)
Connor, due to your comment about the roads! I thought I'd offer up a lifesaving tip.. if you are, ever in a vehicle with no breaks! Quick thinking is a must remember to put the vehicle in reverse gear! Aim the vehicle towards fixed solid objects like trees and deliberately ( kiss ) or side swipe the objects do not hit any object head on. Unless your left with no choice.
Hi I'm from Como no pictures or video compare with being here try you will love it
Cool vid and reaction, of course what you saw is wonderful, no doubt about that. What is missing is what nobody, sometimes even I Italy, seems to care: Umbria, Abruzzo and Marche. Quiet little paradises rich in history and more true than most of other touristy places.
Good catch my friend, the sub-alpine Italian lakes like Como and Maggiore were made eons ago by "flowing" glaciers during the ice age.
You got it right: the scene where you could see the gladiator house was made in Tuscany
He didnt know in Italy all the city is impossible to flight, good for the photographer
The Mediterranean Sea never gets too much cold, but in January, February and March the minimum is under 10 °C, so it's not exactly warm. But in Summer and in subsequent months the maximums can reach 28-29 °C, especially in Sicily, Tunisia and Greece. Lately it's becoming warmer and warmer, and it's not a good thing...
In mediterranean see temperature is becoming warmer every year. Moreover it is a see and u in the US got oceans and they re preatty cold
Thank you for your reaction!. ❤❤from The bottom❤Of My HeArt
Connor, there’s an excellent top gear clip wher Hammond and clarkson race around lake como. It’s really funny but also shows you great views of the place, you should check it out
The surface temperature in the Mediterranean varies on average according to the zones from a maximum in summer of 20-23°C to a minimum in winter of 10-13°C while the average temperature of the surface waters of the oceans is 15°C.
What??? No Naples nor Venice??? Man, Naples and Venice are two of the best cities in the world, how could he forgot to mention?
There are so many other stunning places in Italy, 15 minutes are simply not enough, but Naples and Venice should be in the list, 100%!
the med is balneable only during summer.. otherwise is cold
Yeah, basically all the mayor lakes in northern italy were made by the passing of glaciers ;) Hello from Verona!
I am Italian however yes the climate is very mild and if you want to visit Italy it is very difficult to do it in the best possible way every small place is particular and beautiful eg braies lake craco polignano a mare split mountain of gaeta lake resia scarzuolaa park of monsters etc.
Daang the faraglioni pronunciation aahhahah also the cinque terre one
the building on the right of the Pantheon was my old school
4:00 the cow man
Love the channel. Ryans list of the Top 20 places in Greece is my all time favorite of his. It convinced me to take 2 solo trips out to the greek islands and they were some of the best days of my life