Sitting around the table one night, after a couple of bottles of Chianti with some old friends, most of whom spent time as European tour guides and backpacker, I asked to see the best or do during their stay in Italy book. There was a noisy debate, as some have tried to praise things less noticeable on the more traditional, but there were also many unanimous consent for others.
In no particular order, I can give you the top 20 to makeadopted in Italy, from my colleagues.
1. Now looking at Piazza San Pietro
It 'more silent to see a number of sisters on tour, especially the special day Saint, photographing the facade of St. Peter in tow, or the other in the great basilica. Only the deaf, parents who hate their children, numbered, encourage the children to a head, put them in the hope that pick up and fly, maybe fallSomewhere Over The forum.
2. Ice cream eating 3 times a day
This is mandatory for all trips during the months of June, July and August. How Italians get so creamy, tasty and dribbly me is never satisfied. And 'the best thing for now after a long, hot day in a row and see all these great works of art. It 'made with natural ingredients and all the data, the best gelateria in Italy that is credible, but some also goalso experimenting with weird flavors such as tomato and basil, believe it or not.
3. Holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa
You have all seen. The obligatory picture of someone, and his colleagues thought the Leaning Tower, or a finger or with both hands. Climbing Probably the next best thing to it, all things go to Pisa to do. And the thought is most fitting that there is.
4. Dodging car in Rome
After parachuting in Switzerland and in a taxiRide in the Czech Republic is likely to have the activity of adrenaline packed that you can do in Europe. To maintain the road, you have to cross on foot to make sure you maintain eye contact with a driver on arrival as a bullfighter and moving. The car and bike will be very close, never quite touching, until you go forward.
5. Curb parking
Everyone else is doing.
6. Sing a duet with a gondolier
He may not be the next Pavarotti, but you should have a gondolierpretty good voice. Know all the old and makes the experience even more authentic. As a rule, require a small additional charge for the service, at the beginning of the lease. Time is more popular around sunset, the lights come on reflections in water, to soak up the atmosphere.
7. Out with the Pope on Wednesday,
Tourists, nuns, priests, and locals flock of pigeons in Piazza San Pietro to the weekly address by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI about10. You can then check the interior of the basilica and the crypt of St Peter's remains are preserved.
8. Check out David's Ae
You could line up and pay to see the original at the Academy, where he was moved to the end of 1800, to protect it from vandals and the elements. Or you can copy your check next to Piazza della Signoria free or you can use the hill overlooking the old bridge, climb the bronze version is in Piazza Michelangelo to see. Oryou could see all the 3 and a comparison.
9. Drinking wine and watching the sunset in Cinque Terre
There is something unique to sit on the rock, pulling up near where the fishing boats swaying lanterns along the wires around the bay in the ocean breeze, hear a man who pursues his baritone work through an open window and watching the sun sink over the horizon SIP done in a single place red after eating homemade pasta and pesto. Perfect.
10. EatPizza in Naples
Home of the Pizza Margherita. A famous local pizza maker Rafaelle Espositi heard the Queen of Naples, was interested to try a pizza, so he made a patriotic with basil, tomato and mozzarella for the colors of the Italian flag. He liked it so well that gave its name. To be enjoyed in accordance with the kamikaze motor scooters and cars going hell for leather through the streets narrow.
11. Cliff Diving in Sorrento
Not for the faint of heart. Locals usuallyGuys, go up the steep cliffs drop off dozens of meters high in the blue below. If this is too over the top you can always be a mask and snorkel and wait less.
12. Calling your mother, from the top of the Campanile in Venice
Believe it or not, is a public phone box at the top of the Campanile, so you can make all the important calls to your mother, or maybe a pizza for dinner.
13. Wine tasting in Chianti
There is a theory that theChianti word derives from the Etruscan word for water "Clante" that creates a clear link when you drink a lot of Chianti. The high standards of production is fixed by the Consortium: the quality of all types of wine, online and hard to find a bad one.
14. Toss of a coin in the Trevi Fountain
But do not go swimming if you want to pay a large fine. A coin means that you will return to Rome, it means the two coins back and get kissed, and threeCoins means that you go back and get married. All the money will be regularly swept and charities. The authorities do not see kindly to anyone stealing from the fountain. Insert coin (s) with your right hand and pulled it over her left shoulder. It 'fun to do something with the change from the third Gelato.
15. The visit of the Sistine Chapel
If you survive the walk 3 km through the rather opulent rooms of the papal Vatican Museums, will be rewarded with stunning viewsCeiling of the Sistine Chapel. In situ Created by Michelangelo, and often painted freehand directly on wet plaster, of the military eruptions papal financial difficulties, staffing problems, slipping foundations, wars, and finally finished after 4 years in the 1512th Use the mini-binoculars and a sort key for each fresco. The sound of every whisper is only through the guard of Silence 'roar drowned in a while.
And do not sit on the stairs.
16. Walking theTables in a flooded Venice
One of the original experiences when you visit this city of water. Winter rains flood the lagoon at low tide in the plains rise up to the knee. Locals practices have come with the solution in the form of raised platforms, so you can see the tables around the Piazza San Marco, without their toes wet feet. Or you could invest in some stylish rubber boots.
17. Grappa First-ED (drinking brandy too)
Every country has its own fireWater. In Russia and in Poland, vodka, tequila in Mexico, is in czech language, is the absence and in Italy and grappa. Distilled from the remains of pressing the grapes for wine, all the seeds, skins and stems, is usually drunk after a meal after the espresso. The first shot will take care of a sensation in the throat and in the second and third will take care of the rest of the nervous system.
18. Buying a Ferrari hat
After football, the pope and hisMother of the nation almost religious in this red cars from Maranello. Most Italian drivers seem to take the next Schumacher on the highway, including the driver of the truck, but you must admit the car is cool.
19. Riding a scooter in Tuscany
Winding country roads amid the green hills, clean lines of the wine, the hills, wild flowers in the fields and the line of tall cypress trees of the avenue of a medieval palace. Allthe fresh air and the possibility of life on the local time taken to unpack a delightful picnic area, several farmers.
20. Finishing a steak alla Fiorentina (T-bone steak)
The resurrection of the favorites from steak Florentine national titles. The local celebrity was the butcher of Panzano, Dario Cecchini, a public funeral and memorial service held, when the EU banned the sale of beef on the bone products after the BSE's afraid of a few years ago. Now it is again, and eachfeiern. To make sure that you're really hungry on these, as is enormous.
The general consensus was that all the things that should be taken during a trip to Italy, along with all the art and present the history, things were obviously in order to make the most of the journey.
