It is difficult – if not impossible – to limit a list of things to do in Italy to 100, and even more difficult to put them in order of descending significance or entertainment value: home to Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans, with islands as diverse as dour Sicily and African-influenced Pantelleria and cultures as far apart as Renaissance Venice and the prehistoric Trulli in Alberobello, Italy is a vibrant and colorful hotch-potch, a land of stark and passionately defended contrasts.

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62. Byzantine Mosaics Ravenna

Lovers of Byzantine art and architecture will be amazed at how much of both are to be found in the lesser known town of Ravenna, which despite its relative obscurity was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire, then of the Ostrogoths, then of Lombardia and, in more modern times, of the Province of Ravenna. Small though it is, Ravenna (21 km north of Cervia, 23 minutes by train) has no less than 8 monuments listed as World Heritage Sites, and is well worth a visit.

Nearest international airport is Forli (90 minutes by train, 35 minutes by car).

63. Verona

Perhaps best known as the backdrop of three Shakespeare plays – “Romeo and Juliet”, “The Taming of the Shrew” and “Two Gentlemen of Verona” – the city of Verona in the Veneto region of northern Italy has roots going back to at least 300 BC and has been a tourist destination for a number of centuries, attracting such distinguished visitors as Mozart and Goethe, among others. Juliet`s balcony and the houses of Montague and Capulet (genuinely rivalling families in the 1300s with the names of “Capuleti” and “Montecchi”) are among the best-visited but by no means the only attractions Verona has to offer.

Verona has its own airport; shuttle buses run every twenty minutes from the airport to the city center. It is 120 km west of Venice (90 minutes by train and under 1 ½ hours by car).

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