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4 weeks in Italy during June

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Hello

I purchased Steves books and I think it is great. I notice the book; Italy 2016 starts from Venice and down to Rome, well I’ll be flying into Rome and hoping to go up.

My question are:

I’ll be spending a week (is a week too long, should I do less?) in Rome and its surrounding, get to know Rome first and then I’ll be renting a car and go up North but I don’t know If I should go the North East and down South West or vice versa. What or which way will you suggest?

What town you’ll suggest I stop on my way up and for how long? What to visit or what to do?

I definitely would like to visit some Winery, and where?

I’ll be stopping in Venice, Hoping to stopped in Milan etc.

Like to stopped in Piedmont and hopefully cross the Tibetan Bridge, is this worth doing?

Once I finished in Italy (4 weeks) I’ll like to take the ferry to Greece from Rome, any suggestion here? I’ll be flying home from Rome.

I hope you understand my questions and what I’m trying to do in this trip

Your input would be greatly appreciated since I’ll be traveling with my mother who’s 85 years old and my granddaughter. Of course, I’ll be driving.

Any input will be greatly appreciated

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Hi....There is so much to do in Rome that in a week you may get to do a good amount of these wonderful things. I'm guessing that your mother may not keep a fast pace when traveling and walking the hills and cobblestone streets so allowing a week would enable you to see the most important sights. As for other places to stop en route to the north, we loved Assisi in Umbria for the beautiful stone village and churches and spirituality, Montepulciano, Pienza and Montalcino areas for wine tasting, and Lake Como which is a 90 minute drive from Milan and relaxing with snow capped mts., small villages that you can ferry to all over the large lake. Padua is a suburb of Venice and if you like early Christian art, and beautiful churches, Giottos Chapel there is an amazing sight as is seeing the Da Vinci Last Supper painting in the church in Milan. Not sure what your interests are but Florence is a few day stop as well with fabulous scenery and art.

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Thank you Phillis, I want to do everything that I could in Italy. So this is what you are saying:
Spend more time than a week in Rome, travel North East to Assisi and its surrounding area on my way to Venice, spend time in Venice maybe 3-4 days cross over to Milan 3-4 days and travel South West to Rome stopping along the way? What do you think about Piedmont? I'll be doing Tuscany and its surrounding area on my way down to Rome via South West.

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You have quite a list! Four weeks is not as long as it seems, I would rethink Greece (especially if you have to go back to Roma).

A week in Roma is a good amount of time, going at an easy pace. You might even do a daytrip or two. That leaves you about 21 nights.

Going north, I would stop in Assisi, then go to Firenze for a week, taking time to see the hill towns by car. Lots of opportunities to visit wineries in this area. Now you have about 12 nights left.

Ravenna would be a good stop for a couple of days, it's a lovely town to relax in yet be in a city. And it has the mosaics.

Padova is not a suburb of Venezia, it is about 30 minutes away by train, and has some beautiful sights. A few nights in Venezia, then a few nights on Lago di Como or Lago Maggiore, and a couple of nights in Milano, and you have a few nights left to see Piedmont (any city in particular? Asti? Torino?) before you are out of time.

If possible, fly into Roma FCO and out of Milano MXP, saves your backtracking to Roma and gives you an excuse to see Milano.

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You have quite a list! Four weeks is not as long as it seems, I would rethink Greece (especially if you have to go back to Roma).

A week in Roma is a good amount of time, going at an easy pace. You might even do a daytrip or two. That leaves you about 21 nights.

Going north, I would stop in Assisi, then go to Firenze for a week, taking time to see the hill towns by car. Lots of opportunities to visit wineries in this area. Now you have about 12 nights left.

Ravenna would be a good stop for a couple of days, it's a lovely town to relax in yet be in a city. And it has the mosaics.

Padova is not a suburb of Venezia, it is about 30 minutes away by train, and has some beautiful sights. A few nights in Venezia, then a few nights on Lago di Como or Lago Maggiore, and a couple of nights in Milano, and you have a few nights left to see Piedmont (any city in particular? Asti? Torino?) before you are out of time.

If possible, fly into Roma FCO and out of Milano MXP, saves your backtracking to Roma and gives you an excuse to see Milano.

By the way, it looks like you need to be in really good shape to cross the Tibetan bridge (about 100 miles from Torino).

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