- Stop in the major cities like Venice, Florence, Lucrene. The must-see features like Michelangelo's David, the Sistine Chapel, the Colosseum, St. Mark's in Venice to picture book Lucrene are pleasantly inviting sans the din.
- Cities such as Venice and Florence with their Latin Christian atmosphere ring a bell of the religious as well as the present day secular consciousness. Go for a gondola sojourn in the floating market canals of Venice or try out the Signoria Square in Florence.
- With its erstwhile artistic geniuses like Petrarch's continental awareness in the 15th century and Leonardo and Rembrandt as his contemporaries, Italian art and the earliest Renaissance architecture are a feast to the traveler's eyes.
- Stroll past the imposing Este Castle in Ferrarra or the basilicas of St Francis of Assissi, the Byzantine Basilica and the Bridge of Sighs before continuing through the wooded Appenines into Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance.
- Focus on Pisa for snaps of its amazing Leaning Tower and then drive past the Italian Riviera resorts towards the principality of Monaco.
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