girls who have been to italy

pipermaru Posted: Apr 05, 2010 03:43 PM

girls who have been to italy

looking for recs for things i must see, things i must do and restaurants i must go to in rome, florence and on the amalfi coast for our HM

TIA!

Lady12 Posted: Apr 05, 2010 03:48 PM

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OMG I love Italy! I spent 3 months there, lived in florence, went to rome and the almafi coast and love love it! I could write forever on this so FM and I will write something up for you!

Moonmist09 Posted: Apr 05, 2010 03:49 PM

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Capri, and if your in the north, then you can visit the Tower of Pisa.
if your in Rome, def do all the sightseeing stuff there! the Colisseum to.

dcstephanie Posted: Apr 05, 2010 04:22 PM

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Cinqueterre is absolutely gorgeous! I went years ago and we stayed in Pisa and took the train to the towns. Now that I'm a 'grown-up', and not a broke college student, I would definitely stay in one of the towns. Have so much fun!

kerber981 Posted: Apr 05, 2010 04:25 PM

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Posted by Lady12

OMG I love Italy! I spent 3 months there, lived in florence, went to rome and the almafi coast and love love it! I could write forever on this so FM and I will write something up for you!

Ooh please share! I'm making all the same stops and am trying to gather as much info as possible too!!

rendel Posted: Apr 05, 2010 04:50 PM

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Went to Rome and it is amazing!!!!! Def go to trevi fountain, St. Peters, vatican city, castle de san angelo it has amazing views of rome, pantheon!!! For food do not pick urself you will get ripped off and it will be crappy!!!! Make sure you ask the front desk where to eat!!!!!!!!

NYBride Posted: Apr 05, 2010 04:52 PM

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The Coloseum and the Pantheom. They are AMAZING - definitely a MUST SEE, spanish steps too. OMG and the Sistine Chanel - AMAZINGGGGG!!

FH and I wanted to go to 'Nino' a restaurant in Rome and it was closed, we walked for an hour in the pouring rain!!! UGk!! I would try to hit that restaurant up since we didn't!! Tell me how it is!! xo

bigday1114 Posted: Apr 05, 2010 09:18 PM

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Was in Italy last year. LOVED Florence!! So much to do there between all the museums and just a great walkable city. The oudoor market is awesome! Bought a great leather jacket there...cheap!

Also...see if you can ge to Venice...very beautiful and romantic!

Good luck! I would love to go to Italy for my honeymoon...only my FH and I want to go to a place that neither of us have been before..ugh!

p.s. the pizza in italy is awesome!!

MrsVtoBe Posted: Apr 05, 2010 09:26 PM

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I LOVE Italy, spent a month there, and that where Fh and I met

Florence- definitely see the Trevi fountain
Rome- Spanish step, vatican, colliseum.

I don't remember any of the names of restaurants we went to, but the food was delicious everywhere we went. We even had the best Chinese food there!

As a tip, many places have college students who do the tours for free, or very cheap. We got to see everything and do all the tours for basically nothing. It works out better sometimes, because you end up with a smaller tour group and get more personlized tours. Just look for them or listen for them outside all the tourist spots.

Also, try to go to Venice. It is gorgeous. even if you do a day trip there to go to St. Marks, the Rialto Bridge, and take a gondola ride.

Ahh I'm so jealous!!!

Meggeese Posted: Apr 05, 2010 10:12 PM

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ah!!!!! love love love it!!!!! Id suggest reading up on the sights because I know that sometimes my cousin and I saw things we had no clue what tehy were ...but they looked important...then we went on a tour and realized what it was ha ha......florence was beautiful......they have so many awesome places to see.....in rome you should definitely go to the spanish steps, colliseum, vatican, st. peters sq.! The coast was sooo nice too....we did a lot of little boat cruises and hiking and stuff! I am jealous, I wanna go back!!

Lady12 Posted: Apr 05, 2010 10:40 PM

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am home now, so I will just write it on here. Get a guide book if you havent already, it was a tremendous help! (i used lonely planet)

Florence: beautiful city! You can do everything by foot which is great! Piazza del Duomo its beautiful and right on the center of everything. You should def. visit the the Galleria dell'accademia where Michelangelo's David statue is. Take a picture by the ponte vecchio (old bridge). Go to the scuola del cuoio (leather school) which is where i got most of my souveniers (I got FH and beautiful leather waller with his initials).

Rome: I was blessed! A very cute italian guy drew a map of rome for me on the train ride there of the path to follow to see all the attractions.. it was helpful and still have it 5 years later! eveyone should def. go see the colosseum, althoguh there is not much there. I would go to the Patheon, trevi fountain, the spanish steps. Def. go to the vatican, it was amazing and make sure you visit the sistine chapel, that was my only regret. I didnt get to see it because I went on a sunday when it was closed and I didnt know!

The amalfi coast- OMG, love it! We went to positano and it was beautiful, the best seafood I ever had. We also went to Capri and stayed in anacapri, which I actually liked better than Capri. Its a smaller island, a bus ride away. I write forever on this so feel free to ask specific questions thorugh FM.

cavvento Posted: Apr 05, 2010 11:38 PM

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my favorite cities were Florence and Venice because it's so great to just roam the streets. Rome is obviously impressive, but for me, I didn't love it - it was more like jumping from one 'must-see' to another, and I didn't revel in the street life as much.