Italien

The Penisola Salentina, better known simply as Salento, is hot, dry and remote, retaining a flavour of its Greek past. It stretches across Italy's heel from Brindisi to Taranto and down to Santa Maria di Leuca. Here the lush greenery of Valle d'Itria gives way to flat, ochre-coloured fields hazy with wildflowers in spring, and endless olive groves.

Införandet av den omdiskuterade turistskatten i Venedig planeras att införas sommaren 2020. Frågan som återstår är hur man ska betala.

Bästa restaurangerna, klassiska kaféer och mysiga tågutflykter. Milanoexperten Louise ger oss tips på vad du inte får missa i den italienska storstaden.

Capri är precis så fantastiskt man kan tänka sig. Vagabonds Åsa Johansson som bor i Italien, listar åtta favoriter som du inte får missa när du besöker den mytomspunna ön!

Sicily's windswept western coast has beckoned invaders for millennia. Its richly stocked fishing grounds, hilltop vineyards and coastal saltpans were coveted by the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and Normans, all of whom influenced the region's landscape and culture. Even the English left their mark, with 18th-century entrepreneurs lured here and made rich by one of the world's most famous sweet wines, marsala.

Formed at the end of the last ice age, and a popular holiday spot since Roman times, the Italian Lakes have an enduring, beguiling beauty.

Salerno may not have the glamorous looks of the Amalfi Coast resorts, but its gritty centro storico (historic centre) is a kind of mini Naples without the mad motor scooters. Anchoring proceedings is an enthralling archeological museum and a Norman cathedral worthy of a city twice the size.

Utanför den italienska småstaden Bomarzo är skogen full av monster. Med förvrängda och groteska ansikten och förtvivlade sneda grimaser vittnar de om deras skapare Pier Francesco Orsinis stora sorg efter förlusten av hans fru.

Fusing haughty elegance with down-to-earth grit in one beautifully colonnaded medieval grid, Bologna is a city of two intriguing halves. One side is a hard-working, high-tech city located in the super-rich Po valley where suave opera-goers waltz out of regal theatres and into some of the nation's finest restaurants. The other is a bolshie, politically edgy city that hosts the world's oldest university and is famous for its graffiti-embellished piazzas filled with mildly inebriated students swapping Gothic fashion tips.

Du har antagligen sett dem på bild, de fem pastellfärgade byarna som klämmer in sig mellan bergvägar vid den italienska kusten – Cinque Terre, eller "fem länder" som det betyder ordagrant. Få tips om hotell att bo på, restauranger att besöka och vackra leder att vandra!