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Finding the Best in Florence, Venice, Napoli & Verona

If you're planning a trip to Italy, here is a content aggregator that has a comprehensive, descriptive database of Italian Hotels you can check out:

(1) Florence hotel
(2) Venice hotel
(3) Napoli hotel
(4) Verona hotel

While there, here is what we think you definitely must see/do. If you can't find them, just ask around.

Florence: Go to a very small restaurant called Acqua al 2, Via della Vigna Vecchia 40/r. It is extremely small and extremely popular so you usually won't be able to find an empty table. Even if you do, you'll be joined shortly by someone else. Go nuts on everything- from the primi to the dolci, because everything is absolutely delicious.

Venice: Visit a small bookstore called Carlo Docupil (L'art d'Ecrire). Simply meander through the streets and alleyways, enjoy the quiet and the absence of motor vehicles. I bought a beautiful leather notebook with acid-free, water colour, hand made / bound paper while I was there and as you can imagine, it was really expensive, but is worth every lira (or maybe I should say euro).

Napoli: "Mi dispiace, no ho solde!" I met a couple who kept saying that in Naples, but that statement is another story for another time. The lesson is to remember to have lots of money on you when you get to Naples because you'll want to stay forever. But if you really must leave after only a day or two, then you must walk down and around Spaccanapoli, the long street/quarter with most of the great churches and noble palaces in Naples. It used to be really dangerous, with the churches even being bolted shut, but it is now tourist-friendly and a must go.

Verona: It's a small city, but oh so charming and oh so many things to see and to do. My favourite start off point is the Piazza del’Erbe – which was once the Roman forum, and although it is just a very small piazza, it is still the heart of Verona’s old city. Get there early in the morning if you like to see how the locals live because each morning a vegetable market springs up and if you must sleep in, you can also look at the souvenir stalls the rest of the day.