Range Of Choices In Italian Tour

By Author: Gordan Zovko
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An Italian tour is something that provides you value for your time and money. You can go on pilgrimage visiting spiritually rich Catholic shrines and sanctuaries. You may also blend the tour with farm holidays where you will get to see Italian life in close quarters.

In Italy it is easy to find a welcoming family atmosphere, enjoying beautiful countryside, trying foods or simply re-discovering the pleasures of a stroll in the country or in small towns. There is a huge range of choices as there are many farms offering farm holidays. They can be found all over the country, particularly in Tuscany, Umbria and Trentino-South Tirol. Tuscany, for example, has natural parks. In the so-called Green Umbria, you see parks and green hills for a relaxing break in touch with nature. In Trentino you visit the Adamello-Brenta Park, known for stunning landscapes. In general, the whole country has an immense variety of green areas.

Italy is also visited by thousands for pilgrimage tours. There are great number spiritually rich Catholic shrines and sanctuaries in Italy. Such a tour will usually include Holy Mass at St. Mary Major ...
... Basilica, or St. John Lateran, visit to St. Peter's Square with the St. Peter's basilica and Pope John Paul II tomb chapel, sanctuary of St. Pio in San Giovanni Rotondo with Church of Our Lady of Grace. The tour will also include visits to several museums where you will have a look at the masterpieces of Michelangelo and Bernini.

Returning to farm holidays, it offers a wide variety of services adapted to the needs of today's tourists. You get to enjoy local foods and drinks during the tour. More and more tourists are choosing farm holidays along with their pilgrimage tour. Farm holidays are linked with a high level of quality, attracting clientele that is in search of relaxation along with satisfaction that comes with pilgrimage. In many Italian farm holidays there are often teaching farms for guests and school groups. Tourists can undertake courses on how foods are made, animals raised and plants cultivated. Farm holidays bring children and adults close to rural culture.

Moreover Italy is also famous worldwide for its beaches and you can enjoy that as well along with Italy pilgrimage. Italian beaches are a popular destination among holidaying Italians as well as foreign tourists. Near these splendid beaches, there are charming towns such as Portofino (in Liguria), Taormina (in Sicily), Amalfi (in Campania), Alghero (in Sardinia) and many more. Besides Sicily and Sardinia, there are also wonderful smaller islands lying off Italian peninsula such as the Isle of Elba off Tuscany, Capri near Naples and Pantelleria off Sicily. The sheer variety of landscapes found in Italy means that there is a type of beach for everyone here: right from the gin-clear waters and sandy bays of the south and islands to the coast of Romagna, the wonderful cliffs of the eastern Riviera in Liguria and the beautiful white-sand beaches of Sardinia.

While on pilgrimage tour of Italy, you won’t just visit Rome but other towns as well like Padua, Bologna, Siena, Assisi, Spoleto and Norcia, exploring not only churches, chapels and monasteries, but also seeing Italian life in close quarters. If you wish, you can also blend your pilgrimage tour with a farm holiday or tour of beaches, drinking the cup of Italy to the full.

Author of this article is associated with Blue Heart Travel that conducts Catholic tours in various countries of Europe that include Italy, Holy Land, France, Portugal, Spain, Croatia, Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina.