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Holidays to Italy – Discover the 6 Great Places For the Best Tours. You are traveling does very well because we changed a little air and know new places – and these memories will stay with us forever. If you are lucky enough, and on your next vacation in Italy visit one of these 6 Tours of Holiday to Italy listed here, even better!

The Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia

The Tyrrhenian coast, the border with Tuscany in the port of Civitavecchia is situated Cerveteri and Tarquinia Etruscan. The necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia were included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2004 and they are the first example of sites related to the Etruscan civilization.

Reflection direct of the life cultural, economic and political of the two cities on the necropolis south of Banditaccia. Cerveteri and Tarquinia Monterozzi offer a unique testimony of the Etruscans burial customs. The peculiarity of Cerveteri necropolises is the imitation of architecture, while the painting is typical of the Tarquinia necropolis burial.

Castle Sammezzano

The Castle di Sammezzano is on the outskirts of Leccio, in the Comune of Reggello in Tuscany, immersed in a redwood grove, is a magnificent architectural work with an extraordinary Hispano-Moorish decor. Built on Roman ruins in 200 BC and belonged to several families until to be purchased by Sebastiano Ximenes d’Aragona, a rich merchant who made his fortune in trade with the Americas.

After his death the castle was inherited by Ferdinando Panciatichi Ximenes d’Aragona, a visionary and eccentric who in 1889 designed its transformation into “A Thousand And One Nights”. A mixture of styles, from Moorish to Gothic Revival, numerous rooms with majestic names and adorned with columns, capitals, arches, domes and colorful arabesques.

There are 365 rooms, one for each day of the year, and each is different from the other and with a proper name, white room, peacock, lovers, stalactites, etc., and in the spaces that connect to each other, there are corners, windows, mazes, hidden niches. The entire castle is an absolutely beautiful maze of tile, each uniquely mounted.

Valley of the Mills in Sorrento

The Valley of the Mills is on the coast of Sorrento a few kilometers from Naples, in southern Italy. Owes its name to the presence of a used mill for grinding grain. The Valley of the Mills originated about 35 million years ago when a violent volcanic eruption covered the area of debris.

The 17th century at the mouth of the valley, it was built a port. After the flour mills were successfully established, other early industrial outfits began springing up to take advantage of the waters at the bottom: a sawmill was built which furnished the chaff used by local cabinet-masters and there was a wash-house used by women for personal hygiene and laundering clothes.

The ridge of valley probably were used as quarries to find blocks for the construction of buildings in Sorrento and the caves were converted into wells to store water. The Valley of the Mills was the subject of paintings by Italian and foreign artists of this era. With the destruction of a bridge connecting Sorrento to the rest of the coast, and due to climatic reasons (lack of water, total absence of wind,  and moisture consistently in 80% making it impossible any form of human life), the complex is no longer operating since  the beginning the twentieth century.

Gaeta, Split Mountain

The complex of “Split Mountain” is incorporated into the context of three rock fissures. Following is a staircase of 35 steps leading to profound and suggestive central slit, which according to Christian tradition, would have been formed at the time of Christ’s death. To the right of the church you go scroll a long corridor discovered, behind of Via Crucis stations with  tile panels, made by R. Brown (1849): below each image the verses of Metastasio.

By descending towards the inside of the mountain you can’t help but noticing a handprint in the rock, alleged to a Turk – “The Turk’s handprint”, accompanied by a Latin inscription. The inscription says: “An incredulous man refused to believe what the tradition tells. Prove of that is this rock, become liquid by the touch of his fingers”. 

According to the legend, the handprint on the rock would have been formed when an incredulous Turkish sailor put his hand on the wall, which miraculously became liquid under the pressure, leaving forever the indelible hand print.  Another legend says that St. Filippo Neri lived on the mountain. You can see a stone bed now known as “The bed of San Filippo Neri.”A plaque to the left displayed the Bible words mentioned above in Italian: “Gesu rese lo spirito, la terre tremò, le rocce di spaccare”.

Go all the way down into the special Chapel of the Crucifix. The Crucifix is wood from 500’s. After viewing the small chapel, ascend the staircase on your left. There is a magnificent view of the split rock and the sea coming between the split. Walk back to the front gate.

Turn to the right and enter the Monastery. It was originally built in 1071 on top of Munatius Plancus Villa. This monastery, actually known more as a shrine (people come from everywhere to pray for special grace) was very important and was autonomous. It was destroyed several times, but has always been rebuilt

Civita di Bagnoregio dying city

If you observe it from a distance as it clings to the edge of the precipice which seems to be attacking it from all sides, the village of Civita di Bagnoregio seems like a ghost town, something that could exist only in the mind of a visionary or in a dream remembered. Especially on certain misty mornings that little group of houses seems to float surrounded by a fog of unreality.

Civita, like an island in our memory or a figment of our imagination, is connected by a single narrow cement walkway to reality and to the surrounding countryside, it is inaccessible to modern means of transportation and takes us far away, not so much in distance as in time.

In fact, as one gradually starts to cross this walkway suspended in the air – only 900 feet, but it seems endless – there is a feeling that one is leaving the real world, and this feeling becomes even stronger after entering the ancient city gate of Santa Maria, standing guard over a sheer drop between the remains of two houses with their windows opened wide over the emptiness.

One almost has the impression that this gate opens into a supernatural world, surviving in another dimension. And yet, there are plants on the terraces, flowers on the window sills, people moving in the streets, wives and peasants returning from the fields with their donkeys, but it is all in a strangely hushed atmosphere without the noise and stress to which our cities have inured us, in other words it is just as people lived hundreds of years ago.

The sensation of emptiness, the void can almost be touched: a street which drops off into the precipice, the facade of a house with nothing behind it.

Marmore Falls

Toward of Terni, taking the highway Valnerina, after 7 km you arrives at the Marmore Falls, certainly a milestone for those who decide to visit the natural beauty of Umbria. It is an artificial hydraulic work done by the Romans. The river Velino, in fact, increased in previous years to 290 BC in a large area of stagnant, swampy and unhealthy waters. In order to drain this water, the console Curio Dentato dug a channel leading toward the cliff, and falls, with a jump of 165 meters.

The jump spectacular of Cascade of marble inspired poets and artists of all time: Virgil in “Aeneid”, Cicero, G. Byron in “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”. Almost 50 years ago the cascade of water is used to feed the Central Hydroelectric Galletto. With this, the waterfall can be seen only during certain hours.

It was thanks to the richness of these waters and their energy that the building was possible the construction, in Terni, of industries ironworks, electrochemical, and electrics.

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