How would you do it ? 5 days in Italy, worth seeing Florence,Rome,Venice ( must sees ) Pisa & Milan ?

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conley39

I live about two hours from both Venice and Florence and spend a lot of time in both depending on what's going on.

First, I would suggest that if you only have 5 days, you should split your time between Rome and Florence and don't try to get to Venice too - you'll spend too much of your time in transit rather than actually seeing things here. Rome and Florence are close enough together that with the high speed trains, it's not a long trip. As good as Venice is, and it was great for Carnevale this weekend - I just got home, save it for another trip.

Personally, I would split the time three days in Rome and two in Florence, but you could also stay in Rome and make a day trip to Florence if you wanted. Or, Pisa is an easy day trip from Florence on the train. When I have visitors that want to go see the tower, we get there early in the morning, see the tower, the duomo, and the baptistry, and hop back on the train for another 25 minutes to go to Lucca for the day. The old walled part of the town has a lot of interesting things to see.

Orla C

Come on. That's ridiculous! Spend the 5 days better, pick ONE of these great cities - you could leave out Pisa, aside from the Campo Dei Miracoli, it has nothing to offer - and spend QUALITY time in any of them. Much easier.

Nigel P

You could easily spend all 5 days in Roma and not see all that is worthwhile. To give justice to St Peters you need at least a couple of hours ( and that does not include queing) but you could make flying visits to the Trevi fountain, and the Pantheon on the way.

If you want to see the David sculpture and visit the Uffizi (in Firenze) to see the Botticellis then you need to get prebooked tickets in advance or spend several hours queing again. I spent a fortnight in Firenze with a couple of day trips away and I did not get to see everywhere - Pisa is an hour on the train from Firenze and the Campanile, Duomo etc are all togetehr and 15 minutes walk from the railway station so if you rushed everything you could do a lightning trip from Firenze in 3/4 day and do some of Firenze in the evening.

Do not bother with coaches in Italy, both the intercity (TGV type in many cases) and local trains are good, reliable and relatively cheap

Mike M

I spent a month and a half outside of Napoli this summer and it still wasn't enough to fully grasp onto a culture. Now you're going to spend 5 days visiting 5 cities? Instead of having a rushed vacation where you can't even enjoy yourself, stay in one city, Napoli and Roma would be my favorites, and soak up the culture instead of spending half of your vacation in hotels and trains. Learn a little Italian and ask people where local spots are. It's the only way to fully soak up a culture, since half of your vacation will be standing next to tourists from all of the world with cameras in hand.

turkeytaster

Rome is a must ,Florence next then Venice,theres not a lot at Pisa apart from the tower,you may waste aday there when you could spend more time at one of the other nice places.

Claudio C

This is the typical "American tourist plane". "everything", fast and skindeep.
Italy is a big land with lots of things to see. If you want to see "everything" (in 5 days!!!) you will just waste all your time on travelling, spend a lot of money (trains in Italy are expensive), get tired and see really nothing. Choose ONE place and visit well and thorough this place. Just for Rome you would need a week. Don't think the best to see "the must see", think the best way to see something.

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