IconicHike·Easy·Trentino-Alto Adige
Alpe di Siusi / Seiser Alm
Europe's largest high-altitude alpine meadow, ringed by Sciliar and Sassolungo towers.
4 hoursDetails ↗
Places
2364 of 2364 — every one pet-friendly
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IconicHike·Easy·Trentino-Alto Adige
Alpe di Siusi at Sunrise
Europe's largest alpine meadow at 1,800 m — Schlern and Rosengarten turning red at sunrise.
3 hoursDetails ↗
IconicHike·Hard·Aosta Valley
Alta Via 1, Aosta Valley
The queen of Aosta Valley's long-distance routes, linking Courmayeur to Champorcher over 10 stages.
10 daysDetails ↗
IconicHike·Hard·Aosta Valley
Alta Via 2, Aosta Valley
The wilder, higher sister route of the AV1 — crosses glaciers and remote passes above 3,000 m.
8 daysDetails ↗
IconicHike·Easy·Lombardy
Bellagio Peninsula, Lake Como
Walk the tip of the Lario triangle — olive terraces, silk mill history and the lake on three sides.
3 hoursDetails ↗
IconicHike·Moderate·Sardinia
Cala Goloritzè, Baunei
Italy's most beautiful beach — a limestone pinnacle above a turquoise cove accessible only on foot.
5 hoursDetails ↗
IconicBeach·Moderate·Sardinia
Cala Luna, Golfo di Orosei
A white-sand cove reachable only by boat or a sea-cliff trail — one of Europe's most beautiful beaches.
4 hoursDetails ↗
IconicHike·Moderate·Sardinia
Capo Caccia — Escala del Cabirol
The most dramatic sea cliff in Sardinia at 300 m — 656 steps down to the Neptune's Caves below the sheer white limestone.
3 hoursDetails ↗
IconicViewpoint·Moderate·Sardinia
Capo Caccia, Alghero
The 290 m sea cliff above Alghero — the Escala del Cabirol (656 steps) descends to the Neptune Cave below.
3 hoursDetails ↗
IconicWaterfall·Easy·Piedmont
Cascata del Toce
A 143-metre thundering waterfall released on schedule in the Val Formazza.
2–3 hoursDetails ↗
IconicWaterfall·Easy·Umbria
Cascate delle Marmore, Terni
The world's tallest artificial waterfall at 165 m — built by the Romans in 271 BC and still operated today.
2 hoursDetails ↗
IconicViewpoint·Easy·Puglia
Castel del Monte
Frederick II's perfect octagonal castle, alone on a Murgia hilltop with an octagonal courtyard and eight towers.
1–2 hoursDetails ↗
IconicViewpoint·Easy·Lazio
Civita di Bagnoregio
The "dying town", a tufa islet of medieval houses reached only by a long pedestrian footbridge.
1–2 hoursDetails ↗
IconicHike·Easy·Aosta Valley
Colle del Nivolet
A high-altitude tundra road ending at 2,641 m in the heart of Gran Paradiso park.
3–4 hoursDetails ↗
IconicVolcano·Easy·Campania
Cratere del Vesuvio
Walk the rim of Europe's most famous active volcano — lava landscapes and a view over Naples bay.
2 hoursDetails ↗
IconicVolcano·Moderate·Sicily
Etna — Crater Trail
Walk the rim of Europe's highest active volcano — lava fields, craters and views to the sea.
4 hoursDetails ↗
IconicPark·Moderate·Emilia-Romagna
Foreste Casentinesi — Romagna side
Italy's finest old-growth forest on the Apennine ridge — wolf, golden eagle, deer rut and 1,000-year-old silver firs.
4 hoursDetails ↗
IconicPark·Easy·Lazio
Giardino di Ninfa, Latina
The most romantic garden in the world — a medieval city abandoned in the 14th century and refilled with roses, wisteria and water over the ruins.
2 hoursDetails ↗
IconicHike·Hard·Piedmont
Giro del Monviso
A classic three-day loop around the 'Stone King', the source of the river Po.
3 daysDetails ↗
IconicHike·Hard·Sardinia
Gola di Su Gorropu, Barbagia
Europe's deepest canyon — 500 m vertical limestone walls 4 m apart at the bottom, the Grand Canyon of the Mediterranean.
6 hoursDetails ↗
IconicPark·Moderate·Aosta Valley
Gran Paradiso National Park
Italy's oldest national park, home to ibex, glaciers and alpine meadows.
Full dayDetails ↗
IconicHike·Easy·Lombardy
Greenway del Lago di Como
A low-level lakeside walk through Belle Époque villas and lemon-scented gardens.
4–5 hoursDetails ↗
IconicPark·Easy·Marche
Grotta di Frasassi — Gola di Frasassi
Italy's largest cave system — 13 km of stalactites, and the gorge outside with eagle owl and peregrine.
3 hoursDetails ↗
IconicCave·Easy·Sardinia
Grotta di Nettuno, Alghero
A sea-level cave only accessible by boat or 654 steps — stalactite columns reflected in an underground lake.
2 hoursDetails ↗
IconicPark·Easy·Puglia
Grotte di Castellana
Italy's most spectacular cave system — 3 km of passages ending in the Grotta Bianca, a white stalactite cathedral.
2 hoursDetails ↗
IconicVolcano·Moderate·Sicily
Isola di Vulcano — Gran Cratere Walk
Walk inside an active volcano — the Gran Cratere fumaroles at 386 m on the island that gave 'volcano' its name.
3 hoursDetails ↗
IconicBeach·Easy·Puglia
Isole Tremiti, Foggia
Italy's only island marine reserve in the Adriatic — three limestone islands with crystal water and a Benedictine abbey fortress.
3 hoursDetails ↗
IconicLake·Easy·Trentino-Alto Adige
Lago di Braies / Pragser Wildsee
The most photogenic lake in the Dolomites — emerald water backed by vertical limestone walls.
2 hoursDetails ↗
IconicLake·Easy·Trentino-Alto Adige
Lago di Carezza, Bolzano
The rainbow lake of the Dolomites — a small emerald lake reflecting the Latemar towers, South Tyrol's most painted scene.
1.5 hoursDetails ↗
IconicLake·Easy·Lombardy
Lago di Ledro
A pint-sized mountain lake with Bronze Age pile-dwellings and emerald water.
3 hoursDetails ↗
IconicLake·Easy·Trentino-Alto Adige
Lago di Resia — Torre Sommersa
The lake with a church tower — a medieval village flooded in 1950 with its 14th-century bell tower still standing above the water.
2 hoursDetails ↗
IconicHike·Moderate·Veneto
Lago di Sorapis, Cortina
A milky glacier-blue lake in a rock cirque below the Sorapis massif, one of the most photographed in the Dolomites.
4–5 hoursDetails ↗
IconicViewpoint·Easy·Trentino-Alto Adige
Marmolada Glacier
Italy's highest mountain and last great alpine glacier — a cable car reaches 3,265 m.
Half dayDetails ↗
IconicHike·Easy·Basilicata
Matera — Gravina Walk, Sassi View
The famous ravine walk opposite the Sassi — 9,000-year-old cave city from across the gravina canyon.
3 hoursDetails ↗
IconicHike·Easy·Basilicata
Matera Sassi Ravine Walk
Walk the opposite bank of the Gravina ravine for the iconic panorama of Matera's cave city.
3 hoursDetails ↗
IconicHike·Hard·Piedmont
Monte Rosa, Alagna Valsesia
The east face of Monte Rosa above Alagna — a 2,000 m wall of ice and granite above a Walser valley, the most spectacular mountain wall in the Alps.
6 hoursDetails ↗
IconicViewpoint·Moderate·Piedmont
Mottarone Summit, Lake Maggiore
A broad grassy summit between Lake Maggiore and Lake Orta with Alps on the horizon.
4–5 hoursDetails ↗
IconicViewpoint·Easy·Trentino-Alto Adige
Passo dello Stelvio — Sentiero Storico
Europe's second-highest paved pass at 2,758 m — the Ortles overhead, 48 hairpins below and a WWI military history walk.
2 hoursDetails ↗
IconicPark·Easy·Marche
Pian Grande, Monti Sibillini
The great plateau of the Sibillini — a flat high plain at 1,270 m that blooms with lentil flowers in June and poppies in May.
3 hoursDetails ↗
IconicViewpoint·Easy·Umbria
Piana di Castelluccio, Norcia
The Umbrian plateau at 1,400 m — the June wildflower 'fiorita' turns the entire basin red, yellow and blue.
2 hoursDetails ↗
IconicPark·Easy·Umbria
Piano Grande, Monti Sibillini
A vast high-altitude karst plain blooming with wildflowers in June — Italy's most dramatic lentil field.
3 hoursDetails ↗
IconicHike·Hard·Calabria
Pino Loricato — Pollino Summit Ridge
Ancient Bosnian pine trees up to 1,000 years old on the Pollino ridge — the symbol of Calabria and one of Europe's most extraordinary trees.
7 hoursDetails ↗
IconicViewpoint·Easy·Aosta Valley
Plateau Rosà, Cervinia
Italy's highest accessible viewpoint at 3,480 m, face-to-face with the Matterhorn.
Half dayDetails ↗
IconicViewpoint·Easy·Puglia
Polignano a Mare, Bari
The most dramatic coastal village in Puglia — white limestone houses on a sea cliff with caves below, and a dog-friendly beach in the gorge.
1.5 hoursDetails ↗
IconicHike·Moderate·Liguria
Portofino Ridge Trail
From Ruta to San Fruttuoso through the Portofino natural park.
4 hoursDetails ↗
IconicViewpoint·Easy·Aosta Valley
Punta Helbronner, Monte Bianco
The Italian summit of Mont Blanc's cable car at 3,466 m — the rooftop of Europe with a 360° panorama of the Alps.
2 hoursDetails ↗
IconicViewpoint·Easy·Piedmont
Punta Indren, Monte Rosa
A gondola-accessed 3,260 m terrace on the Monte Rosa glacier above Alagna Valsesia.
Half dayDetails ↗
IconicHike·Easy·Trentino-Alto Adige
Rifugio Auronzo — Tre Cime Circuit
The world-famous Tre Cime circuit — the most iconic Dolomite walk, accessible to all, dogs welcome.
3 hoursDetails ↗
IconicHike·Moderate·Aosta Valley
Rifugio Bonatti Balcony
A high balcony of the Tour du Mont Blanc facing the Grandes Jorasses.
5–6 hoursDetails ↗
IconicPark·Moderate·Sicily
Riserva dello Zingaro, Trapani
Sicily's first nature reserve — 7 km of unspoiled coast with fossil sea caves, Bonelli's eagle and crystal coves without roads.
4 hoursDetails ↗
IconicBeach·Easy·Liguria
San Fruttuoso, Portofino
A medieval abbey on a pebble beach — only reachable by boat or mountain trail from Camogli, Christ of the Abyss below.
2.5 hoursDetails ↗
IconicHike·Moderate·Trentino-Alto Adige
Sassolungo from Sella Pass
A cirque walk around the Langkofel/Sassolungo towers from the Sella Pass — icons of the Dolomites.
5 hoursDetails ↗
IconicHike·Easy·Sicily
Scala dei Turchi
A brilliant white marl cliff staircase above a turquoise sea near Agrigento — one of Sicily's most iconic sights.
2 hoursDetails ↗
IconicViewpoint·Easy·Trentino-Alto Adige
Seceda Ridge, Val Gardena
A cable-car ridge at 2,519 m with the most dramatic Dolomite curtain-wall panorama in existence.
3 hoursDetails ↗
IconicHike·Moderate·Liguria
Sentiero Azzurro, Cinque Terre
The classic coastal path linking the five pastel villages above the Ligurian Sea.
5–7 hoursDetails ↗
IconicHike·Moderate·Campania
Sentiero degli Dei, Amalfi
The Path of the Gods along the Amalfi Coast — a high cliff trail with the most famous coastal view in Italy.
4 hoursDetails ↗
IconicWaterfall·Moderate·Umbria
Sentiero della Cascata delle Marmore
Europe's tallest man-made waterfall at 165 m — Roman engineering in 271 BC still shaping the Nera river gorge.
3 hoursDetails ↗
IconicHike·Easy·Veneto
Sirmione, Lago di Garda
A narrow peninsula jutting into Lake Garda crowned by a Scaliger castle — Roman spa ruins at the tip.
2 hoursDetails ↗
IconicBeach·Easy·Sicily
Spiaggia dei Conigli, Lampedusa
Consistently ranked among Europe's finest beaches — a lagoon of turquoise water on Lampedusa island.
2 hoursDetails ↗
IconicBeach·Easy·Sardinia
Spiaggia della Pelosa, Stintino
The most-copied Sardinian beach postcard — a sandbar with a 16th-century Spanish tower and turquoise Asinara lagoon.
2 hoursDetails ↗