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Best Things to Do
Top 50 Best Things to Do in Italy [2025]
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Milan Cathedral
4.7
/5
2256 reviews
10
From £22.50
Based on 59,175 reviews
Milan City Centre | >100 km from downtown
Phone +39-02-72023375
Address: P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy
Recommended sightseeing time: 2-3 hours
Selected for 2 years in a row
Highlights:
View Milan & Alps from above
Admire the exquisite carvings of Milan Cathedral
Saved by 1363 users1200 positive reviews
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We had a concert to go on when we went, and we were on stage! Every frame of oil painting, every window, every pillar, every dome, was impressive!
Definitely worth the money as the lift options leaves you with much energy to explore the crooks and corners of the Duomo at the top two levels. You still need to climb another 90 steps to the rooftop terrace so best to take the lift. Plus you need to walk down the steps all the way to the church interior. The extra is worth it because the view is spectacular!
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Uffizi Gallery
4.7
/5
1293 reviews
10
From £24.67
Based on 39,497 reviews
Florence Historic Center | >100 km from downtown
Phone +39-055-294883
Address: Piazzale degli Uffizi, 6, 50122 Firenze FI, Italy
Recommended sightseeing time: 3-4 hours
Selected for 2 years in a row
Highlights:
European art's 5th-century journey
Admire masterpieces by great artists
Saved by 649 users796 positive reviews
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The Uffizi Gallery is a treasure house of Renaissance art. It has a rich collection of masterpieces by many great masters, exquisite architecture, and extremely high artistic and historical value, which will make you linger.
Entering smoothly, the ticket bought in advance at Trip.com is really convenient! You can enter by brushing the QR code! However, the door network is not good. It is recommended that you take a screenshot in advance in the album. It is good to brush it directly at the door. It is recommended!
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Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore
4.7
/5
1542 reviews
10
Based on 29,232 reviews
Duomo | >100 km from downtown
Phone +39-055-2302885
Address: Piazza del Duomo, 50122 Firenze FI, Italy
Recommended sightseeing time: 3-4 hours
Selected for 2 years in a row
Highlights:
Climb 463 steps & enjoy Florence
Climb the dome for panoramic views of Florence
Saved by 695 users649 positive reviews
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The clock tower has no elevator. It is very laborious to climb up by yourself. The whole clock tower is like a doll. You think it is on the top, but you can climb it. N times, there is a barbed wire fence on the top, not very friendly to taking pictures, but you can overlook Florence from all sides.
Trip.com For the reservation, the price is similar to the price of buying tickets on the spot. After calculating it, it seems that Trip.com is cheaper. Very convenient, just show the QR code directly, the clock tower is very high, there is no elevator, if it is the elderly and children may need to consider whether to climb, personally do not recommend, the stairs of the clock tower are high, the number of steps is many, the corridor is narrow. But climbing up the clock tower to see the Cathedral and the whole city of Florence, the scenery is still beautiful.
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Cathedral Square
4.7
/5
419 reviews
10
Based on 13,927 reviews
Milan City Centre | >100 km from downtown
Phone +39 02 361 691
Address: P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy
Recommended sightseeing time: 1 hour
Highlights:
Milan's historic landmark & sculpture
Climb 354 ft church for Milan view
Saved by 426 users174 positive reviews
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Milan Cathedral Square is the heart of the city. The Gothic cathedral is spectacular and the details are as exquisite as works of art! The surrounding area is very lively and suitable for taking photos and checking in, but it is a bit crowded with many tourists. The pigeons are not afraid of people, which adds a bit of fun. It is very convenient to go directly to the subway, but be careful of hawkers. The overall atmosphere is great, free and open, a must-see when you come to Milan!
Beautiful square in stretching from the Duomo to the shopping streets. On a beautiful day it will be packed and have 2-3 wedding couples trying to create epic wedding photos. A little too crowded and beware of pick-pockets.
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Colosseum
4.6
/5
3906 reviews
10
From £18.18
Based on 150,764 reviews
Colosseo | 6.5 km from downtown
Phone +39 06 3996 7700
Address: Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy
Recommended sightseeing time: 1-2 hours
Selected for 2 years in a row
Highlights:
Magnificent four-story, 80-arch, 240-pillar building
Experience the epic battles of the Colosseum
Saved by 2371 users2071 positive reviews
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The ticket type I chose include the underground of Rome colosseum, which is quite difficult to purchase through the official website due to very limited availability, and it is only opened to buy one month before your visit. But this time, I reserved the tickets from Trip.com 2 months before my visit, and after 2-3 weeks, I received confirmation of the booking! Fast and efficient! In the tour, my tour guide is Italian, but they’d probably speak English if most of the guests are foreigners. For those who are also interested in historical facts about colosseum, I highly recommend this to you.
The immersion is really spectacular, feel the glory and wisdom of the ancient Romans. There will be people with red ropes in their hands near the attractions to chat with tourists. Remember not to ignore them and walk away directly.
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Pantheon
4.6
/5
1304 reviews
10
From £6.29
Based on 80,316 reviews
Pantheon | 8.1 km from downtown
Phone +39-347-8205204
Address: Piazza della Rotonda, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
Recommended sightseeing time: 1 hour
Featured in 2025 Global 100 – Best Things to Do
Highlights:
Admire the design Michelangelo acclaimed
Giant dome's sky eye showers natural light and shadows
Saved by 1260 users620 positive reviews
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Very unique experience. Trip online tickets are paid off, providing a very smooth entrance without queuing. The Pantheon itself is an astonishing place.
## The Umbilical Corridor of the Sky: The Space-Time Corridor of the Pantheon
When you squeeze into the stone-columned porch from the noisy Coronari Street, you are suddenly swallowed by the 43.3-meter-high dome - this is not a building, but a model of the universe cast by the ancient Romans with concrete. The dust and mist of two thousand years of incense and candles roll in the light column. The whole temple is like a giant bell covering the mortal world, and you are standing at the critical point between God and man.
**Sky Eye: The Black Hole That Devours Time** (Subverting Cognition)
Looking up and staring at the 9-meter giant hole in the center of the dome, the rainstorm day turned out to be the most magical moment: the rain curtain poured vertically into the temple and crashed into broken diamonds on the colorful marble floor. In the afternoon with strong sunlight, the light column wandered on the ground like a golden hour hand, accurately sweeping across the emperor's tomb niche - the "solar calendar" designed by Hadrian, allowing the deceased to receive a solar coronation once a day. At 11:54 on the winter solstice, the light spot will completely cover the copper nail at the entrance (the starting point of the New Year in the ancient Roman calendar), with an error of less than three minutes in two thousand years!
**The Imperial Code in the Drain Hole** (Kneel and Observe)
Don’t be fooled by the iron bars of the central drain. Crouch and look at the 22 concave holes arranged along the edge of the drain—the base of the bronze rain chain from the Augustan era. Even more shocking is the slightly sloping slope at the bottom of the drain: during heavy rains, the water will swirl clockwise to form a mandala pattern, echoing the 28 ribs of the dome caisson (28 symbolizes the perfect number in the Pythagorean school). Ancient Roman engineers used millimeter-level slope calculations to let the forces of nature dance ballet in the temple for two thousand years.
**The Geometric Murder on the Sarcophagus** (The Horrifying Truth)
There are always crowds in front of Raphael’s tomb, please turn to the corner of the tomb of Perrin del Vaga. There is a dagger-like scratch on the side of the black marble coffin: in 1547, two enemies dueled here, and the blade accidentally hit the sarcophagus and sparks burst out. A closer look at the cracks extending from the scratches formed an equilateral triangle, which coincided with the inscription on the coffin cover, "ARTEM GEOMETRIAE" (Art of Geometry). The Renaissance master even paid tribute to Euclid in his death.
**Acoustic trap of the colonnade shadow** (personal experience of the wonder)
Before sunset, stand behind the bronze monument of Marco Agrippa and recite poems softly. The sound waves were cut and refracted by 16 Corinthian columns, and they actually produced a clear echo in the tomb of Urban VIII 40 meters away! The architect used the difference in sound speed between the front porch and the rotunda to design the "oracle effect". When the last light spot moved out of the eye of the sky, the entire temple turned into a giant resonance box - a stone column emitted the remnant of cheers when the construction was completed in 125 AD (actually the hallucination of the pigeon whistle in the square vortex in the dome).
When the museum closed, I stayed by the rose-red giant column. At the moment when the security guards cleared the area and turned off the lights, the moonlight suddenly poured in from the hole in the dome, condensing into an ice-blue light pool on the Pantelic marble floor. At this moment, touch the mottled bronze door - the door is full of palm prints from 24 million pushes, and your palms overlap with the fingerprints of Cicero and Michelangelo in the dark. The most terrifying miracle of the Pantheon is that it gives the concrete body temperature: when the morning light pierces the eye of the sky again, in the rolling dust in the light column, there are Brunelleschi's exclamation when he stole the master's skills, the fragments of Galileo's manuscripts for calculating the curve of the dome, and the dewdrops of time and space condensed from the water vapor you exhaled and the steam of ancient Roman libations.
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Santa Maria delle Grazie
4.7
/5
373 reviews
9.6
Based on 3,446 reviews
Milan City Centre | >100 km from downtown
Phone +39-02-4676111
Address: Piazza di Santa Maria delle Grazie, 20123 Milano MI, Italy
Recommended sightseeing time: 0.5-1 hour
Featured in 2025 Global 100 – Best Things to Do
Highlights:
Admire Da Vinci's fresco masterpieces
Close view of Da Vinci's Last Supper
Saved by 526 users190 positive reviews
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Best option if you are in Milan and haven’t had the chance to buy the ticket on the official website. Personally, best money I spent so far :)
This is my 3rd time in Milan and the previous times I failed to get tickets through the official website. This time I booked through Trip.com and everything went smoothly. It's slightly more expensive but worth it to see the masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci.
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Leonardo's Last Supper Museum
4.5
/5
153 reviews
9.6
From £20.13
Milan City Centre | >100 km from downtown
Phone +39 02 9280 0360
Address: Piazza di Santa Maria delle Grazie, 2, 20123 Milano MI, Italy
Recommended sightseeing time: 15-30 minutes
Highlights:
Admire da Vinci's Original Mural
Book Ahead for Limited Viewing of Mural Masterpieces
Saved by 544 users143 positive reviews
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Due to the nature of the artwork, only small groups are permitted. This is a great positive for the viewing experience also. Book tickets well in advance and ensure you arrive well before your admission time to validate your ticket and not miss out!
I can't grab the official website of my card point. I placed an order with the mentality of giving it a try. The picture guide is clear. I activate the QR code at the ticket office. When I arrive at the time, I scan the code directly to enter. It is very good.
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Gallery of the Academy of Florence
4.5
/5
460 reviews
9.4
From £36.35
Based on 32,365 reviews
Florence Historic Center | >100 km from downtown
Phone +39-055-0987100
Address: Via Ricasoli, 58/60, 50129 Firenze FI, Italy
Recommended sightseeing time: 1-2 hours
Featured in 2025 Europe 50 – Best Things to Do
Highlights:
David statue & rare collections
See Michelangelo's David in person
Saved by 387 users225 positive reviews
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Although they are more expensive, these are safe and guaranteed tickets which can be bought on dates when the official tickets are sold out, especially closer to your visit date. We received the online tickets a day before our entry. Entrance was crowded but the staff are helpful to guide you to your designated ticket queue line. Inside the galleria was mildly crowded. The Michelangelo David statue was magnificent and there is ample space for you to admire and take pictures. Overall I would recommend this place.
I came to see David! Wish to achieve! It is very convenient to change tickets, just in the small pavilion opposite the intersection. Here to pay attention to the time, I chose 11 to 13 o'clock, I thought that as long as this time period arrived, I can go in, but when I arrived at 11:30, I said that I was late. Fortunately, I entered through the fast channel. I still have to see it clearly next time. In addition, you must bring a passport to borrow the explainer! ! ! Cash is useless!
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Castel Sant'Angelo
4.6
/5
484 reviews
9.3
From £13.73
Based on 14,723 reviews
Rome City Centre | 9.1 km from downtown
Phone +39-06-6819111
Address: Lungotevere Castello, 50, 00193 Roma RM, Italy
Recommended sightseeing time: 1-2 hours
Featured in 2025 Europe 50 – Night Attractions
Highlights:
Witness Rome's evolving fortress
Panoramic Rome & Vatican views
Saved by 762 users251 positive reviews
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Just close to the attractions, I was attracted by the angel sculptures on both sides of the bridge. When you enter the Fort Saint Angel, you must go to the top place to see, overlooking many monuments across the river, including the corner of the Colosseum. Also the sandwiches in the central cafe are good and cheap, but have to sit and eat there, if the sun is too sun, there is basically no shade
Amber of Time and Space: The Light of the Prism of the Fort of Saint Angels When the light of the Tiber lifts up the round fortress of the bronze angel, you step into Rome's most eerie capsule of time and spacethe remains of the emperor, the sighs of the prisoner, the conspiratorial power, and the madness of the artist. Don't be fooled by the fairytale appearance, every tuff in the castle is soaked in the blood of historical paradoxes. **The soul in the secret passage whispers** (must see! ) Drill into the palace of the original site of Hadrian's tomb, and a mobile phone flashlight illuminates the brick voucher vault of 139 AD. Suddenly it hits the marks on the wall: there are six-man stars stacked next to the cross, and there is a line below "1527.5.6" - the Jewish doctor praying under the current when Pope Medici is besieged. When the wind passed through the neck, the smell of wax oil and rotten wood floated in the darkness, which was the smell of the fugitives burning furniture to warm the fragrant. As the angels climbed to the top floor looked back like a pedestal, the secret road like a giant snake drilled into the Vatican wall, and the foot sound of Clement VII stepping on this bloody road to escape echoed in the stone wall. **The epic of light and shadow of the spiral ramp**(shocking details) Circle along the slope of the ancient Yunling, the stone wall suddenly cracked a small window: at 12 noon, the sun pierced like a golden spear, and the complete triumphal arch of light dropped on the wall! Look closely at the edge of the light spot, in the dents worn by medieval prisoners with chains, There are several Renaissance glass beads (legacy of the nobles). Walk to the site of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of the Fort of **The Angel Bridge's torture ballet** (the beautiful moment) rushed to the banks of the Tiber River after sunset. The 12th Bernini apprentice carved armed angels gradually lit up in the dusk: when the first star was reflected in the eyes of the angel "holding the crown", the whole bridge suddenly turned into a flowing theater. A closer look at the angel's spear gesture: the shadow of the spear pointed to the vent of the castle dungeon one night in 1574, where the escapee was betrayed by the moonlight in a dramatic setting. **Psalm of Prisoners on the Terrace Star Map**(Soul Strike) Night at the top terrace cafe, waiting for tourists to disperse and look up at the bronze angel: its sword tip will always point to the direction of the comet. Using the mobile phone star map APP, it is obvious that the angle of the angel's wings locks the Saturn position on May 6, 1527. Even more frightening is the archery array of the south wall: the moonlight through the hole, projecting the coded spectrum of Dante's Divine Comedy (the secret creation of modern monks) on the ground. Zi leaned on the East Wing Fort and watched the last tram pass the Holy Spirit Bridge. The moment the car lights swept through the castle's exterior wall, the bullet-scarred wall suddenly appeared the bullet holes of the guerrillas shot by the Nazis in 1944, which were repaired by vines into a green cross. At this time, drinking a glass of wine, the sound of the imperial knell and the Renaissance harp in the wind. The deadliest charm of the Castle of Saint Angel is that it puts you on the threshold of blood and beauty: when the first swallow in the morning dives into the dew of the bronze angel's sword, you know the immortality of Rome, because it is forever steel between ruin and rebirth
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