Are you planning to visit Italy? Do you know what are the 20 Most Visited Tourist Attractions in ITALY
Italy (called the beautiful country “Il bel paese”) is considered one of the most desired travel destinations due to having a great number of magnificent arts and monuments.
This list is based on the 2013 statistical survey of the Italian Ministry of Heritage and Cultural Activities and includes annual visitors data, must-see insights about each attraction.
20 – PINACOTECA DI BRERA
🗺 Location: Milan (Lombardy)
🎟 Annual Visitors: 249,579
Must see:
The Kiss by Francesco Hayez
Supper at Emmaus by Caravaggio (Milan)
The Engagement of Virgin Mary by Raffaello
Where PINACOTECA DI BRERA is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite: http://www.brera.beniculturali.it/
📪 Address: Via Brera, 28 20121 Milano
📧 e-mail: sbsae-mi.brera@beniculturali.it
19 – NATIONAL ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF VENICE
🗺 Location: Venice (Veneto)
🎟 Annual Visitors: 265,034
Must see:
Besides about a million printed books, the Library contains about 13,000 manuscripts, 2883 incunabula and 24.055 works printed between 1500 and 1600.
The National Library Marciana in Venice is located at the end of St. Mark’s Square, overlooking the Piazzetta San Marco, in front of the elegant facade of the Doge’s Palace.
Where NATIONAL ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF VENICE is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite: http://marciana.venezia.sbn.it/
📪 Address: Piazzetta San Marco n.7 – Venezia
📧 E-mail: biblioteca@marciana.venezia.sbn.it
18 – GROTTA AZZURRA
🗺 Location: Anacapri, Naples (Campania)
🎟 Annual visitors: 279,476
Must see:
Grotta Azzurra
The “Grotta Azzurra“ is one of the most famous caves in the world.
The reason why it is famous is due to the blue light that shines through the saltwater of the Mediterranean Sea and fills the cave with blue reflections.
This spectacular marine grotto is over 50 meters long and 30 meters wide.
The water takes on a beautiful deep blue colour because of the unique reflections and rays of light created by the sunlight that filters through the mouth of the cave.
Where Grotta Azzurra is located in Italy
📌 Pictures and Video from Grotta Azzurra
🖥 WEBsite: Capri tourism – http://www.capritourism.com/
📪 Address: Via Grotta Azzurra, Anacapri NA
17- OSTIA ANTICA EXCAVATIONS AND MUSEUM
🗺 Location: Ostia – Rome (Lazio)
🎟 Annual Visitors: 286,056
The ruins of Rome’s ancient seaport are like Pompeii without the crowds—and just a 14-mile subway ride west of downtown
MUST-SEE:
Make sure you stop at the well-preserved Theatre, built in the AD 1st and 2nd centuries, which could seat 2,700 people.
Several giant marble theatre masks still survive on tufa columns at the stage
The Castle is located near the entrance to the excavations. It was commissionated by Cardinal Giuliano Della Rovere, the future Pope Julius II.
📌 VIRTUAL TRAVEL TO ANCIENT OSTIA
Where OSTIA ANTICA EXCAVATIONS AND MUSEUM is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite:https://www.ostiaantica.beniculturali.it/en/archaeological-sites-and-monuments/
📪 Address :Viale dei Romagnoli 717 – Ostia Antica – Rome – Italy
📧 E-mail: ostiaantica.info@beniculturali.it
16 – THE MEDICI CHAPELS
🗺 Location: Florence (Tuscany)
🎟 Annual Visitors: 300,894
MUST-SEE:
Basilica di San Lorenzo
Di I, Sailko, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3066076
The Medici Chapels are two structures at the Basilica of San Lorenzo, notable in the Florentine landscape with its red brick dome. It is sometimes referred to as the Mini Duomo.
Where THE MEDICI CHAPELS is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite : https://www.florence-museum.com/medici-chapels-tickets.php
📪 Address: Piazza di Madonna degli Aldobrandini, 6, Firenze
📧 Email: cappellemedicee@polomuseale.firenze.it
15 – NAPLES NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Di Mister No, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60223607
🗺 Location: Naples (Campania)
🎟 Annual Visitors:308,387
Naples’ National Archaeological Museum serves up one of the world’s finest collections of Graeco-Roman artefacts.
Originally a cavalry barracks and later seat of the city’s university, the museum was established by the Bourbon king Charles VII in the late 18th century to house the antiquities he inherited from his mother, Elisabetta Farnese, as well as treasures looted from Pompeii and Herculaneum.
MUST-SEE:
The Herculaneum papyri
The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 papyri found in Herculaneum in the 18th century.
Where NAPLES NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite: https://www.museoarcheologiconapoli.it/it/
📪 Address: Piazza Museo Nazionale, 19, – Napoli
14 – EXCAVATIONS OF HERCULANEUM
🗺 Location: Ercolano, Naples (Campania)
🎟 Annual visitors: 327,054
Herculaneum really gives you an idea of how ancient Romans lived. For the independent traveller, there is an additional advantage over Pompei.
There are far fewer visitors to Herculaneum than Pompei and you can explore the ruins at leisure without being overwhelmed by tour groups.
These excavations also cover a much smaller site than do those of Pompei and seeing the whole site is much less exhausting.
MUST-SEE:
Collectively, the ruins of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata have declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1997.
Where EXCAVATIONS OF HERCULANEUM is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite: https://www.visitercolano.com/en/main-attractions/excavations-herculaneum.html
📪 Address: Corso Resina, 1, Via Alveo – Ercolano
13 – PITTI PALACE
🗺 Location: Florence (Tuscany)
🎟 Annual Visitors: 386,993
MUST-SEE:
This enormous palace is one of Florence’s largest architectural monuments.
The Pitti Palace houses some of the most important museums in Florence.
The palace and its contents were donated to the Italian people King Victor Emmanuel II in 1919, and its doors were opened to the public as one of Florence’s largest art galleries.
Where PITTI PALACE is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite: https://www.uffizi.it/palazzo-pitti
📪 Address: Piazza de Pitti, 1, Firenze
📧 Email: info@polomuseale.firenze.it
12 – VILLA D’ESTE
🗺 Location: Villa d’Este – Tivoli (Roma)
🎟 Annual visitors: 399,577
MUST-SEE:
The Villa d’Este in Tivoli, with its palace and garden, is one of the most remarkable and comprehensive illustrations of Renaissance culture at its most refined. Its innovative design along with the architectural components in the garden (fountains, ornamental basins, etc.) make this a unique example of an Italian 16th-century garden. The Villa d’Este, one of the first Giardini delle meraviglie , was an early model for the development of European gardens.
Where Villa d’Este is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite: http://www.villadestetivoli.info/
📪 Address: Piazza Trento, 5, 00019 Tivoli (Roma)
📧 Email: villadestetivoli@teleart.org
11- CENACOLO VINCIANO MUSEUM
🗺 Location: Milan (Lombardy)
🎟 Annual visitors: 410,157
MUST-SEE:
Da Vinci’s Last Supper
The Last Supper” — relentlessly studied, scrutinised, satirised and one the world’s most famous paintings — is still revealing secrets. Researchers have now found new meaning to the food depicted by Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous artwork.
Where Cenacolo Museum is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite: https://cenacolovinciano.org/
📪 Address: Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie – Piazza di Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
10 – ROYAL PALACE OF CASERTA
🗺 Location: Caserta (Campania)
🎟 Annual visitors: 439,813
The Royal Palace of Caserta should be Italy’s answer to the Palace of Versailles, which attracts millions of visitors a year.
MUST-SEE:
The Palace has been used as a filming location in many movie productions like Star Wars Episode I and II, Mission Impossible III, Angels&Demons.
Where Royal Palace of Caserta is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite: http://www.reggiadicaserta.beniculturali.it/
📪 Address: Viale Douhet, 2/a, 81100 Caserta CE
09 – BORGHESE GALLERY
🗺 Location: Rome (Lazio)
🎟 Annual Visitors: 498,477
MUST-SEE:
Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne
Di Architas – Opera propria, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70138441
The sculpture was carved from one single block of marble, including the many fragile leaves on slender stems.
Where Borghese Gallery is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite: http://www.galleriaborghese.it/borghese/en/edefault.htm
📪 Address: Piazzale del Museo Borghese, 5, 00197 Roma
08 – THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM
🗺 Location: Turin (Piedmont)
🎟 Annual Visitors: 540,297
The Egyptian Museum in Turin, the world’s second-largest collection of Egyptian artefacts:
its peculiarity is the presence of art objects and of daily materials and tools.
MUST-SEE:
Museum
Di Gianni Careddu – Opera propria, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63223024
The Egyptian Museum in Turin is the second most important collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities after that of the Cairo Museum.
Where the Egyptian Museum is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite: http://www.museoegizio.it/
📪 Address: Via Accademia delle Scienze 6, Torino
07 – LA VENARIA REALE
🗺 Location: Venaria Reale, Turin (Piedmont)
🎟 Annual Visitors: 598,548
MUST-SEE:
La Venaria Palace
La Venaria Reale is a grandiose estate of 80,000 square meters fo floor surface and 50 hectares of gardens.
The castle, the summer residence of the Savoys, was commissioned by Duke Charles Emmanuel II and designed by Castellamonte.
It was transformed into a sumptuous dwelling by Garove, Juvarra and Alfieri.
Included in a huge restoration project the castle can be visited. It is an outstanding example of Baroque architecture and includes a Palace and Gallery dedicated to the goddess Diana, and the Church of St. Hubert.
Where la Venaria Palace is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite: http://www.lavenaria.it/en
📪 Address: Piazza della Repubblica, 4, 10078 Venaria Reale TO
06 – BOBOLI GARDEN
🗺 Location: Florence (Tuscany)
🎟 Annual Visitors: 710,523
More than a garden, more than just a “green lung” in Florence, the Boboli Gardens are one of the greatest open-air museums in Florence that embraces another site of culture in Florence, the Pitti Palace.
The park hosts centuries-old oak trees, sculptures, fountains and offers peaceful shelter from the warm Florentine sun in summer, the beautiful colours of the changing foliage in the fall and smells of blooming flowers in the spring.
MUST-SEE:
Neptune’s Fountain
Irreverently know by locals as “The Fountain of the Fork” this water feature was considered the central point of the gardens.
Where Boboli Garden is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite: https://www.uffizi.it/en/boboli-garden
📪 Address: Piazza Pitti 1, Firenze
05 – CASTEL SANT’ANGELO NATIONAL MUSEUM
🗺 Location: Rome (Lazio)
🎟 Annual Visitors: 918,591
With its cylindrical contour and particularly scenic position along the shore of the Tiber River, Castel Sant’Angelo is one of the town’s most famous landmarks.
Its appearance today is the result of a long series of transformations that, in reality, have left no traces of the glorious Roman “Hadrianeum“, the mausoleum that Emperor Hadrian built for himself and his successors.
MUST-SEE:
Mausoleum of Hadrian
According to legend, an angel appeared on top of the mausoleum and sheathed his sword as a sign that the plague of 590 had ended.
Where CASTEL SANT’ANGELO is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite: http://www.castelsantangelo.com/
📪 Address: Lungotevere Castello, 50 Roma
04 – THE ACCADEMIA
🗺 Location: Florence (Tuscany)
🎟 Annual Visitors: 1,257,261
Second on the ‘Florence boxes to tick’ list, after the Uffizi, is Michelangelo’s David, housed in the Galleria dell’Accademia.
There is a copy standing in Palazzo della Signoria, but the boy himself is a walk away and attracts visitors at the same sort of level as the Uffizi does.
MUST-SEE:
Michelangelo’s David
He weighs 12,478 pounds, the weight of 800 adult males.
🖥 WEBsite: https://www.galleriaaccademiafirenze.it/
📪 Address: 58–60 via Ricasoli, Florence.
03 – UFFIZI GALLERY & VASARI CORRIDOR
🗺 Location: Florence (Tuscany)
🎟 Annual Visitors: 1,875,785
The Uffizi Gallery museum is the most visited in Italy, with over 1.5 million visitors each year, so long lines are inevitable. Weekends, Tuesdays and mornings are the busiest times.
Despite the slightly higher cost of entrance (extra booking fees), it might be better to buy your Uffizi tickets ahead of time to skip the long line and spend more time in the museum.
MUST-SEE:
- Botticelli’s Birth of Venus – The model for Venus is thought to be Simonetta Cattaneo de Vespucci, a great beauty and favourite of the Medici court.
Filippino Lippi’s Madonna and Child with Two Angels
Titian’s Venus of Urbino
Lots of other works, including from the early Masters Cimabue and Giotto, Early Renaissance pioneers Fra Angelico and Masaccio, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
Where Uffizi Gallery is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite: https://www.uffizi.it/en
📪 Address: Piazzale degli Uffizi, 50122 Firenze,
02 – POMPEI
🗺 Location: Pompei, Naples (Campania)
🎟 Annual Visitors: 2,457,051
MUST SEE:
Pompei
The origins of Pompeii are old as the history of Rome.
Pompeii is a UNESCO World Heritage site one of those unique and powerful places everyone should have in their “places they see before …”. When Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2000 years ago Pompeii was one of two cities beneath the volcano.
Over the years the city and the surrounding villas have been excavated as a historical and educational testament to the power of nature as well as a monument to those who suffered the great volcano’s wrath.
The eruption occurred one day after the religious festival to Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
Where Pompei is located in Italy
🖥 WEBsite: http://www.pompeiisites.org/
📪 Address: Pompei, Province of Naples, Campania, Italy
Virtual Tour: http://www.italyguides.it/en/campania/pompeii
01 – COLOSSEUM, PALATINO & ROMAN FORUM
🗺 Location: Rome (Lazio)
🎟 Annual Visitors: 5,625,21
MUST – SEE
The Colosseum has over 80 entrances and can accommodate about 50,000 spectators.
The Roman Forum was the scene of public meetings, law courts, and gladiatorial combats in republican times and was lined with shops and open-air markets.
Di Zuffe – Opera propria, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4012640
The Palatine Hill is one of the seven hills of Rome, located near the Roman Forum, and is one of the oldest parts of the city. The site is now a large open-air museum.
Di Lil Herodotus – Opera propria, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79720064
Where COLOSSEUM, PALATINO & ROMAN FORUM is located in Italy
Live Webcam: https://www.skylinewebcams.com/it/webcam/italia/lazio/roma/colosseo.html
🖥 WebSite: https://parcocolosseo.it/en/
📪 Address: Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma
Source:
www.statistica.beniculturali.it
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