THE VENETO AND FRIULI
Vicenza, Padua, Verona and Treviso were established as the flontier post by the Romans. Those cities were situated important trade routes such as the Serenissima for connecting the flourishing port cities of Venice and Gienoa...

LOMBARDY
Vicenza, Padua, Verona and Treviso were established as the flontier post by the Romans. Those cities were situated important trade routes such as the Serenissima for connecting the flourishing port cities of Venice and Gienoa...

LE MARCHE
Le March was exiled from Magna Graecia which dominated most of the region around ages in the 4th centuryBC. During the early Middle Ages, the edge of the Holy Roman Empire was given rise to its present name "Marche" by the region...

EMILIA-ROMAGNA
Roman road, which was linked with the garison town of Piacenza on the Adriatic coast, was built in 187BC. The capital of Etruscan, Felsina, located on the site of Bologna, was devided before the Romans. After the fall of Rome, Ravenna was focused by the region and became a great part of the Byzantine Empire administered from Constantinople. Political Power passed to the noble families such as the Malatesta in Rimini, the Bentivoglio in Bologna, the d'Este in Ferrara and Modena, and the Farnese in Parma and Piacenza. Attracting Eminent poets such as Dante and ARIOSTO...

.UMBRIA
Umbriam started inhabiting here in the 8th century BC and later the region became the colony of the Etruscans and Romans. In the Middle Ages, a dukedom was founded around the center of Spoleto. The most of the region's independent city-states was gathered by the Papal States by the 13th century...

TUSCANY
Tuscany was tore apart by the violence and intercommunal strife during the Middle Ages. The Medici family,  the great patron of the Renaissance, who supported eminent scientists such as Galileo, built several imposing castles and villas...

LAZIO
Lazio was inhabited at least 60.000 years ago although the first substantial civilization started 10th century BC. The trading and the aglicuture were attached by Etruscan and Sabine civilization by the 7th century, while the south of the region was colonized by the Latins, Volsi, and Ernici.

SARDINIA
Sardinia still has many different ancient European legacies of invasions which can be seen from different dilects and it is also alive the remnants of Phoennician and Etruscan. Arab and Spanish influenced the South of the region..

NAPLES AND CAMPANIA
The capital of Campania, Naple lies around the edge of the beautiful Bay of Naples and another side is Mount Vesuvius , facing from the sea. Naples originated as a Greek colony named Neapolis, conquered, embellished and enlarged by the Romans. They are the islands of Capri, Ischia and Procida. Pompeii and Herculaneum are the volcanic ares and keep the most revealing of Roman ruins in Italy...

ABRUZZO, MOLISE, AND PUGLIA
The origine of Abruzzo and Molise was various Apennine tribes in the Middle Bronze Ages. Thereafter, the constant subduals were contiuned by the different tribes such as the Romans and Apennines. The golden age of Puglia was ruled by the Norman, although it still redolent Greek influence...

BASILICATA AND CALABRIA
Greeks, Byzantines and Basilian monks shaped the history here in Calabria. These regions which were part of Magna Graecia are along with Sicily and Puglia. An important center was ancient Metaponto in Basilicata as well as Crotone and Locri Epizefiri in Calabria...

SICILY
Sicily has been a constant paws for marauding forces for centuries. Firstly, its fragile peace started breaking because of the arrival of the Romans in the 3rd century BC and it became a Roman province. Then the island was also a victim of the numerous Barbarian invasion...