Italy June 2025

[Karlgalla1]

Good morning all

I am looking at doing a 16 day tour of Italy IN jUNE 2025. I am looking at things / places that are a must see and places to avoid. Any itinerary that people have used would be a good help. TIA

 

[Brize]

Welcome.

Does that include travelling to and from the UK? If so, that's not a lot of time and if you try and do too much, or go too far, you will feel knackered and need a holiday when you get back!

With (just over) 2 weeks, I would confine myself to Northern Italy and enjoy the lakes. The larger lakes are quite busy so you might like the smaller ones - Lake d'Orta and Lake d'Iseo - they are little gems.

Lovely walking in the area, but also places like Verona and Venice are within striking distance for day trips.

Happy to provide further details if interested

 

[Karlgalla1]

Welcome.

Does that include travelling to and from the UK? If so, that's not a lot of time and if you try and do too much, or go too far, you will feel knackered and need a holiday when you get back!

With (just over) 2 weeks, I would confine myself to Northern Italy and enjoy the lakes. The larger lakes are quite busy so you might like the smaller ones - Lake d'Orta and Lake d'Iseo - they are little gems.

Lovely walking in the area, but also places like Verona and Venice are within striking distance for day trips.

Happy to provide further details if interested

 

[Karlgalla1]

Hi Brize. Thanks for the information. I have 22 days booked off work. I was allowing 1 day each way to travel to northern Italy and back to the UK. (Just over 12 hours each way). 2 drivers.

 

[Brize]

Rather you than me; that's hectic.

Still, if you like a busy trip you will want to go further afield (although I would still enjoy the lakes). Rome would be a big attraction, and Pisa on the way there, but it depends on what your interests are - its very personal. If you love walking the lakes are perfect. If you like Roman Empire history Rome is fantastic, but then so are so many other places in Northern Italy.

If you do a search, there will be many threads of advice on this forum, but I suggest first that you decide what your interests are - what is it about Italy that makes you want to visit? Secondly, I still think you need to be more realistic about travelling time.

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[LostInSpace]

I am looking at things / places that are a must see and places to avoid.

Pompeii and Herculaneum are a must.

Avoid Italian roads (and drivers); they get worse the further south you go.

 

[TerryL]

Have a look at our 2018 Blog here.

 

[Riverbankannie]

We stayed at Lerici for a boat trip at Cinqua Terra, then we loved a Dutch campsite in Tuscany with an infinity pool and took the train to Florence

Camping Belsito · Via Delle Vigne, 1, 51016 Vico PT, Italy

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More recently we stayed at a site opposite Venice with a ferry service
Camping Fusina

 

[pandas]

Welcome.

Does that include travelling to and from the UK? If so, that's not a lot of time and if you try and do too much, or go too far, you will feel knackered and need a holiday when you get back!

With (just over) 2 weeks, I would confine myself to Northern Italy and enjoy the lakes. The larger lakes are quite busy so you might like the smaller ones - Lake d'Orta and Lake d'Iseo - they are little gems.

Lovely walking in the area, but also places like Verona and Venice are within striking distance for day trips.

Happy to provide further details if interested

Please keep away from Lago d'Iseo not gem like at all, total rubbish, people are horrible, roads are awful - oh and we want to keep it to ourselves!

 

[PlacidoD]

I would say two days from ferry exit to make the Italian Lakes/ N.Italy. And you are going to have a minimum of half a day to get to Calais/Dieppe or wherever and possibly even a whole day. I do the journey quite regularly albeit I am on my own. I actually take three days - two days (really 1.75 days) to get to family in Switzerland and then a third half day to make it to Lake Como after a long weekend with them.

If you try to do it in one day you will take two days in N. Italy to recover!!

I aim to book an overnight transit campsite enroute with an on-site restaurant or restaurant nearby so that I can feel that the journey is part of the holiday rather than just a slog to get there.

You don't say anything about your ferry route but where possible I like to ring the changes and have some time off dual carriageways on pleasant country roads for maybe an hour during any day involving more than 4 hours solid driving. You will absolutely have to stay on dual carriageways/motorways if you are going to stand any chance of doing the journey in one day and you will need to factor in delays at e.g the St-Gotthard tunnel and there are always road works and reduced speeds on sections of road wherever you go!

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[chaser]

One place that we have been to a few times and love it and it's never mentioned on here for some reason , most folks just drive straight past and don't even know it's there , is Porto fino .

 

[daveclare]

Here's a few, but not necessarily in the right order.
Bardolino, Lucca, San Gimignano, Noli, Spotorno.

There are hundreds of others. But these are Northern Italy.