We propose you a short list of useful links about Italy:

Weather in Italy:

• Yahoo! weather: http://weather.yahoo.com/img/eur_italy_outlookf_en_GB_440_mdy_y.html

Trains:

• Trenitalia: http://www.trenitalia.com

Italian airports:

• Alitalia: http://www.alitaliausa.com/information/beforeflight/toairport/index.htm

Italian Government:

• http://www.governo.it/
• http://www.interno.it/
• http://www.esteri.it/eng/index.asp
• http://www.quirinale.it/

So you decided to spend your holiday in Italy, and you want to enjoy your stay in one of our italian villa rental, Italy is a wonderful place to visit all over the year, but its spring and summer are really exciting and full of colors, life and events. We can suggest you to rent one of our vacation villa in Tuscany, renting a villa or an holiday home with Cuendet means discovering the true colors and life of Italy.

We also have apartments and farmhouses to rent everywhere in Italy, just search for your apartment in Rome or for an apartment in Venice.

Any of our italian villa rental have a garden so if you have a pet you can bring him with you and he surely find the ideal place to run and play.

Below you will find some general information about Italy, feel free to use the menu on the left to read about the regions in Italy, and enjoy your stay!

There is a great deal of variety in the landscape in Italy, although it is characterized predominantly by two mountain chains: the Alps and the Apennines. The former extends over 600 miles from east to west. It consists of great massifs in the western sector, with peaks rising to over 14,000 feet, including Monte Bianco (Mont Blanc), Monte Rosa and Cervino (the Matterhorn). The the chain is lower in the eastern sector, although the mountains, the Dolomites, are still of extraordinary beauty.

At the foot of the Alpine arc stretches the vast Po Valley plain, cut down the middle by the course of the river Po, the longest in Italy (390 miles), which has its source in the Pian de Re (Monviso) and flows into the Adriatic through a magnificent delta. The Alpine foothills are characterized by large lakes: Lake Maggiore and the lakes of Como, Iseo and Garda. The Apennines form the backbone of the peninsula, stretching in a wide arc concave to the Tyrrhenian Sea. The Corno Grande (Gran Sasso d'Italia) is the highest peak. A large part of central Italy is characterized by a green hilly landscape, through which the rivers Arno and Tevere (Tiber) run. The southern section of the chain pushes out to the east forming the Gargano promontory and, sloping down further south, the Salentine peninsula. It then proceeds to the west with the Calabrian and Peloritano massif stretching across the Strait of Messina into Sicilia. The principal islands are Sicilia, rising up to the great volcanic cone of Etna (10,860 feet) and Sardegna. The main archipelagos are the Tremiti Islands in the Adriatic Sea, the Tuscan Archipelago, the Pontine Islands, the Aeolian Islands and the Egadi Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Sicilia.

Source:http://www.italiantourism.com/geninfo.html

Situated in Mediterranean Europe, Italy has land frontiers with France in the north-west, Switzerland and Austria in the north and Slovenia in the north-east. The peninsula is surrounded by the Ligurian Sea, the Sardinian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, the Sicilian Sea and the Ionian Sea in the south and the Adriatic Sea in the east. Italian is the language of the majority of the population but there are minorities speaking German, French, Slovene and Ladino.

Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI established a Fascist dictatorship. His disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany led to Italy's defeat in World War II. A democratic republic replaced the monarchy in 1946 and economic revival followed. Italy was a charter member of NATO and the European Economic Community (EEC). It has been at the forefront of European economic and political unification, joining the European Monetary Union in 1999.

Source: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/it.html

Choose your vacation home in Italy

Tuscany

The sea, mountains and hills celebrated all around the world, are the frame of this region, an exclusive microcosm where the beauty and harmony of these landscapes enlivens the soul and betters the spirit.

Umbria

Umbria, the green heart of Italy, crossed by the Tevere River, offers to those who visit it a sense of peace and interior harmony.

Marches

Less known, but not for this reason is it inferior in its nature and landscape, the Marche faces the Adriatic Sea and offers an uncontaminated coast.

Tuscany sea and Liguria

Lazio

Veneto and Lago Maggiore

The heart of Veneto is a countryside of luxurious residences and patrician villas, often designed by illustrious architects and with frescoes painted by famous painters.

Sardinia

Sardinia, the island of the sea, the island of nature ... the island of holidays

Amalfi coast, Sicily, Apulia

The Sorrento Peninsula, with its lush Mediterranean vegetation, rocky cliffs and turquoise sea, offers one of the most beautiful panoramas of the Campania as well as the entire Tyrrhenian coast.