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Originally Posted by Bagor
My advice.
Cut half your destinations out. Far too many and spread out.
Trying to see too much can result in seeing nothing. You'll come home with a lot of places ticked but few memories.
Venice is overrated IMO.
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Damn. I spent a year in Italy and never bothered to go to Venice. But I did go to Milan and there's nothing there. For a first timer in Italy, the most important places to go are Florence and Rome and if you can make it, take a day trip down to Pompeii (Vesuvius). The very second you arrive in Naples, you'll want to leave. It is, by far, the dirtiest and sketchyist city I saw in Europe. There is nothing there that isn't in other, cleaner, better cities. Once you see St. Peter's Basilica and the Duomo in Florence, all other Italian churches will warrant a 'meh'.
If you consolidate your time in Italy into Florence and Rome, you'll see an assload more and you'll be glad. There are tons of museums and sites between the two cities that will give you the real feel of urban and ancient Italy without having to waste time in places like Milan and Naples.
Milan is fashion-ey and kinda modern. Not really "Italy". Naples is just a hole. Dilapidated, dirty, dog sh1t on the sidewalks, trash everywhere, laundry hanging off all the windows, nothing to see, people that like to rob.
Seriously, do Pompeii as a day trip from Rome and skip Naples.
And go to Florence. Probably the most beautiful city in Italy.