- Time Zone: GMT/UTC +1 (+2 in summer) (Central European Time)
- Electricity: 220V, 50 Hz (bring an adapter/transformer for your hair drier, laptop, cellullar phone etc.)
- Weights & measures: Metric
- Currency: Euro (Euro)
- Country Dialing Code: 39
Italian Basic Words
Hello! - Ciao!
Hi! - Salve!
Goodbye - Arrivederci! (formal)
Goodbye - Ciao! (informal)
Yes - Sė
How are you? - Come sta? (formal)
No - No
Very good - Molto bene
Thank you - Grazie
Thank you very much - Molte grazie
OK/Good - Va bene
Good day - Buongiorno
Good evening - Buonasera
You're welcome - Prego
Good night - Buonanotte
It was nothing - Niente
Please - Per favore
Cheers! (toast) - Salute!
See you later - Ci vediamo!
Excuse me - Sorry! Scusa!
Open - Aperto
Closed - Chiuso
Small - Piccolo
Big - Grande
See you tomorrow - Ci vediamo domani!
Must See - Properties on UNESCO World Heritage List
-Rock Drawings in Valcamonica (Lombardy Region)
-Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying -Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura (Lazio region)
-Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with "
-Historic Centre of Florence (Tuscany region)
-Venice and its Lagoon (Veneto region)
-Piazza del Duomo, Pisa (Tuscany region)
-Historic Centre of San Gimignano (Tuscany region)
-I Sassi di Matera (Basilicate region)
-City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto (Veneto Region)
-Historic Centre of Siena (Tuscany region)
-Historic Centre of Naples (Campania region)
-Crespi d'Adda (Lombardy Region)
-Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta (Emilia-Romagna region)
-The Trulli of Alberobell (Puglia Region)
-Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna (Emilia-Romagna region)
-Historic Centre of the City of Pienza (Tuscany region)
-18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta, with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex (Campania region)
-Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua (Veneto Region)
-Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) (Liguria region)
-Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena (Emilia-Romagna region)
-Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
-Costiera Amalfitana
-Archaeological Area of Agrigento
-Villa Romana del Casale
-Su Nuraxi di Barumini
-Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia
-Historic Centre of Urbino
-Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula
-Villa Adriana
-City of Verona
-Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
-Villa d'Este, Tivoli
-Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-eastern Sicily)
-Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
-Val d'Orcia
-Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
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