The Mille Miglia sees classic cars set off from Brescia on 12 May, then thunder through tranquil Italian villages down to Rome.
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Naples is an exhilarating mess of Unesco-listed historic buildings, citrus tree-filled cloisters and electrifying street life.
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Strung out across the Swiss border, from romantic Lake Orta to island-studded Maggiore and wooded Como, they comprise exquisite islands, wedding-cake villas and rural villages.
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The region offers good skiing and hiking, Roman ruins in the town of Aosta, vernacular architecture and some impressive medieval and Renaissance castles.
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The prestigious Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world; it has been running annually since 1932.
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With its medieval walled villages and ochre-coloured villas, set within a landscape of vineyards, cypress trees and hills rolling down to the coast, you could spend a lifetime exploring the best of Tuscany.
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