I love Northern Italy. The drive from Verona to Innsbruck is incredible: Castles perched high above the cliffs; more than 100 miles of vineyards along the highways; fairytale looking villages dotted around the Alpine mountains.......

The Italian alps don't include only the dolomite ,what you see here is only a small part of the Italian Alps .

Thanks to your wonderful videos, my family and I had a great time in Italy, started in Venice, then drove up the mountains to Trento, turned around and stayed in Vernazza for a couple of days, went to Rome and finally Naples , mount Vesuvius, and Pompeii 🇮🇹 i followed all of your advices and had the most incredible time ever! Thank you Rick Steves!

Ure right Italy the best country ever I ever travel to

We go almost each year to the northern part of Italy. It just is so awesome to be there.

The Cinque Terre were almost unknown to tourists until Steves put them in his first guide book. Then the explosion began. Thanks Rick. I think...

I was just in Milano in September. Also took the train to Verona and I agree I fell in love with Verona. Also took the train to Brescia which is another hidden gem and Como logo. If you go to Verona and Como I highly recommend taking the funicular up to the top of the mountain. The view is spectacular.

I love Piemonte, where Nutella and Kinder Ferrero were invented 😍🇮🇹

An excellent presentation, as always. Thank you Rick.

My father and I went to Bolzano a few years back and we were the only Americans to be found. Definitely go when the grapes are full on the vines, we were a bit early for that but beautiful nonetheless!

Great video.. thanks

Nice to watch....!!!!

Beautiful video!

ti amo italy .I'm Indian but Italian at heart......😘😘😘😘😘😘😘

very helpful, thanks Rick Steves

My papaw always told me I was a princess from Ronca 🥰 🥰 miss you very much papaw I will visit one day in your honor

I'm Swiss from Ticino and I have visited Italy many times from north to south. I agree with you for the Cinque Terre. I've spend many days there. But you can't compare Milano to Firenze, Roma or Napoli. The south of Italy is wonderful and personally I like the region of Puglia. I think that in the south of Italy you can find the finest spots of Italy and the greatest traditions. And the most delicious food, too

Ahhh I loved the video but missed Lago di Garda and Riva del Garda!

bravo Rick hai spiegato meglio di uno di noi. grazie ciao alla prox. t l

Turin is one of the most beautiful cities I've ever been to. Much better than Milan which I didn't find all that interesting.

If anyone sees this post, we will be traveling in this area later this year Spring 2020 and I wanted to know if the over crowding of tourist is any better in this area, if so I may want to plan around that, thanks...

Been through this area

You didn' t talked about Turin, Langhe (Unesco heritage), Monte Bianco and Skiing resorts, Bologna, Trieste...

kinda disappointed Torino wasn't mentioned, especially in the risorgimento section

Very nice tube. But it’s really hard to explain the whole Italy. You have no idea as much as our country is large and full of nice places to see. My advice is to check the Unesco heritage world list before come here: Italy has 55 places awarted. (Italy - UNESCO World Heritage Centre). You can discover several cities not usually mentioned: Mantova, Genova, Vicenza and Ville Venete, Urbino... only to talk about some of them.

I live in menaggio (lake como)

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if i have 14 days to explore italy, from north to south, what are the best places/towns to visit? do u think it is possible for me to visit the places rick steves mention through this playlist? (the playlist in Italy Travel Skills)

OMG. Campanilism in me says "What?" Milano was important in risorgimento but Mazzini and Garibaldi was from Genova, and Cavour from Torino.

Caro il mio Rick Steves . Con questi pochi paesi due laghi le dolomiti ( di cui hai parlato inmaniera molto superficiale non dicendo che sono sito unesco ),non hai fatto una panoramica del nord Italia. Ti sei scordato il monte bianco , il monte rosa , il Cervino, il massiccio del gran paradiso, il monviso, la parete est del monte rosa la piu grande parete delle alpi e l unica di dimensioni himlaiane presente in europa,le Langhe, Venezia, Verona e ancora mille siti paesi e città. farei prima a dire ti sei dimenticato di raccontare tutto il nord Italia tranne che qualche luogo. Sai in italia di bellezze ne abbiamo un infinità e per raccontare il nostro bel paese lo devi girare in lungo e in largo .Sai qui in Italia anche il più sperduto piccolo agglomerato urbano ha capolavori incredibili. Quindi non è di certo solo questo il nord Italia.

I don't agree with what he says about Portovenere at minute 3:37.Portovenere is a tiny and charming town near La Spezia,similar to Vernazza or the other 4 villages and there's no expensive hotels there .It has almost the same vibe as Cinque Terre and in fact, by the time I visited, it was less crowded that Cinque Terre (I visited three weeks ago. Sept 25,2019)

re: Cinque Terre, don't listen to him... it's far from an easy hike at all! lol

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... I'm... a little disappointed your images of Italy were still photos instead of videos. Right now, with coronavirus in Italy, you're the first non-pandemic video on KZfaq on northern Italy....

Lake Como is cool, but Lake Garda is a million times better.

Look Rick...stating basically that the epicenter of Risorgimento was Milan is both inaccurate and offensive. Risorgimento's heart was Turin...such a pity that even a lover of Italy like you overlooked one of its most important and beautiful cities

Italian make part of my genetc only in 5%. Portuguese is 35% , spanish is 22% , Hebrew is 12% and African is 26%.

Bergamo!