Natural features
Alpe di Siusi and Seceda, Dolomites
Siusi, South Tyrol
The Alpe di Siusi (Seiser Alm) is Europe's largest high alpine meadow, a rolling plateau of pastures, wooden huts and wildflowers below the jagged pe…
Natural features in Italy
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Amalfi Coast and Positano
Positano, Salerno
A spectacular stretch of coast south of Naples, where pastel villages cling to cliffs above the sea, linked by a dramatic winding road.
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Capri and the Blue Grotto
Capri, Naples
A glamorous island in the Bay of Naples, with dramatic cliffs, the Faraglioni rock stacks and the hilltop villages of Capri and Anacapri.
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Lake Como and Bellagio
Bellagio, Como
A long, Y-shaped lake surrounded by mountains, lined with elegant villas and gardens.
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Mount Etna
Nicolosi, Catania
Europe's highest and most active volcano, about 3,300 m, dominating eastern Sicily.
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San Vito Lo Capo
San Vito Lo Capo, Trapani
A fishing village on the north-west tip of Sicily with one of Italy's most beautiful beaches: about 3 km of soft white sand and Caribbean-like water,…
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Scala dei Turchi
Realmonte, Agrigento
A dazzling white cliff of soft marl rock on Sicily's south coast, eroded into the shape of a huge staircase descending into the turquoise sea.
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Spiaggia di Cea, Ogliastra
Tortolì, Ogliastra
A long beach of fine sand on the east coast of Sardinia, famous for the two red porphyry rock stacks (the Faraglioni di Cea) standing just offshore.
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Val d'Orcia
Castiglione d'Orcia, Siena
The classic Tuscan landscape of rolling hills, cypress-lined roads, golden wheat fields and hilltop towns, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern T…
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Mondello Beach, Palermo
Palermo
Palermo's favourite beach, a long curve of white sand and clear turquoise water between Monte Pellegrino and Monte Gallo, with an old fishing village…
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Mount Vesuvius
Trecase, Naples
The volcano that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD, and last erupted in 1944, rising above the Bay of Naples.