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Tours of Italy, Virtual Tours, Free Photos of Italy, Aerial Photos...
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Lucca's distinctive walls surround the town, as seen from space, courtesy of GoogleEarth. See below for more space images.
Street scene from a village near Lake Como from FreeFoto.com.
San Gimignano in the distance, in Tuscany from FreeFoto.com.
A view from the Chianti hills, between Florence and Siena in Tuscany from FreeFoto.com.
Crossing the "street" in Venice. Click on the image to view more like it from PhotoRoma.com.
Some lucky tourists touring Venice. Click on the image to view more like it from FreeFoto.com.
Il Ponte Vecchio in Florence. Click on the image to view more like it from FreeFoto.com.
The Tuscan landscape. Click on the image to view more like it from FreeFoto.com
Olive oil poster from the 'Italian cuisine' collection of the food poster site of AllPosters.com Click on the image to view more like it.
Pasta poster from "Italian cuisine' collection at AllPosters.com. Click on the image to view more like it.
The Vatican's Saint Peter's Church from space courtesy of GoogleEarth
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IntroductionI've traveled in 13 countries and lived in 6 countries, and for me Italy has the most varied beauty of all of them. The term bel paese is often used to refer to Italy, and to a very creamy Italian cheese that has the map of Italy as the logo on it's label. To give you an idea of how beautiful Italy is, or to remind you of sights you may have seen while traveling there, this page offers links to photo tours of parts of Italy. There are also links to poster/prints sites that sell frameable images of Italy and Italian food. For Italophiles stuck at home: A Photo Walking Tour of the the Roman Forum and Colosseum. Click on a camera to begin, then click on the image center to proceed, or on the image left and right to look left and right.
Claudia and Pippo, site visitors, have created the beautiful site PM News dedicated to sharing the Piedmont (Piemonte) region of Italy with others. You'll find food, photo-tours, recipes, family history, and get a peek into the lives of some lovely people. It's a site to warm all Italophiles' hearts.
Virtual Tours of Italy
This site offers photo tours of several Italian cities each with roughly 30-40 photos with accompanying descriptions. Click on a city name to start a tour. Photos of Italian Towns
These photo tours come from the Photo Roma site. There are more cities listed on their site. I've provided these links just to give you a selection. Click on the city name to go to a gallery of photos that are free to view and to use. 52 photos of S. Gimignano 313 photos of Siena 137 photos of Firenze 87 photos of Assisi 84 photos of Lucca 47 photos of Orvieto 118 photos of Perugia 68 photos of Pisa 87 photos of Pompeii 130 photos of Siena 55 photos of Roma 46 photos of Sansepolcro 67 photos of Venezia
FreeFoto.com offers free photos of Italy (and other places and many things). These cities are from their Italy list. Click on one to open up the photo collection. Apuane Alps
Posters of Italy
These two posters companies are the biggest and oldest on the web. They sell to most countries in the world: Art.com site and AllPosters.com .
Click on the link below to go to over 22 pages of posters of Italy at Art.com.
Click on this link to view a different mix of posters of Italy at AllPosters.com.
Italy Prints and Posters AllPosters.com
Many lovers of Italy are also lovers of good food. If you'd like to buy posters of food, the Allposters.com site has a wide selection for on-line purchase.
Click on the link below to view a wide selection of Italian cuisine posters from AllPosters.com.
Italian Food
Free Art Prints of ItalyI'm always amazed at the prices charged for nice, frameable prints of Italy. My economical nature, combined with frustrated artistic ambitions, pushed me to create some free art prints you can download and print out on a color printer. I've applied a simulated wax coating to free images of Italy, and come up with six series of prints, post-card sized. You can always enlarge them if you wish, but remember, you use more colored ink printing a large image. I've placed them in MS-Word documents so they are ready to print. You can also download the image itself, as always, by using the right mouse button. They look best when printed on matte photo paper, and are beautiful framed in groups. A sample from each series appears in the left column of this page, linking to the various series galleries. Or you can link to the galleries by clicking on the gallery title below.
Aerial Images of Italian Towns
Italy as seen from the sky, roughly translated. These galleries are of aerial images of Italian cities. This is not the usual view the tourist gets to see, which makes them fascinating. The link above goes to the main list. These towns are just a sampling of those available. I show some images below.
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Some Aerial Images from L'Italia Vista dal Cielo...
Bologna Center - Torre degli Asinelli
Assisi - Church of St. Francis
Florence - River Arno, Ponte Vecchio
Florence - Palazzo Pitti and Il Giardino Boboli
Florence - Piazza della Signoria
Bergamo - Cittą Alta, Church of Santa Maria Maggiore
Gubbio - Piazza della Signoria
Pisa's Miracle Square with the round Baptism building, the rectangle mausoleum, the cross structure of the cathedral, and at the top right of the image is the famous leaning bell tower.
Rome's Coliseum from space courtesy of GoogleEarth
Rome's monument to Vittorio Emanuele with the Campidoglio to the right, from space, courtesy of GoogleEarth
The Vatican's Saint Peter's Church from space courtesy of GoogleEarth
Milan's cathedral from space, Google Earth
Milano Galleria Vittorio Emanuele from space, Google Earth
Milano's Castello Sforzesco from space, Google Earth
Chianti from space, with her golden fields
Venice from space showing the Grand Canal snaking it's way along from train station to Saint Mark's Square and the Doge's Palace, with Giudecca Island at the bottom, and Murano Island above to the right.
Florence's cathedral from space courtesy of GoogleEarth
Florence's Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens from space, courtesy of GoogleEarth
Rome's Castel Sant'Angelo from space courtesy of GoogleEarth
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Visit my Coloring Pages for images of Italy for children to color
Visit my Florence Page or Visit my Venice Page or Visit my Rome Page
