Sightseeing in Italy

Sightseeing in Italy breaks into three scripts. The first is the city on foot: a ninety-minute walk through Venice costs 39 dollars, two hours in Pisa 31, and the No Mafia tour of Palermo — an account of how the island lives with that reputation today — 38 dollars for three hours. It is the cheapest way in, and usually the first day of a trip.

The second is entry to a single monument without the queue. The Colosseum express takes an hour at 109 dollars; St Mark's Basilica in Venice, an hour at 55. A day ticket for the open-top bus loop around Rome costs 33 dollars and runs all day, which helps when the sights are scattered. A separate entry is horseback riding through the Tuscan hills out of Siena: ninety minutes, 89 dollars.

The third is a day trip from the coast. From Sorrento, routes run along the Amalfi Coast with stops in Positano, Amalfi and Ravello (eight hours, 121 dollars), out to Capri and Anacapri (eight hours, 140), and to Pompeii with the climb up Vesuvius (eight hours, 133). GetExperience lists 306 sightseeing programmes in Italy — more than for any other country in the catalogue — from 30 to 266 dollars and one to twelve hours long. Dates and party size are picked in the calendar, with online card payment.