A 75 day, trip around beautiful Italy covering 4,500 miles.

Roscoff in Britanny down through France to the Mont Blanc tunnel and into Italy. Ferry from Genoa to Palermo in Sicily to see the places we missed on our 2024 trip.

Ferry over to the mainland, then up through Calabria into Puglia. Tour of Puglia including a villa stop, then up along the Adriatic coast through Molise, Abruzzo, Le Merche and Emilio Romana into lake country via Verona.

Back into France over the Mont du Cenis pass, Aix-les-Bains, Angers and Britanny for our ferry to Plymouth.

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2026 Italy Trip – Link Anchors

Destination	Country/Region
Heading out via Roscoff & Le Mans	France
La Clayette & Annecy	France
Into Italy	France to Italy
Turin (Torino)	Piedmont
Genoa (Ferry to Sicily)	Liguria
SICILY	SICILY
Palermo & St Vito lo Capo	Sicily
St Vito Lo Capo	Sicily
Trapani	Sicily
Selinunte	Sicily
Modica & Marzamemi	Sicily
Syracusa & Brucoli	Sicily
Brucoli	Sicily
Taomina	Sicily
Savoca	Sicily
CALABRIA	CALABRIA
Scilla	Calabria
Tropea	Calabria
Pizzo	Calabria
Le Castella	Calabria
Crotone	Calabria
PUGLIA	PUGLIA
Martina Franca & Cisternino	Puglia
Bari	Puglia
Polignano a Mare	Puglia
Ostuni (A Mare) & Brindisi	Puglia
Lecce	Puglia
Torre dell’Orso	Puglia
Otranto and Torre san Giovanni	Puglia
Santa Maria di Leuca and Marina di Pescoluse	Puglia
Tiggiano (villa stay)	Puglia
Specchia, Montesano Salentino, Casarano and Presicce Acquarica	Puglia
Gallipoli	Puglia
Baia dei Turchi, Otranto	Puglia
Trani	Puglia
Vieste	Puglia
Peschici	Puglia
ABRUZZO	ABRUZZO
Rocca San Giovanni & Costa dei Trabocchi	Abruzzo
Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park	Abruzzo
LE MARCHE	LE MARCHE
Ascoli Piceno	Le Marche
Macerata and Numana	Le Marche
EMILIA-ROMAGNA	EMILIA-ROMAGNA
Dozza	Emilia-Romagna
Reggio Emilia & Gualtieri & Mantau	Emilia-Romagna & Lombardy
Verona	Veneto
LAKE TOURS AROUND LOMBARDY (mainly)	LOMBARDY (mainly)
Lake Garda (Sirmione)	Lombardy
Lake Iseo (Marone)	Lombardy
Lake Viverone	Piedmont
BACK IN FRANCE	FRANCE
Over the Cenis pass to Aix-les-Bains (lac Bourget) and to Riom	France
Angers, St Pol de Leon and Roscoff	France