Luxury holidays in Italy with Italian Expressions

Italian Expressions provides luxury, tailor-made hotel holidays throughout Italy, with an array of travel options and personalised authentic experiences.

As always, we have drawn on personal experience to create authentic experiences of Italy, with an amazing choice of cookery courses, wine appreciation, garden tour holidays, opera stays and breaks that incorporate local Italian festivals. These tailor-made holidays for individuals offer a real flavour of authentic Italy. Trips for small groups are also offered including garden tours and cookery courses.

From the snow-capped mountains of the north to the arid boot in the south, Italy is a country of remarkable contrasts with more Unesco World Heritage sites than any other country on the planet. Italian cities are almost unbelievably beautiful and well preserved; Italy's countryside is a picture-postcard collage of hilltop villages and vineyards; Italy's islands are fringed with bone-white beach and turquoise coves. And through it all, Italy’s passion for food and fashion, for family and fun, its sheer appetite for life, is summed up in two words: dolce vita – it’s Italy in a nutshell.

Popular options for holidays in Italy are touring itineraries and rail holidays to and within Italy, as there are so many iconic attractions to visit. To the far north, the Dolomites offer spectacular walking, the Alps have wonderful skiing, while the cities just below them – Verona, Turin, Milan, Bologna and Venice – drip so tangibly with antiquity, each city more improbably beautiful than the last, that at times you just have to put down the guide book, sit back in a piazza café, and soak it all up over a long, lazy cappuccino. In the middle of the country, Tuscany is awash with treasures, from Siena and Florence to Pisa and San Gimignano, Renaissance gems rising above winding, cobbled streets. Littered with enchanting yet luxurious hotels, Tuscany – and its less visited but no less lovely Umbria – make for a fabulous holiday. South of Tuscany, the countryside flattens in the heat, the pace of life slows to a languorous, elegant stop, but the beauty of the landscape and its myriad attractions make it impossible to slow with it. You can’t help but explore. The Amalfi Coast, Rome, Naples, Sicily, the vineyards of Puglia – they’re each worth a holiday on their own.
Wonderful climate, a glut of architectural and cultural treasures, a nation of warm effervescent, beautiful people – it’s possible you may never want to travel anywhere else again after a holiday in Italy. Every evening Italians stroll the streets in a tradition known as the passeggiata. A gentle, timeless celebration of simply being, it’s everything we love about Italy – and everything we feel sure you’ll fall in love with too.