10 reasons to visit Italy in 2025: the best new holidays and cultural events | Italy holidays

Explore Cilento coast

Cilento coast in Kambania It has been attracted to Italian vacationers long agoBut visitors abroad tend to go to the north to the well -known coast of Amalfi. This change began – The Natural Adventure Company stated that Google’s search operations in the United Kingdom for Cilento coast have increased by 110 % over the past 12 months. The company operated a Self -guidance vacation there Since 2022 (from 915 pounds for eight nights and three dinner).

Footed holidays a Self -guided walk road From the coast to the mountains last year (from 1,180 pounds for seven B&B nights and three dinner).

The Spendadde Serge contains new guidelines Coast vacation to the coast biking From the Adriatic Sea to the Tirini Sea, including a final extension along the Celinto coast from Palinuru to Baystom (1995 pounds for seven nights and three lunch meals).

Villa with views of Florence

You cannot decide between the countryside and the city? The recently renewed Villa Velachilla is located in the fifteenth century on the side of the calm hill between olive orchards, overlooking Florence. There are six bedrooms, including one in a tower, as well as a modern kitchen, a large dining room and a seating room with a fireplace. The gardens extend around three sides of the house and there is an arched outdoor dining yard.

The swimming pool is shared with the adjacent Villa Fontalrta, but a special pool has been planned. There is a restaurant run by a family from the farm to the table in a greenhouse of the hill, and it is a short distance to the bus station for half an hour to Florence.
From 8 euros40 nights, sleep 12, Sawdays Co.uk

Celebrate the literature in Terse

The Lets Literatur Museum in Tars, northeast of Italy, opened last September, celebrating the literary heritage of the city. He focuses on James Joyce, who lived and wrote there from 1904 to 1920; The novelist born in Tristi and the theatrical writer ITALO Svevo; And the local poet Umberto Saba.

The museum also created a number of literary walking through Trist, including one of them focusing on the cafes and bars that intellectuals and artists visit.

Gorizia (40 minutes by car) is the joint 2025 European capital for culture With neighboring Nova Gorica, across the border in Slovenia. The events program in the Friuli-Penezia Giulia area includes concerts by Alanis Morissette and Robbie Williams, and opponents of Steve McCuri and Andy Warhol.
Free museumand Lets.trieste.it

The capital of culture in Sicily

Agrigento in southern Sicily is the Italian capital of Culture for the year 2025. The scene of the most famous city is the Valley of the temples, which contains some of the best classic sites saved in the country. This is the amazing preparation for an IL VOLO concert, which is the Italian pop trio, as well as shows for Greek and Latin tragedies, outdoor films, fireworks screen and more. Hundreds of other events are taking place throughout the year in sites including the Luigi Pirandlo Theater, Saint Gerlando Cathedral, churches and museums of the old city.

The almond flower festival is in March, a classic music week in June, and to celebrate the sea in August, in the nearby San Lyon.

Food is the most prominent in any trip to Sicily, and the island has also been named this year European region of cooking art.
More information in lavalledEitempli.it

Family adventure in Basilicata

Ke Adventures has a new family friendly trip to Basilicata in southern Italy. The directed activities include the cooking category in Matera; Searching for the paths of wolves, pigs and deer in Bolino National Park; Walking corridor and white water rowing. Gilato workshop in Mara. There is also free time to explore Matera caves and spend a day on the beach in MARATEA, or do more activities such as Zipling and Cayaking.

Families spend two nights at the Cave Hotel and five in the family B&S. The holiday is suitable for children between the ages of seven or more.
From 1795 pounds an adult pounds/1,495 pounds for seven nights, including breakfast and lunch meals, Keadventure.com

See Tracey Emin in Florence

In this spring, Tracey Emin made its first single exhibition in Italy in Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, which will include historical and modern graphics, paintings, sculptures, video, installations, and photography that transmit “controversial and self -made aesthetic.”

Palazzo, a cultural center in Florence, was built around the Renaissance courtyard hosting concerts, shows and installations. Exhibitions range from old masters polls to contemporary artists such as Ai Weiwei and Marina Abramović. After the EMIN show, the exhibition falls 20 years of Max Mara Technical Award For women (April 17-31 August), followed by Fra Angelico retroactively (September 26-26 January 2026). Stay in Ruby B (Marital from 80 euros), a hotel full of art that opened last summer.
An introduction exhibition of 15 euros of adults, 6 euros, from March 16 to July 20, Parazzostrozzi.org

A journey through Elba

Adventures Better has a new four -day trip via Elba, the third largest island in Italy. The Great Elban Traverse follows a path from east to west along the coastal slopes and rock hills, including the rise of Mont Kaban, the highest alba (1019 meters) summit, for the panoramic views of Montekisto, Pianosa and Corsica.

The accommodation places are included in a three -star hotel and transported by PISA. The journey is suitable for medium hikers to applicants who can handle six to eight hours of walking long a day, with acute climbing and falling. For less experienced pedestrians, the company also has two new “mild” flights Western Italian Riviera In Dolomite.
from 1.18 pounds sterling6 For five nights, including breakfast, four lunch and two dinner, Many Betteradventures.com

A new decline in Dolumite

CASA Cook, the brand of hotels that was originally launched by the holiday giant, has been doing a nine years ago (which has been sold since then), and it launches its first property in Italy-and its first first point of view. Casa Cook Madonna (Marital from 200 euros))Which opens in June, it is a 50 -room mountain haven in Madonna de CampilioA village in Dolumite. Long -distance activities include, mountain bicycles, rock climbing, lake swimming, skiing (ski elevators three minutes walk) and tasting wine.

The hotel has a gym, spa and sauna, and runs yoga lessons; The list was coordinated by Jacob Jean -Bouirma, a three -star chef. Guests in late summer/early fall can attend the voices of the Dolumite Music Festival, which celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its founding (August 27 to October 4, ISUONILELDOLOMITI.IT).

Return to life in the countryside of Sardinia

Luxi Pia, an abandoned agricultural village in the Tulle area in southern Sardinia, is gradually returning to life. The new owners, who live in a house, rebuild other deteriorating properties using original stones and technologies, furnishing them with the help of local craftsmen, and then rent them. La ResidenzaA single bedroom apartment, completed 2023, and Casa CourtyBedroom house, just opened. Casa Cubo, which is a second apartment, comes within a few months.

“The area is beautiful and righteous, with an extraordinary wealth of landscapes from the deep Mediterranean forests to endless vineyards, Rocky Jurf sides and sandy beaches,” Malcon says.
Casa Courty from 250 euros Night, sleep four, Pretziaada.com

Edofard Monh in Rome

Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome has a major exhibition that determines the eighties of the death of Edofard Monch. Monch: internal screaming It includes 100 paintings, graphics and publications. Each room emerges in contrasting colors and lighting effects, and it is dedicated to a major topic in the work of munch, such as “disease and death”, “tormented love” and “psychological meditation”.

If you need to cheer after that, go to the new ART’OTEL Rome Piazza Salloustio (It opens March 6). The rooms do not come in this five -star hotel cheap, but the restaurant terrace opens to the audience from April, a sunny place to enjoy the Fateh JG Foundation and live music.
Monach Gallery €19.50, 1February 1 to June 2and ticket