In 2025, over 448 Argentines visited Italy. For many, the trip isn't just about tourism, but a return to the places their grandparents and great-grandparents left from.
From Argentina to Italy to discover the land of one's ancestors. It's a journey that's attracting more and more people and is becoming an important part of tourism relations between the two countries.
In In 2025, over 448 Argentine visitors stayed in Italy., with a growth of nearly 4% compared to the previous year. Overall they generated approximately 5,9 million overnight stays and an expense of 536,4 million euro, according to data released by the Ministry of Tourism on the occasion of the FIT in Buenos Aires, the main tourism fair in Latin America, scheduled from September 26 to 29.
Particularly significant is the increase in cultural tourism, which recorded a 17,5% increase in Argentine arrivals in 2025. But behind many of these trips, there's also a personal motivation.
For millions of Argentines, Italy represents the place from which their parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents departed during the great waves of migration between the 19th and 20th centuries.
In 2025 there were approximately 1,2 million nights spent in Italy by Argentine travellers visiting relatives, a figure that shows how the relationship between the two countries continues to go beyond traditional tourism.
It is precisely on this phenomenon that the project also focuses Italea, created to accompany Italians abroad and Italian descendants in discovering their families' lands of origin.
Small towns, archives, local traditions, and ancestral homes thus become part of the journey.
For many Argentines, visiting Italy isn't simply about seeing Rome, Venice, or Florence. It means searching for a surname, a photograph, a church, or the town where, generations before, their family history began.In 2025, over 448 Argentines visited Italy. For many, the trip isn't just about tourism, but a return to the places their grandparents and great-grandparents left from.
From Argentina to Italy to discover the land of one's ancestors. It's a journey that's attracting more and more people and is becoming an important part of tourism relations between the two countries.
In In 2025, over 448 Argentine visitors stayed in Italy., with a growth of nearly 4% compared to the previous year. Overall they generated approximately 5,9 million overnight stays and an expense of 536,4 million euro, according to data released by the Ministry of Tourism on the occasion of the FIT in Buenos Aires, the main tourism fair in Latin America, scheduled from September 26 to 29.
Particularly significant is the increase in cultural tourism, which recorded a 17,5% increase in Argentine arrivals in 2025. But behind many of these trips, there's also a personal motivation.
For millions of Argentines, Italy represents the place from which their parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents departed during the great waves of migration between the 19th and 20th centuries.
In 2025 there were approximately 1,2 million nights spent in Italy by Argentine travellers visiting relatives, a figure that shows how the relationship between the two countries continues to go beyond traditional tourism.
For many Argentines, visiting Italy isn't simply about seeing Rome, Venice, or Florence. It means searching for a surname, a photograph, a church, or the town where, generations before, their family history began.
