Like every year, Time has drawn up its "World's Greatest Place". A ranking that crowns the one hundred most beautiful places in the world and which, once again, rewards Italy. For the prestigious magazine, in fact, Venice, Sicily and Tuscany are the places to be marked in the notebook.
Venice, Sicily and Tuscany conquer Time
For Time reporters, the “World's Greatest Places” are extraordinary destinations to explore. Places unearthed in the most diverse corners of the planet, in search of a beauty that deserves to be shared. Among them, three are in Italy: Venezia, Sicily and Tuscany. Three destinations, these, very popular with American tourism. First of all Brekke Fletcher, a travel journalist who praised her, underlined how our country was able to restart after the pandemic. Or rather, during the pandemic. Of Sicily he praised the temples, the villages, the kitchen, the Byzantine mosaics, Etna. And he mentioned three hotels: Villa Igiea, inaugurated last June in a historic villa on the bay of Palermo, and the Verdura Resort with its new accommodations and the next golf course. Finally, in Taormina, the Four Seasons. Which has redone the look of the San Domenico Palace and which stands in a convent above the cliff.
Julia Buckley was instead in Venice. "After the devastating floods of November 2019, and after the pandemic, Venice is ready to start over. Its goal: to mitigate the crowds and floods that have threatened the city's fragile infrastructure”He writes. The most romantic of European cities has said no more to cruise ships, it has put a limit on reckless rents. It will introduce a tourist tax, starting in 2022, and banned the opening of new hotels in the city center. The last to open its doors will therefore be Ca 'di Dio and Palazzo Nani. While tour guides organized themselves to take visitors away from known places. Because Venice is much more than gondolas and San Marco.
The Tuscany of the Uffizi Diffusi
To the pleasure of Tuscany is instead, beyond the cities of art and the hills, the project Widespread Uffizi. "Much of Tuscany's charm is its timelessness, so when something innovative happens, like the Uffizi Diffusi 2021 project, take noteBuckley writes. Which also speaks of Montecatini Terme, just entered among the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
The Uffizi Diffusi, born from an idea of Eike Schmidt, will bring the Renaissance works, and therefore the tourists who normally flocked to Florence, in some of the oldest and most evocative areas of the region. A few examples? The villages of Poppi e Montespertoli. To stay and explore the lesser known Tuscany, the journalist suggests the Grotta Giusti Thermal Spa Resort, just outside Monsummano Terme, or the Sense Experience Resort on the Maremma coast. With the certainty that, here, you are never really wrong.
