20 REASONS TO GO BACK TO ITALY THE 20 REASONS TO RETURN TO ITALY FROM TELEGRAPH

20 REASONS TO GO BACK TO ITALY THE 20 REASONS TO RETURN TO ITALY FROM TELEGRAPH

Twenty reasons we’ll return to Italy, they said. Twenty: is that all? There are 20 paintings that would take me back; 20 restaurants, 20 views, 20 hill towns; 20 of much else besides.

Because no other country has Italy’s riches, its peerless combination of art, culture, food, wine, fashion, opera, people and landscape; nor its vivid blend of the old and new, the beguiling and the beautiful.

Above all Italy has extraordinary variety, not least its art – you don’t like Gothic: then how about the Romanesque or the glories of the ancient world? Not keen on Giotto: then what about Raphael, Michelangelo or Leonardo?

we would like to add the 21 reason to return, the Hotel Twentyone and its staff.