My idea of heaven still is to drive the gravel farm roads of Umbria and Tuscany, very pleasantly lost. Frances Mayes

It’s so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth. – Nanette Lepore

Rome, the city of visible history. – George Eliot

“You may have the universe if I may have Italy.”

Giuseppe Verdi, composer