Death In Venice - 1971 - Italian Movie Trips

Originally a short-story by Nobel Prize winning German author Thomas Mann. A jaded and solitary visit to the beaches of Venice -- beaches which are truly beautiful and serene in their own right but minor stars in a city of firmaments -- by a dissipated and probably dog-bitten foreign artist who tries to renew his youth with a distant obsession for a boy at the beach. Filmed in the same Venice hotel as scenes from The English Patient -- the Hotel Des Bains

Locations in Italy:

Rome

Layer upon layer of civilizations and past empires are stacked and impacted into every meter of this religious and political capital, ramrod exclamation point for one of the world's greatest cultures, past or present. You can begin with the churches, the coliseums, the Roman forums, or hundreds of museums, but it's likely you'll have many reasons to come back, if only to survey the latest discoveries within the eternal city.
region name: Latium

Venice

For centuries this town interconnected by its series of canals and small bridges was also the most important and opulent of the many warring Italian republics. As a crossroads for international trade and boundary adjustments of reigning empires, Venice reflects the influence of many and the dominion of none. Home to both Marco Polo and Byzantine churches (such as St. Mark's Basilica), Venice has the most perfectly balanced , indescribably exquisite public square and setting, and that in a country which has essentially perfected the transformation of public life into art.
region name: Veneto