European Vacation - Italian Movie Trips

The culturally depraved and doggedly optimistic Griswald family take a good-natured and error-prone vacation through the cultural landmarks of Europe.

Locations in Italy:

Bolzano

One of the wealthiest cities in Italy, Bolzano has a Germanic old-town and modern Italian new town divided by a river, and to some degree by culture. Sunsets produce a phenomenal rose color on the surrounding mountains, but for something really exotic, visit the oldest preserved body in the world, an ancient man encased in ice over 5000 years ago and recently rediscovered on the Austrian border.
region name: Trentino-Alto Adige

Bressanone

Here in the oldest town in the province, you'll find the people speaking a version of German, fierce-looking baroque and gothic architecture, a castle with a genuine moat and the hotel where the king of Portugal kept his elephant. Bressanone also enjoys a sunny mountain microclimate and you can take a ride to the nearest peak, eat at a fine restaurant and see the whole spectacle from above.
region name: Trentino-Alto Adige

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