Italy in Spring! Smart travelers in Italy have long known that the spring season is a delight. The summer throngs have yet to arrive, the air is filled with the scents of blossoming flowers, and soft spring breezes usher winter out. Myriad outdoor activities offer a great look at the wonderful variety that epitomizes Italian culture.

Giacomo LeopardiIn Italy you can breathe the poetry even in the alleyways of central Naples: not just the poetry of street life, its smells, its food and its people (which would already be a lot), but also the poetry left by the imprint these places preserve of Giacomo Leopardi, the most celebrated poet (and philosopher) of Italy’s nineteenth century, not to mention one of the most important figures of world literature.