Taking in St. Moritz and environs in the summer is a cool treat.

A street market chocked with regional delights greeted us in Piazza XX Settembre.

The city of the Doges now caters to non-Venetians, so go in winter to dodge mob rule.

Lower Bergamo is a modern city with tree-lined boulevards.

The next day we went into the town of Iseo, which as part of the Venetian Republic beginning in 1427.

Verona's Arena was built of pink marble with a façade of pink and white limestone from nearby Valpolicella.

You can get almost everything you need in a street market: underwear, shoes, kumquats, squid, bicycle bells, wigs, belts.

In Pavia's Piazza Duomo, there was a market in full-swing. Women were trying on shoes and handling scarves.