Plan your Italy trip without the expensive mistakes.

The Italy Trip Planning Kit: the short, practical version of what first-time visitors wish they had known before they booked.

• Pick your bases: 7, 10 and 14-day routes that do not waste days on trains
• What to book ahead: the six sights that sell out, and which museums close on Mondays
• What it costs: rooms, meals, trains and car hire in US dollars
• Nine mistakes that cost money: ZTL driving fines, unvalidated tickets, the coperto and more
• What to eat, region by region: from Rome to Sicily