Visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Leaning Tower is one of four marble buildings on the Field of Miracles; the rest of the city is a student town.

The 50,000-seat amphitheatre where Rome staged its bloodiest spectacles for 2,000 years

Walk the streets of a Roman city frozen mid-life by Vesuvius in 79 AD — ruts, frescoes, bakeries and all

Strike the classic 'holding up the tower' pose at the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the iconic 56-meter bell tower in Italy's Piazza dei Miracoli. The tower's famous 3.9-degree lean is the result of an unstable foundation that began sinking during construction in 1173. Besides the tower, explore the adjacent Pisa Cathedral and Baptistery, both masterpieces of Romanesque architecture.

Rolling cypress hills, Renaissance cities and Sangiovese wine — Tuscany is the Italy of the imagination

The Renaissance in one walkable city: Michelangelo's David, Brunelleschi's dome, and the Uffizi

A perfectly preserved medieval city built around the shell-shaped Piazza del Campo, home of the Palio

The "medieval Manhattan" — a Tuscan hill town bristling with stone tower-houses, 14 still standing