Italy Road trips

16 curated road trips in Italy — Amalfi Coast, The Dolomites, Chianti Road. Mapped stops, distance, duration, best season, and practical route notes.

These 16 routes range from 50 to 1350 km and from 1 to 9 days, across 1 country. Top picks: Amalfi Coast, The Dolomites, Chianti Road.

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  LegendaryAmalfi CoastItaly · 50 km · 3 daysThe SS163 may be the most beautiful road on Earth, hairpin bends cut into cliffs, pastel villages above an impossibly blue sea, lemon groves scenting the air.EV-friendly
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  LegendaryThe DolomitesItaly · About 145 km · 3 daysThe Grande Strada delle Dolomiti, the Great Dolomites Road from Bolzano to Cortina d'Ampezzo through the most spectacular mountain scenery in the Alps. Huge cathedrals of rock, the Val di Fassa, the Sella Ronda massif, the Alta Badia, and vertiginous switchbacks between peaks of 3,168m and 3,218m.EV-friendly
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  IconicChianti RoadItaly · About 110 km including eastern extension · 2 daysToscana simply doesn't get more bella than the SR222 through Chianti country, linking two great medieval cities through gently rolling countryside striped with cypress trees, olive groves, and vines. Most photogenic during the late springtime eruption of poppies and wildflowers; stop at every enoteca for Chianti Classico, a sangiovese-dominated drop that tastes like the landscape.EV-friendly
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  LegendaryStelvio PassItaly · 49 km · 1 dayThe classic one-way east-to-west Stelvio ascent from Prato through Gomagoi, Trafoi and Franzenshöhe to the summit, then down to Bormio.
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  NotableA Venetian SojournItaly · About 170 km by car plus lagoon boats · 4 daysPink palaces, teal canals, golden domes, the Veneto is unlike anywhere else. From Venice's lagoon by vaporetto to Murano's glass furnaces, then on to the Brenta Riviera's Palladian villas, Vicenza's architectural masterpieces, and Asolo's hundred hilltop vistas.EV-friendly
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  NotableAbruzzo HighlandsItaly · About 260 km · 3 daysItaly's most underrated region, the SS17 and mountain roads through the Apennine backbone past medieval hill towns, the wolf-and-bear wilderness of Gran Sasso, and a coastline that the Adriatic sun turns an extraordinary turquoise.EV-friendly
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  NotableBrescia-to-Rome Heritage DriveItaly · About 760 km · 5 daysA transparent Brescia-to-Rome heritage drive through Cremona, Mantua, Modena, Bologna, the Apennines, Florence and Siena.EV-friendly
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  IconicLake Maggiore and Lake Como to BergamoItaly · About 230 km plus ferries · 4 daysFormed at the end of the ice age and a holiday destination since Roman times. Lake Maggiore's Borromean Island palaces, the cross-lake ferry to Laveno, then Lake Como, the siren call of Hollywood stars, traced from the silk capital of Como to Bellagio's perfect promontory and beyond to Bergamo.EV-friendly
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  IconicPalermo-to-Taormina Archaeology and Baroque CrossingItaly · About 650 km · 8 daysAn eight-day eastbound crossing through Palermo, Agrigento, Piazza Armerina, Ragusa, Syracuse, Etna and Taormina, with Scala dei Turchi clearly separated and access-gated.EV-friendly
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  IconicVal d'OrciaItaly · 90 km · 2 daysThe World Heritage-listed landscapes of Val d'Orcia have featured in Gladiator, The English Patient, and countless Renaissance paintings. Patchwork hills of cypress and wheat, walled medieval cities, Brunello di Montalcino paired with chestnuts and truffles, and the fortress of Radicofani at the end.EV-friendly
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  NotableTarga Florio Grande Circuit-inspired Madonie LoopItaly · About 300 km · 2 daysA two-day Palermo–Cefalù–Madonie–Palermo adaptation inspired by the historic Grande circuit, with its actual modern loop distance disclosed.EV-friendlyLoop / circuit
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  NotableBaroque Southeast SicilyItaly · 180 km · 3 daysA paced three-day sampler of the Val di Noto: Noto and Cava d’Ispica, Modica and Ragusa Ibla, then Scicli’s UNESCO-listed Baroque core.EV-friendly
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  IconicShadow of VesuviusItaly · 90 km · 3 daysIn the shadow of the volcano that buried two cities in 79 CE, 90 km through Herculaneum's intact Roman houses, Pompeii's extraordinary preserved streets, the crater rim of Vesuvius itself, and Sorrento's clifftop lemon groves with the Amalfi Coast visible across the bay.EV-friendly
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  NotableEmilia-Romagna Food and Art CircuitItaly · About 300 km · 4 daysA four-day Parma, Reggio, Modena and Bologna food route followed by a labeled Ferrara/Ravenna art detour.EV-friendlyLoop / circuit
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  IconicSardinia Island LoopItaly · 1,350 km · 9 daysA genuine clockwise Cagliari loop through Barumini, the Supramonte, La Maddalena, Stintino, Alghero, Bosa and Oristano.EV-friendlyLoop / circuit
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  NotableSalento Coast, PugliaItaly · 150 km · 2 daysA two-day Adriatic-to-Ionian Salento coast run from Otranto through Castro and Leuca to Gallipoli.EV-friendly