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  • Best Summer 2026 Italy Tour Packages

    Best Summer 2026 Italy Tour Packages

    Summer in Italy: Leaning Tower of Pisa and vibrant Tuscan skyline — perfect for Italian vacation tours

    Updated January 16. 2026

    We spend most of 2025 traveling through Italy checking out the best tours for next summer. Families thinking of a 2026 trip to Italy for summer vacation may want to consider the following all-inclusive summer Italy tours.

    Summer is a popular time for people from all over to tour Italy. The cities such as Rome, Florence, and Venice are crowded with foreigners on holiday in Italy. The Italian beaches are crowded with local Italians and northern Europeans looking for surf, sun, and fun.  The small towns such as the very popular ones in Tuscany and Umbria have a full schedule of summer festivals.

    Throngs of visitors crowd the tiny towns for the weekend festivals. Therefore, it is often easiest when planning a summer family vacation to Italy to consider joining an all-inclusive Italy tour. The itinerary is already thought through. Travel and accommodations are set. And you’ll avoid potential pitfalls that may derail the best planned Italy summer family vacation.

    Check out these all-inclusive summer tour packages for your family to visit Italy during summer 2026.

    The Great Cities: Rome, Florence, Venice Summer Tour Packages

    11-Day Rome, Florence, Venice Classic Italy Tour

    This tour includes Italy’s great cities Rome, Florence, Venice. Enjoy three nights in each city.

    For those wanting a slow paced tour and an authentic taste of Italian life this is the tour. The pace allows for enjoying each city and its rythm from morning, through the afternoon and into the evening.

    Excursions include visitng Assisi, Pisa and Bologna. There is optional tour to Pompeii.

    Price includes escorted tours of the primary sightseeing highlights. For more information click classic Rome, Florence, Venice tour.

    For more Rome, Florence and Venice tours click here.

    Northern Italy Summer Tour Packages

    With the 2026 Winter Olympics in northern Italy this area is going to be vey popular. Many travelers aren’t familiar with the area’s beauty will be drawn to explore northern Italy tour packages.

    Our two favorite Northern Italy tours for summer 2026 are the following:

    11-Day Milan, Dolomites, Venice Tour

    This escorted tour travels round trip from Milan. It includes the Dolomites area including Bolzano and Cortina, both areas where Olympic skiing will take place. It then travels down to Venice before returning to Venice. This is a first class tour of Northern Italy’s Olympic areas.

    8-Day Tuscany and Italian Riviera

    This Italy summer tour package may be renamed the “jetsetters Italy summer vacation package” with the northern Italy highlights Tuscany and the Italian Riviera on the itinerary.

    Tuscany and the Italian Riviera are loved by all who visit. Their natural beauty coupled with culinary traditions make these two areas the perfect destination for a family summer vacation to Italy.

    For more information about the Tuscany and Italian Riviera summer tour departures click here.

    Southern Italy Summer Tour Packages

    10-Day Campania and Puglia Tour

    Southern Italy is the quintessential vacation destination. And this tour brings you to the best beaches in Southern Italy.

    This summer vacation package explores the regions of Campania and Puglia.

    Campania was the summer playground of the ancient Romans. And when you arrive you will fully understand. The area is built around the main attractions; the Bay of Naples, Pompeii and the Amalfi Coast.

    Puglia’s charming towns and beautiful coast are perfect for a low key, causal summer vacation. Enjoy the beaches by day and the towns by night. You will fall in love with Puglia’s towns.

    Tuscany and Umbria Summer Tour Packages

    11-Day Tuscany and Umbria Small Group Tour

    With summer weekends come festivals that highlight the cultural heritage of Tuscany’s and Umbria’s charming towns. This small group tour is a fabulous way to jet off on a family summer Italy tour of these two very popular regions. 

    The tour ends with a night in Rome. For more information about summer tour departures to Tuscany and Umbria click here.

    For more Italy summer trip planning assistance click ItalianTourism.us Italy summer vacation ideas.

  • Sandwich in Rome – Picnic on Spanish Steps Thing of the Past?

    Sandwich in Rome – Picnic on Spanish Steps Thing of the Past?

    Rome has been welcoming visitors for over a thousand years. Now for the first time the weary tourist’s sandwich in Rome is under attack. And it’s not only the sandwich in Rome that is under attack.

    Tourists sitting on the Spanish Steps enjoying an authentic Italian gelato may be a thing of the past too.

    On Oct. 1, 2012, it became not only a Rome vacation memory, but a costly one as well..

    The mayor of the “eternal city” has made it illegal to eat snacks and junk food on or around Rome’s monuments.

    Rome vacations include lots of strolling around. Now while sightseeing tourists will be expected to curb their eating behavior off the streets.  May seems ironic to many who take a vacation Rome precisely because they love the food.

    Rome travelers may still chew as long as they are walking, but stop along the way to savior the view with a slice of Roman pizza or gelato and you are eligible for a fine of 25 to 500 euros ($32 to $650). An Italian daily newspaper dubbed it the “War on the Sandwich.” So Rome travelers looking for a sandwich in Rome with a seat with a view look out, because Rome’s Carabinieri (Rome’s police) dressed in their white and blue uniforms, are on patrol looking for anyone daring to flout the new law.

    Rome authorities report tourists eating on its monuments can really get out of control, including a time when a group of tourists who set a table on the Spanish Steps, with table cloth and cutlery.

    Some may ask with all the food carts around Rome it seems odd patrons, citizens, and tourists alike cannot enjoy Rome’s fabulous outdoor spaces for what we people do daily which is eat and enjoy our outdoors spaces. Some say its the business counsel with the Rome government forcing tourists inside for expensive lunches.

    On the contrary, Rome authorities report that these piazzas and monuments are too beautiful and historical to be sullied by ice cream and bread crumbs. And frankly, if your are on vacation in Rome, you’ll find plenty of places to eat in Rome all with delicious Roman food. So be sure to enjoy your vacation to Rome and the Spanish Steps.

    Click here for more Rome sightseeing information.