RETIREMENT REGIONAL GUIDE

INTRODUCTION

With its warm and sunny climate, healthy and delicious food, and excellent healthcare, Italy has long been a popular destination for retirees from northern Europe and North America. Whether your tastes are for beaches or mountains, culture-filled towns or quaint, quiet villages, easy access to airports or quiet seclusion, Italy has something for you.

Those experienced in Italian travel, however, will appreciate that Italy is very much a country of contrasts. Though it has a history and culture unrivaled in Europe, it has of course only been united as a nation state for less than 150 years, and regional differences are quite marked.

TUSCANY

This central region has long been the, the birthplace of the Renaissance and a city with more art and architecture than anywhere in Italy except Rome. and (among other places) have more than their fair share of Renaissance influence too.