Italy is one of the world's most popular tourist attractions, and with good reason.
It's home to such wonderful cities as Rome, Milan, Florence, Pisa, Bologna and Venice as well as countless others with the Italian lake regions being some of the most beautiful regions anywhere within Europe.
Italy also has such a wealth of history and culture going back many thousands of years to when the Romans virtually ruled the planet and in the more recent past when the Venetians used their naval powers to conquer many countries within Europe.
But those days are long gone and Italy is now a magnet for tourists wanting to soak up the culture, atmosphere and sun in one of the most splendid countries on the face of the planet.
Everywhere you go in Italy you seem to be confronted with heart warming scenes of hospitality and friendship as well as pleasant feeling of togetherness that many countries just do not offer.
Italy is one of the few countries where the tourists are not seen as an inconvenience to everyday life, to many people the tourists are their everyday life.
So what are the different things that you can do when in Italy? Italy has so much to offer you if you choose to spend any great length of time there and even if you want to take one of the many cheap weekend breaks that are so popular at the minute thanks to the low cost airlines you will still be able to get a taste of how wonderful and open the country and people are.
Italy is one of the few countries where the tourists do not bother the locals, sometimes as a tourist it can be as though you are looking through a window at Italian life as it goes on all around you without ever involving you.
Different regions of Italy offer completely different pursuits to other regions, local variety is one thing that the Italians do very well indeed.
For instance a Spaghetti Bolognese in Verona may be a totally different dish to the served in Parma or Bologna.
The same meal in Italy can have about thirty different variations in it depending on where you are eating it.
The outdoor life is very popular in Italy, people seem to spend more time outdoors all year around, even in the winter people will take the time out to go for a walk with the family in the evening; the evening family walk is something of an Italian family tradition.
Again the differing regions of Italy offer many different outdoor activities for people, skiing in the north and differing variations on hunting and fishing in many other regions.
By far and away one of the most beautiful regions in Italy has got to be Tuscany, the home of the spectacular rolling countryside.
Chianti vineyards, row upon row of cypress trees as well as some of the most beautiful cities anywhere in Europe and Italy.
Tuscany has been famed for many years for all of these things but is now beginning to become renowned for something else; weddings in Tuscany.
Because of its all year round fair climate Tuscany is an ideal candidate to hold your wedding, indeed weddings in Tuscany have grown five fold in the past five years, partly due to improved travel links to and from Italy as well as people being able to sort out many of the details with the venue via e mail or over the inter web.
As well as having the weddings in Tuscany you can also choose to travel around this amazing country as part of your honeymoon and soak up the wonderful buzz that Tuscany affords you.
Weddings in Tuscany or way more popular than they were ten years ago so in you like the idea of weddings in Tuscany it is better to give yourself plenty of time to sort everything out as necessary at home before you travel.
So to recap, Italy has got to be one o the greatest countries on the planet for so many different reasons and weddings in Tuscany can be as good a reason to spend an extended period of time in this wonderful country.