Italy comes out a winner in the annual Readers鈥 Choice Awards presented by the prestigious travel magazine Cond茅 Nast Traveler.
With four spots 鈥 three in the top 10 - in the 鈥淭op 25 Cities in the World,鈥 Italy is the only country with four cities in the top 25: Florence ties second with Budapest; Rome ranks eighth, Siena ninth, and Venice 24th.
Italy is also prominently featured in the 鈥淭op 10 Islands in Europe鈥, with Elba and the Tuscan Archipelago ranking second, Capri third, Lipari and the Aeolian Islands off Sicily seventh, and Ischia in the Gulf of Naples ninth.
Finally, Italy ranks high in the 鈥淭op Hotels and Resorts in the World鈥 list, with the Grand Hotel Timeo in Taormina, Sicily, grabbing the fifth spot.
The Cond茅 Nast Traveler Readers鈥 Choice Survey began in 1988 and, this year, the magazine reports, nearly 80,000 people took part in the survey with 1.3 million votes cast.聽聽
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