The two largest islands, Sardinia and Sicily, lie on the south-west side of the Tyrrhenian Sea, the section of the Mediterranean which separates them from the mainland. In addition to its mainland territory it includes a number of islands and archipelagoes. Italy lies in southern Europe – a long peninsula in the shape of a high-heeled boot extending south-eastwards italy vacation package into the Mediterranean. And in addition to all this there are the many beautiful resorts which, year after year, attract countless thousands of tourists to Italy’s coasts and lakes. More and other remains, left by a world empire which extended from Britain to Africa and, in later centuries, by the powerful city states of the Middle Ages.