Italy is one of the art primary lands of the world. This is the place of the Renaissance and the world celebrated geniuses like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. During your holiday in Italy you will witness that art in this state has noticeable ties to religion. Diverse of the excellent artists also painted many a religious subject matters and were frequently authorized by the Church to paint frescoes.

If you are in the Tuscan city of Florence while on holiday in Italy, you may see the Leonardo da Vinci Museum in the town called Vinci where he was born. The museum is in a medieval palace called the Conti Guidi Castle. The intent of the museum is chiefly to function as a biographic memoir of the outstanding artist and to delineate his hometown and situations of interest. There is also a great library here that keeps almost everything that has ever been published about Leonardo da Vinci as a man, as an artist and about his art. You can get a conducted tour of this museum if you occur to be in Tuscany for your Italy holiday.

If you are in Florence you must also move to the Uffizi Gallery. This place features the greatest collection of paint works from the Italian renaissance period. Many of the artists from that time in Florence. This town has splendid landscapes and rolling hills and it is not strange that the outstanding painters were so exalted by living in this area. An Italy holiday in this country will provide you to visit this museum and discover famous paintings and sculptures such as Michelangelo's "Doni Tondo" Leonardo da Vinci's "The Annunciation" and Raphael's "Maddonna of the Goldfinch." An Italy holiday here will be a genuine banquet for your feelings as you will not only get to experience the masterpieces of the greats but you will also get to pass the streets that they walked on.

If you are in Milan for your Italy holiday, you may desire to see the church called Santa Maria delle Grazie. This is the church building that homes the known wall painting of Leonardo da Vinci's called "The Last Supper." His other renowned painting "Mona Lisa" stands in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The Santa Maria delle Grazie church building is protected by UNESCO as a world inheritance place of important cultural gain to man. It also has some very special and stunning architecture projected by Guiniforte Solari in the 1400s. It is stated that during World War II one of the bombs dropped by the British and American planes hit this significant church building but the renowned wall painting was preserved because the whole wall had been sand-bagged.

Although it does not art in the canonical sense of the word, the Archeological Museum of Naples is one of the excellent museums in the world of its variety and features some of the most outstanding findings from Pompeii and Herculaneum. You should strongly think visiting this museum for a conducted tour if you are in Naples for your Italy holiday.