Editorial standards

Where the numbers come from

Ticket prices and opening hours come from the venue's own site: the Pilotta's state museum pages, the Piazza Duomo site for the cathedral and Baptistery, the city's museum pages, the castles' own sites. Food prices come from current menus and from the dairies' and ham houses' booking pages; product rules come from the consortia and the EU register. Train and bus fares come from Trenitalia and TEP. Every page lists its sources at the foot, with a note on what each one confirms.

Dates on every figure

Italian hours change with the season, many museums close on Mondays and many restaurants close one day a week. We give the figure we saw and the date we saw it, and pages with dated facts carry an expiry date; after it, the page tells you to re-check the source.

What we do when a number is not published

We say so. Some bars do not publish prices, some churches publish no hours, and some operators only show a price after you pick a date. Where a trusted secondary source has the figure, we name that source and its date. We do not estimate a price and present it as fact.

Operator claims

We report what is true, not what a listing says. "Skip the line" at a place with no line, "up to 70% off" at an outlet and "the authentic experience" are claims, and our pages test them.

Verdicts

Every sight, area, hotel, restaurant, bar, dish, experience, event, walk and day trip carries a verdict: worth it, it depends, or skip. Verdicts are stored on the page's own record and collected on the Worth it? page. Affiliate products never change them.

Photographs

Every picture of a place is a real photograph from Wikimedia Commons, credited on the privacy page. Food and drink pictures are illustrations of the dish, as the credits explain. We never use a generated image of a real place, building, room or business.