How much does a trip to Italy cost per day?

Excluding hotels and flights, budget roughly $100–150 per person per day for comfortable mid-range travel, and $200+ if you're eating at reserved restaurants nightly and taking guided tours. That covers food, entry tickets, local transport and incidentals. Food is the surprise: a full trattoria dinner with wine runs €25–35 a head outside tourist zones, lunch can be €10, and coffee standing at the bar is €1.20. The costs that inflate budgets are guided tours, taxis and drinking where the view is. Rome, Venice and the Amalfi Coast run noticeably higher than Sicily, Puglia or Umbria.

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