Italy Visa Itinerary Sample: 11-Day Day-by-Day Plan (2026)

Italian consulates and their VFS Global partners see the same Rome–Florence–Venice route thousands of times a year. That works in your favour: a familiar route is easy to approve, provided every detail is consistent. This page gives you an 11-day sample in the format Italian visa centres expect, with the means-of-subsistence table Italy actually applies.

01Key takeaways

• Italy must hold the most nights of the trip for the Italian consulate to have jurisdiction.
• Italy uses a tiered money table rather than one daily figure: Italy applies a tiered table: EUR 269.60 fixed for 1-5 days; EUR 44.93/day for 6-10 days; EUR 51.64 + EUR 36.67/day for 11-20 days.
• Staying with a host in Italy requires a dichiarazione di ospitalità and a copy of the host's ID.
• Show the train for every city change — Trenitalia and Italo high-speed trains connect all three cities.
• Dates must match your cover letter, flight reservation and application form exactly.

02Who this sample fits

This plan suits a first-time tourist: 11 nights in Italy, arriving in Rome and leaving from Venice. Open-jaw flights (arriving in one city, leaving from another) are normal for Italy and avoid wasted travel days, as long as the flight reservation shows both legs.

03The 11-day Italy itinerary

Nights per country:
  Italy:  11 nights
  Total:  11 nights

Hotel names are fictional placeholders — replace them with the exact names and references on your own confirmations.

04Why this route reads well to an Italian consulate

Three bases, two moves. Fewer hotel changes mean fewer chances for a date mismatch, and each high-speed train takes less than half a day.

Open-jaw flights are explained by the route. Arriving in Rome and leaving from Venice makes sense on the map, so the officer does not need to ask why.

Timed sights show real planning. The Vatican Museums, Borghese Gallery and Uffizi all need advance tickets. Naming them signals a genuine tourist plan.

05Italian consulate details that affect the itinerary

Money for the stay. Italy does not use one flat daily rate. Italy applies a tiered table: EUR 269.60 fixed for 1-5 days; EUR 44.93/day for 6-10 days; EUR 51.64 + EUR 36.67/day for 11-20 days. An 11-night trip falls in the 11-to-20-day band, so work out the total from that line and make sure your statements show it clearly, on top of your travel costs.

Staying with friends or family. A host in Italy signs a dichiarazione di ospitalità (declaration of hospitality) and attaches a copy of their ID or residence permit. The itinerary shows their address for those nights.

Appointments. Most Italian consulates use VFS Global. Book the appointment only once the itinerary and bookings are final — changes after submission are not accepted at the counter.

Visa fee. €90 for adults and €45 for children aged 6 to 11, plus the VFS service charge.

06Common mistakes on Italy itineraries

• Adding the Swiss Alps or the French Riviera with no nights shown. Side trips across a border must appear with their own line.
• Overpacking the Amalfi Coast. Rome, Florence, Venice and Amalfi in eight days reads as a rushed or invented plan.
• Forgetting the vaporetto or water bus in Venice. Officers know Venice has no road transfer to most hotels.
• Mixing up the arrival date on overnight flights. Day 1 is the date you land.

07Turning this sample into your own file

Our generator builds the Italian cover letter, day-by-day itinerary and checklist from one set of answers, applying Italy's tiered money table to your trip length. Build your visa file, or start with the general Schengen visa itinerary template and the cover letter sample.

08Related guides

• Schengen visa itinerary template.
• Spain visa itinerary sample and France visa itinerary sample.
• Proof of accommodation for a Schengen visa.
• Schengen visa bank statement.