🇬🇪 Georgia or 🇮🇹 Italy
Which one, honestly
Georgia leads on value for money and nature. Italy leads on cities, getting around and the sea.
A normal day costs about $60 in Georgia and $165 in Italy.
Side by side
- 🇬🇪 Georgia🇮🇹 Italy
- May, Jun, Sep, OctBest monthsApr, May, Sep, Oct
- $60A normal day$165
- 5h 30m to TbilisiNonstop from London2h 35m to Rome
- Not the drawBeaches and seaGood
- Very goodCities and cultureExceptional
- ExceptionalFoodExceptional
- ExceptionalNature and hikingVery good
- ExceptionalValue for moneyGood
- GoodEasy to get aroundVery good
- Shared minibuses and cheap drivers, the roads are the slow partGetting aroundFast trains, genuinely excellent, book in advance
- The mountain roads from November to April, when the passes closeWhen to avoidThe middle of August, when the cities empty and half the good places shut
Pick by what you want
🇬🇪 Choose Georgia if
you want the Caucasus, eight thousand years of wine and food nobody has heard of yet, on the smallest budget in Europe.
🇮🇹 Choose Italy if
you want three cities in ten days, you care about food and museums, and you would rather take a train than a ferry.
Full Georgia guide →Full Italy guide →
And what the world thinks
Dead even. The next vote breaks the tie.
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Written and checked by hand. Nothing here about visas or entry rules: those change often and depend on your passport, so check an official source.