You make me want to get on a plane to Italy tonight! I've only been to the north, around Milan, as my ex and I were passing through from Switzerland to France on our hitchhiking through Europe honeymoon. I've wanted to go to Florence and to Rome for ages...someday I will!
We stayed in Barcelona on that trip, and I really loved it, in spite of the not speaking a word of Spanish at the time. Spent some time on the beaches to the south in a little place called Sitges...maybe those were the beaches you spied the nekkid men on!
Great pictures.