Italy: Bologna historic areas

Score: 70

"One of the most architecturally interesting sites in Italy."

"A beautiful city center, but showing wear and tear. Also, graffiti on many buildings."

"Bologna manages to keep its appeal in spite of growing crowds and a messy infrastructure. A wonderful place for discoveries."

"Nothing looks like it has been put on specially for tourists. It is not perfectly clean, and traffic can be problematic, but it is a 'real' place."

Italy: San Gimignano

Score: 73

"A wonderful Italian village. It has already been a second-best tourist destination of the area, and I hope it will remain so. It can be spoiled easily."

"High aesthetic appeal, e.g. no spaghetti of overhead power lines, no rusting pipes or blackened flues. Streetscapes very clean."

"The town maintains the look and feel of a historic place. A jewel, but a much-trodden jewel."

"Severely hit by people coming to live out their Tuscany fantasies, and suffers under the onslaught."

"In danger of become a kind of Tuscan theme park."

"Tourism includes crowds of day trippers, but preferable to hotel construction, which would not be consistent with the character or architecture of the town."

Italy: Verona historic areas

Score: 62

"Well preserved, but overloaded with tourism, especially spring-autumn, with several bottlenecks in terms of visitor numbers/space (Juliet's house is probably the worst example)."

"Still maintains a strong cultural integrity, primarily through the operation of the opera festival and associated events in the Roman amphitheater."