Italian heritage trips from your city
Trips from your city to the parts of Italy that sent families to North America, from Campania and Sicily to the Veneto, each with the cheapest round trip we've seen recently.
Choose your departure city
Each city page shows real round-trip fares from that city, with the cheapest one for each destination.
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Canada: Toronto · Vancouver · Montreal · Calgary · Edmonton · Ottawa · Winnipeg · Halifax · Quebec · Victoria
Where to go and why
- Naples: Naples, one of Italy's three official emigration ports, and the hill towns of Campania
- Palermo: Palermo, another of the three emigration ports, and the villages of western Sicily
- Catania: Catania, for eastern Sicily's towns around Etna and Messina, with Calabria across the strait
- Rome: Rome, a base for the towns of Lazio and the Abruzzo and Molise villages a few hours east
- Bari: Bari, for the towns of Puglia and Basilicata, with Matera about an hour inland
- Milan: Milan, for roots in Lombardy and Piedmont, with Genoa's national emigration museum a train ride south
- Venice: The Veneto, which sent more emigrants to Brazil than any other region, and Friuli to the east
- Pisa: Lucca's Paolo Cresci Foundation, a museum of Italian emigration, a short trip from Pisa
Italian birth, marriage and death records are kept by each town (comune), so find your family's town before you go.
Facts checked October 7, 2026. Sources: Italian diaspora (Wikipedia): the 1903 emigration ports of Palermo, Naples and Genoa · Italian Brazilians (Wikipedia): emigration from the Veneto · MEI, the National Museum of Italian Emigration, Genoa · Fondazione Paolo Cresci, Lucca