Moving to Italy and Accommodations
In Italy, finding an unfurnished apartment in major towns and cities can be quite difficult. In Rome, you will hardly ever find an unfurnished apartment for rent. This is due to Italian laws that make it harder for the apartment owners to reclaim the apartment from their tenants, even when those tenants do not pay the rent! Moreover, in the past, an unfurnished apartment had not only no furniture but also no cabinets, no kitchen, no heater - in short, it tended to be rather less than what we would consider "unfurnished" in the United States. The moral is check what you are renting before you rent. However, the shorter is the rental period, the more items the apartment usually will include:
