From Italy the Maldives are a nine-hour flight away by direct charter flight or via Colombo ( Sri Lanka ) from Milan Malpensa and from Rome Fiumicino, or by scheduled flight.

There are flights to Maldives from all over Europe and you can also easily reach the Maldives from alla over the world via Singapore , Doha or Dubai.

The archipelago of the Maldive islands stretches out in the middle of the Indian Ocean for 764 km and is 128 km at its widest point. The most northerly atoll is 595 km from the nearest Indian coastline.
There are over 2,000 islands (1,190 main islands), divided into 26 atolls, that span 100,000 km² of ocean; there are only 294 km² of land above sea level.

From a geological point of view the Maldives are the peaks of a submarine mountain chain that begins 300-400 km west of India and extends for 2,300 km south. This chain rises up from a depth of 4,000 metres up to just 70 metres below sea level. From this ridge emerge the numerous reefs that owe their existence to the work of millions of animals – coral polyps – that are just a few millimetres in size, which live in enormous colonies, separated from each other only by calcareous cells. When they die their descendents move into the old skeletons and begin to build new cells. This is a simplified version of how a coral formation is created, and therefore an entire reef.

Thanks to the basin shape of the atolls, which fill up and empty with the ebb and flow of the ocean's tides, the Maldives are perfect for diving and snorkelling. During the full moon and new moon there are the strongest tidal fluctuations (1.3m), and therefore the strongest tides, with the arrival of the high tide and the low tide.
The currents do not always travel in the same direction as the wind; in fact some days the current actually travels against the wind. When the current is strong, the sea is choppy.