Since a good working organization depends nowadays from being reachable by phone/mail/messages, phone cards in Italy give you the possibility to be reachable by your host !!!
To stay in touch with your host and being able to connect to him/her in order to avoid long waiting periods to enter/reach your accomodation and waste precious time of your holiday, I advise you, once you are in Italy, to enter one of the several telephone shops as TIM, Vodafone, Wind etc….and buy a prepaid Sim Card to use during your stay in this country (may be inserting it in an old device), this, to be sure that the communication just before and on arrival can be smoother since no high costs of phone calls from your home country would be heavy on your pocket….
The tariff of a prepaid card are 5β¬ for the activation and a free amount between 10-15-20-25-30β¬ for the phone/messages credit can be added according to your use….