From our base at Lake Iseo, the tour visits some of the highlights of northern Italy
including, Milan, Bergamo, Lakes Iseo and Garda, and Verona. One of the smallest of the Italian lakes, Iseo is also one of the prettiest, lying in wine-producing country and surrounded by mountains and waterfalls. Along the shores are a clutch of fishing villages and in the lake itself rises the mini-mountain of Monte Isola.
VERONA is renowned as the city of Romeo and Juliet and for its opera festival held each July and August, but it is an ancient and beautiful city in its own right.
Highlights include Juliet’s legendary balcony, the Arena itself, San Zeno Maggiore, and in the heart of the city, lovely Piazza delle Erbe. Flanked by picturesque villages along its shoreline, with a dramatic backdrop of mountains and hillsides dotted with vineyards, LAKE GARDA is the largest of the Italian Lakes, and is regarded as the most beautiful.
BERGAMO is a delightful hilltop town with splendid architecture inluenced by Venetian rule in 15th – 18th centuries. The upper town includes the Piazza Vecchia and Duomo, dominated by the façade of the Colleoni Chapel. In the lower town is the important Galleriadell Accademia Carrara housing works by Bellini, Boticelli, Titian, Canaletto and many more.
WORLD CLASS OPERA
Two outstanding opera performances are included in each of our tours, with an opportunity to experience the atmospheric setting of two of the world's most famous venures: La Scala Milan and the Roman Arena in Verona.
22 JUNE DEPARTURE
La Traviata at La Scala and Verdi's Nabucco at Verona.
8 JULY DEPARTURE
La Boheme at La Scala and Aida at Verona
21 JULY DEPARTURE
La Boheme at La Scala and Tosca at Verona.
At La Scala Opera House top price stalls, or front row box tickets are reserved for these magnificent performances.
In VERONA at the famous ARENA, reserved Gradinata tickets are for seats on the first 17 rows of the raised area offering excellent acoustics and view of the stage/auditorium (these are numbered seats and are not the stone steps).
Capital of Lombardy and one of Europe’s most important commercial centres, MILAN is arguably Italy’s most influential city. Sights here include the world-famous La Scala Opera House, Leonardo Da Vinci’s incomparable ‘Last Supper’ and the magnificent Gothic Duomo with 135 spires, Brera Art Gallery (one of the most important in Europe) and of course superb shops
