Lombardy & The Lakes holiday villas & apartments
Holidays in Italy & holiday villas in Italy
Milan is synonymous with style, and a powerhouse to the world of design. Strictly for city lovers and shopping as the world's most famous designers have their flagship stores here. The highlights of this wonderful city would be at hot date to an opera at La Scala or Corso Como bars and restaurants. Visit the impressive Cathedral, Milan's most visible monument that took over 400 years to build. Leonardo de Vinci's masterful mural The Last Supper captures the moment when Jesus uttered the words 'One of you will betray me' decorates one wall of the Cenacolo Vinciano on Corso Magenta but you will have to book ahead by phone to see it.
Bergamo; a walled hill top upper town or citta alta, surrounded by the lower town or citta bassa and has a wealth of medieval, Renaissance and baroque architecture.
Lake Garda is the most popular of the Italian lakes that lies between the Alps and Po valley and picturesque villages stud the shoreline. One of the villages Torbole is the host to the World Windsurf Championships in June or July and there is also a huge Surf Festival at the end of May.
Bergamo Alps offers gentle walking and there are plenty of walks to be found around the lakes.
It is possible to go on guided climbing expeditions up frozen waterfalls, sheer rock faces and mountains in the Bergamo Alps.