Having explored Lake Como and Lake Lugano on the first few days of our trip to northwestern Lombardy, we had a distinct appetite for something completely different. Which is why, on the last day of our stay, we decided to go Into The Woods … … not anticipating that, in the end, we would get…
When you travel to Lake Como, you should dedicate one day of your holiday to finding out more about the town in which you are staying and its immediate surroundings. There is much to see, no matter where you happen to be based – and often from more perspectives than one. For our own holiday…
Few of the world’s top travel destinations have a pedigree like that of Lake Como. This beauty spot in the north of Italy, 40 km away from Milan, has attracted and enchanted visitors for more than 2000 years, from the days of ancient Rome via the Romantic Age to the modern world. Lake Como was…
If you are in a rush, you could reduce those two hours in Milan to 15 minutes …. and still see Italy’s largest Cathedral, the world’s oldest shopping mall and opera’s most famous theatre, all of them “next-arcade neighbours” in one of the smallest central cores of any major city in Europe In the last…
… at Milan’s Cimitero Monumentale But there are cracks in the bombast, and you can feel how a very modern sense of discomfort is creeping in. For centuries, death operated a strict two-tier system: cathedral tombs it was for crowned heads and high clergy, the local churchyard for everybody else. (Unless you were a certified…