PROPOSAL : DEPARTING FROM NEW NORMALITY & SUSTAINABILITY • Veneto, the place where you can find art cities, sea, mountains, spa, lakes and parks. • The leitmotiv is: “Veneto, one region thousand faces!” DISCOVER & SILE PARK

Discovering Treviso, a city whose growth has always gone hand in hand with the water. Walking among its distinctive fountains, rippling streams of spring water, mills, and views eloquent with the history and traditions of this city intimately linked to the distant Venice. Start your walking tour from the city centre of this city plenty of canals… for this reason often erroneously compared to Venice. Here you will see the beautiful Piazza dei Signori with its Palazzo dei Trecento, then nearby the Duomo, Santa Caterina church and the Loggia dei Cavalieri. Not far away, you will proceed then with a beautiful walking starting from Riviera Garibaldi through the Restera (the way to Venice), along the Sile River admiring the mills and immersing yourself in a naturalistic oasis. At the end of this path, your bus will take you back to the pier. & PANORAMIC Hosted by a lush valley, rich in woods, sources of water and luxuriant vineyards, a territory steeped in history and motherland of important aristocratic dynasties who made the history of the Most Serene Republic of Venice, the territory of Follina represents, with its historical palaces, ancient places of worship and naturalistic trails of which is covered, an evocative and unmissable place. The civilization made its appearance in Follina already in prehistoric times (some findings dates back to 120,000 years ago), while from the Roman period are the remains of a path that someone has identified with the Via Claudia Augusta Altinate. Around the half of the XII century Cistercian monks settled in Follina, to whom the introduction of the woollen art in Val Mareno is attributed, in addition to the construction of the Abbey of Santa Maria whose cloister was completed in 1268. Around 1680 Follina takes a leap of quality from the economy point of view due to the foundation of the manufacture by Francesco Fadda that was one of the first in to grapple with the imitation of finer and lighter English and Dutch fabrics. On Fadda's leading experience the wool mills Tron-Stahl were inserted, around 1740. A stroll along the track of Follina allows you to admire the beautiful buildings of the historical center born precisely within the setting of this industrial activity: Palazzo Barberis Rusca, Palazzo Bernardi, Palazzo Tandura and the former wool mill Andretta of the nineteenth century are notable example of industrial archeology. After lunch, enjoy the beautiful Valdobbiadene landscape, from the bus, that makes it one of the most beloved countryside in the Veneto region. Beautiful & Bassano del Grappa Leave the pier by private bus and guide and reach Asolo passing along the panoramic road of the famous Venetian Villas, among all, Villa Barbaro in Maser. Visit the small but prestigious town perched on top of the Hills through myths, legends and reality. Lordship of the Queen of Cyprus who ruled it with great splendor. Due to its enchanting panoramic position among the hills, also painted by Giorgione, Asolo has always attracted artists and writers from all over Europe. Among these Giosuè Carducci, who called it "the city with a hundred horizons"; the English poet Robert Browning; Pietro Bembo, one of the most famous scholars of the sixteenth century; the musician Gian Francesco Malipiero, who found inspiration for some of his compositions. Eleonora Duse, the famous actress and lover of Gabriele D'Annunzio, spent the last years of her life in an elegant palace and was then buried in the small and evocative cemetery of Sant' Anna, in front of Monte Grappa. After lunch in a nearby location you will proceed with the visit of Bassano, a city of ceramics and grappa (typical liquor) located at the foot of the Alpi Venete along the river Brenta. Beautiful walk of the old town within the walls between squares, palaces, towers and the fascinating Ponte degli Alpini. It’s then time to come to the ship by private transfer. Discover Valmareno and

Leave the pier by private bus and reach Follina . Enjoy an external visit of the Abbazia. Then continue along the Via Dell'Acqua that will take you to the village of Valmareno and Cison, one of the most beautiful villages in Italy. Here you can breathe history, art and traditions at every step. Cison di Valmarino is located in the in the valley between and Follina. In medieval times the village was an ancient political and administrative center of the county of Valmareno. Walk through the heart of the historical center, Piazza Roma, which overlooks buildings of architectural interest: the archpriest church of Santa Maria Assunta with its noble architecture of the eighteenth century, Palazzo Barbi, the town hall, the theater Loggia and the Museum of Radio Epoch. Do not forget to visit also the Ancient Brandolini Cellars. Originally, they were stables then were adapted to the conservation of agricultural products. Then you will stop for lunch in a nearby farm to taste local products. After that you will be escorted back to the ship. A walk through the “Grotte del Caglieron” and Serravalle Today your naturalistic experience will start with the visit of Grotte del Caglieron that are in the locality of Breda in , close to Treviso. The complex consists of a series of cavities, part of which are of artificial origin and part of natural origin; for the natural part, it is about a deep gorge carved by the Caglieron stream on alternating layers of calcareous conglomerate, sandstone, and marl of the Middle Miocene (from 16 to 10 million years ago). There are numerous waterfalls, of several meters high, with large potholes at the base. In the deepest part of the gorge, large calcareous concretions can be noticed on the wall, which close for a stretch and in part the vault, giving to the whole complex the appearance of a cave. On the walls of the gorge there are large artificial cavities, obtained from the extraction of sandstone, the typical “piera dolza” (soft stone). The extraction activity, which dates back to 1500 and perhaps even earlier, provided the material for the construction of jambs, architraves, etc., which can still be observed in the old houses and palaces of the close village Vittorio Veneto and its surroundings. After this, you will proceed to the near Serravalle, a typical quarter belonging to Vittorio Veneto village. Discover of one of the most important Serenissima’s city centres in the mainland, which is characterized by ancient streets and squares and by typical venetian style buildings. Unusual and hidden Verona Today you will discover another Verona’s side which narrows itself through details, interest, and an artistic hidden heritage . Once arrived in Verona, after about one hour and half drive, your path develops between two historical bridges: Ponte di Castelvecchio e Ponte Pietra; it follows the Adige river to which Verona is intimately connected and which determined the foundation of the Roman city. Then, enter and discover the medieval alleys where time seems to have stopped. Palaces and stately houses with richly decorated facades, unexpected and hidden corners, the facade of the Cathedral of Santa Matricolare around which a network of picturesque alleys that tell of ancient productive activities now no longer existing, this is the ancient heart of Verona that is revealed to our eyes just a stone’s thrown from the Arches of Verona and the historic squares of the city (Piazza dei Signori and Piazza Erbe). “Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them” David Hume