ITALIAN LAKES & VILLAS

APRIL 23 – MAY 6, 2021 TOUR LEADER: ROBERT VEEL

Villa Balbianello on Lake

ITALIAN Overview LAKES & VILLAS Ever since the ancient Romans thought up the idea of escaping the city to Tour dates: April 23 – May 6, 2021 a refined country house, Western civilization has been captivated by the idea of the villa. The villas of – be they ancient Roman, medieval, Tour leader: Robert Veel Renaissance or contemporary – epitomise elegance and refinement. Often they are the work of some of the greatest architects and artists in Tour Price: $9,810 per person, twin share history, and they offer unrivalled glimpses of the style and values of the period while also expressing the unique personality of their owners. Single Supplement: $2,560 for sole use of double room As the villa evolved across the centuries, the garden became equally important. Some of these gardens encapsulated the knowledge and reach Booking deposit: $1,000 per person of the owner through their botanical arrangements of exotic plants; others captured the spirit of the age, such as Isola Bella, with its exuberant floral Recommended airline: Emirates, Singapore, displays and theatrical landscaping. Qatar or Etihad This 14-day tour takes you to many of the finest villas of Italy. We begin on Maximum places: 20 the shores of , and then follow a circular route visiting the elegant town of Mantua, with its stunning frescoes by Andrea Mantegna Itinerary: Bellagio (3 nights), Vicenza (2 nights), and Giulio Romano, and continue on to the , where we admire the Asolo (3 nights), Gardone Riviera (2 nights), Renaissance country houses and palaces of Andrea Palladio. The tour Stresa (3 nights) concludes on , with visits to the and Lake Orta. The tour makes the most of the spectacular spring colour of Date published: May 13, 2020 pre-Alpine Italy and the region’s culinary delights.

Most of the tour is spent in small lakeside and hill towns, rather than large cities. This allows you to enjoy the gentle pace and everyday elegance of provincial Italian life, free from noise and the tourist crush. The itinerary is gently paced; busy days are interspersed with quieter ones.

Your tour leader

Robert Veel is a cultural historian with over 20 years’ experience leading tours to Italy, the USA, Scandinavia and Asia. He has a strong personal interest in the visual arts, architecture and music, and is a founding director of Academy Travel.

Robert holds a BA, Dip. Ed and M.Ed, all from the University of Sydney. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Sydney before a long stint at the University’s Centre for Continuing Education, lecturing in Italian history and culture and working as Assistant Director. Robert continues to teach occasionally in Continuing Education courses. Robert’s historical and artistic knowledge stretches Enquiries from the Middle Ages through the early 20th century. In Italy he has led and bookings many tours focusing on the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Robert speaks fluent Italian. For further information and to secure a place on this tour “Robert was an excellent tour guide – very informative, enthusiastic, keen to show us everything which led to a fantastic tour.” please contact Hannah Kleboe at Academy Travel on Feedback from Robert’s Venice tour, March 2019 9235 0023 or 1800 639 699 (outside Sydney) or email [email protected]. au

Tour Highlights

THE LANDSCAPES OF ITALY Italy’s varied landscapes have inspired poets, artists and travellers for millennia. Enjoy some of Italy’s most sublime scenery, from lakes and gardens set beneath the snow- capped on Lake Como and Lake Maggiore, to the patrician elegance of Vicenza, a relaxed pace of life in the hill town of Asolo, and the verdant fields and vineyards of the Veneto.

PALLADIO’S VILLAS IN THE VENETO Palladio’s World Heritage-listed villas and palaces are among the finest expressions of Renaissance ideals of the good life, which were founded on a notion of harmony among parts. Palladio’s innovations have been enduring, and we visit some of his finest buildings, such as the Villa Emo and La Rotonda, which have influenced generations of architects from Inigo Jones to Frank Lloyd Wright.

THE BORROMEAN ISLANDS The islands in Lake Maggiore have been owned by the Borromeo family for centuries, and they’ve developed them beautifully as both places of repose and as a unique way to display their magnificence. Experience Isola Bella on Lake Maggiore, one of Italy’s greatest baroque gardens, in all its springtime splendour, and explore tranquil Villa Taranto, one of northern Italy’s finest botanic gardens.

SPRING COLOUR ON LAKE COMO Lake Como has a number of different microclimates which gardeners and botanists have exploited. The combinations of temperate and warm climate plants are at their best in spring, when they flourish against an alpine backdrop, creating a spectacle that was designed to reflect the tastes and knowledge of the garden’s owner. Explore the villas and gardens of Lake Como, and dine at the historic Villa d’Este.

COURTS OF NORTHERN ITALY During the Renaissance, small courts sprang up in northern Italy, emerging as fiefdoms of warlords and despots, but developing into centres of culture and refinement. We discover Mantegna’s Camera degli Sposi in Mantua, Queen Caterina Cornaro’s hill town court in quiet Asolo, and the medieval fortresses of Verona’s Scaliger dynasty on beautiful . Detailed itinerary

Included meals are shown with the letters B, L and D.

Tour start & finish time The tour starts at 10.00am on Friday April 23, at Milan’s Malpensa airport to transfer by coach to the Bellagio hotel.

The tour ends at 11.00am on Thursday May 6, when we arrive by coach to Milan’s Malpensa airport from our Stresa hotel.

Friday April 23 Lake Como A group transfer to Bellagio, spectacularly situated on Lake Como, is available for those arriving in Milan’s Malpensa airport on early morning flights. Those travelling independently should make their own way to the hotel. On arrival there is the chance to freshen up (hotel rooms may not be available until early afternoon), before we take a short stroll around the town. In the afternoon, we enjoy Lake Como in the way it was meant to be seen, from the water, on our private boat tour, stopping for an afternoon tea break and visit to the picturesque Villa Monastero. There is a light, early dinner in the hotel, which looks out across the lake. Overnight Bellagio (D) Above: The neoclassical Villa Melzi, on the shores of Lake Como, would be dwarfed by the alps behind it if it weren’t for its careful design Saturday April 24 Luxury and Escape Below: Built in 1568 as the summer residence of Cardinal Tolomeo Gallio, Villa d’Este is surrounded by a 10-hectare private park The villa has historically been a place for otium – a place for the rest and regeneration we need from the world of business and public life. Today we visit two villas that capture different ways to achieve this end. Our first visit is to the 18th-century Villa Balbianello, which occupies an exceptional position on a promontory with panoramic views of Lake Como. We take a guided tour of the interior, decorated in the 20th century by Italian entrepreneur and explorer Guido Monzino. After our visit of the villa, we continue by private boat to Villa D’Este, the best- known villa on Lake Como, where we enjoy a sumptuous welcome lunch, with time to explore the grounds before returning to Bellagio. Overnight Bellagio (B, L)

Sunday April 25 Neo-classical villas Please note: today is a public holiday Villas and their gardens often have stories to tell, and the two we visit today speak volumes about Italy’s travails at the turn of the 19th century. The Villa Melzi was built in the neo-classical style for Napoleon’s Vice-President of Italy, Francesco Melzi D’Eril. He called in the designers of the Royal Park at Monza to do his gardens, which flow graciously down the mountainside to the lake. After visiting the gardens this morning, we cross the lake to the Villa Carlotta, commenced by Gian Battista Sommariva, the great rival of Melzi D’Eril of the Villa Melzi. Villa Carlotta became a fixture for Grand Tourists because of its collection of works by Canova and Thorvaldsen, the two best sculptors of the period. In the mid-19th century, Sommariva’s villa was sold, then given as a wedding gift to Princess Charlotte of Prussia, whose husband Georg of Saxe-Meuningen was an avid botanist. He is largely responsible for the garden’s appearance today, with its cascading azaleas, rhododendrons and camellias, and extensive botanical gardens which take full advantage of the lake’s microclimate. Overnight Bellagio (B)

Monday April 26 the court of mantua We leave Lake Como today and travel by coach to Vicenza, stopping at Mantua, a small town that was a vibrant 15th- century court under the Gonzaga dynasty. Andrea Mantegna’s celebrated frescoes in the Camera degli Sposi, and Giulio Romano’s mischievous gods and goddesses at the Palazzo Te, are two different indications of the concerns of the dukes, whose city declined from the 16th century due to problems with succession. After a guided visit of the town, we continue on to our hotel and enjoy a meal together. Overnight Vicenza (B, D)

Tuesday April 27 palladio in the city Vicenza, today a vibrant regional centre, was the home of Andrea Palladio, the great Renaissance architect whose Four Books of Architecture are among the most influential works ever written in the field. With our guide, we explore his youthful contributions to the streetscape of Vicenza, from his early proposal to retrofit the town’s celebrated Basilica Palladiana, to his urban palaces inspired by a patrician Roman ideal and the late masterpiece of the Teatro Olimpico. This theatre still preserves it original stage set and is an iconic example of Palladio’s innovative and practical designs. The afternoon is at Above: From the restrained excess of the Villa Carlotta, on Lake leisure, to continue your survey of Palladio’s works or perhaps Como, to Palladio’s rhythmic elegance in Vicenza’s Teatro Olimpico to enjoy a stroll past the city’s elegant shops. Overnight Vicenza (middle), with Scamozzi’s surviving stage scenery for its first performance, Oedipus Rex (B) Below: A patrician square alongside Vicenza’s Basilica Palladiana, Wednesday April 28 with echoes of Venetian dominance in its twin columns

Palladio in the country We continue our survey of Palladio’s glorious contribution to architectural history today, visiting the best known of his ‘suburban villas’: the Villa Capra ‘La Rotonda’. Its siting and proportional rhythm have been endlessly influential on subsequent designs, such as Jefferson’s Monticello estate. We continue to the Villa Valmarana ai Nani, still in private hands, before heading to Asolo, our base for the next three nights. Dinner is in our hotel, which boasts one of Asolo’s best restaurants. Overnight Asolo (B, D)

Thursday April 29 Villa Barbaro & the ValdoBBiadene This morning we visit another of Palladio’s masterpiece, the Villa Barbaro. The villa was commissioned by two brothers from one of Venice’s leading families, one of whom, Daniele, collaborated extensively with Palladio on a new edition of Vitruvius, the only treatise on architecture to have survived from Roman antiquity. The interiors have extensive frescoes by Paolo Veronese, who plays with Palladio’s interior spaces by creating trompe-l’oeil balconies (complete with people looking down on you), doorways and windows with imaginary landscapes. After visiting the villa, we travel to the Valdobbiadene, a string of valleys along the Piave River most famous for producing prosecco, where we have lunch in a country restaurant overlooking the vineyards. We return to Asolo via the village of Possagno to visit the monumental tomb of Antonio Canova, modelled on the ancient Roman Pantheon. Overnight Asolo (B, L)

Friday April 30 Asolo and Villa Emo Asolo is one of the most beautiful hill towns in Italy, and the morning and early afternoon are free to relax in the charming town. There are numerous walks through the countryside or up to the medieval fortress above the city, as well as an interesting local museum, cafes and small shops, and a cathedral with works by Lorenzo Lotto and other local artists. This afternoon we take a short excursion to Palladio’s Villa Emo, the most perfectly conceived of the architect’s villas. Overnight Asolo (B)

Saturday May 1 Villa Arvedi and verona Please note: today is a public holiday This morning we travel to Verona, stopping to visit Villa Arvedi, the residence of the Count Arvedi who will be our guide. The villa contains frescoes by French artist Ludovico Dorigny and a Above: Palladio’s elegant Villa Barbaro at Maser and the Roman bridge across the Adige River at Verona fine parterre garden ‘all’italiana’. We continue on to central Verona for lunch and to visit the formal Giardino dei Giusti. In the late afternoon we continue on to our base on the western Below: The Giusti Gardens in Verona are one of the best examples of shores of Lake Garda, in the quiet lakeside town of Gardone the formal garden, all’italiana Riviera. Overnight Gardone (B, D)

Sunday May 2 lake garda We begin the day by making the short trip from our hotel up to the villa of the 20th-century war hero, poet and eccentric Gabriele D’Annunzio. The interior is extraordinary: dark, intense, eclectic and certainly unique. It is complemented by peaceful gardens and terraces, replete with gifts given to him by the Italian state, including a small WWI warship he then had installed in the mountainside. Il Vittoriale is surely the most iconoclastic of the Italian villas we survey on our tour! After a break for lunch by the lake in Gardone, we embark on a leisurely private boat tour of Lake Garda, travelling as far as the fortress built by Verona’s Scaliger dynasty at Malcesine, with its dramatic backdrop of Monte Baldo. Overnight Gardone (B)

Monday May 3 Lake iseo This morning we depart for Stresa, stopping to visit Lake Iseo. Relatively undiscovered, this beautiful lake was recently “wrapped” in striking orange silk by the artist Christo, and a number of islands – one with an elaborate and private Medieval Revival castle – rise up from the water. Monte Isola, the largest island in this lake (and in southern Europe in general), rises to a peak of 600m, and we stop for lunch at leisure here, perhaps at one of the lakeside fish restaurants. In the afternoon, we continue to Stresa and share a group meal. Overnight, Stresa (B, D)

Tuesday May 4 Isola Bella and Villa Taranto The Borromean islands, lying just off the shores of Stresa on Lake Maggiore, are named after the noble Milanese Borromeo family, who have owned them since the 13th century. This Above: From swirling parterres to Veneto vineyards at the Villa morning we take a private boat to Isola Bella, an entire island Arvedi, a private villa outside Verona given over to their baroque palace and magnificently theatrical Below: Lake Garda, a playground for leisure and gentle gardens. We then travel by boat across Lake Maggiore to visit philosophising since the Roman age; and the neo-Gothic fairytale of the Villa Taranto. The villa was bought by Neil McEacharn in the undiscovered Lake Iseo 1930s and artfully transformed into one of the most beautiful botanic gardens in northern Italy, with more than 3,000 species of plants and a design that takes full advantage of its setting with lake and mountainside views. Returning to Stresa, the evening is at leisure. Overnight Stresa (B)

Wednesday May 5 Lake Orta This morning we travel to nearby Lake Orta. This lake is yet to be discovered by mass tourism and we visit peaceful Orta San Giulio, a small town on the shore. From here we take a boat to Isola San Giulio, the site of a medieval abbey. The abbey, according to tradition, was the 100th church founded by San Giulio, a 4th-century Greek monk who evangelised this mountainous region. Today the island remains a monastic retreat, and its church contains medieval frescoes and sculpture. After a break for lunch, we return to Stresa where the afternoon is at leisure before we meet for our farewell dinner. Overnight Stresa (B, D)

Thursday May 6 Departure An early morning group transfer to Milan’s Malpensa airport is available for those joining midday flights. (B)

Hotels

Hotels have been selected principally for their location: lake views in Bellagio, Gardone and Stresa, and central locations in Vicenza and Asolo.

Bellagio, Hotel Belvedere (3 nights) Overlooks a quiet branch of Lake Como and the surrounding mountains. Lake view rooms. www.belvederebellagio.com/en

Vicenza, Glam Boutique Hotel (2 nights) In an excellent location on the edges of the pedestrian centre of Vicenza, the rooms of this boutique hotel have been recently refurbished. www.gboutiquehotel.com/

Asolo, Hotel Al Sole (3 nights) Refined boutique hotel on the tranquil main square of one of Italy’s most beautiful hill towns. www.albergoalsoleasolo.com/en

Gardone Riviera, Grand Hotel (2 nights) Lakeview rooms in this quiet location overlooking Lake Garda. www.grandhotelgardone.it/en/

Stresa, Hotel Regina Palace (3 nights) Historic and well-appointed four-star hotel. Rooms look out across Lake Maggiore and the Borromean Islands. www.reginapalace.it/en

Above: Isola Bella, long the private island of Milan’s powerful Borromeo dynasty, is designed to look like a ship at sea, with its terraces of baroque fancy and strutting white peacocks; and the Villa Taranto, designed by Scotsman Neil McEacharn

Below: Peaceful Orta, one of northern Italy’s undiscovered lakes and the site of an abbey founded by a 4th-century monk from Greece

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The tour price is $9,810 per person, twin share (land content of THIS tour only). The supplement for a single room is $2,560 per person. A non-refundable deposit of $1,000 per person is GRADE TWO required to secure a place on the tour. It is important both for you and for your fellow travellers that you are fit enough to be able to enjoy all the activities on this Tour Inclusions tour. To give you an indication of the level of physical fitness required to participate on our tours, we have given them a Included in the tour price star grading. Academy Travel’s tours tend to feature  Services of a tour leader throughout the tour extended walking tours and site visits, which require greater fitness than coach touring. We ask you to carefully consider  All accommodation in selected hotels your ability to meet the physical demands of the tour.  All breakfasts and selected lunches and dinners as indicated by (L) or (D) in the detailed itinerary Participation criteria for this tour  Travel during the tour by private coach and boat as detailed in the itinerary This Grade Two tour is designed for people who lead active lives and can comfortably participate in up to five hours of  All entrance fees to sights mentioned on itinerary physical activity per day on most days, including longer  Qualified local guides at selected sites walking tours, challenging archaeological sites, climbing  Background talks and tour notes stairs, embarking and disembarking trains and/or boats, and  All tipping to local guides, drivers and restaurants a more demanding tour schedule with one night stops or  Portage of one piece of luggage at all hotels several internal flights. Not included You should be able to:   International air fares, taxes and surcharges (see below) keep up with the group at all times   Travel insurance walk for 4-5 kilometres at a moderate pace with only  Meals not mentioned in itinerary short breaks   Expenses of a personal nature stand for a reasonable length of time in galleries and museums  tolerate uncomfortable climatic conditions such as cold, Air travel OPTIONS humidity and heat  walk up and down slopes The tour price quoted is for land content only. For this tour  negotiate steps and slopes on archaeological sites, we recommend Emirates, Singapore, Qatar and Etihad which are often uneven and unstable which have regular flights from most international Australian  get on and off a large coach with steep stairs, train or airports to Milan. Please contact us for further information on boat unassisted, possibly with luggage competitive Economy, Business and First Class airfares.  move your luggage a short distance if required Transfers between airport and hotel are included for all passengers booking their flights through Academy Travel. A note for older travellers These may be group or individual transfers. If you are more than 80 years old, or have restricted mobility, it is highly likely that you will find this itinerary challenging. You will have to miss several activities and will not get the Enquiries & bookings full value of the tour. Your booking will not be accepted until after you have contacted Academy Travel to discuss your For further information and to secure a place on this tour situation and the exact physical requirements of this tour. please contact Hannah Kleboe at Academy Travel on While we will do our best to reasonably accommodate the 9235 0023 or 1800 639 699 (outside Sydney) or email physical needs of all group members, we reserve the right to [email protected] refuse bookings if we feel that the requirements of the tour are too demanding for you and/or if local conditions mean Weather on Tour we cannot reasonably accommodate your condition.

We can look forward to mild spring weather for our trip, with temperatures ranging from 15 to 22 degrees. There is some chance of rain on a few days, so a light rain jacket is advised.

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