Langhe & Lakes Gourmet (7 days – 6 nights )
Introduction
Langhe & Lakes
Enjoy the culinary specialities of one of the Italian’s most known locations for food and wine.
The Langhe and Monferrato area is suggestive for its landscapes and its vineyards: you will have the opportunity to discover and taste some of the most renowned wine cellars, as Cantina Marchesi di Barolo and Tenuta Cisa Asinari
dei Marchesi di Gresy.
This area is not far from Lake Maggiore and Lake Orta: you will discover their beauties through a private excursion by boat.
Complete the journey by staying in excellent hotels and luxury villas, pluseating in the best restaurants
Destination
Departure
12th - 18th September 2022
Departure Time
Dress Code
Itinerary
Milan
Meet & Greet at the airport of Milan and private transfer in your elegant hotel in the centre of the city.
Walking tour of the city: Duomo Cathedral, Royal Palace, and the historical Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the Ambrosian art gallery house of the famous Leonardo da Vinci “Atlantic Code”.
Enjoy the secret tour of “The underground Milan”, an unusual but very interesting tour of the city guided by archaeological experts.
Gourmet dinner in a luxury restaurant in Milan city centre with a mix of innovative and traditional cuisine.
Overnight.
Milan - Langhe Area
After breakfast, transfer to the Langhe Area in Piedmont and check-in in an ancient residence surrounded by the spectacular Langhe and Monferrato vineyards.
Enjoy the experience of the truffle hunt, a very precious ingredient of this area. Typical lunch with truffles at Ristorante Vallerana.
Wine tasting and gourmet dinner in a special location: an ancient and charming castle. Overnight.
Langhe and Monferrato Area
This day is totally dedicated to the world of wine!
After breakfast, wine tour and light lunch at Cantina Marchesi di Barolo. The winery produces Barolo, Barbaresco, Nebbiolo d’Alba, Barbera d’Alba, Dolcetto d’Alba, Roero Arneis, Gavi, Moscato d’Asti and Brachetto d’Acqui.
In the afternoon, a wine tour at Tenute C.A.M.G, which includes four estates situated in the Langhe and Monferrato areas, recognized as the home of Piedmont’s greatest wines, an area of ancient traditions. They produce mainly Nebbiolo grapes for Barbaresco DOCG, but also Barbera, Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.
Dinner and overnight in Hotel.
Langhe - Orta Lake
Early in the morning you will have a unique and exciting opportunity to admire the landscape of Langhe and Monferrato from a very unusual point of view: a hot-air balloon.
After lunch in a typical restaurant of Alba, transfer to Orta Lake and check-in in a 19- century beautiful Villa which has one of the most renowned Italian restaurants, where the acclaimed Mediterranean cuisine is matched by a list of French and Italian wines.
Time to relax in the SPA of the Villa.
Dinner and overnight.
Orta Lake
After breakfast, a full day excursion by private boat on the Lake Orta: visits to the island of San Giulio and to the Sacro Monte.
Visit of the town: the enchanting village of Orta and San Giulio’s islands with a Romanesque church.
Lunch in a typical restaurant. In the afternoon visit to the chapels of Sacro Monte Orta, dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi.
Return to your luxury villa, dinner and overnight.
Maggiore Lake
After breakfast full day excursion by private boat on Maggiore Lake.
Famous for its colours and scents, Lake Maggiore offers to its visitors scenery of incomparable beauty. The Borromeo Gulf is a small archipelago in one of the most alluring parts of the lake: its most beautiful points are Isola Bella, famous for its sumptuous Baroque palazzo and magnificent Italianate terraced gardens and Isola Madre. Lunch in Stresa.
In the afternoon, visit of Stresa: the lake’s most beautiful town bursting with flowers and sprinkled with fine old villas.
Return to the Villa, dinner and overnight.
Orta Lake - Departure
Morning at the Spa of Villa Crespi. Check-out and departure.
Details
accomodation
4* Hotel in the centre of Milano
Check-in: 12 september, 2022
Check-out: 13 september, 2022
Breakfast is included
Double Room – possibility to overnight in a Double Room for single occupancy
4* Castle and Hotel in Langhe’s area
Check-in: 13 september, 2022
Check-out: 15 september, 2022
Breakfast is included
Double Room – possibility to overnight in a Double Room for single occupancy
5* Villa on Orta’s lake
Check-in: 15 september, 2022
Check-out: 18 september, 2022
Breakfast is included
Double Room – possibility to overnight in a Double Room for single occupancy
activities
THE PACKAGE INCLUDES:
- (3 nights) – BB treatment;
- Overnight in a 5* Villa on Orta lake area (2 nights) – BB treatment;
- Overnight in a 4* hotel in Langhe’s area (1 night) – BB treatment;
- Overnight in a 4* hotel in Milan Typical lunch in Stresa;
- Private boat excursion on Maggiore Lake; Private boat excurision on Orta Lake; Monferrato Area;
- Hot-air balloon experience in Monferrato Area;
- Wine tour at Tenuta C.A.M.G. in Marchesi di Barolo;
- Wine tour and light lunch at Cantina Area;
- Wine tasting at Tagliolo Castle – Langhe Truffle hunt in Langhe Area;
- Elegant dinner in Milan;
- Guided tour of “The underground Milan”; Ticket for Brera Pinacoteca;
- Ticket for Milan’s Duomo;
- Walking guided tour in Milan;
- Private van;
- 5 lunches and five dinners;
- Meet&Greet at the airport;
THE PACKAGE DOESN’T INCLUDE
Everything not mentioned in “the package includes”
ON REQUEST
Flights to / from Italy
