Italy
About Milan
Milan is Italy's engine room, dressed in its best-money, fashion and design where the rest of the country does romance.
The Duomo bristles with marble spires over a glass-roofed arcade of luxury boutiques, and the real elegance hides behind plain courtyard facades. It can feel cool and businesslike at first, until aperitivo hour fills the canalside Navigli with spritzes and small plates.
Lake Como and the Alps sit an hour north for when the city's intensity gets too much.
Eat saffron-gold risotto alla milanese and let the evening drinks slide into dinner.
Get to Milan
Round trip from Prague, any dates in November 2026.
Buses from Milan
Day trips from Milan
- Day trip
Lago di Como
~1 h
to Varenna
€3 one wayThe lake of villas and cypresses folded between steep green mountains. Base yourself on the mid-lake triangle — Varenna, Bellagio, Menaggio — and hop between gardens and waterfront terraces by ferry.
- Day trip
Bergamo Città Alta
~1 h€1 one wayA complete walled Renaissance hill town above the Lombard plain, reached by funicular: Venetian ramparts, a basilica dripping with tapestries, and polenta in the piazza.
About Italy
Backstreets, coastline and lunch
Etruscan hills, Baroque cities and volcanic islands, with the cooking changing every fifty kilometres and nobody rushing any of it.
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