Franciacorta Wine Tour from Milan

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ABOUT THIS SERVICE Franciacorta Wine Tour from Milan Highlights Explore the Franciacorta wine region Visit top-rated wineries and taste sparkling wine View beautiful Lake Iseo Enjoy a lunch of delicious local specialties Discover the stunning hillside town of Bergamo *This wine tour works best from Milan or Bergamo* Franciacorta Wine Tour from Milan Program Imagine a secluded land to the south of Lake Iseo: hillside vineyards dotted by small villages, medieval towers and castles, Renaissance palaces, and rococo villas. Call it, as mapmakers and the locals do, Franciacorta, literally short or little France. To the south lies one of Italy’s most productive industrial heartlands, a border which has preserved the authentic local ways and cuisines. The Franciacorta wine tour takes you in fact in the kingdom of wine, the sparkling land of bubbles. Here grapes give life to high-quality wines, among them the Franciacorta D.O.C.G, which has reached high levels of excellence and is appreciated the world over. Your private friendly chauffeur will greet you at your hotel and drive you along the beautiful Franciacorta wine roads. Your first stop will be at one of the best wineries in the region, where you will be greeted warmly for an engaging tour of the estate and a terrific tasting of the wineries' current releases. It will then be time to discover a charming village overlooking Lake Iseo, where you will enjoy a delicious lunch in a very good local restaurant. In the afternoon you will visit a second excellent cellar and have the chance to understand differences in winemaking techniques and wine styles. Your day will end with a visit to the hilltop town of Bergamo, standing out in the distance as the visitor approaches from the plains. The city’s fantastic skyline of towers, church steeples and cupolas silhouetted against the background of the Alps is spellbinding. The heart of the old town is Piazza Vecchia, one of the most beautiful squares in Italy. Some Franciacorta Background Franciacorta, means Little France. Scholars offer us two etymologies for this oddity. The first, plausible but prosaic, has nothing to do with Asterix and Obelix, but rather with medieval Latin franca curta, a tax exemption on plots of land granted to pioneer communities of Benedictine monks on condition that they cultivate them, frontier or pioneer style. The second, unlikely but quite fetching, would have it that after Carolus Magnus or Charlemagne (c.742-814 A.D.), the founder of the Holy Roman Empire, had conquered the Longobards and their main keep at Brescia in 774, he encamped for the winter near today’s Rodengo Saiano. When the 9th of October and the feast of Saint Denis rolled around, which Charles had sworn to celebrate in France, he kept his promise by decreeing that the area would thenceforth and forever be a small part of France, or a Francia curta . . . a pretty tale, but alas it won't wash, neither as Latin nor as Mediaeval French, for France was then called Gallia or Francogallia, and curtus, means cut not small. Back to the tax exemption. However it was derived, the name now defines a large area still wonderfully unblemished by mass tourism, a natural and cultural enclave where all your tastes for art, history and the outdoor life can be indulged in peace and at leisure. Whether on foot, on your own in an old-timer drophead coupé or driven by a professional guide, the lures of the place are many and varied: as much spectacular nature as anyone could ever want, Lake Iseo and its marvelous island (Europe’s largest lake island), castles, romantic ruins, a world-quality collection of old-timer and antique automobiles (Italy’s best), the Abbey of Rodengo, and much more.   What's Included in the Franciacorta Wine Tour from Milan Travel by Mercedes or equivalent level car or minibus with an English-speaking driver (approx.7 hours). Tour of two top-rated Franciacorta wineries. Guided tasting of Franciacorta wines. A visit to one small town (including wine and food shops if applicable). Booking for lunch in a nice, typical restaurant (meal not included). Our pampering care!   Price per person (including taxes and fees), based on a booking of: 1 pax Eur 520 - 2 pax Eur 265 - 3 pax Eur 195 - 4 pax Eur 175 - 5 pax Eur 165 - 6 pax Eur 165 - 7 pax Eur 155 - 8 pax Eur 145 - 9 pax Eur 140 - 10 pax Eur 135 - 11 pax Eur 130 - 12 pax Eur 125 -   Terms and Conditions

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