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Lombardy trip planner
A vacation guide to the Italian region of Lombardia (Lombardy)
Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper in Milan.
www.turismo.regione.lombardia.it
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Milan - Milan is Italy's economic powerhouse, a bustling modern city of finance and industry, media empires and fashion houses, political lions and Michelin-starred restaurants. It also boasts an impressive cultural heritage of important art galleries, ancient churches, a statue-studded Duomo, the famed La Scala opera house, and one can't-miss Italian icon: Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper... 
The Italian Lakes - The long, shimmering tendrils of the Italian Lakes—Como, Garda, Maggiore, Iseo, Orta, and others—are snuggled into the deep-cleft valleys of the foothills where the broad, fertile, and industrious plains of the Po River Valley wash up against the mighty, craggy peaks of the Alps and the Dolomites. These lakeshores are strung with fishing villages, medieval castles, lavish Renaissance palazzi and Neoclassical villas, ancient ruins, and sumptuous gardens spilling right down the water's edge...
- Major Italian lakes
Lake Maggiore (part of which is in Piemonte) is where the princely Borromeo family allows visitors to wander its lakeshore castles, island palaces, and gardens strutting with peacocks... 
Lake Como is famed for its precious silks, lavish villas, sumptuous gardens, and spectacular panoramas... 
Lake Garda stretches from fishing villages–turned-resorts on its southern end to the northern end where a clutch of solidly Teutonic northern towns of beer and sausages and crumbling castles overlook one of the best windsurfing spots in Europe...
- Middle-sized Italian lakes
Lake Iseo has first-class art, a forested island, and prehistoric rock carvings hidden in the valley to its north... 
Lake Orta (in neighboring Piemonte) is steeped in miraculous legends and, as home to such firms as Alessi and Lagostina, is the unlikely epicenter of Italy's designer housewares industry...
- Minor Italian lakes
- Lake Idro is a miniscule lake, barely 6 miles long, for relaxing away from the madding crowds...
Lake Varese is the main lake in a barely-touristed group of oversized ponds collectively called the Varesotto... 
Lake Lugano is actually quite large, but it snakes back and forth across the Italy/Switzerland border, and most of the (relatively few) interesting bits are in Switzerland...
Sparking wines in the Franciacorta - The Franciacorta wine region is famous for both light red and beefy whites (think: Chardonnay), but mostly for Franciacorta DOCG, a Brut ranked among the top sparkling whites in Itay...
Ten thousand-year-old art in the Val Camonica - Along trails snaking through the slopes of the pre-Alpine valleys of eastern Lombardy, the prehistoric Camuni tribes etched half-exposed rock faces with more than 300,000 images of humans, animals, houses, symbols, and inscrutable art...
Related pages
- Major Lombardy destinations: Milan, Lake Como, Lake Maggiore, Lake Garda
- The Veneto region (east of Lombardy)
- The Piemonte region (west of Lombardy)
- More Italy destinations
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This material was last updated March 2011. All information was accurate at the time.
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