ADULT GROUP TRAVEL

Following Leonardo da Vinci's footsteps - Lombardy (4 nights)

Following Leonardo da Vinci's footsteps - Lombardy (4 nights)

Day 1 :

Milan

Arrival of the group in the morning at Milan airport (Malpensa or Linate) and departure by private coach for a panoramic tour of the city. Depending on the time at disposal, you can choose between one or more of the following stops:
– the Hippodrome with the bronze equestrian statue made according to the projects of Leonardo da Vinci;
– the Monumentale (monumental cemetery), where the great names of Milanese society rest. Created in 1866 by Carlo Maciachini, this cemetery has since become a veritable open air museum. Today it has 25 hectares of funerary monuments and spectacular vaults;
– the Porta Garibaldi and Isola district, located between Porta Garibaldi and Porta Nuova. This ultra-modern district, including the buildings with hanging gardens by Stefano Boeri, is dominated by the tapered point of the César Pelli tower and evokes a Manhattan in miniature;
– the elegant Corso Como which directly connects Corso Garibaldi to Isola, a cosmopolitan district in booming, with bars, restaurants and trendy shops.
Check-in at hotel, dinner and overnight stay.

Day 2 :

Milan

Morning dedicated to the guided tour of the district around Piazza Duomo and visit of the Cathedral, the Vittorio Emanuele II Gallery, Mercanti street and square, La Scala Theater Museum. Continuation with the Sforza Castle (Castello Sforzesco), built to be a fortress in the 14th century, it is now one of the most emblematic monuments of Milan. Today, it houses some of the best museums in the city and also the “Sala delle Asse”, also called the Tower Room or Paneling Room, whose ceiling was decorated by Leonardo da Vinci on a commission from Ludovic the More. In the afternoon visit of the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, which contains over a million old books and thousands of paintings by the world’s greatest artists such as Titian, Bramantine, Botticelli, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci. Of the latter it is possible to admire the painting “Portrait of a musician” as well as unique documents such as the Codex Atlanticus, kept in the Federiciana room, which constitutes the largest collection in the world of drawings and writings by Leonardo da Vinci. The Atlantic Codex consists of 1119 sheets dating from 1478 to 1519, containing various subjects such as sketches and preparatory drawings for painting, researches in mathematics, optics and astronomy, philosophical meditations but also curious war machine projects, hydraulic pumps and parachutes. Return to the hotel, dinner and overnight stay.

Day 3 :

Milan

Morning dedicated to the visit of the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci, founded in 1953 and today the largest museum where it is possible to explore the Italian collection of technical and scientific discoveries consecrated to transport, materials, energies, to the link between art and science, to the new frontiers between science and technology. Visiting the museum is an experience to be lived, with interactive science and technology workshops, participation in theatrical activities, temporary exhibitions and above all the largest collection of machines designed by Leonardo da Vinci. Continuation with the visit of one of the most famous paintings in the world: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci (Cenacolo Vinciano), made between 1494 and 1498 under the government of Ludovico il Moro, which represents the last meal between Jesus Christ and his apostles. The Last Supper is a huge wall painting 4.60 m high and 8.80 m wide located in the original dining room of the former Dominican convent which belongs to the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie.
Return to the hotel, dinner and overnight stay.

Please note: the availability of tickets for the Last Supper is very limited and you will need to arrange the program based on the time available for the visit. According to actual conditions the access is allowed to a maximum of 18 people at a time for a maximum duration of 15 min.

Day 4 :

Milan

In the morning, a walking tour to discover the Navigli district, the canals which since the 12th century, with the construction of the Naviglio Grande, have been the protagonists of Milan’s economic fortune. The Navigli in fact allowed navigation through an area which, from the areas of Lake Maggiore and Lake Como, crossing the whole plain, extended from Lower Ticino to the sea. Over the centuries, the network of canals gradually extended with the construction of the Naviglio Pavese and, from the 14th century, the water played a role in the transit of the materials that were used for the construction of the Cathedral. Work that continued for the following centuries with important achievements such as the Viarenna and Naviglio de Martesana basin. The Renaissance period dates back to the improvement projects Leonardo da Vinci made, as a hydraulic engineer, to the system of basins, which regulated the flow of water. Continuation to Vigevano, the “ideal city” imagined by Leonardo da Vinci to welcome the Duke of Milan, for which Leonardo made all the sketches on the basis of the town plan of the historic center. Visit of “La Leonardiana”, the museum dedicated to the genius of the Renaissance, which remained for a long time here at the court of Ludovico il Moro. A unique museum in the world exhibiting all the work that Leonardo was able to think up and create during his life: the drawings, now kept in dozens of museums and libraries around the world, the notebooks that accompanied his days, full of his brilliant thoughts and intuitions, the codes which after his death were assembled by his friends and heirs and which are kept today in the greatest libraries and institutions of the world. The route of the exhibition is completed by the “pinacoteca impossibile”, in which the 26 paintings currently recognized by his hand are exhibited, reproduced on a large scale with special high-resolution techniques, which allow the visitor to immerse himself in the entire work, a unique experience that will allow a fine and in-depth analysis of its artistic language.
Return to the hotel, dinner and overnight stay.

Day 5 :

Return

Breakfast, transfer to the airport and end of our services.

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