LOMBARDY

Forget the familiar, sun-drenched images of rustic Italy for a moment. Instead, imagine the crisp echo of stilettos on the marble floors of a glass-domed galleria, the charged, reverent silence in a room holding a single, world-altering painting, or the distant, perfect note of a violin being tested in a centuries-old workshop. This is Lombardy. […]

Leave the urban hum of Milan behind and venture into the other Lombardy—a land where the landscape itself is the main attraction. This is a journey for the senses, an immersion into a world defined by the deep, serene waters of its great lakes, the rugged majesty of its alpine peaks, and a culinary tradition