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Fall trip in the north

Posted by (La Conner, WA, usa) on

We are beginning to plan a trip of close to a month in the north (sort of ) of Italy. It is an anniversary(50!) trip and we hope to just relax, eat, drink, watch people, and see art. (And walk off all the food we plan to eat. ) Our son and DIL will join us for a week. They want us to choose.

We definitely want to be in Padua for a while and do trips from there. Want to do one of the lakes - though for some weird reason I feel a bit trapped up on a lake.. (End of the road thing and stuck in a fjord-like place) But which lake and where?

Piedmont has been suggested - but where?

At the end we will join a friend for a revisit to Florence, perhaps.

Where would you go?

Thanks and more thanks.
Linda

Posted by
5653 posts

Depends on when in the fall. The weather during the end of September will be a lot different than the end of November. Plus, by late fall, some small tourist towns will be closing some facilities.

Posted by
7175 posts

Lots to see in close proximity throughout northern Italy. Some ideas here.

••MILAN•• for 3 nights
Day trip to Bergamo
••VARENNA•• for 3 nights
Explore Lake Como
••VERONA•• for 6 nights
Day trips to Padua, Vicenza, Mantua, Lake Garda
••VENICE•• for 4 nights
Day trip to Burano
••BOLOGNA•• for 6 nights
Day trips to Ravenna, Ferrara, Modena, Parma
••FLORENCE•• for 6 nights
Day trips to Siena, Pisa, Lucca, Chianti

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I’m all for Piedmont in the fall. Truffle hunts, wine harvest, food festivals and gorgeous countryside. Try the area around Cherasco and La Morra and be sure to visit Neive, Barbaresco, and Barolo. Turin is wonderful if you can squeeze it in. Just west of Turin is Sacra San Michele, an incredible 1000 year old pilgrimage monastery on a mountaintop and Piedmont's official symbol. Lake Orta is beautiful and not big enough to create that trapped feeling, IMO.

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I agree that time of year is important here--or at least it would be for me.

Nice side-trip options from Padua include Vicenza, Verona and Ferrara, but Padua itself has a lot of sights of interest.

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