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You’d think after From Brunelleschi’s Country
motoring through 537km red-capped Duomo to
of mind-blowing Alpine Michelangelo’s David La Rioja is the sort of
scenery on Trip 37: The and Botticelli’s The Birth place where you could
Swiss Alps that you had of Venus, Florence boasts spend weeks searching
seen it all. Wrong. After priceless masterpieces out the finest drops.
a succession of dramatic and a historic centre that Bodegas offering wine
green peaks, Alpine looks much as it did in tastings and villages that
lakes, glacial ravines Renaissance times. Art shelter wine museums
are the mainstays. Aside
and other hallucinatory aside, the city is perfect
natural landscapes, for al fresco dining and from scenery and fine
you pull into your final wine drinking. And it’s quaffs, you’ll find plenty
destination: Zermatt, a only part of Trip 5: World of surprises (such as a
highly desirable Alpine Heritage Wonders – an Frank Gehry–designed
masterpiece in a tiny
resort built around epic exploration of Italy’s village) on Trip 31:
the incomperable finest historic cities: Roving La Rioja Wine
Matterhorn. Venice, Siena, Pisa and Region.
Trip | Rome.
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