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DRIVE 7
Milan
Turin Venice
Genoa Bologna
IT AL Y
Florence
Perugia
Rome
From the Lake
to the Plains
Salò to
Mantua
Highlights
• Laidback lakeside resorts
Relax in the low-key towns that line
the lake with their pretty harbours,
belle époque villas and fine shingle
beaches – perfect for a quick dip
• Wonderful wines
Sip the delicious light wines produced
by the temperate climate and rolling
hills of Cavaion Veronese, to the east
and south of Lake Garda
• Renaissance showpiece
Explore medieval and Renaissance
Mantua whose elegant piazzas are
dominated by the palazzos of power
• Ruins with a view
Clamber the picturesque ruins of
a 1st-century AD Roman villa in a
charming olive grove at the very
tip of Sirmione’s promontory
Grotte di Catullo, ruins of a Roman villa at
Sirmione, Lake Garda
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