Visiting Northern Italy - what museums etc are best?
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We'll be visiting Northern Italy this summer - what museums / experiences would you recommend?
(I'll need to hire a car, too - any tips? We'll be there for around a month, and are planning to head into Switzerland, too, so it would need to be affordable, rather than exotic, unfortunately
)Cheers!
Pagani Museum, private collection of mainly Maseratis in a beautiful setting on a farm where they produce cheese. Sounds a bit of a weird combination but absolutely superb and completely different from the white floors / LED lights of the slightly sterile but still fantastic Ferrari and Alfa museums.
The idea is to spend a few days in Milan, then pick up a car and drive around N Italy and into Switzerland, so no particular base. Mother-in-law is meeting wife and I there, we have ~4 weeks to travel around. I'm just trying to get a few car/bike based activities in there - the Ferrari (there are 2 - Enzo & Engineering - I was thinking Engineering would be the one to go to?) and Lambo I'd thought of; perhaps Ducati? Great call on Alfa: I'd not thought of that. I love the sound of the Pagani Museum - perhaps that's one that the ladies might enjoy, too!
I wonder if there are any track-day type activities around there, too 🤔
Where abouts in Northern Italy, plenty of other museums/sights in the cities if your looking for non-car related ones.
Florence (Firenze) is magic, and has countless museums/galleries, driven there a few times and been around them...Uffizi & Bargella to name a couple.
Nice route from Switzerland, we've driven down X3 times from the UK, and Switzerland is a good stop over before entering Italy via Como usually or Aosta (great road)
Florence (Firenze) is magic, and has countless museums/galleries, driven there a few times and been around them...Uffizi & Bargella to name a couple.
Nice route from Switzerland, we've driven down X3 times from the UK, and Switzerland is a good stop over before entering Italy via Como usually or Aosta (great road)
Edited by 757 on Sunday 22 May 12:27
shih tzu faced said:
Pagani Museum, private collection of mainly Maseratis in a beautiful setting on a farm where they produce cheese. Sounds a bit of a weird combination but absolutely superb and completely different from the white floors / LED lights of the slightly sterile but still fantastic Ferrari and Alfa museums.
I think you mean the Panini collection. I think the factory had to sell their collection at one point so the family bought it complete.If the OP is in that area there is also a Stanguellini museum although I visited that with a group so unsure about access. It seemed to be within a Fiat dealership but quite interesting.
If near Milan and have a hire car (public transport access is not good) Alfa Romeo at Arese is great.
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