Long Travel - Holidays in Southern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia

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Art and Music in Southern Italy & Sicily

Italy is a country overflowing with art treasures and with a rich tradition in music. A fascinating place, it has attracted ‘visitors' for thousands of years. Just look around the palazzi and piazze in any town, or village, dotted around Southern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia, you will be amazed at what you will discover.

In contrast to the world famous Amalfi Coast with its winding roads and breathtaking scenery, stay in one of our hand-picked Naples hotels and visit the San Carlo opera house, which opened in 1737 and is the oldest working theatre in Europe (41 years older than Milano's Scala and 51 years older than Venice's Fenice) and become enthralled by Tosca, Romeo and Juliet or Madame Butterfly or, stroll around the cool galleries of the Museo di Capodimonte on a warm Neopolitan afternoon and marvel at the paintings by Raphael, El Greco and Bruegel.

If you are a music lover, visit the Pescara Jazz Festival, which is now in its 39th year and has hosted - to name but a few, greats such as Bob Dylan, Herbie Hancock, Joan Baez, James Taylor, Ella Fitzgerald & Miles Davis. Or if you are after something a little less "international", stay in one of the wonderful trulli houses which are scattered around the Itria Valley, now a World Heritage Site, close to the pretty mediaeval town of Cisternino and visit the the Valle d'Itria Opera and Classical Music Festival, which is held in the nearby town of Martina Franca, every July or August.

A real treat for classical art lovers, are the delicate mosaic floors in the Villa Romana, close to Il Glicine in Sicily, absolutely fascinating and surely one of the finest examples of roman mosaics, anywhere in the world!

Maybe best of all are the treasures that cannot be found in the guidebooks. Scattered throughout the numerous towns and villages of the mezzogiorno , Baroque fountains with their Rubenesque figures, frescoed walls in a small village church and of course the local festas , where you will be treated to a traditional Italian brass band and a group of very lively octogenarians dancing the tarantella !

Whatever your interests, we will tailor-make a holiday which takes full advantage of the fantastic art and music Italy is famous for.

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