Long Travel - Holidays in Southern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia

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Art and Music in Southern Italy

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

Stay at 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 38th 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 close to the pretty mediaeval town of Cisternino and visit the The Valle d'Itria Opera and Classical Music Festival, which every July/August is held in the Pugliese town of Martina Franca.

If your interests are more art based, spend some time at the Villa Dragonetti in Abruzzo, where there are beautiful animal murals adorning the walls and ceilings which rival anything you would find in a gallery or, a real treat for clasical 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!

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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