Departure is planned at 8am in the morning, and the bus will be waiting at the cross between Paleocapa Street and Jacini Street.

Once in Sulzano, boat tour on lake Iseo, the 7th largest lake in Italy, one of the most charming and romantic. Stop at Monte Isola, the largest inhabited lake island in Europe. With its 11 villages, it offers lifestyle and atmosphere from days past: fishing nets and wooden boats are still produced here today, and you can taste lake fish still caught and conserved using traditional methods, such as lake sardines.

Montisola landscape | © Bresciatourism

After lunch, transfer to the city of Brescia through the Franciacorta wine area.

In Brescia, visit of the exhibition: Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Water Projects.

Curated by Germano Celant in collaboration with Christo and his studio, it offers an unprecedented display of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s water-related projects, that is those based on rural and urban landscapes characterized by the presence of water in the form of an ocean, a sea, a lake, or a river. Set in the 2000 square meter spaces of Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia, with over 150 exhibits comprising the artists’ original preparatory studies, drawings and collages, complemented by scale-models, photos of the finished projects, videos, and films, Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Water Projects presents a chronological display of the artists’ monumental works since the early Sixties and illustrates, across the large museum rooms, their seven Water Projects, from Wrapped Coast, One Million Square Feet, Little Bay, Sydney, Australia, 1968-1969 to The Floating Piers, Project for Lake Iseo, Italy, 2014-2016. 

© Christo 2015

We move on to the visit of the historical city centre and its beautiful squares: Piazza Paolo VI where you can find the buildings that symbolise the civil and religious power of the medieval city: the Broletto, the most ancient public building which was seat of the civil magistrature during the communal era; the Duomo Nuovo, with its grand Botticino marble façade, the third 

highest dome in Italy and the Duomo Vecchio (11th century), a rare and excellent example of round plan Romanic architecture.

© Fotostrasse

We continue our tour to Piazza della Loggia, built under the Republic of Venice, dominated by the Palazzo della Loggia, the seat of the government and, the Clock Tower, an astronomical masterpiece constructed in 1546 and surmounted by two male figures called the Macc de le ure, which still today strike the hours. 

The arrival to Milan is planned by 8.00 PM.