Luxury hotel holidays to the Veneto

Luxury holidays to the Veneto: luxury hotel holidays, touring holidays and special interest holidays

An Expressions tailor-made holiday to Veneto incorporates the beauty, culture and heritage of this popular Italian region. Like its northern neighbour, Friuli, Veneto is cradled by the Dolomites to the north, the Venetian planes to the south, and the Adriatic to the east, giving it an almost unsurpassed scenic, cultural and architectural variety. Unlike Friuli, however, Veneto is one of the most visited regions in Italy, with Venice the undoubted jewel in its preposterously beautiful crown. While most people race through Veneto in their rush to get to Venice, the region is a veritable treasure trove of beautiful towns, many of them blessedly devoid of tourist crowds, who are elsewhere on the Venetian lagoon. Of these, Padua is a gem of a cobbled university town littered with Giotoa frescoes, Verona, home to Romeo and Juliet, is one of the prettiest ancient cities in Italy, Vicenza is the stunning ‘laboratory’ of Andrea Palladio, one of the most influential architects in history, and in Treviso, Veneto has a wonderful, scaled down version of Venice, complete with beautiful canals. That said, with flights into Venice, you could happily spend every holiday for the rest of your life in Veneto's celebrated capital. A staggeringly spectacular town, it does of course get busy in summer, but with no cars in the city centre, Byron's ‘fair city of the heart' has a peaceful, festive air even in high season, with a string of quieter, but equally enchanting, fascinating islands scattered around the lagoon, and an excellent network of ferries and vaporetti taking you there.

Our bespoke, luxury hotel holidays can be

● Single centre or multi-centre
● Long or short stays
● Combine a number of different hotels in different regions
● Utilise a variety of transport arrangements to Italy and within Italy, combining flights, hire-car, rail, ferries and private transfers

Our special interest holidays to Veneto

● Wine-tasting for individuals
● Food and wine holidays
● Garden tours for small groups
● Garden holidays for individuals
● Cookery holidays for individuals and small groups
● Cultural tours for individuals
● Private guided sightseeing
● Art, history and heritage holidays

Included in all our holidays

● Concierge service
● Handcrafted helpful hints and local information provided with all our holidays
● Personal service by your sales consultant who looks after all aspects of your holiday

Call us on 01392 441245

Highlights of Veneto

Veneto has a wealth of culture and interest to immerse yourself in, including: Venice carnival, an extravagant pageant making the city even more impossibly beautiful than normal; the islands of the lagoon, including Murano, famous for its glass-makers, whose workshops you can visit, and Burano, with its wonderfully colourful facades; Treviso, a scaled down Venice, great escaping the high-season crowds; Soave, a fairy-tale castle town famous for its wines; Albano, a classic 19th century thermal town; Lake Garda, flanked by lemon and olive groves, with the Dolomites reflected in its lakes, and 7,227ft Monte Baldo behind it, which you can reach by cable car; tiny village of Marostica, which stages a human chess game with ‘pieces' dressed in Renaissance costumes; Valpollicella, a lush valley strewn with family wineries; Padua and its Giotto frescoes; the Romanesque abbey of San Pietro di Foletto in Follina; numerous Palladian villas, including Bararao, Villa Emo, La Rotonda, Villa Godi and Villa Valmarana; Cima's masterpiece of an altarpiece in Conegliano cathedral; the August Palio in Feltre, with medieval games, horse racing and celebrations; Treviso's festival of dance, poetry and music in August; birdwatching on the Venice lagoon and Po delta; local cuisine, including Spaghetti alle Vongole and Prosecco from Conegliano; the fishing port of Chioggia.

Veneto travel information

Trains connect the major towns in the area, and there are also bus connections between towns and villages. A hire car would be useful if you're exploring smaller places and is included with our Veneto hotels. Note, however, if you just stay in Venice, a car is of no use at all, and a superb network of public boats and vaporetti takes you around the city and lagoon.

By air

Fly to Verona with daily flights with British Airways from London Gatwick or to Venice with daily flights with British Airways and EasyJet from Gatwick. Most of the hotels in the Veneto and this region are no more than a couple of hours from one of the airports.

Car hire

We include a hire-car will all our holidays the Veneto as unless you plan to stay solely in Venice, you really do need a car to make the most of your holiday in this region. However, if you want to combine a stay in the countryside here with perhaps a few days in Venice then we can arrange for you to pick up or drop off the car after or before your stay in the city.

Rail travel

In addition to holidays by air or by car, you may also be interested in holidays by rail (including the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express and an overnight sleeper service from Paris to Italy).

Self-drive

With your own car, the Veneto can be reached easily with two overnight stops from the UK, perhaps in Alsace and then the Italian Lakes. We can make the hotel reservations for you in France as well.

Our bespoke, luxury hotel holidays can be

● Single centre or multi-centre
● Long or short stays
● Combine a number of different hotels in different regions
● Utilise a variety of transport arrangements to Italy and within Italy, combining flights, hire-car, rail, ferries and private transfers

Our special interest holidays to Veneto

● Wine-tasting for individuals
● Food and wine holidays
● Garden tours for small groups
● Garden holidays for individuals
● Cookery holidays for individuals and small groups
● Cultural tours for individuals
● Private guided sightseeing
● Art, history and heritage holidays

Included in all our holidays

● Concierge service
● Handcrafted helpful hints and local information provided with all our holidays
● Personal service by your sales consultant who looks after all aspects of your holiday

Call us on 01392 441245

Here you will find a map of Veneto showing the locations of the hotels that we offer

Our bespoke, luxury hotel holidays can be

● Single centre or multi-centre
● Long or short stays
● Combine a number of different hotels in different regions
● Utilise a variety of transport arrangements to Italy and within Italy, combining flights, hire-car, rail, ferries and private transfers

Our special interest holidays to Veneto

● Wine-tasting for individuals
● Food and wine holidays
● Garden tours for small groups
● Garden holidays for individuals
● Cookery holidays for individuals and small groups
● Cultural tours for individuals
● Private guided sightseeing
● Art, history and heritage holidays

Included in all our holidays

● Concierge service
● Handcrafted helpful hints and local information provided with all our holidays
● Personal service by your sales consultant who looks after all aspects of your holiday

Call us on 01392 441245

Golden lion on front of the blue and gold of St Mark's Basilica in Venice

VENICE AND THE VENETO THROUGH THE ALPS BY RAIL TOUR

9-night holiday by train to Venice with two nights in Munich and scenic day-time journey through the Brenner into Italy. Three nights in Venice and three nights in the Veneto near Vicenza and one night in Zurich on the way back. From £3,060 per person.
Palladian classical villa with round rooftop called La Rotonda near Vicenza

PALLADIO'S VENETO FLY-DRIVE TOURING HOLIDAY

9-night fly-drive touring holiday of Palladio’s Veneto, staying in Padua, Vicenza and Verona. From £1,740 per person.
Palladian classical villa with round rooftop called La Rotonda near Vicenza

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF PALLADIO HOLIDAY

4-night holiday following in the work of the great High Renaissance architect Palladio, staying in a 4-star hotel at Vicenza and exploring the region with its Palladian villas by hire-car. From £1,090 per person.
Stone hotel building with vines growing up it and bushes below

VILLA ABBAZIA Veneto

This 5-star boutique hotel and Relais & Chateaux member has just 18 charming and cosy rooms, a Michelin-star restaurant and offers an off-the-beaten-track destination for exploring northern Veneto.
Exterior view of the hotel through an archways showing hotel building with green shutters by windows

VILLA CIPRIANI Veneto

Housed in a Renaissance villa in the charming hill-town of Asolo, this is a boutique and stylish 5-star hotel with just 29 rooms and suites. Very elegant, restrained and worth a visit to explore the Veneto.
Entrance to hotel with stone walk way, grass and trees on either side and building in the distance

VILLA DEL QUAR Veneto

An historic villa with a history from Roman times, a short distance from Verona and amongst the Amarone vineyards, this national monument is a boutique 5-star hotel with 25 rooms, restaurant, excellent wine list and pool.
Villa Michelangelo Veneto exterior hotel building grounds

VILLA MICHELANGELO Veneto

A Palladian-style country villa, now a 4-star hotel with 52 rooms, in parkland less than four miles from Vicenza. An atmospheric base for exploring Vicenza and Palladio's Veneto.