VILLA PANZA AND VARESE WITH A PINK DRINK

h. 10.00 AM Meeting with a private licensed tour guide at Villa Panza, Varese. Dated back to XVIII cent., built for Marquis Paolo Antonio Menafoglio and enlarged in the neoclassic period, the big noble mansion house is U-shaped. In the 30ies of last century, it was bought by Panza; the villa is well-known for the contemporary art collection Count Giuseppe Panza. A pleasant walk, to reach Varese city centre. Individual lunch. In the afternoon guided visit to Varese city-centre. Its visit links up the most representative civil and religious places, stopping at suggestive courtyards and hidden corners, up to Varese election as the “garden city”, when it became the seat of the Court of Francis III of Este Duke of Modena and the selected area to build villas of pleasures, surrounded by big and luxuriant parks. At the end a “pink aperitif” based on the well-known alcoholic “Apollo” aperitif in a historical café.