Visiting the Vittoriale (Gardone) is like stepping into Gabriele D’Annunzio’s mind, a man moved by great passions and boundless ambitions

Majestic, it is preceded by 16 Roman columns, with Corinthian capitals, which delimit one side of the late-antique portico

Castle and museum in Somma Lombardo.

Palazzo Te in Mantua, a villa with decorations inspired by antiquity. The brainchild of Giulio Romano and Federico II Gonzaga

The Rock Carvings National Park, in Valle Camonica, is the first of the Unesco Sites in Lombardy to be labelled as World Heritage in 1979

A huge bell of leaves and flowers is the undisputed star of a village suspended between lake and mountain.