Have you ever found yourself at night in a crowded, traffic-filled street, and been filled with jealousy at the sound of laughter and merriment drifting down from the piano nobile of a Renaissance palazzo? Looking up, this feeling is exacerbated by the sight of elegant figures, glass in hand, silhouetted against a backdrop of Baroque frescoes.
Due to the very special relationships we have built up over the years, Bellini Travel can open the closed door of that private palazzo and allow you to enjoy an evening of real magic. Or perhaps you would rather experience an hour of true artistic bliss, standing in the Sistine Chapel beneath the majesty of Michelangelo's ceiling with not a tourist in sight. Or would you prefer to gaze in perfect silence at the mosaics of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, with the golden colours flickering in the candlelight?
Below are just some of the private visits that Bellini Travel can organise. The experiences we can enable you to share become ever more precious in an era of mass tourism. You cannot put a price on inside knowledge.
Suggested private visits:
- A private visit with guide to the Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museums. A recent group celebrating a 50th birthday managed to gain access to the chapel of Nicholas V, normally closed to the public, with exquisite frescoes by Fra Angelico.
- A private visit to St Mark’s Basilica in Venice. Enter through a side door in the evening after the crowds have dispersed and watch the mosaics come to life through the flickering candlelight.
- A private tour of the Ducal Palace in Venice – discover the fascinating history of the Venetian Republic, the trading, wars and scandals that have absorbed her for the past 1000 years.
- Lunch or dinner on the only privately owned island on Lake Garda; go by boat to dine with the owners in a villa that was based on the Ca d’Oro in Venice.
- Lunch in a Palladian villa with frescoes by Giambattista Tiepolo.
- Wine tasting with one of the oldest families in Florence at their Chianti estate.
- Dinner in a romantic 15th century Venetian palazzo overlooking the Grand Canal.
- Lunch in the grounds of one of the most beautiful gardens in the whole of Italy, the inspiration for some of the most original English gardens of the 20th century
- You can visualise scenes from the commedia dell’ arte in one of the finest green theatres still in existence.
For reasons of security we cannot divulge the names of the owners but please do contact us to discuss any of these visits and other possibilities.
Email: enquiries@bellinitravel.com
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