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Few experiences in Italian travel match the particular pleasure of sitting in a frescoed loggia above a terraced hillside, a glass of aged Amarone in hand, watching the light change on the Valpolicella. This is what we design: access, depth and the unhurried time to absorb both.

In 1786, Goethe crossed the Brenner Pass and spent two years and ten months in Italy. When he returned, he described the journey as the most important experience of his life. The programme we design is the modern equivalent — private, unhurried, guided by genuine expertise and built around the specific encounters that produce transformation rather than merely satisfaction.

An hour north of Venice, the Prosecco Hills rise in vine-striped terraces that no machine can work. The wine made here — tasted at source, in the specific vineyard that produced it — is something quite unlike the version of its name that travels the world.

Fifteen million people visit Venice each year. We take our guests before most of them arrive, into spaces most of them never find, and out by private boat to islands the day-trippers cannot reach before the afternoon light is gone.