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Between Modena and Bologna, in forty kilometres of the Po Valley, the internal combustion engine was elevated to an art form. We open doors here that do not open for ordinary visitors — and we arrange what happens once you are inside.

There is a particular kind of freedom that comes not from driving yourself, but from being driven well. In a country where the road itself is part of the experience — where a missed turn leads to an undiscovered hilltop village, where traffic in Rome can feel like a contact sport — the decision to engage a private driver may be the single most transformative choice a luxury traveler makes.

From the autostrada below, Orvieto appears hallucinatory: a medieval city perched on a sheer plug of volcanic tuff three hundred metres above the plain, its skyline dominated by a cathedral facade that may be the most beautiful in Italy. We design the visit that does the reality justice.

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.