Every year, FAI UK organizes two exclusive journeys to Italy or to the UK for our supporters. Our tours include luncheons, dinners, and intimate cocktail parties in the homes of major figures of Italian and British society. These exclusive itineraries allow travelers the opportunity to experience places of great historic and artistic significance, many of which are rarely accessible to the public. Please contact our office if you wish to receive information about future tours.
We hope you will be able to join us on our next voyage!
If you are interested in knowing more about our next tour to Italy, subscribe to our newsletter or contact us at info@faiuk.org.
Some past tours:
October 2022 – A visit to the cities of Milan and Bergamo. The first trip to take place after the pandemic, this has been an opportunity to be together after such a long time, to see the beauty of Milan and Bergamo and also admire two FAI Properties: Villa Necchi Campiglio and the Baroque Palazzo e Giardini Moroni, home to Gianbattista Moroni’s masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance, including the famous portrait of Gian Gerolamo Grumelli, Il Cavaliere in Rosa. Our group also had the opportunity to experience a special evening a La Scala.
September 2019 – A visit to Naples, guided by writer and late journalist Gaia Servadio, trustee of FAI UK. This included a visit to Capodimonte and its Museum, lunch at San Michele on Capri as guests of its owner William Parente, chairman of FAI UK, and a visit to writer Alex Munthe’s Villa San Michele, whose garden is reputed to be among the finest in the Mediterranean. Our group had also the opportunity to enjoy dinners in two stunning Neapolitan private houses.
May 2019 – A four-day visit to the elegant 17th-and 18th-century royal town of Turin, with, among other delights, excursions to the historic FAI houses of Masino and La Manta, to private houses and gardens, museums; lunch in the exquisite and exclusive rococo Whist-Accademia Filar- Monica club, and a night at the Opera.
April 2018 – A four-day visit to the magnificent city of Vicenza and to the finest Ville Venete and Gardens of the area, with the privilege of two concerts by Sir András Schiff.
November 2017 – Welbeck Abbey, Renishaw Abbey, and Thoresby Park. A tour giving privileged access to one of Britain’s greatest stately homes, the do’s and don’ts of building, and living in, a replica of a Palladian villa today, and seeing behind the scenes of the historic home of Britain’s most famous aristocratic and artistic eccentrics of the 1930s
June 2017 – A three-day visit to the heart of the most secret and elegant Italian city, Milan, for a taste of food, monuments, museums and shopping and a performance of “La Bohème” at La Scala.
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