Top Milan Layover Tours

Don’t let a short layover in Milan stop you getting out of the airport and exploring the city. Instead, tick off more sights in less time on a tour designed specifically for first-time visitors on a time budget. The itinerary of this private tour can be customized according to your interests, whether they lie in food and fashion or culture and history. Plus, you guide meets you at the airport so you don’t have to worry about navigating transport alone.

This private tour will take you to Lake Maggiore, one of the beautiful lakes around Milan. Your day will begin with pick-up by a private driver from your hotel. In about an hour and a half you will reach the city of Stresa and from there you will take a small ferry to Isola Bella, the most famous of the fascinating Borromean Islands, located in the middle of Lake Maggiore. Isola Bella is dominated by the Borromeo Palace, a residence that between 1700 and mid-1800 was visited by Napoleon and his wife Joséphine de Beauharnais, the Princess of Wales and many other members of the European aristocracy. The Villa has a spectacular Italian garden that looks like a paradise rising from the waters of the lake. Here you can also stop for lunch in a typical restaurant overlooking the lake. With another short boat ride (about 10 minutes) you will return to the shores of the lake where your driver will be waiting for you to return to Milan

Before returning to your hotel can take a short drive to Lake Iseo, the fourth largest lake of the region immersed in its outstanding natural beauty, with its lush green mountains surrounding the crystal-clear lake. Here you will have the opportunity to explore some of its several medieval towns lodged around the lake, such as Iseo and Sarnico.