Well, my inlaws decided not to go to Prague for a winter vacation and instead we are going on a Northern Italian/Austrian summer vacation. We'll be going to Milan, Venice, Cremona, Verona, Padua, the lake district, the Dolomites, maybe Bologna, and probably Innsbruck, maybe Vienna when we get into Austria. We might go to Switzerland for a day too, not sure what city. We're still planning everything out. We'll be there for about 2 weeks.
My question: where are the good music shops? I don't know if I can afford to buy anything, if I did, it would be very small. But I want to see cool old instruments. I figure Cremona is one of the best places in the world to see violins, so I'm excited about that. I would love to see some unusual instruments too though. Does anyone have any suggestions?
In addition, does anyone have any general recommendations on what to see in any of those places. We might go see an opera in Milan at their big famous opera house (if we can convince my husband's dad to wear a suit), and we plan on seeing as much Da Vinci and Michaelangelo stuff that we can find, but beyond that, we're still trying to figure out what is the best stuff to see.
My question: where are the good music shops? I don't know if I can afford to buy anything, if I did, it would be very small. But I want to see cool old instruments. I figure Cremona is one of the best places in the world to see violins, so I'm excited about that. I would love to see some unusual instruments too though. Does anyone have any suggestions?
In addition, does anyone have any general recommendations on what to see in any of those places. We might go see an opera in Milan at their big famous opera house (if we can convince my husband's dad to wear a suit), and we plan on seeing as much Da Vinci and Michaelangelo stuff that we can find, but beyond that, we're still trying to figure out what is the best stuff to see.