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Holiday farmhouses in Lombardy are high-level accomodations. Most holiday farmhouses in Lombardy offer a restaurant service to their resident e non resident guests. Restaurants in farmhouses profit of the local produce, often cultivated by the restaurants' owners, and the results are magnificent. Even great chefs proudly claim to cook "locally", using fresh and typical ingredients of the tradition. That's why restaurants in holiday farmhouses are often the best restaurants in the region, and that's particularly true in Lombardy where most farmhouses are restaurants.
A farmhouse holiday in Lombardy will make you experience the tasty flavours of an ancient rural cooking tradition, which characterised the region before the Industrialisation. Northern Italy's food culture is quite different from the Southern one, the most reknowed outside Italy, often and incorrectly identified as the only "Italian cooking style". Even food names hardly sounds "Italian" to foreigners' ears: buseca, casoeula, bruscitt. But risotto and polenta are all the rage in high-class restaurants and they're staples of Nothern Italy's cuisine, as much as spaghetti are the symbol of Southern Italy's tradition. Another Northern delicacy is cured meat, which is often produced by farmhouses' landlords.
Lombardy is probably not the most famous touristic region in Italy, but it offers a surprisingly wide variety of landscapes: the mountains (Central Alps) degrading into romantic hills, the alpine lakes and the plains (the vast "Pianura Padana"). Finding a holiday farmhouse in Lombardy is quite easy because farmhouses are very common in all the region which used to be extensively cultivated and still is. Most ancient farmhouses in Lombardy have been restored and offer a high-standard accomodation and services.
Spending a farmhouse holiday in Italy is becoming more and more fashionable among tourists. Italy and Italians are really inclined to this new kind of tourism. All Italian regions still maintain countryside areas which provide the opportunity to get in touch with nature and tradition: from Veneto and Piedmont to the more famous Tuscany an Umbria, a famhouse holiday offer more than a vacation, a life experience, likely to become a lifelasting good memory. Away from the crowded and frenetic routes of "professional tourism", your farmhouse accomodation will set a different rythm for your holiday.