Christmas’ Markets 2016

Shopping, tradition and Christmas atmosphere

Christmas and the so-loved Christmas Markets in Milan are coming. Christmas Markets mean the official start of the festive atmosphere that every year involves many people loving this tradition with great passion!

The traditional Christmas Market "Oh Bej! Oh Bej" begins on 7 December 2016 and goes on until 10 December 2016. The origins of this Milanese tradition come back to 1288 when, in honor of the patron of the city, Saint Ambrose, the fair took place in Piazza dei Mercanti; in 1886 the fair was then transferred in front of the Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio, and then after 120 years, in 2006, it was moved again in the area of the Castello Sforzesco, where it is still held nowadays. The name "Oh Bej! Oh Bej!", comes from the exclamations of joy showed by the children in Milan who accepted happily the gifts of Giannetto Castiglione, delegate of the Pope, in occasion of his entrance into the city in 1510 (the Lombard expression "Oh bej! Oh bej!" can be translated in "Oh beautiful!, Oh beautiful!").

This event brings together almost 400 exhibitors giving some atmosphere of the bygone days to the historical center of Milan. You can find here gift ideas, crafts, ornaments and gastronomy of every kind. Creations and unique pieces are accompanied by the performance of street artists...

The countdown for Artigiano in Fiera starts

Fair of the handicrafts: 3-11 December 2016

Countdown for one of the most awaited events in Milan: the "Artigiano in Fiera" returns in Milan with the 21st edition, in the area of Rho Fiera, from 3 to 11 December.

Over 300 thousand companies coming from all over the world will present their gastronomic specialities and their unique and original art, together with the passion they have for the handmade and manual work. In addition to this, a tour between food and clothing, accessories and furniture design, you will be able to enjoy many events organized during the fair in which music, dance, and special courses of kitchen are the main characters.

The exposition, as from tradition, is free of charge and open to the public every day from 10.00 to 22.00. You will find the details of the event in the official website of Artigiano in Fiera.

In such occasions, Vip Limousine offers its car rental service with driver, organizing the day on the basis of the needs of every single customer: it is possible to use the car rental service with driver only for transfers to and from the event, with connections to and from the airports of Milan, or with transfer from and to the Central Railway Station of Milan. In addition to the car rental with driver for the fair you can also combine other services such as tour of Milan, shopping in Milan, guide and tourist assistance services, and finally the car rental service with driver at your disposal 24 hours a day. You can find all our services in the related page about all the services Vip Limousine provides...

Reopening of the ski resorts

Transfer in a private car with driver from Milan Malpensa, Milan Linate and Bergamo Orio al Serio for the most well-known ski resorts in Europe as Cortina d'Ampezzo, Val d'Isere, Courchevel, Chamonix, St. Moritz, Verbier, Zermatt, Interlaken, Gstaad: this is one of the leading and most known services provided by Vip Limousine, car rental service with driver in Milan offering long-range services or, in general, transfers to the most renowned ski resorts.

A classic service we want to mention is the transfer service from Milan Malpensa to Saint Moritz inluxury cars with driver chosen by our Customers: Mercedes S Class with 4 wheel drive, Mercedes V Viano with 4 wheel drive. Our luxury coaches are the best for transfer many luggage and ski equipment. We suggest you to take a look at all the cars of our fleet, to get an overview and select the car or vehicle that best suits your needs...

Opening night at teatro alla Scala 2016

On stage on 7 December "Madama Butterfly"

As every year Vip Limousine offers its special transfer service with driver for the Opening Night at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. The work which will be staged on the occasion of the premiere of 7 December 2016, is "Madama Butterfly" by Giacomo Puccini, directed by Maestro Riccardo Chailly.

The Opera "Madama Butterfly" is an opera in three acts (originally, instead, only two) composed by Giacomo Puccini, on a libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, defined "Japanese Tragedy" and dedicated to the queen of Italy Elena of Montenegro. The first performance at the Teatro della Scala was on 17 February 1904 and never had been replicated up to today. The opera will be then performed  from 10 December to 8 January 2016.

The details of the event can be found on the official website of the Scala in Milan on www.teatroallascala.org.

The calendar of the 2016/2017 season of the Teatro alla Scala of Milan plans 15 works, nine of them are Italian. The Italian repertoire promotes the "Bel Canto", scheduled for April 2017 with the young singer of the La Scala Academy, Federica Lombardi. Will be also staged  the "Don Giovanni" by Robert Carsen, from 6 May to 6 June 2017 and the symphonic season reserve a big surprise: after 12 years returns the orchestra director Riccardo Muti, the last time on this stage was in 2005, for the concert with the Wiener Philharmoniker...

The Truffle Fairs in 2016 with Driver

Truffles & Wine from Milan to Alba

In this year there are two rendezvous devoted to truffle and wine, two luxury products of high gastronomic level:

• the 86th International Exhibition of White Truffle of Alba in the province of Cuneo, from October 8th to November 27th 2016;
• the 21st edition of "Barolo & Tartufo", at the restaurant "La Veranda" located in Four Seasons Hotel in Milan, from 21 October until the end of November 2016.

The Fair of the white truffle of Alba took place for the first time in 1929 as "Trade fair with prizes of the renowned truffle of the Langhe", during the celebration of the feast of the grape harvest. In 1932 the fair was already in full development and the following year officially acquired the brand name "Fiera del Tartufo" (Truffle fair), more closely connected to the typical products of Alba,  wines in a particular way. In 1963 the fair finally got the nickname of "national" and in 2007 became the "International Fair of the White Truffle of Alba".

There are many events during the Truffle Fair 2016: there will be festivals, exhibitions, markets, food and wine tours in the best restaurants and wine cellars of the area, and obviously, music and live evenings weekends.

You can find the calendar of the events on the official site of the Fair: Fieradeltartufo.org. Buying tickets online avoids you the queue...

At the Triennale in Milan with in a chauffeured car

The exhibition "W. Women in Italian Design" is about to star

To the Triennale of Milan in a car with driver to visit the exhibition "W. Women in Italian Design" at the Museum of Design: with Vip Limousine, NCC (car rental service with driver) in Milan, it is possible to have a personalized service of transfer from and to the Triennale of Milan on luxury cars with driver NCC with organization and professional planning customized for each Customer.

It is about to start at the Design Museum of the Triennale in Milan, the 21st edition of the international exhibition with the ninth edition of this special exhibit dedicated to the new history of Italian female design.

This exhibition recreates figures, theories, design attitudes that were seeded in the twentieth century, on the sly, when in fact women were excluded from the cultural and artistic life, completely ignored by critics, historians and design-lovers: finally succesfull, women were then able to change and...

Car with Driver in Milan and Transfers

VipLimo and its rental services with driver 24 hours a day

By contacting Vip Limousine you will have at your disposal a NCC driver 24 hours a day: from Milan, the driver will be at your service for any kind of transfer, tour, trip or excursion, as briefly described below. "NCC service" (Noleggio Con Conducente) means "Chaffeured cars", "cars with professional driver".

Drivers for long range transfers

Our NCC driver from Milan will drive you, just to make some examples, to the gorgeous city of Como, Portofino, Bellagio, Stresa, Montecarlo or Geneva in absolute comfort: actually, our NCC drivers drive our customers wherever they need or want to go to, and our Call Center, operating 24 hours a day 7 days a week, all the days of the year, is able to plan professionally any itinerary: to the bright and nearby Liguria (we have dedicated this specific news to Liguria), as well as to the ski resorts or to the most famous Casinos in Italy and in Europe.

We invite you to give a look also at our page regarding the long range transfer with NCC driver from Milan... 

Transfer to the Stresa Festival 2016 with chauffeured cars

To the music festival in luxury cars with driver Milan

Transfer to the Stresa Festival 2016, with NCC driver from Milan, for the 55th edition of the famous Festival of Music known all over the world: Vip Limousine organizes transfers to Stresa with NCC driver in new luxury car (see all our Mercedes on this page) with itineraries and customized programs at a discounted prices until the 6th September.

The Music Festival of Stresa 2016 has in program mainly 3 events not to be missed: near Lago Maggiore and its surroundings it will host nationally and internationally known artists.

The first of the events not to be missed will take place from 19th to 24th July 2016 with the fifth edition of the "Midsummer Jazz Concerts" at the lakefront in Palazzola: from here you can admire Stresa, the Borromean Islands and the new Centro Eventi Il Maggiore in Verbania.

The second event will take place from 26th to 28th July 2016 and it is a prologue whose title is "Meditations in Music" at the Eremo di Santa Caterina del Sasso and the Chiesa Vecchia at Belgirate.

The third is the main theme of the festival, and the title is "Building Bridges": it will start on 23rd August 2016 with the Concert for two pianos of Katia and Marielle Labèque and will continue until the 6th September 2016. Among the main characters of this event we remember: Jordi Savall, the Rotterdam Philharmonic...

Transfer to Monte-Carlo with chauffeured cars

To the International Competition of Fireworks with Vip Limousine

Transfer to Monte-Carlo for the International Fireworks Competition 2016 on the occasion of the centenary, in luxury cars with NCC driver from Milan: transfers, tours and itineraries organized by Vip Limousine, car rental service Milan.

The municipality of Monaco, as every year, organizes its famous International Competition of Fireworks that from 1996 is not only pyrotechnic, but also pyro-melodic: music, rhythms and melodies have matched and fused each other with the beautiful fireworks, which makes Monaco so proud of it and let many people come from all over the world to admire the show.

This prize competition, which starts officially on the 25th of July, is the most important of the Cote d'Azur, and offers every year firework shows of great quality and is absolutely the most attractive, managing to attract so many different nations and a high number of competitors. The jury is chaired by the Mayor and also the public can vote the shows via Web.

The four companies that were thus selected will offer their magnificent performances, lasting 25 minutes each, from Quai Rainier III, the famous semi-floating dam that protects the natural bay and the port of Hercule, in the following dates...

Umberto Boccioni: Genius and Memory

Exhibition at Palazzo Reale in Milan until 10th July

Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) was an Italian painter and sculptor, one of the most important spokesman of Italian Futurism, especially for its huge capability of representing visually the movement and its constant research on the relationship between space and object, that so much have then influenced the art of painting and sculpturing of the last century.

A hundred years after his death in 1916, at the age of 33, due to an accidental fall from his horse, Milan celebrates with an exhibition at Palazzo Reale this artist of Futurism, the undisputed protagonist of the Italian avant-garde. The exhibition is organized and produced by Palazzo Reale, Castello Sforzesco and the Museo del Novecento in cooperation with the publishing house Electa.

About 280 works including drawings, paintings, sculptures, engravings, vintage photographs and documents will be exhibit. The visitors will be able to admire works coming from important museums and private collections from all around the world, including the Pinacoteca di Brera, the Gallerie d’Italia in Milan, the Camera di Commercio of Milan, the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Roma, the Gianni Mattioli Collection, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Barilla collection of Modern Art, the Museo Cantonale d'Arte of Lugano, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Getty Foundation of Los Angeles, The Picasso Museum and the Rodin Museum of Paris, the Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna...