Great Continental Railway Journeys: Turin to Venice

SYNOPSIS

Armed with his 1913 railway guide, Michael Portillo travels through Italy on the first leg of a journey from Turin to Venice. He recreates a scene from classic film The Italian Job on a historic Fiat test track and follows fashion in Milan, before boarding a seaplane to investigate the early 20th-century British love affair with Lake Como.
Part two of two. Michael Portillo concludes his journey through Italy. In Verona, he visits the house used to attract Edwardian tourists to the alleged setting of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and finds a microcosm of pre-First World War Europe at the Venice Biennale art exhibition.