Brescia merchant Luigi Rossetti's 1850 Greek-cross tunnel cellar dug from rock at Dosso Angelini, restored from the late 1970s by Franco Ziliani and open to the public as a working historic cellar with guided tastings.
Address: Via Fontana, 11, 25040 Monticelli Brusati, Brescia, Italy, Franciacorta
16th-century Lana de' Terzi palazzo at Borgonato with a vaulted 1600s underground cellar 10 metres below ground level, where Franco Ziliani and Guido Berlucchi made the first Italian traditional-method sparkling in 1961.
Cluniac monastery founded around 1100 above the Torbiere del Sebino wetlands at Provaglio d'Iseo, with Romanesque church, Disciplina hall of 16th-century frescoes and a viticultural heritage room covering the Cluniac monks' founding of Franciacorta vineyards.
Borgo Antico San Vitale's heritage distillation exhibition in the medieval Borgonato complex, with historic bottles, unusual stills and a documented tour through aqua-vitae extraction methods from antiquity to today, run by Distillerie Franciacorta.
Private agricultural and wine museum inaugurated 1986 inside the Ricci Curbastro Villa Evelina farmhouse at Capriolo, with three rooms of farming objects, a 2,000-volume agriculture library and a Franciacorta tasting finale.
