My husband and I are traveling between Tuscany and Milan in July and want to hit a food festival or something fun on our way back north. Need suggestions of places to stay, eat, along the way. We like off the beaten path but need to get from Radda in Chianti leaving the 16th to something close to Milan (linate) for an early flight on the 19th. All suggestions welcomed. We do have a car.

Don't know if Spoleto is on your path but here's some info about it's music festival. Also, it is a great town to visit. Awesome duomo and roman acquaduct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_dei_Due_Mondi

Just looked at Italy map-I think it's not in the direction you mentioned-sorry.

Sirmione.com

my fav great food festivals castle Roman Villa Termes/springs

Truly the pearl of Lake Garda

www.gardalake.it/hotel-eden my fav there beautiful views

Head for Verona hang a left from Tuscany 10 minutes

or so away.

viamichelin.com trenitalia.it

Thanks for all the great replies.
qwovadis, I will definitely look into lake garda for our last night. Do you know how long it will take us to get LIN airport from there?