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Mandrea Festival
Lake Garda, Verona, Italy
5/5
Britain may fly the flag for music festivals of all varieties but many of them simply lack the glorious surroundings of those across the rest of Europe.
Mandrea, a small reggae-dub festival in its fourth year set on the foothills of the Italian Alps in the Dolomites range north of Verona, is a case in point. Not to mention the cheap Prosecco.
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