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Classical Adventure Group Organizer: Mrs. Stacey Powell Tour Includes Investment Departure Date Meals June 14, 2021 All breakfasts. One lunch. Six dinners. $4658 'Zafiro Experience' interactive Greek $268 / month Overnights dancing dinner show with Dora Stratou Athens 2 • Aboard ferry 1 • Sorrento 1 • dancers on Day 3. Dinner aboard ferry on Program Cost $4858 Rome 3 Day 4. Lunch is included instead of dinner -$200 Early Enrollment Discount on Day 8. Total $4658 Accommodations Accommodations in centrally-located Tour Director Monthly payments are based on the E-Z Pay payment three-star or four-star hotels. Rooming on a Services of a specially-trained passports schedule and include the $95 deposit. Early Enrollment triple basis. Double rooms: $240 per Tour Director throughout. Tipping is Discount expires March 15, 2020. Final payment is due 2/24/ 2021 or, with E-Z Pay, 5/15/2021. Tour cost is based on a person. Double rooms are not available on included in the Program Cost. overnight ferries. combined group size of 35 participants. Departure from Louisville, KY. Adults 24 years or older are automatically Travel Protection charged for double rooms. With doubles, total price is $4,898. Transportation passports provides and pays for a Post- Round-trip transportation on scheduled Departure Travel Protection Plan that Enroll Today! airline. Deluxe touring motorcoach. provides coverage for Trip Interruption, Trip Delay, Baggage Loss or Delay, 1 Visit our website Medical Expense and Evacuation and passports.com/enroll more. 2 Enter Tour ID SPOWELL2021-8 passports.com 7 Midstate Drive 102, Auburn, MA 01501 800 332 7277 Classical Adventure Departs: June 14, 2021 Days 1-2: Arrival Athens Day 6: Sorrento - Rome Arrival transfer Hydrofoil Sorrento-Capri, Local Guide, Round-trip Capri funicular, Visit to Capri's Day 3: Athens Gardens of Augustus, Hydrofoil Capri- Half-day city sightseeing in Athens: Local Naples Guide, Visit to the Acropolis, Sightseeing stop at the Parthenon, Visit to the Acropolis Day 7: Rome Museum Rome City Sightseeing: Local Guide, Visits to the Colosseum and the Roman Forum, 'Zafiro Experience' interactive Greek Visit to the Vatican Museums, Headset dancing dinner show with Dora Stratou receiver for the Vatican sites, Visit to the dancers: Round-trip transfers Sistine Chapel, Visit to St. Peter's Basilica, Day 4: Athens - Aboard ferry Stroll on Piazza Navona, Visit to the Pantheon Visit to the archaeological site of Delphi, Visit to Delphi's Archaeological Museum, Optional Dinner with music Crossing of the Gulf of Corinth via the Rion-Antirion Fixed Link Bridge, Overnight Day 8: Rome ferry Patras-Bari Excursion to Florence by High-Speed Train: Local guide, Visit to the Accademia, Visit to Day 5: Bari - Sorrento the nave of Florence's Duomo (time Visit to the excavated Roman city of permitting), Visit to the church of Santa Pompeii, Pompeii guide Croce and its Pazzi Chapel Day 9: Departure Departure transfer Detailed Itinerary Days 1-2: Arrival A dream comes true as your wide-bodied jet thunders off the airstrip, Monday 6/14 - Tuesday 6/15 Europe-bound. Time for a meal, a movie and a nap. It gets light again, first off the left-hand side of the airplane, then everywhere. It's morning, and Greece! Arrival Athens You may want to stroll in the lively Plaka district, or ride the steep funicular Arrival transfer railway up Mt. Lycabettus for a fabulous view of the city. Meals included: Dinner Overnight: Athens Day 3: Athens City Sightseeing, Athens, 'Zafiro Experience' Dinner and Show with Dora Stratou Dancers Enjoy a coach tour of Athens, old and new. Wednesday 6/16 See modern Athens, with the Greek Parliament, the 1896 Olympic Stadium, the Plaka district and Syntagma Square, where you may see the Athens picturesque Evzones goose-stepping their way through the Changing of the Half-day city sightseeing in Athens: Local Guard ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Guide, Visit to the Acropolis, Sightseeing A local guide, well-educated and specially-trained on the history and stop at the Parthenon, Visit to the Acropolis Museum culture of Athens, will accompany your group. 'Zafiro Experience' interactive Greek Visit to the Acropolis dancing dinner show with Dora Stratou Visit the awesome monuments built by Pericles on the Acropolis during dancers: Round-trip transfers Athens' Golden Age in the 5th century BC. On that hill, the goddess Athena Meals included: Breakfast, 'Zafiro reigned supreme. You'll see the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike, and Experience' interactive Greek dancing dinner show with Dora Stratou dancers the Erechtheion with the Kore Porch, famous for its Caryatid columns. Overnight: Athens Sightseeing stop at the Parthenon Of course, you'll visit the centerpiece of the Acropolis, the 2,500 years old yet ageless Parthenon. For this huge temple dedicated to the goddess Athena, architects skillfully avoided straight lines and right angles to counterbalance the unsightly optical illusion called optical sagging, which deforms straight lines. Visit to the Acropolis Museum Delve deeper into antiquity at the contemporary archaeological museum open in 2009 at the base of the Acropolis hill, in the hope that it will one day house the superb and much disputed 5th century BC Parthenon Sculptures that were moved to England in the 19th century by Lord Elgin. For now, visitors can view a Permanent Collection with artifacts from the 7th century BC to the 5th century AD, and peer at excavations through a glass floor. Free time in Athens The afternoon is unscheduled. Consider a visit to the National Archaeological Museum, a "must see" for its death masks and larger-than-life Poseidon. The museum displays an impressive and thorough overview of Greek art through the centuries. Beginning with early Cycladic figurines and continuing through the Greek Bronze Age, the exhibits end with the glories of Hellenistic period bronzes and a collection of busts of Roman emperors. The highlights of the exhibition include the numerous gold artifacts found at Mycenae, the elegant Archaic koúroi statues, and the many examples of fine Classical sculpture. 'Zafiro Experience' interactive Greek dancing dinner show with Dora Stratou dancers This evening, head to Zafiro, a restaurant located on top of Attica Park Hill, where you will discover an amazing panoramic view of Athens. Watch a short cooking demonstration before enjoying fine Mediterranean cuisine, Greek music, and traditional dances by Dora Stratou dancers. Then, be Greek for a night as you join dancers and instructors on the dance floor, enticed by lively bouzouki tunes. You may even break a plate, as custom dictates! Day 4: Delphi, Patras, Overnight Ferry to Bari Travel to the ancient city of Delphi. Thursday 6/17 Visit to the archaeological site of Delphi Athens - Aboard ferry Discover one of the most beautiful sites of ancient Greece. Visit the Temple of Visit to the archaeological site of Delphi, Visit Apollo, the foreboding Sanctuary of Earth and the Sacred Way, lined with the to Delphi's Archaeological Museum, treasuries of the ancient Greek cities. Crossing of the Gulf of Corinth via the Rion- Antirion Fixed Link Bridge, Overnight ferry Visit to Delphi's Archaeological Museum Patras-Bari See artifacts and treasures on display at the Archaeological Museum, notably Meals included: Breakfast, Dinner aboard the celebrated bronze statue known as the Delphic Charioteer. ferry Listen to her predict late afternoon travel over rolling terrain and an arrival Overnight: Aboard ferry to your hotel before the sun sets. Crossing of the Gulf of Corinth via the Rion-Antirion Fixed Link Bridge Cross the Gulf of Corinth over the elegant Rion-Antirion Fixed Link Bridge. It was inaugurated in 2004 as the world's longest cable-stayed bridge, its continuous deck nearly 1,000 feet longer than the Golden Gate's suspended span. Overnight ferry Patras-Bari In the port of Patras, board a Superfast ferry for a crossing of the Ionian and Adriatic Seas to Italy. Cabins consist of 3 or 4 berths. Single and double occupancy is not usually available and not guaranteed. Day 5: Pompeii, Sorrento Travel to Pompeii Friday 6/18 Board your coach and drive across the Apennine Mountains to the scenic Bay of Naples. Bari - Sorrento Visit to the excavated Roman city of Visit to the excavated Roman city of Pompeii Pompeii, Pompeii guide Walk through the Roman city recognized by UNESCO as a treasure of Meals included: Breakfast on board ferry, Western Civilization. See how well-to-do Romans lived 2,000 years ago, until Dinner Overnight: Sorrento Mt. Vesuvius all at once destroyed this city in one day and preserved it for all time. A guide, well-educated and specially-trained on the history and culture of Pompeii, will accompany your group. Travel to Sorrento Continue to the fabled town of poets and sunsets, also renowned for its embroidery and intarsia (wood-inlay). Day 6: Isle of Capri, Rome Board a fast hydrofoil for a crossing to the Isle of Capri, which rises over the Saturday 6/19 blue Tyrrhenian Sea near the Bay of Naples. A half-day local guide, well-educated and specially-trained on the history Sorrento - Rome and culture of Capri, will accompany you today. Hydrofoil Sorrento-Capri, Local Guide, Transfer by funicular to the town of Capri's main square (Piazzetta), passing Round-trip Capri funicular, Visit to Capri's tropical gardens on the way. On the island stands Villa Jovis, the imperial Gardens of Augustus, Hydrofoil Capri- residence from which Tiberius once ruled his empire. Recall tales of the Naples Emperor Augustus, and of the mischievous Caligula. Meals included: Breakfast, Dinner From Capri's Piazzetta, it's an easy walk to the Gardens of Augustus, a Overnight: Rome magnificent public garden landscaped in the 1930s by the German industrialist Friedrich Krupp.

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