8 Day Affordable Italy

October 26 to November 2, 2021 $2,181.00 pp. dbl. occ.

Escorted Package Includes

 Flights St. Louis-Venice, Rome-St. Louis  Airline taxes & fuel surcharges  6 nights First Class accommodations o 2 nights Venice o 2 nights Florence o 2 nights Rome  Italian city hotel taxes, fees & service charges  Hotel porterage  All transfers included only with airfare purchase on package arrival & departure dates†  8 meals: 6 breakfasts, 2 dinners  Sightseeing per itinerary in modern air-conditioned motor coach  Services of English-speaking tour manager throughout  Services of local guides in all major cities  Entrance fees per itinerary  Comfortable wireless earphones for enhanced touring

Special Features

 Walking tour of Venice including St. Mark’s Square, with its extraordinary treasures and architectural wonders  Stop at a local farm in the Tuscan countryside for wine tasting and local specialties  See Pisa’s Piazza dei Miracoli with its famous Leaning Tower  Explore the Renaissance city of Florence with a guided walking tour  Visit the 13th-century Basilica di San Francesco in Assisi  Tour of the Vatican Museums and Michelangelo’s incomparable Sistine Chapel♦  DAY 1 - Depart for Italy Byzantine, Roman and Venetian Depart for Italy architecture. The rest of the day is yours to explore Venice at  DAY 2 - Arrive in Venice leisure, or to participate in this Arrive in Venice and transfer to afternoon's optional Gondola Ride, your hotel. The remainder of the offering a different perspective day is at leisure in this magical of this unique city built on water city built over a hundred small Optional: Gondola Ride (PM) islands and connected by 400 Overnight: Venice bridges. Tonight, attend an Meals: Breakfast orientation meeting at approximately 6 PM (exact time  DAY 4 - Tuscany & Pisa en will be advised on tour arrival route to Florence day), with your Tour Manager on Depart Venice and travel through the upcoming journey that awaits the stunning golden landscape of you in Italy, followed by a Tuscany, dotted with olive and fig Welcome Dinner with your fellow trees. Visit a local Tuscan farm in travelers the countryside for wine tasting Overnight: Venice paired with delectable local Meals: Dinner specialties. On to Pisa, to view the famous Piazza dei Miracoli with its  DAY 3 - Venice City Tour Leaning Tower, among the most The discovery of Venice begins instantly recognizable structures with a boat ride to the Island of on earth. The monuments on the Murano, known for its artistic and extraordinary Piazza dei Miracoli colorful glassware. While here, create a unique architectural enjoy a visit to one of the blend of Romanesque and Gothic factories to witness the art of styles. Then, travel to the lively glassblowing. Afterward, continue Renaissance city of Florence, with to the main Venice island and take its priceless art and architecture a walking tour with your local for overnight guide through the maze of narrow Overnight: Florence alleyways and bridges before Meals: Breakfast reaching St. Mark's Square. Upon reaching the square, stop to view  DAY 5 - Florence City Tour its most prominent monuments Today, take a guided walking tour including the Bridge of Sighs, the through the heart of Florence. pink marble Doge’s Palace, and View the magnificent Duomo, with golden Basilica of San Marco, one its Brunelleschi-designed dome, of the city's most recognizable the renowned "Gates of Paradise" landmarks. It was built over of the Baptistery by Ghiberti and several centuries in a fusion of Giotto's Bell Tower. You'll be enchanted as you walk through the of passengers open-air art museum of Signoria Optional: Dinner at a Tuscan Square, with its Palazzo Vecchio, Restaurant (PM) first residence of the Medici Overnight: Florence family that today houses the seat Meals: Breakfast of the city government. Continue  DAY 6 - Medieval Assisi City to the splendid Ponte Vecchio, also Tour en route to Rome known as the "Old Bridge”. Depart Florence and venture on to Florence is indeed the center of the quaint medieval town of Assisi, the world's finest art and the birthplace of St. Francis— architecture. Spend the afternoon patron saint of Italy, and perched at leisure in this spectacular high on a hill in the Umbria region Renaissance city, or participate in with its rugged, winding streets the optional guided tour of the and sacred shrines. Upon arrival, Uffizi Gallery* that provides join your local guide for a walking insight into the history of the tour of Assisi, which has been structure and its collections. The designated a UNESCO World tour highlights include exceptional Heritage Site for its significant examples of Florentine painting to art and architecture. Its main help you better understand the attraction is the 13th-century works of the masters, including Basilica di San Francesco, an Giotto, Botticelli, and Leonardo da artistic highlight of medieval Vinci. Tonight, you are invited to Europe containing the sacred participate in the optional Dinner relics of St. Francis and Giotto's at a Tuscan Restaurant, which frescoes. Afterward, continue to begins with a scenic ride through Rome, the astonishing city built on the Tuscan hills and culminates seven hills. Tonight, savor dinner with a sumptuous dinner with together unlimited wine and entertainment Overnight: Rome *(Optional Uffizi Gallery Tour PM, Meals: Breakfast, Dinner US $59): available for purchase only in Italy from your Tour  DAY 7 - Vatican Museums & Manager. Tour Participation Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel guarantees immediate entry to Today visit the Vatican Museums the Gallery, with no lengthy waits and Michelangelo's masterpiece, or lines. The museum has a limited the Sistine Chapel. Stroll through maximum capacity and therefore one of the most important art reserves the right to restrict collections of the world. Admire admission. In this case, we may the Gallery of Tapestries and the not be able to offer the tour. Geographical Maps before arriving Price is based on minimum number to the Sistine Chapel, with its great frescoes by Michelangelo. *Due to Religious events, the Continue to St. Peter's Square, opening times of St. Peter's passing Bernini's famous Basilica are subject to change colonnade to view St. Peter's without notice. In these cases, Basilica*, built on the burial site you will visit the Vatican Library of Saint Peter, with the most instead of the Basilica famous Michelangelo's Pieta. Optional: Piazzas of Rome (PM) Spend the afternoon at leisure or Overnight: Rome join the optional walking tour of Meals: Breakfast the Eternal City's grand piazzas  DAY 8 - Depart Italy that views the Spanish Steps, the Arrivederci Roma! Transfer to the legendary Trevi Fountain, the airport for your departure flight Pantheon, and the baroque Piazza Meals: Breakfast Navona

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