8 or 10 days CITY STAY: ROME FACULTY-LED INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS A B in one of Europe’s oldest cit- O Your academic coursework will take on deeper significance U T ies. Arrive in Rome, Italy’s legendary capital, where the Colosseum and Roman Forum await. Visit Vatican City to see the Sistine Chapel and T St. Peter’s Basilica. You’ll also journey to Florence to explore the art and architecture of this Renaissance city. H IS TO Today, advancements in every sector take place on a global scale. Students who understand and contribute to the international dialogue U R broaden their minds and gain a competitive edge in their fields. Traveling on an EF College Study Tour—an alternative to typical semes- ter abroad programs—helps you truly make the most of your college education in just one to four weeks. Lectures and visits provide crucial historical and cultural insight, rounding out academics with a fuller context and creating incredible memories along the way. DAY 3: Colosseum DAY 3: Roman Forum DAY 3: Pantheon DAY 4: Vatican City DAY 3: Checking out the Colosseum CITY STAY: ROME 8 or 10 days INCLUDED ON TOUR: OPTIONAL EXCURSIONS: Round-trip airfare Pompeii • Rome business visit Venice (2) Local transportation Optional excursions let you incorporate additional Hotel accommodations sites and attractions into your itinerary and make the Florence Breakfast daily and select meals most of your time abroad. Full-time CST Tour Director Sightseeing tours and visits to special attractions Rome (6) Free time to study and explore EXTENSION: Venice (2 days) Extend your tour and enjoy extra time exploring your FOR MORE INformatioN: destination or seeing a new place at a great value. efcollegestudytours.com/ROMA DAY 5: Duomo DAY 6: Tivoli DAY 7: Pompeii DAY 9: Venice DAY 1 FLY TO ItaLY Guard. Inside, pass under gilded archways Pass the town wall, built in the 4th century which resembles archangel Gabriel, atop the Meet your group and travel on an overnight before visiting the saint’s tomb. Experience B.C., and temples from the 2nd century 323-foot Campanile (Bell Tower). Attend a flight to Rome. Michelangelo’s breathtaking frescos at the B.C. Then enjoy a stroll through the serene glass-blowing demonstration and watch Sistine Chapel. gardens of the Villa d’Este, built to impress expert craftsmen spin molten-hot wares. DAY 2 ROME Optional: Rome business visit • Rome for Cardinal Ippolito d’Este, son of Lucretia Visit the Doge’s Palace • At the pink-and- Arrive in Rome • Welcome to Rome! boasts a vibrant culture as well as a Borgia. Sit beside one of the gardens’ white Doge’s Palace, see where mighty Depending on your arrival time, you may have thriving economy, particularly in technology, impressive fountains, such as the Fountain Venetian dukes once ruled. Here you can free time to settle in and explore the city on communications and service. Banking, of the Dragons, the Hundred Fountains, stroll over the Bridge of Sighs, which links your own. Your professor may also use this electronics and aerospace are also part of the Water Organ Fountain or the fountain- the palace to a prison. As they crossed the time to focus on coursework. This evening, the diverse industry in Rome. Today, explore reproduction of Rome. bridge, prisoners supposedly sighed with get to know your tour group over a pizza business in Rome with a visit to a leading Meet local university students • Get perfect sadness as they regarded their dinner. company. acquainted with students from a local beautiful city for the last time. university at a cultural exchange meeting. DAY 3 ROME DAY 5 ROME Day 10 Depart FOR HOME Sightseeing tour of Rome • History comes Florence • Today, board a high-speed train DAY 7 ROME Today, your tour director will assist you to the to life on your sightseeing tour of Rome. You’ll to Florence, known as the birthplace of the Optional: Pompeii • Mild weather, fragrant airport, where you’ll check in for your return walk through the Colosseum, the world’s Italian language, opera and the Renaissance. lemon groves and the stunning Bay of Naples flight home. most famous arena. Its elaborate construction As you explore the city on your walking welcome you to the Sorrento region. See how spanned two emperors—building began sightseeing tour, pass by classical statues at the wealthiest ancient Romans lived at the under the rule of Vespasian and was the Piazza della Signoria. You’ll also walk Roman ruins—the artifacts they left behind completed under the rule of Titus. Here, you across the Ponte Vecchio, a medieval bridge make this one of the richest archaeological can almost hear the stamping feet of the where many of Florence’s famed leather and sites in the world. Those who do not join the crowds gathered for gladiatorial combat. gold artisans keep shop. excursion will enjoy free time in Rome. Nearby, the ruins of the Roman Forum mark Visit the Duomo • The domed cap of the the former heart of the Roman Empire, where Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral, or the DAY 8 Depart FOR HOME Julius Caesar gave many of his great political Duomo, dominates the skyline. Opposite speeches. the Duomo, look for the bronzed doors of 2-DAY TOUR EXTENSION Rome on foot • On your self-guided walking Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise at the Baptistry. DAY 8 VENICE tour, view the Pantheon, built to honor all the Leather-making demonstration • See Travel to Venice • Board a train and travel gods of Rome. Continue to the grand Piazza resident Florentine experts demonstrate the to Venice, a city that actually stretches across Navona and the Spanish Steps, Europe’s craft of leather-making. 117 small islands in the marshy Venetian widest staircase. Before you say “arrivederci,” Visit the Accademia • Admire Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea. toss a coin into the Trevi Fountain to ensure Michelangelo’s original statue of David inside a return trip to the Eternal City. Florence’s acclaimed Accademia Gallery. Day 9 VENICE The museum also houses the artist’s four Sightseeing tour of Venice • Crisscrossed DAY 4 ROME famous unfinished statues, thePrisoners . with romantic bridges and laced with history, Sightseeing tour of Vatican City • On Venice boasts some of the world’s finest art your sightseeing tour, look for the papal DAY 6 ROME and architecture. On your sightseeing tour of protectors who flank the entrance toSt. Tivoli • Travel to Tivoli, a historic hilltown in the Floating City, see gondolas glide down the Peter’s Basilica: they’re the highly trained the Lazio region of Italy, once the summer Grand Canal before stopping in St. Mark’s soldiers of the Vatican City’s Pontifical Swiss retreat of the Roman upper class society. Square. Look for the golden weathervane, WEB EFCOLLEGESTUDYTOURS.COM PHONE 877.485.4184 WHat OUR traveLERS say BARBARA L. ERIN H. CHELSEA S. VIRGINA M. Concordia University Itasca Community College Northern Oklahoma College Palo Alto College Portland, OR Grand Rapids, MN Stillwater, OK San Antonio, TX “The overall experience of the trip was “I had such an amazing time, and I “I can’t believe we had the opportunity “Every student should go. I enjoyed amazing, unforgettable. I went on the learned so much. We saw so many to see and do so many things for what flying to a foreign country, getting tour not knowing many of the students different sights. My experiences we paid. I traveled on my own soon completely out of my comfort zone and in my group, and came back with really enriched my understanding of another after my trip, and the flight alone cost truly seeing what this world has to of- good friends and amazing memories. culture, and created a realistic concept more than the entire tour—which fer. We tried new food, spoke different With the guidance of the tour director, of an entirely foreign culture I would included meals, shows, tourist sites. languages, and saw so many of the I got to experience new culture without never have been exposed to I will never ever forget this experience. best sights on our walking tours. I love feeling completely lost. I now know that otherwise.” You’d be crazy not to take a tour with history, and being able to experience I can succeed and survive in a foreign EF—they take great care of you.” what I’ve studied for years was so mov- country.” ing it left me speechless. If there is ever an opportunity to go, take it!“ FIND US ON FACEBOOK Connect. Share. Create. Become a fan of EF College Study Tours on Facebook and you can: • Recruit friends to enroll on tour • Connect with other travelers before and after your tour • View photos and videos of your destination • Share your own tour photos and videos • See other students who have traveled on your tour and ask questions Find us at efcollegestudytours.com/social for our complete list of social media pages and more ways to connect. WEB EFCOLLEGESTUDYTOURS.COM PHONE 877.485.4184.