ETCDUCATIONAL OURS & RUISES Specialist in Group Travel to Greece, Italy & Turkey www.ed-tours.com EDUCATIONAL TOURS & CRUISES CONTACT ADDRESS IN GREECE : 4321 LAKEMOOR DRIVE 700 22 P.O. BOX - GLYFADA WILMINGTON 166 10 GREECE NC 28405-6429 TEL : (+30)210 895 17 25 TEL : (800) 275-4109 965 74 41 FAX: (910) 350-0100 FAX : (+30)210 895 54 19 E-MAIL : EDTOURS @ED -TOURS .COM E-MAIL : [email protected] CLA 382 Roman Archaeology 2012 Professor John GRUBER-Miller Cornell College –IOWA WEEK 1 Thursday, Oct. 4 and Friday, Oct. 5, KLM 5915 (Delta Connection), Cedar Rapids to Detroit, Departs 5:55 pm (Oct. 4) and Arrives in Detroit at 8:30 pm KLM 6048 Detroit to Amsterdam, Departs 10:15 pm and Arrives in Amsterdam 11:50 am (Oct. 5) KLM 1603 Amsterdam to Rome, Departs 2:10 pm. and Arrives in Rome at 4:25 pm . 7:30 pm Dinner Saturday, October 6 Ancient Etruria Cerveteri and Tarquinia (by private coach) WEEK 2 Sunday, October 7 Free Day Optional Visit to the Villa Giulia National Museum of Etruscan Art (PM) Monday, October 8 The Forum, Palatine, and Colosseum (9 AM-4.30PM) TICKETS 7.30 pm Dinner Tuesday, October 9 Republican Rome: The Triumphal Way AM: Capitoline Museums (9-sunset, closed Mondays) TICKETS PM: Route and monuments of the Roman triumph: Circus Flaminius to Circus Maximus, Forum Boarium and Forum Holitorium 7.30 pm Dinner Wednesday, October 10 Augustus’ Transformation of Rome Temples of the Largo Argentina (Cat Sanctuary!), Theater of Pompey, Porticus of Octavia, temples of Apollo Sosianus and Bellona, Theater of Marcellus, solarium, Ara Pacis (Tu-Sa 9-5, Su 9-1), Mausoleum of Augustus Ara Pacis Monument (9 am-7 pm) TICKETS 7.30 pm Dinner Thursday, October 11 Rome outside the Walls : Tivoli by private coach Villa of Hadrian and Villa d’Este TICKETS Lunch in Tivoli No Dinner Bay of Naples Friday, October 12 Rome -Pompeii (all day) by train Overnight Sorrento or similar 7.30 pm Dinner Saturday, October 13 (Optional Trip: Herculaneum; Naples Museum; return to Rome) Sunday, October 14 Free Day Optional Trip to Florence WEEK 3 Monday, October 15 Nero’s Golden House (Domus Aurea) Imperial Fora, Trajan’s Markets, Column of Trajan Castel Sant’ ANGELO (opening times: 9am – 6.30 pm, admission fee 8 Euro) TICKETS Pantheon Opening hours: Mon-Sat 8:30am-7:30pm; Sun 9am-6pm. Closed Christmas Day, New Year's Day and May 1.Cost: free 7.30 pm Dinner Looking at Classical Antiquity during the Renaissance & Baroque Tuesday, October 16 The Phoenix Rises: The Vatican Villa Farnesina (Open- 9 am -1 pm – no reservation required) TICKETS Scavi Tour 11:15a.m. reservation (IDRequest: 310478, Protocol: 206084) Vatican Museums TICKETS 7.30 pm Dinner Wednesday, October 17 Ostia Antica (via metro) History of city and port, forum, Palazzo delle Corporazione, Forum Baths, Insula housing, 4th century houses, mithraeum, Jewish synagogue, and Christian Church 7.30 pm Dinner Thursday, October 18 Burying the dead: Tomb of the Scipios, Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas Watering the City: Nero’s Nymphaeum, Baths of Caracalla Bernini and Counter-Reformation Rome: Borghese Gallery (Open: 8.30 am – 7.30 pm., Adm fee : 8.50 Euro .) Trevi Fountain 7.30 pm FAREWELL Dinner Friday, October 19 Return to the United States KLM 1598 Rome to Amsterdam, Departs 10:35 am and Arrives in Amsterdam at 1:10 pm KLM 6065 Amsterdam to Minneapolis/St. Paul, Departs 4:50 pm and Arrives in Minneapolis at 7:15 pm KLM 5656 (Delta Connection), Departs 9:55 pm and Arrives in Cedar Rapids at 10:56 pm HOTEL NORD NUOVA Via G. Amendola, 3 Rome 00185 Tel: 0039-06 4885441 www.romahotelnord.it .