NBA INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATE 2022: ITALY ROME | FLORENCE | SORRENTO MAY 24 – JUNE 4, 2022 DAY 1: ARRIVAL & WELCOME DINNER IN THE HOTEL Meals: Dinner • Airport meet and greet by our ground team and transfer to hotel. (Hotel check-in is 3 pm) • Time to relax at the hotel (lunch on your own) • Welcome Dinner at a restaurant near your hotel. DAY 2: COLOSSEUM & CHRISTIAN ROME Meals: Breakfast, Lunch Few empires have left such an important heritage, this is the Roman Empire. Today you get to learn about its power by visiting the Coliseum and the Roman Forum, over 2200 years of history at your feet. A walk through the Forum and in the Colosseum is literally a walk back in the past and history. The Colosseum - one of the world’s most iconic sights. Without an idea of the battles and politics that played out here, you'll only come to understand a small portion of its majesty. No visit to Ancient Rome would be complete without going a little further back – to the very beginning. In fact, we’ll explore the Palatine Hill, the legendary site where the warring brothers Remus and Romulus fought over land, and where Romulus founded the settlement that would eventually become Rome. We’ll also explore the Roman Forum – the heart of the Roman Republic that inspired so many modern democracies. Home to the bustling marketplace, ruled by moneylenders and shopkeepers, this was Rome at its finest. Here politicians held rallies before elections, soldiers marched triumphantly down the Via Sacra, and the Vestal Virgins decided if men lived or died. DAY 2: CONTINUED Lunch & Catacombs The Archeologia is a mix between culture and cuisine, between modern and antique, between good food and love for our history. The restaurant was founded around 1890, and it was opened for the archaeologist digging in the close catacombs of San Callisto, hence the name of the restaurant. Following lunch, we visit the Catacombs located across the street from the restaurant. We return back to the hotel in the late afternoon DAY 3: THE VATICAN Meals: Breakfast, Lunch A privately guided tour in the morning, followed by St. Peters Basilica and lunch. The Vatican City is the world’s smallest sovereign state with one of the richest art collections in the world, gathered by popes throughout the centuries. The Sistine Chapel is one of the most important treasures of the Vatican, of Rome, and of the whole world. It is renowned both for its frescoes and for the fact that the Popes are elected here. The building was built between 1473 and 1481, during the mandate of Pope Sixtus IV, from whom the name of the Chapel derives. All the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel are the work of Michelangelo Buonarroti, who took four years to paint the vault (from 1508 to 1512). DAY 4: A FREE DAY/CLE Requirement and optional excursion Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Breakfast at the hotel, followed by CLE event and activities to be determined and pre-arranged by the NBA. *Optional afternoon cooking class to include late lunch ($125 per person including transportation from your hotel). The cooking experience will be determined by the number of participants. In the afternoon, learn to cook like a Roman and get hands-on help preparing your own lunch or dinner from a professional chef. Your cook and teacher will guide you through a menu of Roman recipes, using fresh produce and raw materials. Your hands-on cooking class takes you through the traditional methods of Italian cooking. Hands-on cooking class with a full meal (main course of fettucine, a second course, and a dessert) Cocktail reception with invited guests from the Italian Law Society (Subject to date change) DAY 5: TRAVEL TO FLORENCE Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner We depart from Rome via a first-class high-speed train around 10:00 and within 90 minutes we arrive in the very heart of the city. After transferring to our hotel, we’ll depart for lunch at a nearby restaurant. After lunch, we’ll head to the Uffizi Gallery, for a guided tour. The Uffizi Gallery is a prominent art museum located adjacent to the Piazza Della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. DAY 6: TUSCANY/CHIANTI Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Wine Tasting The estate is located in the heart of Tuscany, 45 minutes from Florence and 20 minutes from Siena. It is surrounded by a beautiful hilly area, with a succession of unique landscapes: its green hills, its flourishing century-old cypresses, the vast expanses of beautiful vineyards, olive groves, oak woods, and charming little villages. You will spend a pleasant and beautiful moment of relaxation, tasting excellent wines as well as other farm products, but above all, you will live a unique experience thanks to our simple, pleasant, and authentic way of behaving with our guests, transmitting to all the people who come to visit us, sympathy, warmth and a smile because wine is LOVE, POETRY, and FANTASY! In this magical setting, you will be welcomed by the owner and you will be invited for a tasting meal organized among a unique landscape the vineyards of the Domain. Lunch will be served at the vineyards, an experience of rare beauty with suitable indoor backup. The afternoon can be total relaxation enjoying more wine or we can visit a quaint village. DAY 7: DISCOVER PISA & LUCCA Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Discover the elegant cities of Pisa and San Lucca, on a Tuscany day trip from Florence! With an expert tour leader, explore the Pisa square of Piazza dei Miracoli to see Pisa Baptistry and the legendary Leaning Tower of Pisa, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Visit Pisa Duomo to learn about its history, and then spend the afternoon in nearby Lucca, one of Tuscany’s lesser-known gems. Enjoy a walking tour, seeing Piazza dell 'Anfiteatro, Lucca Cathedral, and more, and finish with a slice of 'buccellato,' Lucca’s signature cake. DAY 8: SORRENTO AND THE AMALFI COAST Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner We will board a high-speed train with first-class tickets before 09:00 am and aiming to arrive in Naples around 11:30 am so that we can board coaches and transfer to the Restaurant Tiberius in Pompeii for a delicious southern lunch and then walk to the Archaeological site of Pompeii. We will start with the Villa dei Misteri, a stunning villa with a series of frescos that will simply blow your mind. We will then visit some of the highlights before we can board the coach for the transfer to the hotel where we aim to arrive around 05:00 pm. Dinner at a restaurant near your hotel. According to the ancient Greek legend, the area around Sorrento was known as the Temple of the Sirens. Sailors of antiquity were powerless to resist the beautiful song of these maidens-cum-monsters who, without fail, would lure them and their ships to their doom on the reefs. Homer’s Ulysses escaped the sirens deadly lure by having his oarsmen plug their ears and strapping himself to the mast of his ship as he sailed past the fatal place. Today’s visitor to Sorrento has less to fear ad in the high season this unashamed resort town is bursting with holidaymakers, predominately from Britain and Germany. However, there is still enough southern Italian charm to make a stay here enjoyable, and is it handy for Capri and the Costiera Amalfitana. Declared one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites for its undisputed beauty and the uniqueness of its natural landscape, the Amalfi Coast is the land characterized by the oxymoronic combination between mountain and sea, the farmer and the fisherman. DAY 9/SAIL TO CAPRI via Private Ferry Meals: Breakfast, Lunch There are opportunities in life that will remain forever etched in your memory. Sailing to Capri is one of them. For your trip from Sorrento to Capri, we give you an exclusive Ferry directly to Capri for a visit of the island. Day 10: Free Day or Optional tour* (Limoncello Experience) Meals: Breakfast, Dinner *Optional Tour(at additional cost): The mountain, that thanks to the intense work of man, has been adapted to the demands of life over the ages. It plunges steeply into a sea, creating charming coves, deep fjords, cliffs, caverns, bays, natural arches, and small pebble beaches; natural elements that have created, over the centuries, an enchanting, sinuous, and seductive landscape: it is certainly not a coincidence that this area is known as the land of the Sirens, in Homer's epic poem "Odysseus". Typical houses, painted in warm pastel colors, follow the natural slope of the foothills of Mounts Lattari, leaning against each other, creating a very picturesque landscape. A day spent in an agritourism where we taste some genuine products and much, much more. We'll finish our day with a Farewell Dinner to come together one last time in Italy. DAY 11: All nice things come to an end! We'll have an early departure from Sorrento to Naples for your flight home or Milan Optional Extension END OF ITINERARY (Itinerary subject to change) .