After breakfast at your hotel, you will visit the Colosseum and the Fori Imperiali with a local tour guide. Skip the line with our local hosts! The Roman Forum, known as Forum Romanum in Latin, was at the center of ancient Rome and hosted significant religious, political, and social activities. Historians believe public meetings began in the open-air Forum around 500 B.C. when the Roman Republic was founded. This rectangular area, situated between Palatine Hill and Capitoline Hill, housed many of the city’s most impressive temples and monuments. Today, the Roman Forum and the Colosseum are among the world’s most famous tourist sites, attracting over 4.5 million visitors annually.

In the afternoon, you can explore Rome on your own by visiting places like the Circus Maximus, the Isola Tiburtina, and La Bocca Della Verità, a marble mask at the entrance of the Santa Maria in Cosmedin church, the site of the ancient Forum Boarium (the old cattle market). It attracts visitors who daringly stick their hands in its mouth.

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After breakfast, you will take the fast train to visit Naples, the homeland of pizza, limoncello, and ice cream. After checking in at your hotel, you will join a small group on a guided tour of downtown Naples. Dating back some 3,000 years, Naples is one of the oldest cities in the world and the most densely populated city in Europe. Greek settlers established an early colony and founded the ancient city of Neapolis (“new city”).

The distinct Neapolitan culture was born then and survived even after the Romans conquered the area. After checking in at your hotel, you will visit on foot Spaccanapoli, the Duomo, Piazza Dante, and the “Quartieri Spagnoli,” and stop to taste some of the delicacies that Naples is famous for limoncello, baba, mozzarella di buffalo, and the strong espresso that is also an expression of the city’s soul. For the rest of the afternoon and evening, explore the city, whose gulf is called the most beautiful in the world, overlooking Mount Vesuvius.

  Breakfast  

After breakfast, you will visit Pompei. The city was destroyed in 72 AD by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the most extensive continental volcano in Europe, which is still active today.  Visiting this almost intact city, you will understand the Roman Empire and its influence on the world today.

After a light lunch, we will continue visiting the Amalfi Coast. Deemed by Unesco as being an outstanding example of a Mediterranean landscape, the Amalfi Coast is a beguiling combination of incredible beauty and gripping drama: coastal mountains plunge into the sea in a stunning vertical scene of precipitous crags, picturesque towns, like Sorrento, Positano & Amalfi,  and lush forests. There are multiple shops in the towns we will visit where you can enjoy dinner or snacks on your own.

In the evening, return to your hotel.

Breakfast  

After breakfast, you will take the fast train to visit Florence, Tuscany’s most famous city. Every year, millions of people visit the Cradle of the Renaissance, visiting its leading museums and strolling through its streets to gaze at and admire its monuments, churches, palazzos, and more. We will get to know about the Renaissance, the Medicis family, and some of its most famous citizens like Leonardo da Vinci and Michaelangelo.

After checking in at your hotel, our guided tour will meet you in the afternoon and take you across Florence on foot to visit places like the Duomo, a cathedral with a terracotta-tiled dome engineered by Brunelleschi and a bell tower by Giotto. The Piazza dell’Accademia displays Michelangelo’s “David” sculpture. Il Ponte Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti. After our tour, you can visit Florence at your own pace and do some shopping or even visit the Uffizi Gallery, which exhibits Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” and da Vinci’s “Annunciation.

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Today, you will visit the famous Tuscany countryside (group visit in a minivan or bus). the Tuscany landscape is incredibly beautiful, with its olive groves, fields of sunflowers, vineyards and stone farms, ancient medieval castles, and enchanting Renaissance cities. It will be a delight just to contemplate the infinite paintings that will be found on our trip. We will stop to visit San Gimignano, a Unesco Heritage Site This small town contains within itself the essence of Tuscany: its aspect, simply elegant and sophisticated, is a perfect combination of local art and architecture, which harmonizes perfectly with the surrounding enchanting landscape. San Gimignano rises on top of a hill 334m above sea level, clearly visible in the distance with its many towers. Today 13 towers remain of the 72 towers of the fourteenth century when every well-off family built a tower to show its economic power (many of them are still visible in the buildings, even if they were cut off).

Afterward, you will head out to a unique location in the Chianti countryside to enjoy a wine tasting. Once you hop off the bus, you will be guided around a splendid winery, where you will be introduced to the estate’s fascinating history and background. Head inside the cellars where you’ll learn the secrets of Chianti winemaking together with the local host. We will then continue to Siena for a guided tour of its enchanting architectural styles, including the Cathedral (exterior only) and Palazzo Comunale (Municipal Building, again exterior only) in Piazza del Campo. The famous shell-shaped square provides the stage for the thrilling Palio horse race, run twice every summer and it is also a Unesco Heritage Site. In the evening, return to Florence.

Breakfast – Wine Tasting – Lunch

After an early breakfast at your hotel, it will be time to say goodbyes! Your driver will take you to Florence’s airport.

Buon Viaggio ed a presto! 

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