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FROM THE COLOSSEUM TO THE EIFFEL TOWER - 2010

11 days incl. travel, or 10 days from Rome to Paris (HFF)

Vacation Overview

Discover Europe with your family on this fun-filled vacation! Begin in Rome with guided sightseeing that visits the Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s, and the Colosseum, where you get a family picture with a gladiator (if available). On to Pisa’s Leaning Tower, then the spa resort of Montecatini for an overnight. In Florence, see Michelangelo’s David, the cathedral, the Baptistry’s “Gate of Paradise,” and sculpture-filled Signoria Square. Enjoy a pizza party lunch at a local pizzeria and learn how they are made! Enter Venice by private boat, create your own Venetian mask, take a vaporetto ride, and enjoy guided sightseeing that includes St. Mark’s Square, Doges’ Palace, and the Bridge of Sighs. Continue to charming Lake Maggiore, cross Simplon Pass, and ride a cogwheel mountain train to Zermatt at the base of the Matterhorn. Spend a night in Montreux on Lake Geneva, then travel to Lausanne and ride the high-speed TGV train to Paris. Guided sightseeing includes Notre Dame Cathedral and a bird’s-eye view of the city from the top floor of the Eiffel Tower—an unforgettable vacation!

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Things to see on your vacation: View Vacation Photo Slideshow
  • Enjoy the beautiful architecture in Rome
  • Eiffel Tower
  • Venice is considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world
  • The world’s most poetically-named bridge, Il Ponte dei Sospiri, or the Bridge of Sighs
  • Saint Peter’s Square in Rome
  • Visit the Roman Forum, where Roman legions marched in triumph
  • Stunning view of the beautiful Lake Maggiore
  • Leaning Tower of Pisa
  • Notre Dame Cathedral
  A Vacation Story  Bridge of Sighs

"The world’s most poetically-named bridge, Il Ponte dei Sospiri, the Bridge of Sighs, was built in 1614 so that prisoners of the Venetian state could be transferred in secret from the Doge’s Palace to the so-called Nuovi Prigioni, or New Prisons. The wistful name was actually conceived by the English poet Lord Byron in the early 1800s that imagined the horror of prisoners taking their last glimpse of Venice before going underground to captivity. "

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