EUROPE IN DEPTH WITH LONDON EXTENSION - 2010

28 days incl. travel, or 27 days from London to London (KML)

Vacation Overview

From the North Sea and the English Channel to the Bay of Biscay and Italian and French Rivieras, you’ll see it all on this in-depth adventure! Visit Europe’s most famous cities, with 2-night stays in London, Lucerne, Vienna, Venice, Rome, Nice, Barcelona, Madrid, and Paris. Sightseeing includes all the major landmarks, like St. Paul’s Cathedral and the Changing of the Guard (if held) in London, Grand’Place in Brussels, Cologne’s gothic cathedral, the Lion Monument and Chapel Bridge in Lucerne, Innsbruck’s opulent Golden Roof, Salzburg’s Mirabell Gardens, Hofburg Palace and the Strauss House in Vienna, Doges’ Palace and the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, Rome’s Sistine Chapel and Colosseum, Michelangelo’s David and Signoria Square in Renaissance Florence, the Roman Amphitheater in Arles, Sagrada Familia and Montjuïc Hill in Barcelona, Madrid’s Prado Museum, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and Notre Dame Cathedral and the Champs-Élysées in Paris. You’ll also enjoy a high-speed Eurostar train ride from London to Brussels, a canal cruise in Amsterdam, a Rhine River cruise in Germany, the Black Forest, the Rhine Falls, Liechtenstein, a private boat transfer and glassblowing demonstration in Venice, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, an excursion to St. Paul de Vence, a perfume factory visit in Nice, Burgos, Biarritz, a high-speed TGV train ride from Bordeaux to Paris, and a bird’s-eye view of Paris from the second floor of the Eiffel Tower. Return to London by Eurostar train and stay one night in London.

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A Vacation Story Pisa

"It was the most perfect experiment in the history of science. Holding both a cannon ball and a small musket ball, the 30-something Pisa native Galileo Galilei scaled the steps of his city’s famous Leaning Tower, and held them dramatically over the edge. Eight stories below, the town’s most learned scholars and priests were gathered as observers. They watched as the two balls dropped to the ground at the same speed – disproving, with a single stroke, the ancient idea that objects fall at different rates depending on their weight and size. This archaic concept, which had been espoused by the ancient Greek author Aristotle, had been accepted without question for more than 2,000 years, Galileo’s great innovation was to put it to a practical test of observation. Unfortunately, this famous story is probably not true. Galileo never wrote about it himself – it was recounted in a late biography penned by his secretary, Vincenzo Viviani. Most historians now believe that it was Galileo’s imaginative disciples who invented the Leaning Tower tale in order to make the theory so clear that even a child could understand it. "