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THE BEST OF ITALY - 2010

12 days incl. travel, or 11 days from Rome to Rome (ZB)

Vacation Overview

This memorable vacation starts in Rome with highlight visits, like St. Peter’s, the Sistine Chapel, the Colosseum, and the Roman Forum. In Orvieto, ride a funicular through the ramparts to the cathedral, then on to your spa resort in Tuscany. Enjoy an excursion to Florence, where guided sightseeing visits the cathedral and the Academy of Fine Arts to admire Michelangelo’s David. Stop at Pisa’s Leaning Tower, and arrive in Venice to visit St. Mark’s Basilica and lavish Doges’ Palace with a Local Guide, and to watch glassblowers at work. Along the Adriatic coast, drive to Ravenna to visit the Basilica of St. Apollinaris in Classe, and continue through the Apennines to St. Francis’ Assisi. Next, visit the excavations of Pompeii with a Local Guide, drive through lively Naples, and board a jetfoil for the Isle of Capri. Guided sightseeing includes Villa San Michele in Anacapri. Via Sorrento, return to Rome for the finale of your Italian adventure.

Things to see on your vacation: View Vacation Photo Slideshow
  • The Roman Forum, where Roman legions marched in triumph
  • Visit stunning Florence and the Ponte Vecchio
  • The Sistine Chapel is world famous for Michelangelo’s ceiling paintings
  • Assisi is a town in the province of Perugia, Italy
  • Leaning Tower of Pisa
  • Capri is an island off the Sorrentine Peninsula in the Gulf of Naples
  • Delightful Tuscan countryside
  • See the vineyard covered hillsides of Tuscany
  • Orvieto, perched high atop a volcanic rock
  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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