ITALIAN MOSAIC - 2010

14 days incl. travel, or 13 days from Rome to Rome (ZI)

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Vacation Overview

This classic Italian vacation is our most popular, with departures throughout the year. Two-night stays in Rome, Florence, Lake Maggiore**, Venice, and Sorrento, plus one night in St. Francis’ Assisi offer plenty of time to visit the main sights with a Local Guide. Discover St. Peter’s, the Sistine Chapel, the Colosseum, Michelangelo’s David, St. Mark’s, Doges’ Palace, and the Bridge of Sighs. Also stop to see Pisa’s Leaning Tower, in vibrant Milan, in Switzerland’s subtopical Lugano, in Romeo & Juliet’s Verona, and in Ravenna to visit the Basilica of St. Apollinaris of Classe. From Sorrento, visit Pompeii at the foot of Mount Vesuvius and the Isle of Capri, including a jetfoil ride and a funicular ride to Capri village.

Note:
Departures Oct 25th-Dec 20th, overnight in Milan instead of Lake Maggiore. Dinner and Lugano visit on day 6 are not included.

Special Departure:
Dec 20th Departure - Christmas Eve in Florence and New Year’s Eve in Sorrento.

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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. "