Boutique Local (Start Rome, end Rome)
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Highlights
- See the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, Piazza Venezia, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon & Piazza Navona
- Special access Rome sightseeing coach tour
- Locally guided tour of the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica & the art of the Vatican Museums
- Scenic drive along the coast
- Watch how to make pizza Italian-style from the locals
- See Mt. Vesuvius
- Discover the Secrets of Michelangelo's Florence – see where his David was gifted to the Florentines, Ponte Vecchio, the Medici Palace & much more on our locally guided walking tour of Florence
- See the Duomo, Basilica Santa Croce, Giotto's Bell Tower, the Baptistry & Piazza della Signoria
- Private boat through the canals & islands of Venice
- See the Bridge of Sighs, the Doge's Palace & St. Mark's Square
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We’ll arrive in Rome and settle in to our boutique digs, where the word ‘bland’ won’t even enter our dictionary. Wasting no time getting acquainted with the city, we’ll have a 4pm pow wow before taking to the streets.
With boxes ticked and the capital approved of, we’ll be ready to peel back a few more layers of this boot shaped country. Just before we swan off to sunny Sorrento, we’ll poke our heads around the Vatican City. After a tour through the iconic Sistine Chapel, St. Peter...
This morning you can enjoy an easy breezy morning catching the first creamy rays of the day in a bath robe sipping coffee. For once your ‘Woke Up Like This’ situation is even better in real life than it is in photos. Famous world over for its shimmering beauty and en...
Pack your bags and cast your last wistful stares upon the Gulf of Naples. Today we’re heading to where the Tuscan sun dances on groves of succulent olives. Adding to the ever-growing encyclopedia of our knowledge collected on travels, we’ll detour past the ruins of P...
With a full day to go local in Florence, you should grab a caffè latte pronto. We’ll take you to all the iconic musts, then you can make your own bespoke discoveries. The south bank of the Arno is the place to be, scattered with bookshops, cocktail bars & all the cool Florentine kids.
Keeping on the theme of romantic Italian cities, we’ll hop from Florence to the setting of Romeo & Juliet. Heart filled eyes will be all amongst us as we step into the Shakespearean scene of fair Verona. Although there will be no Leonardo DiCaprio in sight, there...
Hidden lanes and story book bridges are ours on this full day in Venice. We’ll take a private boat through the city’s canals & islands, and see all the iconic hotspots to boot. You can then go a little deeper by catching 20th century art at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Museum, or sampling fresh local produce at the markets of Rialto Bridge.
Along the pretty shores of Lake Garda, we drop into the quintessential European lake town of Sirmione, complete with vine-covered villas, Roman ruins and a castle. For amazing views of the surrounding Dolomite Mountain range and an interesting lakeside look at the loc...
Unless you’ve got mountains of cash to splash on this city’s line up of boutique shopping, you’ll be happy to hear we’re heading off before the temptation gets the better of us. Trading our sleek city get up for some suave boating attire, we’ll move from Milan to the ...
Heartbreak though it may be that we’re departing from the Riviera, today is jam packed with Italian goodness, so we won’t be sad for long. With a world famous monument and a winery on the agenda, today is going to be a good one. Shortly after leaving the Italian Rivi...
Today The Eternal City is ours – we’ll purr through its charming narrow lanes & slip into the espresso sipping culture. More exploring can be done in the borough of Monti, where Rome’s creative cats meander & linger. Being our last night on trip we have a treat in store, an optional dinner boasting an opera singer, live music and pasta.
The trip ends after breakfast and it’s time to say “arrivederci” to your new friends.
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