The Best of Italy & Sicily
Overview
Highlights
- This multi-city vacation will guide you through the main attractions throughout Italy and Sicily.
- Enjoy guided sightseeing tours through cities such as Rome, Pisa, Venice, Naples, Pompeii, and more!
- Go for a private boat ride in Venice and a boat cruise in Capri.
- Enjoy an included glassblower’s demonstration in Venice!
- Enjoy the services of a Professional Travel Director as you listen to the details through your private headsets.
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Trip includes
- Round-trip economy class air to & from Rome (FCO)
- Round-trip airport transfers
- Accommodations in hotels listed, or similar:
- 3 nights in Rome at the Una Hotel Roma
- 3 nights in Venice at the Mgallery Lagare at Murano Hotel
- 2 nights in Assisi at the San Francesco Hotel
- 2 nights in Palermo at the Excelsior Hilton Hotel
- 1 night in Agrigento at the Della Valle Hotel
- 1 night in Giardini Naxos at the Atahotel Naxos Beach Resort
- 1 night in Sorrento at the Grand Hotel Cesare Augusto
- 1 night in Rome at the NH Midas Guided sightseeing as described in itinerary, including: Rome, Pisa, Florence, Pisa, Venice, Ravenna, Assisi, Pompeii, Naples, Palermo, Marsala, Agrigento, Taormina, Capri
- Full buffet breakfast: 5 three-course dinners with wine, including special welcome and farewell dinners in Rome
- Private boat ride in Venice: overnight cruise, jetfoil, ferry crossing, funicular ride and boat cruise in Capri
- Services of a Professional Travel Director
- Headsets throughout the tour
- Transportation by private first-class air-conditioned motorcoach (with complimentary Wi-Fi)
Itinerary
Accommodation: Una Hotel Roma
At 5pm, meet your Tour Director and traveling companions and leave the hotel for a special welcome dinner with wine at one of Rome's lively restaurants. (Dinner)
Enjoy guided sightseeing, including inside visits to all of the highlights of religious and ancient Rome: the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel with Michelangelo's ceiling paintings and The Last Judgment, monumental St. Peter's Square and Basilica to admire Michelang...
Enter Tuscany and arrive in Pisa to marvel at the legendary Leaning Tower. Take your pictures pushing back the tower before continuing to Florence, the Cradle of the Renaissance. Time to shop for Florentine leather goods and gold jewelry sold by the ounce, for which the city is famous. (Breakfast)
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Mgallery Lagare at Murano Hotel
This morning, focus on Florence. Your walking tour with a Local Guide features the magnificent cathedral, Giotto's Bell Tower, the Baptistry's heavy bronze Gate of Paradise, and sculpture-st...
Meals: Breakfast
Board your Private Boat to St. Mark's Square and meet your Local Guide for a walking tour including visits to the byzantine St. Mark's Basilica, lavish Doges' Palace and the Bridge of Sighs. Then, enjoy Venice at your own pace or join an optional gondola ride and an exciting optional lagoon cruise to the colorful island of Burano.
Follow the Adriatic coastline to Ravenna. Here, see the famous mosaics in the 6th-century Basilica of St. Apollinaris in Classe. In the afternoon, arrive in peaceful Assisi and visit the massive 13th century lower Basilica of St. Francis built above the Saint's grave. (Breakfast, Dinner)
Accommodation: Hotel San Francesco Assisi
Arrive in Pompeii, the Roman city both destroyed and preserved by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. A guided walking tour through the excavations features patrician houses, public baths, and commercial districts t...
Meals: Breakfast
After disembarkation, start your sightseeing with a Local Guide. Visit the ornate Piazza Bellini, Capo Market, the baroque Church of Immacolata, and the Cathedral. Drive up to Monreale for a panoramic view of the Conca d'Oro and a visit to the 12th-century Norman Cathedral, famous for its 50,000 square feet of precious byzantine mosaics.
Accommodation: Excelsior Hilton Palermo
In Marsala, visit a Salt Mill, then a true highlight: a local favorite Wine Tasting at the famous Florio wine cellar to try out and learn about Marsala wines. Next, drive along the western coast to Agrigento. Here, your L...
This morning, enjoy the scenic beauty and treasures of the island's heart on your way to Taormina, where you will visit the 3rd-century Greek Amphitheatre, the second-largest of its kind in Sicily. Situated above the city, it affords spectacular views of the bay and Mount Etna. (Breakfast)
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel Della Valle, Agrigento
Today is your chance to join the exciting half-day optional excursion to Mount Etna. Afternoon is at leisure to relax or for individual activities.
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Atahotel Naxos Beach Resort
Board your Ferry and cross the Strait of Messina to land at the toe of the Italian boot in Calabria. Tonight, you are in the charming resort of Sorrento, delightfully situated on the Bay of Naples.
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Grand Hotel Cesare Augusto
Speed across the Bay of Naples by Jetfoil to the Isle of Capri, an ancient retreat for Roman emperors and renowned ever since that time for its beauty. Ride the Funicular to Capri village for a g...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodation: NH Midas Hotel
Return to Rome. This evening, back in the Eternal City, a special farewell dinner with wine and opera entertainment awaits you at La Carovana restaurant as a proper way to say, Arrivederci, Roma!
Meals: Breakfast
Your vacation ends with breakfast this morning.
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