Italian Escapade - Classic Group
Overview
Highlights
- Choose between two carefully selected activities
- Florence: Stand beside Michelangelo's monumental statue, 'David', in the Accademia Gallery, and admire the exquisite technique and absorbing history behind the world's most famous sculpture.
- Florence: Wander through the market stalls and browse for local Italian souvenirs and leather goods on a guided shopping tour.
- Rome: Enjoy a Welcome Dinner with your fellow travellers at a uniquely Roman local restaurant.
- Florence: Enjoy a traditional Bistecca alla Fiorentina steak dinner paired with delicious local wine, a specialty not to be missed.
- Lake Maggiore: For your Dine-Around Evening, choose from a selection of hand-picked restaurants for your dining pleasure.
- Lake Iseo: Learn about this historic winery, passed down through the generations, and taste its latest vintages.
- Rome: Enjoy a Celebration Dinner of delicious Italian cuisine and wine, accompanied by the rich tremolo of some of Italy's best loved songs.
- Dining Summary: 7 Dinner with Wine (DW), and 12 Breakfast (B)
- Vatican: Gain priority access into the Vatican Museums and admire the famous Bramante Staircase. Witness the genius of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel and view the splendid dome of St. Peter's Basilica.
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Welcome to Rome, a glorious city filled with classic antiquities, medieval buildings, renaissance palaces and baroque churches. Transfers depart from Rome's Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci Airport for your hotel at 09:30, 12:30 and 15:30. Relax and settle in before joinin...
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Hotel Simplon, Baveno
Breakfast, Dinner with Wine
Follow the southern fringes of the European Alps to the vineyards by the shores of Lake Iseo. Here, winemaking traditions run deep. Taste the delicious vintages produced with a master vintner at a family-owned estate. Continue to the unique city of Venice and step back in time to the 16th century.
Hotel Carlton on the Grand Canal, Venice.
Breakfast, Dinner with Wine
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Hotel Isabella, Sorrento.
Breakfast
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Insight Vacations Reviews & Ratings
Konstantinos Louros
Nov 2022
Italian Escapade
Would like a few more museums visit.
Alice Conole
Nov 2022
Italian Escapade
Each destination was a “wow!” There was no site that was not worth visiting.
Barbara Schuster
Oct 2022
Italian Escapade
Incredible sights. Incredible tour guide and bus driver. Very fun.
Charles Rivas
Oct 2022
Italian Escapade
The Italian Escapades Itenerary was jam packed with so much of the sites of Italy. We loved visiting all the cities north to south! My one thought for improvement...
Charles and Lane Berst
Oct 2022
Italian Escapade
Saw everything around the whole country
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- Hotel Romanico Palace, Rome., Kolbe Hotel Rome.
- Michelangelo Florence.
- Hotel Simplon, Baveno
- Hotel Carlton on the Grand Canal, Venice.
- Hotel Giotto Assisi.
- Hotel Isabella, Sorrento.
- Hotel Mediterraneo, Rome.
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