Classic Tour : Venice – Florence – Rome

 Board your  flight   fly through the night to Italy  Meet your Italian Dolcevita Tour Director upon arrival at the airport
Transfer by Vaporetto to your hotel located on the island of Venice
Join your  Tour Director for a highlights walk of Venice; Ponte di Rialto, the Grand Canal, the Bridge of Sighs, and St Mark’s Square to name a few Enter St. Mark’s Basilica to admire its extravagant, gilded Byzantine architecture
Enjoy a gondola boat ride through the canals of Venice
Have dinner in a local restaurant with your group
Overnight accommodation in Venice.  Breakfast at the hotel with your group
Watch Venice’s skilled artisans at work during a glass-blowing demonstration Have time to explore Venice at your leisure
Board your motor coach and travel to Verona
Enjoy a tasty treat of traditional Italian Gelato
With your Dolcevita Tour Director, see some of Verona’s highlights; (a UNESCO World
Heritage Site), including the Arena and the famous Romeo and Juliet balcony
Have dinner in a local restaurant with your group
Overnight accommodation in Verona.  Breakfast at the hotel with your group
Board your motor coach and transfer to Florence.
Transfer to your hotel to drop off your luggage, check-in will be done later
Meet with local guide  discovery walk of the highlights of Florence;
the Cathedral (Duomo), the Baptistery’s Ghiberti’s ”Gates of Paradise” doors, the open-air sculpture museum on Piazza della Signoria, and Piazza Santa Croce
Enter Basilica Santa Croce, the largest Franciscan church in the world & burial
place of Michelangelo, Galileo and Rossini
Dinner with your group in a local restaurant
Overnight accommodation in Florence.  Breakfast at the hotel with your group
Enter the Accademia Gallery where Michelangelo’s monumental “David” is housed,
visit the galleria with the help of an audio-guide

Have lunch with your group in a local restaurant.

Participate in a Tuscan cooking class ; prepare delicious and famous dishes, taste
them as soon as they are done
Overnight accommodation in Florence

 Enjoy breakfast at the hotel with your group
Enjoy the magnificent panoramic view of the city from the Piazzale Michelangelo
Board your motor coach and travel to Pisa, a city in central Italy’s Tuscany region
At the Miracle Square, take photos of the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa and then
climb to the top as a Bucket List experience and for its beautiful view
Enjoy lunch on your own
Along the way, stop in San Gimignano, and admire the ”unforgetable skyline”
Visit the Torture Museum, showing instruments of torture and providing tutorials on
the history of torture and its use in human society
Enjoy some leisure time to explore San Gimignano at your own pace, make sure to
stop by the Piazza della Cisterna
Board your motor coach and return to Florence
Dinner with your group in a local restaurant
Overnight accommodation in Florence.  Enjoy breakfast at the hotel with your group
Board your motor coach and travel to Rome
While in Rome, travel as the locals do by walking, or taking public transport
Explore  with your local guide the most monumental elements of this majestic city with your local guide who will bring to life the spirit of Ancient Roman; the Colosseum, where gladiators once battled, the Roman Imperial Forum with focus on Roman mythology and a walk through the Roman Forum ending at the Palatine Hill
With your Dolcevita Tour Director, see the Pantheon, one of Rome’s best preserved
ancient buildings
Dinner with your group in a local restaurant
Overnight accommodation in Rome  Enjoy breakfast at the hotel with your group
With a local guide, visit St. Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican Museum including the Raphael Rooms, Tapestry Gallery & Sistine Chapel, then have time to discover St-
Peter’s Square at your own pace
Enjoy lunch on your own
Visit the Catacombs of St.Callixtus; among the greatest and most important of
Rome, they began in the middle of the second century and are part of a cemeterial
complex where many martyrs, Christians and 16 popes are buried
Admire the spectacular Altar of the Fatherland. Feel free to climb the many steps to
the top of the Alter and get a glimpse of Rome from high above
Dinner with your group in a local restaurant
Overnight accommodation in Rome  Enjoy breakfast at the hotel with your group
With your Dolcevita  Tour Director walk through the area of the Theater of
Marcellus, the famous Jewish section of Rome and its Synagogue, observing shops, restaurants, and apartments built into surviving pieces of ancient Roman buildings
Test how many of your fellow travelers are as honest as they say, at the famous La
Bocca della Veritá
Enjoy lunch on your own
Go to a local Gelateria to learn how the Italians create their famous gelato, the visit
ends with a tasting of course!
Feel like a local and spend time people watching on the Spanish Steps
Enjoy dinner at Papa Rex; famous for their Gladiator show, terracotta dishes and
vintage costumes, it’s ideal to experience the fame of the Roman Empire
Overnight accommodation in Rome.  Enjoy breakfast at the hotel with your group
Transfer by motor coach from your hotel to the airport
Say a fond Arrivederci to your Italian Dolcevita Tour Director
Board your  flight from Rome and fly back to your destination country