Wonders of Northern Italy

starting with your international flight to Venice Italy  Benvenuti in Italia! Meet your Italian Dolcevita Tour Director upon arrival at the airport

Enjoy lunch on your own

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

Enjoy a gondola boat ride through the canals of Venice at night

Have dinner in a local restaurant with your group

Overnight accommodation in Venice.

 Breakfast at the hotel with your group

Then Enter St. Mark’s Basilica to see the extravagant, gilded Byzantine architecture of the cathedral. .Finally Enter the Doge’s Palace, a 900 year old marvel of architecture, unique in Italy for its golden Byzantine and Medieval mosaics

Enjoy lunch on your own

Stop in Murano and admire the century-old techniques and skills of the local artisans through a glass-blowing demonstration

Have dinner in a local restaurant with your group

Overnight accommodation in Venice.

Breakfast at the hotel with your group

Board your motor coach and continue on to Padua

Visit the Scrovegni Chapel, a masterpiece in the history of painting in Italy and Europe during the 14th century. It is considered to be the most complete series of frescoes created by Giotto in his old age.

Board your motor coach and continue on to Verona, also famed for its grand Arena, a 1st-century Roman amphitheater still hosting concerts and an annual opera festival

Enjoy lunch on your own

With your Tour Director, see some of Verona’s highlights; (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), including the Arena and the famous Romeo and Juliet balcony.

Enjoy some time to discover Verona on your own.(Those who wish can purchase a ticket to Aida at the Roman amphitheater. Not included in the price)

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 travel to Lake Garda. Discover the southern lakeside towns.

Sirmione is on the southern shore of Lake Garda, its most striking feature is its moated castle, the Rocca Scaligera. Sirmione’s narrow medieval streets bustle with colour and life. The setting of the small town is beautiful; and was praised in earlier days by the Roman poet Catullus. At the very tip of the peninsula green lizards scuttle over the extensive remains of a grand Roman villa (once believed to be Catullus’s villa).

Lunch on your own

Continue on to Desenzano del Garda.

Around the harbour the streets are attractive, and from the castle up the hill  there’s a lovely view over the lake. Desenzano del Garda is more of a normal Italian town than a tourist town; you can join in the popular activity of promenading, the passeggiata. For those who enjoy a realistic taste of Italian culture.Board your motor coach and return to Verona

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 continue on to Modena, well known in culinary circles for its production of balsamic vinegar

Visit a balsamic vinegar factory to learn how this region’s traditional condiment is made Board your motor coach and continue on to Parma, famous for its prosciutto, cheese, architecture, music and surrounding countryside

Visit a local parmesan cheese factory, learn how this delicious local cheese is produced

Board your motor coach and travel to Genoa, the sixth-largest city in Italy, located on the Gulf of Genoa in the Ligurian Sea

Have dinner in a local restaurant with your group

Overnight accommodation in Genoa

 Enjoy breakfast at the hotel with your group

Travel to the area of Lunigiana – Excursion includes a visit of 2-3 wineries or wineries throughout the day, with the possibility of guided tastings, combined with short visits to Castelli, Pievi and characteristic villages of Lunigiana .

Board your motor coach and return to Genoa,

Have dinner in a local restaurant with your group

Overnight accommodation in Genoa

 Enjoy breakfast at the hotel with your group

Enjoy a boat ride along the magnificent Cinque Terre coast line; see the famous five villages and get to visit one of them (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, or Riomaggiore)

Return to Genoa

Have dinner in a local restaurant with your group

Overnight accommodation in Genoa

Breakfast at the hotel with your group

Board your motor coach and travel to Turin 

Discover Turin with a local guide. The Savoys were as French as they were Italian, and their holdings extended well into the present-day French regions of Savoy and the Côte d’Azur, as well as Sardegna. The city’s Francophile 17th- and 18th-century architects, inspired by the tastes of the French court, razed most of the city and its Roman foundations, replacing them with broad avenues, airy piazzas, and low-slung neoclassical buildings.

Visit the Museo della Sindone (Holy Shroud Museum) The Shroud of Turin is a centuries old linen cloth that bears the image of a crucified man. A man that millions believe to be Jesus of Nazareth.

Have dinner in a local restaurant with your group

Overnight accommodation in Turin

 Breakfast at the hotel with your group.

Board your motor coach and travel to Milan,

Follow a local guide on a walking tour of Milan – see the main sights of the city.

Visit the Duomo, Milan’s marvel of white marble, and then take a lift to walk on the roof and view over 2000 statues

Have dinner in a local restaurant with your group

Overnight accommodation in Milan

 Breakfast at the hotel with your group.

Travel to Como

Enjoy a Breathtaking 2 hours boat cruise along the Lake admiring the splendid lakeside villas and gardens

Visit the charming cities of COMO

Como city centre: the Cathedral (outside), the old Town Hall building and its characteristic bell tower, the medieval walls

BELLAGIO – Village of Bellagio: the so called “Pearl of the Lake”

Cruise along the eastern branch of Como Lake to the city of Lecco.

Return to Milan

Have dinner in a local restaurant with your group

Overnight accommodation in Milan

 Enjoy breakfast at the hotel with your group

Admire the Teatro alla Scala, a world-renowned opera house – See the Museum

Visit the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. It is here that Leonardi da Vinci painted the Last Supper, his most famous and largest work between 1495 and 1497

Visit the Castello Sforzesco, Milan’s most famous renaissance palace and much-beloved monument

Embark on a fashion walking tour including a visit to genuine factory outlets, big fashion brand boutiques and unique, uncommon experiences such as a visit in a designer’s studio to perceive the genuine meaning of “Made in Italy”

Have dinner in a local restaurant with your group

Overnight accommodation in Milan

 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 intrnational flight from Milan and fly back to your country