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Venice Gondola

Venice Gondola

Gondolier

Gondolier

Venice

Venice

Madonna

Madonna

Il Duomo (Florence)

Il Duomo (Florence)

Michelangelo's David

Michelangelo's David

Rome

Rome

Colosseum

Colosseum

Pantheon

Pantheon

Cities: Venice, Florence, and Rome

Length of Tour: 9 days

Accommodations: Venice, Florence, and Rome

Day 1

Venice

Arrival and check in to your Hotel. 3 Hour Private Tour of Venice. General orientation with stops at San Marco Square, Bridge of Sighs, Contarini Staircase, and more.

Day 2

Venice (Jewish Ghetto)

Cannareggio Stroll Tour: The northernmost sestiere of Cannaregio remains a hidden gem and home to much of Venice's resident population. This charming neighborhood provides us with the opportunity to view important monuments without the crowds. This walk focuses equally on art, architecture, and local character, thus providing you with an insider's sense of both modern and historical Venice.

Day 3

Islands of the Lagoon

Islands of the Lagoon Tour. Torcello provides a respite with one of the only Byzantine cathedrals to survive in Venice. The excursion will provide you with newfound insight into the development of the Venetian empire and give you the opportunity to explore a side of Venice most visitors unfortunately miss. This afternoon we enjoy the Wines of Veneto Tour. Explore the hidden corners of Venice with your expert wine guide, who is a professional sommelier. Enjoy a glimpse of local life while learning about traditional local wines and their place in the local culture. You will visit several wine bars (enoteche) in an authentic area of Venice, off the beaten path.

Day 4

Florence

Florence Food Experiences Tour. Food and gastronomy have always played an integral part of Florentine culture and identity. And abroad, traditional Tuscan cuisine has grown to become synonymous with the use of fresh, local ingredients. The city's recent increase in visitors, however, has made genuine Tuscan-style locales and shops harder and harder to encounter. During our two and a half hours together, we will uncover some of the remaining authentic and historical establishments that still celebrate Florence's gastronomic peculiarities.

Day 5

Florence

Full Day Private Guide. You can choose between a day visiting the Accademia and Uffizi, as well as the Duomo and Bell Tower, or escape the city for an excursion to the medieval towns of Siena and San Gimignano.

Day 6

Florence's Oltrarno

Oltrarno Artisans Tour. The Florentine tradition of producing artisanal goods has been in existence for centuries and remains one of the cornerstones of Florence's visual and social history, as much as it did in the times of the guilds. Florentine leatherworkers, silversmiths, shoe manufacturers and hat makers have produced handmade goods for countless generations of kings and queens, princes and noblewomen and continue to this day, mostly in the area known as the Oltrarno ("on the other side of the Arno").

Day 7

Rome

Classical Rome Tour. During the reign of Augustus the city of Rome began a period of significant expansion, moving beyond the confines of the Forum into the Campus Martius, or what is today the historic center of Rome. This four-hour walk follows the traces of antiquity in this part of the city, from the great theater and temples along the Tiber river to the Pantheon, and various fragments embedded into the Renaissance fabric.

Day 8

Borghese Gallery

Borghese Gallery Tour. This walk is an in-depth examination of the Galleria Borghese taken in the company of an art historian who can unfold for you the layers of meaning—social, political, and artistic—of one of the greatest private art collections in the world. Commissions and acquisitions of pieces by the likes of Titian, Caravaggio, Raphael and Bernini made the Borghese the premier collectors of their day and their former suburban palace turned private museum is now one of the most important and certainly one of the most elegant museums in Rome.

Day 9

Vatican

Our four-hour, critically-acclaimed Arte Vaticana walking seminar is designed to give a comprehensive, in-depth introduction to the Vatican art collection and St. Peter's Basilica. Led by a scholar of Church history or an art historian, this is our most popular Vatican itinerary. Afternoon and evening at leisure.