Journey

DAY 01 : ARRIVAL ROME

• Upon arrival your personal assistant will pick you up at the airplane gate and help you with the border and the luggage belt. Your private Mercedes will wait for you outside the airport gate to drive you to the hotel in Rome.
• Our assistant will give you an Italian sim card you can use for free calls, sms and internet.
• Today you will discover Rome by yourselves. Start the tour from the city center to discover the monuments and the palace of the Baroque period: Piazza Navona, the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain and Piazza di Spagna.
• The dinner will be served at a Michelin guide restaurant with an astonishing view on the Colosseum (dinner not included).
• Overnight in Rome.

DAY 02 : ROME (B)

• Breakfast at hotel.
• Today, you will meet your personal driver and guide at the hotel lobby to visit the world’s smallest country and the center of the Catholic World – Vatican City.
• Visit the impressive St. Peter’s square and Church, and explore the Vatican Museums, Raffaello’s rooms and the Sistine Chapel.
• In the afternoon you will continue to discover Rome with your professional guide. Start the tour from Michelangelo’s Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill) where you can look out over the Roman Forum area, then continue to the Imperial Forums and the ruins of the Colosseum.
• Overnight in Rome.

DAY 03 : ROME (B/L)

• Breakfast at hotel
• This morning your personal driver will pick you up at the hotel lobby to enjoy a cooking class with market tour. You will learn how to cook the best Italian food. The class begins with a visit to Rome’s famous Esquilino market, where you’ll start learning about the rich traditions of Roman food, and selectthe fresh, seasonal ingredients you’ll be using in the cooking lesson.
• Then you go in a professional kitchen where, you will learn how to prepare the dishes or pizza making. Lunch included.
• Overnight in Rome.
• Optional activity: Bulgari experience. You will go to Via Condotti, the most important shopping street in Rome for the Bulgari experience: you will be welcomed into the historic boutique on Via Condotti and accompanied inside the Domus Bulgari the new private space designed by Peter Marino.
• Optional activity visit of Borghese Gallery.
• Optional activity: visit of Dioclezianum Stadium located under the Navona Square. Optional tour: In the afternoon you will discover how the real Italian Gelato is made. Take a tour and class of the oldest Italian ice-cream shops and make your own gelato.

DAY 04 : ROME – CIVITA & ORVIETO – TUSCANY COUNTRYSIDE (B)

• Breakfast at the hotel
• Today you will meet your personal driver at the hotel to reach the Tuscany countryside.
• On the way there, you will stop to visit the fascinating hill town of Civita di Bagnoregio.
• You will arrive in the Tuscany countryside in the evening and check into to your hotel.
• Overnight in Tuscany countryside.

DAY 05 : TUSCANY COUNTRYSIDE (B)

• Breakfast at the hotel
• Today you will meet up with your “Searching Truffle” an expert Truffle-gatherer of the San Miniato hills, and his inseparable dog, you will lead for a walk in the wood with them. It’s the opportunity to discover this “treasure” hidden in the woods of San Miniato and the dog’s training methods.
• After the walk, some experts will explain you the working processes and the use of the truffle then a wonderful tasting lunch of Truffles in a real truffle factory, where is possible to understand better why this incredible product of the Earth is called the "White Gold" and taste a wonderful lunch of local food based on truffle ingredients.
• In the afternoon your driver will transfer you to the Chianti area, one the most characteristic and intact medieval cities in Italy which, from a height of 605 meters above the sea level, offers amazing views.
• Here you will visit a famous winery where a professional sommelier will describe the production of Chianti wine.
• Overnight in Tuscany countryside.

DAY 06 : TUSCANY COUNTRYSIDE - FLORENCE (B)

• Breakfast at hotel
• This morning your personal driver will transfer you to Florence.
• Here will meet your guide for a guided tour to discover the city. Your historical walking tour starts from Repubblica square - the heart of the city, and stroll through streets, alleys of the medieval quarter to Palazzo del Bargello (exterior visit only) and Piazza della Signoria, where sculptures beckon.
• Continue to Santa Croce Church (Basilica of the Holy Cross), famed as the “Westminster Abbey of Florence”. It is a gorgeous Florence church with frescoes by Giotto, architecture by Brunelleschi and houses the tombs of Michelangelo, Galileo and other Tuscan cultural giants.
• Next, visit the Accademia Gallery with the famous Michelangelo's masterpiece: The David. You are able to view the museum's other unique pieces, including a room dedicated to Michelangelo.
• Continue walking along the Medici Chapels (exterior view only) and Basilica di S. Lorenzo, church of the once influential Medici Family (exterior view only).
• Finally arrive at Piazza del Duomo and marvel at the vast Cathedral before stepping inside to admire the interior's intricate Gothic details.
• You will continue your visit to the Uffizi Gallery, one of the most beautiful and famous museums in the world boasting a hall of fame of the most important artists of all times: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Caravaggio and many others.
• Overnight in Florence.
• Optional activity: you will visit THE MALL OUTLET. It is one of the biggest Italian shopping mall with the most important fashion brands (Gucci, Ferragamo, Montclair, Tod’s… ) for a shopping day. We can add also a personal shopper who will teach you more about brands, colors and Italian fashion.

DAY 07 : FLORENCE – MODENA AREA - VENICE (B)

• Breakfast at the hotel
• Today your driver will meet you at your hotel to take you to Venice.
• On the way you will stop in Modena area, the town of Aceto Balsamico. Unknown even to Italians outside this small city until around 20 years ago, authentic balsamic vinegar is made from local grapes and aged for at least 12 years in special wooden barrels. Visit an acetaia (balsamic vinegar maker) and tasting the delicious, sweet and tangy flavors.
• At your arrival at Venice you will board a private boat to your hotel.
• This afternoon you will enjoy a leisurely gondola ride through the canals of Venice. Following your Gondola cruise you will discover the unusual reality of this atypical city and in the meantime you will relax, with the boat gently floating on the water, the ride will end on the balcony of your restaurant where your candlelit table will be waiting for you.
• Free afternoon.
• Overnight in Venice.
• Optional tour: Ferrari Museum OR Lamborghini Museum

DAY 08 : VENICE (B)

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Today you will go on your guided walking tour of the city. Venice’s charm lies both in its unique civil engineering achievements, and in the harmony of Eastern and Western artistic styles that have flourished here over the centuries.
• Your guided tour highlights some of the major sites that define the look and history of Venice, and includes visits to Doges Palace, St Mark’s Basilica and St Mark’s square.
• In the afternoon you will meet your personal guide to take a ferry boat to visit Murano to see how the famous glass making is made along with an expert glass connoisseur who will lead you through the closed doors of a glass master’s private studio. (option: have a private boat).
• Overnight in Venice.
• Optional activity: Meet a master carpenter at “squero”, the site where gondolas are made.

DAY 09 : VENICE DEPARTURE (B)

• Breakfast at hotel This morning your private boat will wait outside the hotel to take you to Venice airport to catch your flight back home.