Discover the finest of Italy with our 10-day dream holiday package, which includes visits to Lake Como, San Gimignano, Siena, Florence, and Venice.
The Colosseum and Vatican tour in Rome, truffle hunting in Tuscany, a boat ride along the Grand Canal in Venice and Lake Como, Michelangelo's original David in Florence, and more are all included in your customized luxury holiday package.
Additionally, each plan can be altered to suit your preferences and particular interests.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Private transfers from / to airports
- In Venice private tour of the Venice Lagoon Islands & Grand Canal
- Private guided walking tour in Rome, Florence, Siena, Venice
- Experience of traditional recipes in Rome and Truffle hunting in Tuscany
- Visit of Ancient Rome and Colosseum with private guide and skip the line tickets
- 5 star hotel accommodation
AT A GLANCE:
Day 1: Private transfer to reach your hotel in Rome center and private orientation tour
Day 2: Vatican and Colosseum tour
Day 3: Transfer from Rome to Florence with stop in Siena for lunch
Day 4: Florence private guided walking tour with Accademia visit
Day 5: Private truffle hunting with lunch
Day 6: Door to door private transfer from Florence to Venice & Gran Canal boat tour
Day 7: Private excursion to the Venetian islands of Murano and Burano
Day 8: From Venice to Lake Como private transfer
Day 9: Lake Como private boat tour
Day 10: Private transfer from lake Como to Milan MXP airport or city center
DETAILS
DATES:
Dates are flexible and customizable for private departures
Vacation Package inclusive of:
- 5 star hotel accommodation
- Private transfers with car and private boat
- Private boat excursions
- Private guided tours
- Private food experiences and lunch where mentioned
- Daily Breakfast
- Phone assistance during your trip
- Taxes and administrative fees
Not inclusive of:
- Airfare
- Travel insurance
- Meals and beverages where not specifically indicated
- Admission fees to churches, museums and gardens not specifically indicated
- Items of a personal nature
- Gratuities
The final price of your private vacation package may vary accordingly with the number of people in your group, the dates, the accommodation selected, the length of the tour and other items that you can add or exclude.
We strongly encourage you to buy travel insurance at the time of booking, in the event you must cancel and forfeit funds or in the unfortunate case of injury or loss.
Our vacation package is sold as a complete tour package and no breakdown of the vacation package will be provided. Refunds or exchanges cannot be made for any unused portion of the tour cost.
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Day 1: Arrival in Rome and Orientation Tour
Reach your hotel in Rome center with a comfortable private transfer from Rome airport or train station.
In the afternoon explore Rome in a walking tour with your personal guide to discover the best of Rome: Piazza Navona, the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps and more.
Accommodation – Transport - Tour
Day 2: Private Vatican Tour with Sistine Chapel and Ancient Rome Tour
With your own guide, you will get the opportunity to explore the most impressive Vatican Museums, one of the largest museums in the world with an astonishing number of pieces of art.
During your private Vatican tour, which includes stops at the Sistine Chapel, Saint Peter Basilica, and the Vatican Museums, you may see the most well-known collection of artworks in existence. In the Sistine Chapel, you may also view Michelangelo's frescoes.
In the afternoon, your private guide will lead you on a walking tour of the Ancient Rome's most famous landmarks, including the Colosseum, an amazing feat of Roman engineering and architecture. You'll also see the Roman Forum, the center of daily life in ancient Rome, and Palatin Hill, where the she-wolf found Romulus and Remus.
Accommodation – Breakfast – Tour - Transport
Day 3: Rome to Florence with stop in Siena
After traveling north for around three hours from Rome to Florence with your private driver, you will arrive in the quaint Tuscan town of Siena. In Piazza del Campo, where a renowned horse race is held twice a year, you will enjoy a classic meal.
After lunch, take a private guided tour of the town before continuing on to Florence and stopping in San Gimignano, the tower town, for a leisurely, independent visit.
Accommodation – Breakfast – Transport - Lunch - Tour
Day 4: Florence private guided walking tour with Accademia visit
With your private guide you will visit the Accademia Gallery that is well known and famous as it houses the sculptures of Michelangelo: the original statue of David transferred here from Piazza della Signoria in 1873, the unfinished St Matthew and the unfinished statue of the Prisoners.
Continue the tour in the heart of Florence with Piazza del Duomo where the Duomo with its magnificent Brunelleschi's Dome, Giotto's Bell Tower and the Baptistery of San Giovanni with its bronze doors overlook. Explore the medieval quarter with streets and alleys around Piazza della Signoria, admire the Loggia dei Lanzi, an open-air sculpture gallery of ancient and Renaissance art in front of Palazzo Vecchio and the famous Ponte Vecchio, the Medieval Bridge to reach the Oltrarno.
Accommodation – Breakfast – Tour
Day 5: Private truffle hunting with lunch
Today you will discover the world of truffles with your personal truffle hunter. In the woods around San Miniato meet your truffle hunter who will give you a first general introduction to the world of truffles before starting your truffle hunt. With your hunter and his dog you will start a walk in the Tuscan woods to learn how to find truffles and why the dog is so important in the search for this precious mushroom. At the end of your truffle hunting efforts, you will appreciate an excellent Tuscan recipe lunch of fresh truffle dishes paired with a great local wine at your truffle hunter's home. After lunch, return to Florence with a private driver.
Accommodation – Breakfast – Activity – Transport - Lunch
Day 6: Door to door private transfer from Florence to Venice & Gran Canal boat tour
Today your vacation continue northward to Venice with your private driver, once in Venice mainland, will reach your hotel with private motorboat.
In the afternoon, with your private guide and your private captain, a cruise along the Venice Grand Canal where you will admire the famous bridges of Rialto and Accademia and the palaces of the noble Venetian families that make the history of Venice and the romantic Venetians minor canals to explore the authentic Venice.
Accommodation – Breakfast – Tour – Transport
Day 7: Private excursion to the Venetian islands of Murano, Burano and Torcello
Private excursion tour by private boat and private guide to discover the islands of Murano, Burano and Torcello of the Venetian Lagoon.
Murano is the island famous for its glassmaking; here you will admire the glass masters at work while they create works of art. The reputation of Murano as center for glass making starts from the 1291 when the Venetian Republic to avoid the risk of fire and destruction of the wooden houses of Venice ordered to glassmaker to move their foundries to Murano.
The other isle of your private excursion tour is Burano, the most colorful island famous for its lace making and its picturesque fishermen's houses painted in bright pastel colors, as Burano is a fishing village on an island, probably the bright color of their houses needs to the fishermen to locate them from a distance.
Then you will arrive to the hidden Venice islands of Torcello to see the most ancient monument of the Lagoon: the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta decorated with outstanding Byzantine mosaics.
Accommodation – Breakfast – Tour – Transport
Day 8: From Venice to Lake Como private transfer
Door to door private transfer from your hotel in Venice to your hotel on Lake Como. Leave the magic Venice to reach the most romantic lake in Italy: the Lake Como.
Accommodation – Breakfast –Transport
Day 9 Excursion on Lake Como
Lake Como is the third largest lake in Italy surrounded with hills and mountains and scenic coastal villages. Appreciate an half day boat tour of the lake with your private captain to admire the coastline and with the opportunity to stop for a visit of villas and gardens or to stroll in one of the various lakeside village of the lake: Cernobbio, Tremezzo, Bellagio.
The most famous villas of the lake are: Villa Serbelloni, probably built on the site of one of Pliny the Younger’s two villas on Lake Como. The Neo-Classical Villa Melzi, it overlooks the lake in an undulating English landscape park, richly planted and decorated with ornamental buildings.
The Villa Balbianello, with its terraces overlooking the lake, sites for lawns, trees, shrubs and a chorus of statuary. Villa Carlotta on the western shore of Lake Como, built as a summer residence for a Milanese aristocrat, combines dramatic terracing, parterre and grottoes with an extensive landscape park and arboretum.
Accommodation – Breakfast –Tour
Day 10 Depart
Private departure transfer from Como lake to Milan Malpensa Airport or to Milan city center.
Breakfast –Transport