Day 1: Depart the U.S: from your home airport via Delta Airlines (or similar) for Italy.
Day 2: Rome/Montecatini: After arriving in Rome proceed to baggage claim and after clearing customs, you will be met by the ABC Destinations Tours
representative and transfer to your hotel. For centuries, Montecatini has been an exclusive world-renowned spa resort, famed for its spring waters, thermal baths and numerous spa treatments. Have a Welcome Cocktail and briefing at 7.00pm at the hotel. Dinner is at the hotel. (D)
Day 3: Montecatini/Florence/Montecatini: After breakfast at the hotel, you will meet your driver and guide and transfer to Florence for walking tour. Its striking buildings, formidable galleries and treasure-crammed churches attest to the Florentine love of display. Its elegant appearance the skyline, with its russet rooftops and lofty domes, contributed to give this city its role of important center for culture and arts. See the Cathedral, whose gigantic “cupola” is the symbol of Florence’s artistic achievements, the Baptistery (from outside) with its fine bronze doors adorned with the famous gates of Paradise, and Piazza della Signoria. (B, D)
Day 4: Day at Leisure or take an optional tour to Cinque Terre & Carrara: Drive to Portovenere and the Cinque Terre “the five lands”; five medieval fisherman ports, which developed isolated through the ages as they could only be reached by sea and remained architecturally intact. Early in the morning depart for La Spezia along the Mediterranean Sea. Take a ferry boat to the Cinque Terre & Portovenere. (weather permitting). Full-day tour; includes deluxe motor coach, train and/or ferry boat, guide. (B, D)
Day 5: Montecatini/Siena/San Gimignano/Montecatini: After breakfast at the hotel drive to Siena and San Gimignano for your full day tour. Set in the most beautiful Tuscan countryside of rolling hills, lush vines and gray-green olive trees, Siena offers much to see, from the fine palaces that line the narrow cobbled streets
and the superb Duomo, to the celebrated Piazza del Campo where the famed Palio horserace is run yearly. Continue to San Gimignano, a town of Etruscan origin. Built by noble families, the fourteen remaining towers that lined the ramparts look like medieval skyscraper. (B, D)
Day 6: Day at Leisure or take an optional tour to Chianti and Vinci: The beautiful birth town of Leonardo Da Vinci is just 30 minutes away. Visit the museum dedicated to his engineering works. Then head on towards Chianti, by many foreigners defined as “the most beautiful countryside in the world” famous for the wine, enchants every visitor with the beauty of the architecture of its mediaeval small towns, castles, stone farmhouses. Perfectly blended in its breathtaking landscapes as if the whole area were shaped by the hand of an artist. Enjoy a wine tasting followed by a light lunch at the Castle of Verrazzano. Full-day tour; inc. lunch & wine tasting deluxe motor coach and entrance fee: Leonardian Museum of Vinci. (B, D)
Day 7: Day at Leisure or take an optional tour to Venice: Drive to Venice and arrive to the bus terminal around 10:30am, your tour escort will assist you as needed to get to the center of town, walking or by boat at the end of your free time you will be assisted to get back to the bus terminal, and leave town around 5pm.
Full-day tour; includes deluxe motor coach, boat fare. (B, D)
Day 8: Day at Leisure: Have a late breakfast, relax exploring Montecatini, enjoy a spa treatment, or take the cable car up to Montecatini Alto’. (B, D)
Day 9: Montecatini/U.S.: After breakfast transfer to the airport for your return flight to the U.S. (B)
