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ITALY AT LEISURE - 2010

11 days incl. travel, or 10 days from Rome to Venice (LK)

Vacation Overview

This leisurely Globus Platinum Collection vacation features three nights each in Rome, Tuscany, and Venice. In Rome, guided sightseeing with a Local Guide includes the Colosseum, Roman Forum, St. Peter’s, Vatican Museums, and Sistine Chapel. Enjoy the wines and a special lunch at Verrazzano Castle in Chianti before arriving in Tuscany, where you will stay in pretty San Gimignano for three nights. Visit the Cathedral, sculpture-filled Signoria Square, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence to admire Michelangelo’s David. In Siena, a guided walking tour shows off the Piazza del Campo. Also enjoy your Globus Platinum Discovery—an olive oil tasting! Next up: St. Anthony’s Padua, then in Venice, enjoy a private boat-ride, visit St. Mark’s Square and Basilica, Doges’ Palace, the Bridge of Sighs, and watch a glassblowing demonstration. Finally, Choose Your Experience when you select an included gondola ride or relax with a drink at the world-famous Café Florian on St. Mark’s Square—a perfect vacation!

Things to see on your vacation: View Vacation Photo Slideshow
  • Venice is considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world
  • Pisa at sunset
  • See the vineyard covered hillsides of Tuscany
  • Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy
  • The statue of Laocoön and His Sons can be seen at the Vatican Museums
  • Visit stunning Florence and the Ponte Vecchio
  • San Gimignano is a small walled hill town in the province of Siena
  • Tuscany is known for its landscapes and its artistic legacy
  • The Roman Forum, where Roman legions marched in triumph
  A Vacation Story  Bridge of Sighs

"The world’s most poetically-named bridge, Il Ponte dei Sospiri, the Bridge of Sighs, was built in 1614 so that prisoners of the Venetian state could be transferred in secret from the Doge’s Palace to the so-called Nuovi Prigioni, or New Prisons. The wistful name was actually conceived by the English poet Lord Byron in the early 1800s that imagined the horror of prisoners taking their last glimpse of Venice before going underground to captivity. "

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