CIAO ITALIA! - 2010

8 days incl. travel, or 7 days from Rome to Venice (ZHF)

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Vacation Overview

Spend a week in Italy with your family! Start in Rome with guided sightseeing that visits the Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s Square and Basilica, and the Colosseum, where you get a family picture with a gladiator (if available). Continue to the famous spa town of Montecatini, where you will stay for two nights and will enjoy homemade gelato at a local gelateria. Spend time in nearby Florence, “Cradle of the Renaissance,” for guided sightseeing that features Michelangelo’s David, the Cathedral, the Baptistry’s “Gate of Paradise,” and sculpture-filled Signoria Square. A festive pizza party lunch reveals the secrets behind authentic Italian pizza-making! Visit Pisa to take pictures of the famed Leaning Tower. Finally, enter Venice by private boat and join a Local Guide for visits of St. Mark’s Square and Basilica as well as Doges’ Palace and the Bridge of Sighs. Other unique included experiences: create your own Venetian mask, take a gondola ride, and enjoy a farewell dinner on Burano Island!

Take A Break getaway

If you want to see and do it all but have limited time, Globus offers these fulfilling vacations that are one week or less. You can still get the best that your destination has to offer.

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A Vacation Story Pisa

"It was the most perfect experiment in the history of science. Holding both a cannon ball and a small musket ball, the 30-something Pisa native Galileo Galilei scaled the steps of his city’s famous Leaning Tower, and held them dramatically over the edge. Eight stories below, the town’s most learned scholars and priests were gathered as observers. They watched as the two balls dropped to the ground at the same speed – disproving, with a single stroke, the ancient idea that objects fall at different rates depending on their weight and size. This archaic concept, which had been espoused by the ancient Greek author Aristotle, had been accepted without question for more than 2,000 years, Galileo’s great innovation was to put it to a practical test of observation. Unfortunately, this famous story is probably not true. Galileo never wrote about it himself – it was recounted in a late biography penned by his secretary, Vincenzo Viviani. Most historians now believe that it was Galileo’s imaginative disciples who invented the Leaning Tower tale in order to make the theory so clear that even a child could understand it. "