ITALIAN WINTER DELIGHT - 2009

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

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Vacation Overview

Enjoy a leisurely week in southern Italy and explore all its highlights. Start with two nights in Rome, and visit the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s, the Colosseum, and the Roman Forum with a Local Guide. Enjoy a guided walking tour of the excavations in Pompeii, the Roman city both destroyed and preserved by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Stay three nights in the bayside resort of Sorrento, and visit the Isle of Capri, the Amalfi Coast, and Positano. On the way back to Rome, visit the Abbey of Montecassino.

Special Departure:
December 20 - Christmas Eve in Sorrento

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 Pompeii

"While wandering the superbly-preserved streets of Pompeii keep an eye out for the cauponae or early fast-food restaurants beloved by the ancient Romans. Located on several corners and looking like open-air bars, these one-room establishments were where busy citizens could grab a quick meal and glass of wine on the run. They were identified by colorful signs over their doors (one place excavated in Pompeii had a Phoenix, another, an elephant and pygmy). And like modern coffee bars in Italy today, customers stood at an L-shaped brick counter to order. There were jars full of hot and cold food, as well as amphorae of wine, which they could consume on the spot or take out to a few wooden seats provided on the street or, in some cases, a small back garden."