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.

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 Cooking class, Ancient Rome and Colosseum
Private cooking class to learn the secrets of Roman cuisine including a food market tour with your chef to choose the best ingredients to use in your cooking class, your cooking class starts with a welcome drink, wear your hat as a chef, apron and tea towel and start preparing food with your personal chef.
The lesson ends with a lunch prepared with the dishes you have cooked and paired with water, local wine and a good Italian espresso.
In the afternoon your personal guide will take you on a walking tour to visit Colosseum, incredible work of Roman architecture and engineering and the city's most famous landmark continue to visit the Roman Forum and Palatine hill
Accommodation – Breakfast – Activity – Tour - Transport - Lunch


Day 3:      Rome to Florence with stop in Siena
In the morning with your private driver leave from Rome toward Florence, after about 3 hours north ward you will reach the charming Tuscany town of Siena. You will enjoy of a typical lunch in Piazza del Campo where twice a year takes place famous horse race.
After lunch private guided tour of the town and then continue toward your hotel Florence with a stop in San Gimignano, the towns of tower, for a tour at leisure on your own.
Accommodation – Breakfast – Transport - Lunch


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 transfer to Milan Malpensa Airport or to Milan city center.
Breakfast –Transport