Venice, Florence &Cinque Terre - EF Educational Tours

Venice, Florence
&Cinque Terre
9 or 11 Days
Cinque Terre, Italy

Top things to see on tour:
Colosseum
Cinque Terre
Doge’s Palace
Number of overnight stays in parentheses. This tour may also be reversed.
Program Fee includes:
• Round-trip airfare
• Comfortable motorcoach;
Train with extension
• 7 overnight stays in hotels with private
bathrooms (9 with extension)
• European breakfast and dinner daily
• Full-time EF Tour Director
• 3 sightseeing tours led by licensed
local guides (5 with extension)
• 1 sightseeing tour led by your
tour director
Optional:
• Art workshop
• Pisa
Lake Como
Florence Duomo
Day 1: Fly overnight to Italy
Day 2: Milan • Venice
Arrive in Milan
Travel to Venice
Day 3: Venice
Take a guided tour of Venice:
– St. Mark’s Square
– Grand Canal
Visit the Doge’s Palace
See a glass-blowing demonstration
Optional: Art workshop
Day 4: Ravenna • Florence
Take a guided tour of Ravenna
Visit the Museum and Basilica of
San Vitale
Travel to Florence
Day 5: Florence
Take a guided tour of Florence:
– Piazza della Signoria
– Ponte Vecchio
Visit the Duomo
See a leather-making demonstration
Optional: Pisa
Day 6: Cinque Terre
Travel to Cinque Terre
Day 7: Cinque Terre
Explore Cinque Terre by train
Day 8: Como region
Travel to the Como region
Take a cruise on Lake Como
Day 9: Depart for home
2-DAY TOUR EXTENSION
Day 9: Rome
Take a train from Milan to Rome
Day 10: Rome
Take a guided tour of Vatican City
Visit the Sistine Chapel
Visit St. Peter’s Basilica
Take a guided tour of Rome
Visit the Colosseum
Visit the Roman Forum
Take a self-guided walking tour of Rome
Day 11: Depart for home
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Venice
Crisscrossed with romantic bridges and laced with
history, Venice boasts some of the world’s finest art
and architecture. On your sightseeing tour of the
Floating City, see gondolas glide down the Grand
Canal before stopping in St. Mark’s Square. Look for
the golden weathervane, which resembles archangel
Gabriel, atop the 323-foot Campanile (Bell Tower).
Attend a glass-blowing demonstration and watch
expert craftsmen spin molten-hot wares. At the pinkand-white
Doge’s Palace, see where mighty Venetian
dukes once ruled. Stroll over the Bridge of Sighs,
which links the palace to a prison. As they crossed
the bridge, prisoners supposedly sighed with perfect
sadness as they regarded their beautiful city for the
last time.
Gondolier
Venice, Italy
Florence
Florence marks the birthplace of the Italian language,
opera and the Renaissance, and works of art like Michelangelo’s
statue of David and Botticelli’s The Birth
of Venus, still reside here today. As you stroll through
the city, pass by classical statues at the Piazza della
Signoria. See the domed cap of the Santa Maria del
Fiore Cathedral, better known as the Duomo, which
dominates the skyline. Opposite the Duomo, look for
the bronzed doors of Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise at
the Baptistry. Walk across the Ponte Vecchio, a Medieval
bridge where many of Florence’s famed leather
and gold artisans keep shop. Then, visit a leather workshop,
the perfect place to find Florentine souvenirs.
Santa Maria Cathedral
Florence, Italy
Cinque Terre
Cinque Terre, which literally translates to “five earths,”
is a cluster of towns speckled on the dramatic cliffs
of the Mediterranean coast. Each of these five Italian
villages—Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola
and Riomaggiore, in all—has its own unique character
and charm. Travel by train between the villages and
take in views of dazzling aquamarine water, which
makes the area popular with sunbathers and swimmers.
From Monterosso’s lively markets to Vernazza’s
medieval forts and Manarola’s pastel-colored edifices,
there is something for everyone to discover and enjoy
in Cinque Terre.
Seaside village
Cinque Terre, Italy
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