Rome Trip Overview
Day 1: Rome – Venice – Florence
Pick up at your hotel in Rome (centrally located), meet your assistant at the train station and departure to Venice. Arrival and start the walking tour through the bridges and canals. Visit St. Mark’s Square with the Basilica. See the Campanile, the Ducal Palace, the famous Bridge of Sighs. Time for lunch on your own and free time for shopping. You can end your tour in Venice with a “Gondola ride” (not included). In the afternoon departure to Florence by fast train, arrival and transfer to your hotel.
Day 2: Florence – Rome
After breakfast meet the guide and start the walking tour, you will see the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore with the famous Brunelleschi’s Dome, Giotto’s bell tower, Piazza della Signoria. Then visit the “Accademia Gallery” where you can admire from a short distance the Michelangelo’s David.
Lunch on your own and free time for shopping. In the afternoon departure to Rome by high-speed train, arrival and transfer to your hotel.
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Duration: 2 days
Starts: Rome, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Day 1: Rome – Venice – Florence
Pick up at your hotel in Rome (centrally located), meet your assistant at the train station and departure to Venice. Arrival and start the walking tour through the bridges and canals. Visit St. Mark’s Square with the Basilica. See the Campanile, the Ducal Palace, the famous Bridge of Sighs. Time for lunch on your own and free time for shopping. You can end your tour in Venice with a “Gondola ride” (not included). In the afternoon departure to Florence by fast train, arrival and transfer to your hotel.
Day 2: Florence – Rome
After breakfast meet the guide and start the walking tour, you will see the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore with the famous Brunelleschi’s Dome, Giotto’s bell tower, Piazza della Signoria. Then visit the “Accademia Gallery” where you can admire from a short distance the Michelangelo’s David.
Lunch on your own and free time for shopping. In the afternoon departure to Rome by high-speed train, arrival and transfer to your hotel.
Itinerary
Day 1: Venice 1° Day
Stop At: Stazione di Venezia Santa Lucia, Fondamenta Santa Lucia, 30121 Venice Italy
Construction of Santa Lucia railway station began in 1860 under the Austrian Empire. In order to make room for both the station building and its forecourt, a convent and the Church of Santa Lucia were demolished in 1861. The station in turn took up the name of this church. The current station building is one of the few modernist buildings facing the Grand Canal.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Ponte di Rialto, Ruga degli Orefici (Rialto) San Polo, 30125 Venice Italy
The Rialto Bridge is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Connecting the sestieri of San Marco and San Polo, it has been rebuilt several times since its first construction as a pontoon bridge in the 12th century, and is now a significant tourist attraction in the city.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Basilica di San Marco, Piazza San Marco 328, 30124 Venice Italy
The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark, commonly known as St Mark’s Basilica, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice, northern Italy. It is the most famous of the city’s churches and one of the best known examples of Italo-Byzantine architecture.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Piazza San Marco, 31024 Venice Italy
The Square is dominated at its eastern end by the great church of St Mark. It is described here by a perambulation starting from the west front of the church (facing the length of the Piazza) and proceeding to the right.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Doge’s Palace, Piazza San Marco, 1, 30124 Venice Italy
The Doge’s Palace is a palace built in Venetian Gothic style, and one of the main landmarks of the city of Venice in northern Italy. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice, the supreme authority of the former Venetian Republic. It was founded in 1340, and extended and modified in the following centuries.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Ponte dei Sospiri, Piazza San Marco, 1, 30100 Venice Italy
The Bridge of Sighs is a bridge in Venice, Italy. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone, has windows with stone bars, passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison to the interrogation rooms in the Doge’s Palace.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Canal Grande, 30100 Venice Italy
The Grand Canal Venetian: Canal Grando, anciently Canałasso is the channel in Venice, Italy. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. One end of the canal leads into the lagoon near the Santa Lucia railway station and the other end leads into the basin at San Marco; in between, it makes a large reverse-S shape through the central districts (sestieri) of Venice. It is 3.8 km (2.4 mi) long, and 30 to 90 m (98 to 295 ft) wide, with an average depth of 5 metres (16 feet).
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Gondola Bacino Orseolo, Bacino Orseolo, 30121 Venezia VE, Italy
Enjoy a tour about the gondola (optional not included) the traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon. It is similar to a canoe. It is propelled by a gondolier, who uses a rowing oar, which is not fastened to the hull, in a sculling manner and acts as the rudder.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: City of Venice, City of Venice, Veneto
Enjoy a small tour in a vaporetto (one way or return included), another name for a water taxi or water bus in Venice, operated by ACTV, the public transport authority for Venice. For the visitor to Venice you have 2 options to get around, walk or by water. If you don’t want to walk the water bus service is the affordable way to get around.
Duration: 30 minutes
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: One night 4-stars hotel in Florence included continental breakfast. Rates not include city taxes, pay directly.
Day 2: Florence 2°Day
Pass By: Duomo – Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Via della Canonica, 1 Piazza del Duomo, 50122, Florence Italy
Florence Cathedral, formally the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, is the cathedral of Florence, Italy. It was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi.
Stop At: Campanile di Giotto, Piazza del Duomo Historical Center, 50122, Florence Italy
Giotto’s Campanile is a free-standing campanile that is part of the complex of buildings that make up Florence Cathedral on the Piazza del Duomo in Florence, Italy
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Galleria dell’Accademia, Via Ricasoli, 58/60, 50122, Florence Italy
The Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze, or “Gallery of the Academy of Florence”, is an art museum in Florence, Italy. It is best known as the home of Michelangelo’s sculpture David.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Piazza della Signoria, 50122, Florence Italy
Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio. It is the main point of the origin and history of the Florentine Republic and still maintains its reputation as the political focus of the city.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Ponte Vecchio, 50125, Florence Italy
The Ponte Vecchio is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy. It is noted for its shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewelers, art dealers, and souvenir sellers.
Duration: 30 minutes
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
