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PLANNING TRIP TO ITALY

For: Pat & Friends x 9

DATE 16-24/05/2020 #007593

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DATE OF EXPERIENCE	DAILY_EXPERIENCE	INCLUSION
SAT 16TH MAY	FLORENCE ARRIVAL DAY: FLORENCE (9 PAX)	PRIVATE TRANSFER ASSISTANT FOR TRANSFER  BUS RENTAL
MON 18TH MAY	GRASSINA-AREZZO-CORTONA-GRASSINA (9 PAX) AREZZO AND CORTONA: THE ETRUSCAN SOUL AND LOCAL LIFESTYLE	PRIVATE FULL DAY DRIVER GUIDED TOUR WITH ITALIAN LIFESTYLE TUTOR  (INCLUDED TRANSPORTATION BY SEDAN, MINIVAN OR BUS) ETRUSCAN GUIDED TOUR INCLUDED FEE ENTRANCE  VISIT CORTONA AND AREZZO FOODIES' PIT STOP WITH LIGHT LUNCH
ALTERNATIVE # 1: AREZZO AND CORTONA	AREZZO AND CORTONA : HISTORY AND THE GREEN WINERY	NOT INCLUDED NOT QUOTED
TUE 19TH MAY	GRASSINA-MONTEPULCIANO-PIENZA-GRASSINA (9 PAX)   PIENZA AND MONTEPULCIANO: WINE AND CHEESE, THE IDENTITY OF THESE VILLAGES	PRIVATE FULL DAY DRIVER GUIDED TOUR WITH ENGLISH SPEAKING ITALIAN LIFESTYLE TUTOR (INCLUDED TRANSPORTATION BY SEDAN, MINIVAN OR BUS)  VISIT PIENZA AND MONTEPULCIANO MEDIEVAL VILLAGE   FOODIES PIT STOP WITH PECORINO CHEESE TASTING FOODIES PIT STOP WITH NOBILE WINE TASTING  FOODIES PIT STOP WITH LIGHT LUNCH
ALTERNATIVE # 2: PIENZA	PIENZA : VILLAGES LIFESTYLE AND CHEESE MAKING	NOT INCLUDED NOT QUOTED
SAT 23RD MAY	GRASSINA-FLORENCE (8 PAX) RENAISSANCE FLORENCE : EXOTERISM AS HARMONY BETWEEN UFFIZI AND ACADEMY	PRIVATE GUIDED TOUR WITH ITALIAN LIFESTYLE TUTOR INCLUED GUIDED VISIT OF RENAISSANCE FLORENCE   UFFIZI AND ACCADEMY GALLERY GUIDED TOUR AND MUSEUMS FREE ENTRANCES  FOODIES' EXPERIENCE WITH TRAFFLE TASTING LIGHT LUNCH
ALTERNATIVE # 3: FLORENCE	FLORENCE: UFFIZI AND ACADEMY HIGHLIGHTS WITH OLTRARNO TYPICAL LUNCH	NOT INCLUDED  NOT QUOTED
SUN 24TH MAY	FLORENCE ---FREE TIME---
OPTION # 1: FLORENCE	FLORENCE: OLTRARNO AND SAN LORENZO MEDDLE AGES AND CHRISTIANITY	NOT INCLUDED QUOTED BELOW AS EXTRA
MON 25TH MAY	FLORENCE DEPARTURE DAY	PRIVATE TRANSFER

  FOR THIS TRIP:

RATE IS: APPROX EURO 500 PER PERSON BASED 8 PEOPLE

OPTION # 1 EURO 87 PER PERSON BASED 8 PEOPLE

INCLUDE: AS PER DESCRIPTION OF THE COLUMN “INCLUSION”

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 SAT 16TH MAY

FLORENCE

According to your flight arrival time, welcome at the airport of Florence and pick up by your Italian Lifestyle tutor and transfer to your accommodation, Villa Lilliano

 ARRIVAL DAY: FLORENCE

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MON 18TH MAY

GRASSINA-AREZZO-CORTONA-GRASSINA

After breakfast departure with your Italian lifestyle tutor to discover the Etruscan jems of Arezzo and Cortona including 3 hours guided tour of the Etruscan Tombs and a special foodies light lunch at a local Italian grocery store! Pick up/drop off Villa Lilliano  

 DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY

AREZZO AND CORTONA: THE ETRUSCAN SOUL AND LOCAL LIFESTYLE

Today a journey through the Etruscan villages and their mystery that hovers over the tombs and contaminates the lifestyle that we can appreciate in the two authentic gems Arezzo and Cortona

 Today our experience will be a journey to discover the Etruscan culture and we will visit two of their gems Cortona and Arezzo. With our archaeologist we will start from the origins and we will enter into what was the original Etruscan city of Cortona, with its tombs to relive a past steeped in spirituality and mystery, of which today, unfortunately, we can only perceive its meaning. Then the walk through the two historic centers, the small one in Cortona and the larger one in Arezzo will appreciate all the pleasure of the Italian style. And it will be a find again the traces of that ancient civilization so evolved and with its thousand values that are blended ​​in the thousand crafts of the shops of Cortona, where the inevitable stage in the historical food for delights with our stop foodies for a light lunch based on typicality, as well as in those of his mother Arezzo, became a symbol for his goldsmith work .... other Etruscan heritage !!!

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  ALTERNATIVE # 1: AREZZO AND CORTONA

FD ETRUSCAN TOWNS WITH LIGHT LUNCH IN GREEN WINERY 

Private full day tour by bus with Italian lifestyle tutor with visit of Arezzo and Cortona including wine tour and tasting with light lunch in a green winery

DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY

AREZZO AND CORTONA : HISTORY AND THE GREEN WINERY

   

Guided for a full day by our sommelier for the private guided tour in the Arezzo lands: discovering treasures from the Etruscan to the Renaissance and the green winery 

Our first stop is the delightful Cortona, a city that has gained international fame after Frances Mayes' bestseller, Under the Tuscan Sun, which succeeded in conveying the unique atmosphere of this corner of Tuscany to film lovers. The important Etruscan city that today appears to us poetic, romantic, unique in its kind for the atmosphere of peace will accompany us among expanses of olive trees and vineyards overlooking cereal plains and sunflowers to the "mother" Arezzo ... Arezzo is a of the richest cities of Tuscany for its goldsmith work, also an Etruscan legacy, and for its strategic position. Located in south-eastern Tuscany, it is located atop a hill at the crossroads of four valleys: the Tiber Valley, the Valdarno, the Val di Chiana and the Casentino, proudly displaying the tresorios from its Roman amphitheater to its rare early Renaissance frescoes by Pier della Francesca to the Medici fortress. And it will be walking along the Corso Italia with its many shops and bars up to the Piazza Grande, to show us all the pleasantness of the most Italian style that harmonizes everything and that goes to explain the naturalness sought also in its wine productions .. And it will be simple understand the concept of "green cellar" with our wine tour and tasting  and our foodies light lunch    

 INCLUSION 

 PRIVATE FULL DAY DRIVER GUIDED TOUR WITH ENGLISH SPEAKING ITALIAN SOMMELIER  (INCLUDED TRANSPORTATION BY SEDAN, MINIVAN OR BUS VISIT CORTONA AND AREZZO  

  WINE TOUR AND TASTING

FOODIES' LIGHT LUNCH 

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GRASSINA-MONTEPULCIANO-PIENZA-GRASSINA

After breakfast departure with your Italian lifestyle tutor to discover the Orcia Valley and here stop to delight your eyes in Montepulciano where you will enjoy a wine tour and tasting of the Nobile wine and then continuing to Pienza, lovely village home to Pecorino cheese and of course you can't miss a stop in a cheese farm for a guided tour and light lunch based on Pecerino cheese tasting! Pick up/drop off Villa Lilliano

DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY

  PIENZA AND MONTEPULCIANO: WINE AND CHEESE, THE IDENTITY OF THESE VILLAGES

Today we will be kidnapped by Valdorcia, the UNESCO site recognized for its beauty! And our foodies pit stops of today will make us taste atmospheres and every aroma of this magical territory among the enchanting villages and lands of boundless intimacy ..

Today our journey in a soft driving up and down, it will be a full immersion in wheat hills and cereals that alternate grapes vines and olive trees on which overlook small villages, located on the extreme peaks, and  following the continuous lines of green cypresses, that guide us to the path, in the four colors of the seasons to the evocative villages and amazing taste. Our guided experience will lead us to discover these two inevitable gems of the Valdorcia: Pienza and Montepuciano in the pleasure of walking between small shops and narrow streets, now flat, now steep, which embrace, forming a whole, Medieval stone houses and Renaissance palaces with imposing portals. The slow walk, beyond the driving, will make us appreciate extraordinary scenic views and the local way of life, which has remained slow, with our stops to taste: the very famous pecorino cheese of Pienza  and , his alter ego of excellence, Vino Nobile wine of Montepulciano, entering for a tasting, directly to those who produce them.. here! . A delicious light lunch will be the foodies pit stop that will celebrate all our emotions !!!

ALTERNATIVE # 2: PIENZA

FD ORCIA VALLEY WITH VILLAGE AND CHEESE MAKING THINKING GREEN 

This morning after breakfast, meeting your Italian Lifestyle tutor and, departure for the Orcia Valley, unique for its beauty, including the visit lovely Pienza home to Pecorino cheese and here take the unique experience to make cheese and enjoy an organic lunch at the local cheese producer

DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY

 PIENZA : VILLAGES LIFESTYLE AND CHEESE MAKING

Accompanied by our Italian lifestyle tutor for the guided full day experience to the Valdorcia for discover why wine and cheese here is lifestyle to thinking green like we will learn with Ulisse, in the cheese making lesson and tour ending with our foodies pit stop with organic lunch 

Today our journey will be the guided experience that will lead us to discover the most evocative stops of the Valdorcia including the inevitable Pienza and here, how the two excellences Vino and Pecorino are a lifestyle that we will perfectly understand together with Ulysses, in his dairy where we will make cheese with him !!! And ... only after our organic lunch, which will conclude our foodies pit stop, will we understand what it means to think green ... with the slow walk among the shops and streets of Pienza and the stops to admire the most evocative views made of parish churches, cypresses and tiny hamlets to perceive the harmony that here puts everything together in the divine framework called sustainability !!! 

INCLUSION  

  PRIVATE FULL DAY DRIVER GUIDED TOUR WITH ENGLISH SPEAKING ITALIAN LIFESTYLE TUTOR (INCLUDED TRANSPORTATION BY SEDAN, MINIVAN OR BUS)

 VISIT PIENZA AND EVOCATIVE STOPS 

 PECORINO CHEESE TOUR WITH CHEESE MAKING EXPERIENCE

FOODIES PIT STOP WITH ORGANIC LUNCH AT THE LOCAL CHEESE PRODUCER 

GRASSINA-FLORENCE

 After your transfer to Florence meeting with your Italian lifestyle tutor to discover Florence with different eyes... infact you will discover during a 3 hours guided tour the esoteric codes from the art of Michelangelo and Botticelli between the Uffizi and the Academy to the table with truffle experience. In the afternoon time for you to take part to the Mass in Duomo.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY

 RENAISSANCE FLORENCE : EXOTERISM AS HARMONY BETWEEN UFFIZI AND ACADEMY

Being attraqcetd to Florence means being attracted by the Renaissance for its concept of beauty, understood as an expression of the perfect harmony that regulates man, nature and science. For this reason, for every visitor, in every time you are in Florence, the Uffizi and the Academy Gallery are not to be missed!

And this is how today our journey will be to the discovery of the two greatest actors of the Reinassance: Michelangelo and Botticelli among the few who were able to welcome into painting and sculpture, as geniuses as was, the esoteric language that only in the Renaissance knew how to link faith and science through that a harmony that not only translated into beauty but that made the search for knowledge approve, which translated into science, binding it to a select few: the geniuses! The only ones to whom nature and therefore the divine power had elected them to be educators, the connection, with their esoteric language, between the absolute knowledge of God and the absolute ignorance of medieval man. So our guided ezperience of today will be a guided tour to discover the esoteric Florence of the Renaissance, through the search for those secret codes that will allow us to understand how Botticelli and Michelangelo treated them in art and how the truffle welcomed them translating into the concept of "luxury "the concept of eliteness that we can try in our foodies pit stop with tasting ligh lunch

After your transfer to Florence meeting with your Italian lifestyle tutor to discover Florence with different eyes.. guided tour of the main musums and lunch in the historic artist distric of Florence  

 FLORENCE: UFFIZI AND ACCADEMY HIGHLIGHTS WITH OLTRARNO TYPICAL LUNCH  

  

Accompanied by our Italian lifestyle tutor on the guided tour to discover the highlights of Uffizi and Accademy with the David ending with our foodies pit stop with a typical lunch at the table with the artisans of Oltrarno 

And today our guided experience will be to discover the greatest masterpieces of the Uffizi and those of Michelangelo kept at the Galleria dell'Accademia and then end up in the Oltrarno, the artisans' district, for our stop foodies with a typical lunch sitting together with those who work daily to preserve and implement the beauty that was a Renaissance highlight ... imagining .. to find among the diners the same artists that ... in the Renaissance started just like this: in the workshops called Botteghe!!!

INCLUSION  

PRIVATE GUIDED TOUR WITH ITALIAN LIFESTYLE TUTOR INCLUED GUIDED VISIT OF  FLORENCE 

 UFFIZI AND ACCADEMY GALLERY 3HS GUIDED TOUR AND MUSEUMS FREE ENTRANCES 

FOODIES' PIT STOP WITH TYPICAL LUNCH WITH ARTISANS OF OLTRARNO

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SUN 24TH MAY

FLORENCE

Today you can take your time for exploring and enjoy the lifestyle of Florence 

DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY

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OPTION # 1: FLORENCE

FD TOUR TO INCLUDE FOR DISCOVERING THE REAL SOUL OF FLORENCE

Private full day discovering Christianity in Florence through two typical districts and a guided tour of Santa Maria Nova Hospital including lunch with typical delicacies.

FLORENCE: OLTRARNO AND SAN LORENZO MEDDLE AGES AND CHRISTIANITY

   

 Accompanied by our Italian lifestyle tutor for the guided tour of Florence that you do not expect to discover: the Christian face, in the Meddle ages  of Florence between the districts of Oltrarno and San Lorenzo, like Florentines, outside the most turistic circle of walls

Today our journey will lead us to discover the face that only the locals expect to find: the medieval towers, as in San Gimignano and the daily life of the Florentines residing starting from the first hospital that from the Middle Ages here continues to work ... only for who lives inside the Florentine walls and who, like then, boasts the support of the Oblate' sisters !!! The guided experience of today will enter the soul of Florence through the lifestyle of the Florentines that we can do only retracing on the path of the Christianity .. so it will be a journey from the district from which the first Christian community Santa Felicita originated, in the Oltrarno district, to the first cathedral of San Lorenzo, passing through the Duomo to visit the museum parts of the Santa Maria Nuova hospital. Here we could understand how Florence became Christian: from the Romans, with the temple, to the Renaissance that hosted Leonardo da Vinci for anatomical studies underneath the complete management of the sisters to whom Folco Portinari, father of the Beatrice loved by Dante, entrusted all responsibility from the end of the 13th century. Then continuing to breath the lifestyle of the few Florentines who continue to live here will make us better understand the Christian approach to lifestyle that they made here: the first orphanage for single mothers ... which was in the middle ages too !!! A foodies pit stop for lunch , as Florentines do,  will make us forget that we are tourists even if lunch will be light !!!

INCLUSION 

PRIVATE GUIDED TOUR WITH ITALIAN LIFESTYLE TUTOR INCLUED PRIVATE GUIDED TOUR OF MEDIEVAL FLORENCE 

 SANTA MARIA NUOVA GUIDED VISIT 

 OLTRARNO AND SAN LORENZO DISTRICTS VISIT 

FOODIES' EXPERIENCE WITH  LUNCH 

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MON 25TH MAY

FLORENCE BYE BYE

According to your flight departure time private transfer from your hotel to Florence airport

DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY

DEPARTURE DAY : PRIVATE TRANSFER TO FLORENCE APT/TRAIN STATION