At 5.55am meeting your driver host at the arrival hall in milan Malpensa airport T1 to Milan Malpensa (Terminal 1)and transfer to your charming downtown Milan Spadari hotel, 2 nights BB 1 triple room . Time at leisure to enjoy the city and in the evening dinner at Il Salumaio di Montenapoleone (ONLY RESERVATION)
ACCOMMODATION TO MILAN
ACCOMMODATION 2NIGHTS BB TRIPLE ROOM
DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY
ARRIVAL DAY : PRIVATE TRANSFER TO MILAN
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FRI 6TH DEC
MILAN-COMO LAKE-MILAN
This morning after breakfast with your driver and Italian lifestyle tutor departure to reach Como, and leisure walk to discover this charming city rich in hidden Piazza and lovely streets beside of course the beautiful Lake, and an interesting guided tour of the Silk museum… a tradition belonging to this city that not so many know about! In the evening dinner at Cracco restaurant (ONLY RESERVATION).
DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY
COMO: ELEGANT VILLAS ALONG THE SILK ROAD
A journey to savor the Dolce Vita of Como, the elegant refinement of his life as of his silk and the romance of his lake up to the intense flavors of its valleys of our foodies pit stop
We could not start if not with a walk to discover the stylish soul of Como and its lake, but although this has really satisfied and infused the sense of well-being, we cannot miss the opportunity to delight our palate too .. and we will do it, at the regional wine shop that will allow us to taste unobtainable flavors of these valleys between the lake and the Alps .. this will be our foodies pit stop !!. But our tour is not over, maybe you know that this area is the most famous in the world for the production of silk, so we will end the day at the Silk Museum to get to know, with a guided tour, the whole chain that leads to the "creation "silk from worms to the factory for the fabrication phase, with coloring and final inspections [...]
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SAT 7TH DEC
MILAN - VALPOLICELLA - VERONA
Private transfer from Milan to Verona and full day tour crossing the Valpolicella area with wine tour & tasting at Le Salette winery and Zyme tour & tasting and stop for light lunch with local excellences . Drop off at Il Relais 2 nights 1 DBL superior + 1 bed BB
ACCOMMODATION TO VERONA
ACCOMMODATION 2NIGHTS BB TRIPLE ROOM
DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY
VALPOLICELLA: AMARONE WINE AND FOOD IS LIFESTYLE
It will be a special revelation that will not be told ... how the inhabitants of Valpolicella think and how they live ... it will be enough to taste their amarone and their foods and in the face of who realizes them you will find the soul ... the different character united by the common minimum denominator: concreteness, sincerity !!
There will be two excellences for the wine tour of the day, very different but both that breathe the soul of this land together with their Masters and authentically assorbing the same character and lifestyle , the only think that is difficult to export! It will be surprising to go from a "traditional" producer to a "visionary" producer and discover that their wines have the same character, the same reactions, timidise, mystery, sensuality ... they lived in symbiosis with those who gave them birth and as own children have the same lifestyle !!! And if you think that the emotions are only for the magic of alcohol you are wrong .. we will discover it in our Foodies pit stop where we will taste authentic dishes, and the brief stop of our light lunch will be enough, you will immediately understand the hand of the artist, just a look at the people , to the dishes ... you understand !! Are the same perceptions that here passed from father to son those that we are living !!! Not only with the palate ... with the skin !! [...]
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SUN 8TH DEC
VERONA
The whole day for you to enjoy the main highlights of Verona and the Christmas stalls and if you wish there is an interesting international exhibition of Nativity Scene from artisans from all over the world
DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY
-- FREE DAY ---
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MON 9TH DEC
VERONA-ROME
This morning with your driver host transfer to Verona Porta Nuova train station to catch the late morning fast train to Rome. Transfer from termini train station to Hotel Triviho Luxury, 1 triple room BB 4 nights . In the evening dinner at Trattoria Il Moro (ONLY RESERVATION)
This morning private transfer to Il Vaticano, and here meet the guide and the rest of the group to begin the joinable guided tour of Vatican Museums including the Sistine Chapel. Time to relax and transfer back to your hotel to get ready for La Traviata show. Enjoy the predinner at Hespresso restaurant before attending the Traviata Opera. From the restaurant walk 300mt to reach Saint Paul’s Within the Walls Church to attend La Traviata Opera.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY
ROMA ROME GRAND TOUR: SISTINA CHAPEL AND OPERA WITH LIBERTY DINNER
A journey of romance emotions! As if it were a stop of 800s' Grand Tour we will involved in a whirlwind of emotions to experience what is not to be missed on a journey to get to know Italy: from the Sistine Chapel to the Opera where also the unusual Foodies pit stop it will take us back to the nineteenth-century romantic journey!
It will be for us the experience that will bring us back to the nineteenth century where the first stop, the unmissable visit, will be the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican Museums with a guided joinable visit. And it will be precisely the room with the geographical maps that will push us to continue the export of Rome in a free stroll, by curious travelers, who will prepare us to live that "dreamy" spirit of travelers of the nineteenth century to lead us to the perfect evening when we will reach the neo-Gothic Anglican church of San Paolo within the Walls to get involved by the Opera of which Verdi, with his Traviata, was the main actor of his time. But if deeping into the emotional whirlwind of the Opera, when it "travels" outside the Theaters and blend the spirituality of the places, it will be a suggestive and unique experience, our foodies' pit stop with tonight's dinner will prepare us rightly. That's right! Because at pre-show dinner we would be in a restaurant that was "train station hangar"; and here, everything that will surround us, will make us remember traveling in that liberty style where also dining rooms resemble wagons of a train stopped at the station waiting to be delighted with aromas and flavors that the master chefs already showing from those open kitchens ... then the dinner and the Opera show will be the celebratory symphony !! [...]
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WED 11TH DEC
ROME
After breakfast meeting your guide at your hotel, and with the private driver disposal, transfer to begin an emotional journey into the Ancient Rome including the Pantheon, the Imperial Forum and entrance to the Colosseum. Rest of the day at leisure to discover the city under its Christmas lights! In the evening dinner at le Jardin de la Russie (ONLY RESERVATION)
DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY
ROME:COLESSEUM, IMPERIAL FORUMS AND PANTHEON
An intense journey through the vestiges of ancient Rome from the Colosseum to the Forums passing through the suggestions of the Pantheon to fix its emotions in the foodies pit stop to bring history up to date
Today the emotions of walking the vestiges of ancient Rome will bring us back to perceive the power of the Roman empire in the majesty of the Colosseum as well as the colonnades and arches of the Roman Forums, finishing to savory the spirituality of the Pantheon with the guided tour with our archaeologist who will end in a typical trattoria for a light lunch dedicated to Roman culinary traditions.. with the best artichokes [...]
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TUE 12TH DEC
ROME
This morning meeting your guide at your hotel and to discover Rome with its most significant neighbourhoods in a mix of history and culture with some unmissable foodies stops!
DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY
ROME: FLAVOURS AND AROMAS GUIDED TOUR
Walking fro visiting to areas known as the Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Campo de 'Fiori, Ghetto, Trastevere…you are reaching along unusual paths throght the flavors and aromas of the city !!
Our guide accompanies you by hand in a walk along the most authentic and ancient places of Rome where some of the typical Roman products and recipes were born and produced.A journey of taste that unfolds in the most veritable neighborhoods of Rome starting from Campo dei Fiori with its food market to let us be enraptured by the first authentic flavors including the inevitable Pecorino Romano ... and the White Pizza !! .. then how to jump the ghetto..and its artichokes ?? And then to ..Trastevere for carbonara !!! Obviously in perfect Roman style .. everything is "washed" down with Castelli wines.... If it is still early we will go to the Pantheon to taste one of the best coffees, in the heart of Roman political life, not before stopping in a Sicilian confectionery where the cannoli are always fresh and served in an old room, including grandmother's beliefs, where we will taste the “Rosolio” the liqueur that in Sicily that was offered at the end of the meal accompanied by sweets [....]
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WED 13TH DEC
ROME BYE BYE
In the morning meeting your driver host at your hotel for transfer to Rome airport and driver assistance for luggage to catch your flight