Italy – Prosecco Tour and Verona

ITINERARY

• DAY 1
  Treviso, Italy

  Welcome to Italy!

  Welcome to the magnificent Venice. Upon arrival, meet with your English-speaking driver and transfer to Treviso. After check-in, spend the day at leisure to relax and rest after your overseas flight.

  What's included?

  • Accommodation
  • Transfer
• DAY 2
  Treviso, Italy

  Treviso - City tour

  After a breakfast at hotel, start the day by visiting the city center: Piazza dei Signori (the main square) with its red tints from the Gothic battlements of Palazzo dei Trecento and Torre Civica. Continuing along Calmaggiore (the main street) we reach the Cathedral, here you can proceed to the imposing St. Nicolò cathedral and Sala del Capitolo dei Domenicani. Later, walk along the characteristic 'canale dei Buranelli' that flows along an arcaded lane.
  
  Overnight in Treviso.

  What's included?

  • Breakfast
  • Accommodation
  • Tour
  • Transfer
• DAY 3
  Valdobbiadene - Admire to the Prosecco Road in Northern Italy

  In the morning, breakfast at the hotel and departure to the so-called "Prosecco road" leaves Conegliano passing through Rua di Feletto, which grew around the old Camaldolese Monastery of St. Maria Assunta. This road continues through S. Pietro di Feletto where you can visit the old medieval Pieve (parish church from the XIIth century) with its Romanesque bell-tower, frescoes of the XVIIIth century, and "Madonna with Babe and Saints" of the XVth century. The next stop is Refrontolo, which, as well as its Prosecco, cultivates an excellent Marzemino (red dessert wine). Taking the lane in front of the church you will come to the medieval Molinetto della Croda, a picturesque mill situated among century-old trees. The road proceeds onto Pieve di Soligo, Solighetto (where there is a small museum dedicated to the opera singer Toti Dal Monte at Villa Brandolini), Farra di Soligo, and finally Valdobbiadene, known mainly for its production of Prosecco, and the superior quality called Cartizze.
  
  Overnight in a typical estate in Valdobbiadene with the traditional Italian hospitality.

  What's included?

  • Breakfast
  • Accommodation
  • Tour
  • Transfer
• DAY 4
  Santa Maria della Salute and gondolas in Venice, Italy

  Venice - Stay in the heart of Venice to feel the heartbeat of the city

  Breakfast and departure from your hotel to Venice Island. Check-in to our hotel in the San Marco area and enjoy your stay in Venice. You will feel the heartbeat of Venice and visit Basilica San Marco with the facade mosaics, the Horses of Saint Mark, the Tetrarchs, etc. Entrance included seeing the Pala D’Oro, the Atrium Mosaics, the treasury, and the Ascension and Pentecost Domes. The Doge’s Palace, or ‘’Palazzo Ducale’’ is a masterpiece of Gothic architecture. The Giants’ staircase and Porta della Carta are truly architecturally magnificent as well as the Sala Del Maggior Consiglio and the Collegiate Rooms. Follow a ‘’Secret Itinerary’’ through the palace, including the prisons from which Casanova escaped. The Rialto Bridge makes this area a magnet for tourists exploring its food markets and pasta shops. In the evening we suggest a walking tour in the unknown part of Venice visiting the oldest and most famous “osterie” (Bacari) where you will taste “Cicheti” (Venetian snacks) and drinks “Ombra” (shadow), a small special glass of wine. The “Bacari” is firmly entrenched in the city's popular culture.
  
  Overnight in Venice.

  What's included?

  • Breakfast
  • Accommodation
  • Tour
  • Transfer
• DAY 5
  Venice - Visit the Islands; San Maggiore, Lido, Murano, Burano

  Today is all blue! After buffet breakfast in our hotel, get on the boat to the islands. After passing the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, the public gardens, and the Lido, famous for its beaches, we reach the island of Murano known all over the world for its glass manufacturing workshops. Here there is a stop of 40 minutes to visit one of the artisans. The second stop is on the picturesque island of Burano, famous not only for its lace but also for its fishermen’s houses painted in bright colors. The stop is about 35 minutes. Ten minutes after leaving Burano we reach Torcello, the first center of civilization in the history of the lagoon. Only the Cathedral with its magnificent mosaics and the church of Santa Fosca remain as heritage of its former glory.
  
  Back to Venice where in the late afternoon a romantic “promenade” by gondola will take you along the canals of Venice! Enjoy the cruise through the city’s most secluded waterways passing under small bridges and appreciate the real peculiarity of this city floating on water.
  
  Overnight in Venice.

  What's included?

  • Breakfast
  • Accommodation
  • Tour
  • Transfer
  • Cruise/Boat
• DAY 6
  Verona, Italy

  Verona - Walking tour in Verona with private guide

  Breakfast and departure from your hotel in Verona. Check-in to our hotel in Verona and walk tour visit in Verona with private guide: itinerary along the history of the city: St. Anastasia, Della Scala monuments, Piazza Erbe, Juliet’s House, Arena.
  
  Back to the hotel after dinner and overnight in Verona.

  What's included?

  • Breakfast
  • Dinner
  • Accommodation
  • Tour
  • Transfer
• DAY 7
  Valpolicella Celler, Italy

  Verona - Discover one of the most beautiful romantic churches and marvelous Villa/cellar at Valpolicella Route

  Today we go by car to the Valpolicella route. Visiting San Floriano and San Giorgio Ingannapoltron, the most beautiful romantic churches of the region; visit afterward to a marvelous Villa/cellar: A monumental complex positioned in the middle of a green valley surrounded by wooded slopes and marvelous vineyards.
  
  The itinerary starts from the XVIII cent. Villa is surrounded by 220ha vineyards, with its hall with frescoes and rooms which are the proof of its ancient past. Then the tour continues with a walking promenade in the park, along the beautiful little lake, to reach the old cellar. Here you will see the room where the grapes are withered to produce Amarone's wine, a little wine museum, the large cellars with their old barrels, and the distillery. At the end of the tour, there will be a tasting of wine with a little gastronomic buffet. In the afternoon back to Verona and free time.
  
  Overnight in Verona.

  What's included?

  • Breakfast
  • Accommodation
  • Tour
  • Transfer
• DAY 8
  Garda Lake, Italy

  Verona - Admire the Garda Lake

  After buffet breakfast in hotel, private transfer to Lazise. It is a commune in the province of Verona where you will find impressive reminders of medieval splendors as well: the magnificent Scaliger castle and walls that still surround the historic center, now full of shops, restaurants, and bars. Next to the small harbor is the Dogana Veneta from where for centuries the Republic of Venice controlled all commerce on Lake Garda. The story of oil-milling from its beginning as a rural activity to the dawning of the technological age is the theme of the Oil Museum realized by the oil mill in Cisano del Garda, and the museum is a unique exhibition that shows how oil has been produced in rural society for over a thousand years of particular interest is the reconstruction of a XIXth century oil mill which is still in working order, driven by the classical water wheel which turns the grindstone through a series of wooden cog-wheels. After the oil museum, you continue to Sirmione, the most famous village in the area developed inside its castle where you across by private boat to the Garda island, which is now opened to the public where you will visit the gardens and the impressive Neo-gothic-Venetian Villa. Your island visit lasts approximately two hours, and then back to the mainland, and transfer to Verona.
  
  Overnight in Verona

  What's included?

  • Breakfast
  • Accommodation
  • Tour
  • Transfer
  • Cruise/Boat
• DAY 9

  Departure to Verona Airport

  Today is our final day in our journey. After buffet breakfast at our hotel, you will be transferred to the airport for flight back home or to your next journey.

  What's included?

  • Breakfast
  • Transfer