Day 1
Monday, March 28th
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Land in Rome
- Take the train to Florence
Day 2
Tuesday, March 29th
To Do: walk through Florence
- Santa Maria del Fiore “The Dome”
- Museo dell’Opera del Duomo (Ghiberti’s Doors)
- Bapistry
- Piazza della Signoria (Bonfire of the Vanities)
- Leather Markets
- Sunset at the Piazzale Michelangelo
Day 3
Wednesday, March 30th
- Accademia with David
- Uffizi
- Boboli Gardens-attached-Pitti Palace
- 4PM Gelato Tour
Day 4
Thursday, March 31st
Venice or Pisa
Day 5
Friday, April 1st
Venice:
- Catch a Vaporetto up the Grand Canal
- St. Mark’s square with mosaics and look at the building across the lagoon
- Bridge of Sighs (See from St. Mark’s Square, you were going to your death)
- St. Mark’s Basilica
- Rialto Bridge (1/2 way up the canal and we can just see it)
- Murano (Where all the glass is made)
- Burano
Pisa:
- Leaning tower
- Baptistery (If you pay the guards they will sing to you)
- Piazza dei Miracoli
- Enjoy a really good dinner
Day 6
Saturday, April 2nd
- Leave Florence (Check out at 11am, may leave bags and spend the afternoon in Florence leisurely taking in the sights) and take the train to Rome.
- Check-in to the Pantheon Inn
- Piazza Navona, The Pantheon, Largo Argentina
Day 7
Sunday, April 3rd
- 9:30 am Colosseum (Full-experience 48 hours Tickets includes: Colosseum, forum, arena floor, underground, and Palatine hill)
- Forum
- Trajan’s forum and market
- Palatine Hill (look at Old Circus Maximus)
- Capitoline Museum (Closed on Monday)
- Nero’s Golden House (Only open on Saturday and Sunday)
Day 8
Monday, April 4th
- Vatican City
- St. Peter’s Basilica (Climb the Dome)
- Vatican Museum including the Sisitine Chapel, Castel Sant’Angelo
Day 9
Tuesday, April 5th
- Museo Nazionale
- Esquiline Hill
- Trevi Fountain
- Spanish Steps
- Catacombs of Callixtus?
Day 10
Wednesday, April 6th
- Train to Ostia Antica (1/2 day), Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli (Thermal Baths)
Day 11
Thursday, April 7th
- Free Day
Day 12
Friday, April 8th
- 9:40 pm Flight leaves
- 3:30 pm Arrive in Chicago