The Best of Europe

Italy, Switzerland and France

Day 01 Rome, Italy

Arrival at Rome International Airport.
History, human genius and the hot midday sun have conspired to make Rome one of the world’s most seductive and thrilling cities. But there’s more to Rome than history, fine art and great food: modern life is lived to the full.
Special meet and assist by our representatives and transfer to the selected hotel

Rest of day at leisure and overnight at the hotel

Day 02 Rome, Italy

Breakfast at the hotel
09:30AM Departure for a full day tour (8 hours) visiting The Museo Vaticano
The Vatican City isn’t just another neighborhood in Rome, it's a masterpiece-packed micro-nation. Though it's only 0.44km square and the world's smallest sovereign state, Vatican City is a maze of wall-to-wall treasures. In the Vatican Museums, you'll walk through 1.2 miles of classical art treasures from ancient Greece to the Renaissance before you even reach the Sistine Chapel - and there's an optional two-mile detour through the Etruscan and Egyptian collections. Rushing to meet Michelangelo is a rookie mistake.

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Free lunch on your own during the visits, followed by a walking tour of Rome to see the Piazza di Spagna, Fontana di Trevi, Via Condotti and other places

Back to the hotel and overnight in Rome

Day 03 Rome - Florence, Italy

Check out from the hotel after breakfast
Half day visit to see The Colosseum on your way before boarding the train to Florence (1 hour and half)
Arrival Florence, check in and installation at the selected hotel

Florence bird eye, Italy

Rest of evening at leisure and overnight at the hotel

Day 04 Florence - Venice, Italy

Check out from the hotel after breakfast
Departure for a half day guided tour (4-hours’ tour) to the “Galleria del Uffizi”
Galleria del Uffizi is one of the most famous museums in the world given the rich amount of unique artworks and masterpieces conserved within its walls, the majority from the Renaissance period. Located in the heart of Florence, the Uffizi Gallery hosts works of art by great Italian artists such as Botticelli, Giotto, Cimabue, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raffaello, just to name a few of the most famous. Its large collection has works from all centuries but a large part dates back to the periods between the 12th and 17th centuries.
After the visit, departure from Florence to Venice by train (2 hours)

Venice

Arrival Venice, transfer with taxi boat from Pier Le Roma to the selected hotel
Check in and installation at the hotel

Rest of evening at leisure and overnight at the hotel in Venice

Venice is a small city, extremely concentrated, every corner, monument, Church or museum contains a piece of history, a tale, a way to say or a tradition, not to be counted all the news and events that daily the city offers to citizens and visitors.
Standing in the middle of the magnificent piazza San Marco is an experience in itself: Napoleon referred to it as the ‘drawing room of Europe’, apt today as, at times, it appears that much of Europe’s population is crammed into this great square. But it’s St Mark’s Basilica (Basilica di San Marco), often seen as the living testimony of Venice’s links with Byzantium; Doge’s Palace, once Venice’s political and judicial hub; and Torre dell’Orologio, a clock tower built between 1496 and 1506, that are, not just the square’s, but some of the city’s main attractions.

Day 05 Venice, Italy

Breakfast at the hotel
Today you will spend a full day tour (8 hours) visiting Venice
Visit St. Mark's Basilica (entrance included), Clock Tower (entrance included), Ponte dei Sospiri, Murano Island (entrance included)
Free lunch on your own during the visits

Velence

Back and overnight at your hotel in Venice

Day 06 Venice, Italy / Lucerne, Switzerland

Check out from the hotel after breakfast
Transfer by Taxi Boat to Pier Le Roma, followed by transfer from Venice to Lucerne with minivan (about five hours drive)
Upon arrival Lucerne, walking city tour for two hours to discover the beauty of the city
Check in and installation at the selected hotel
Rest of the evening at leisure

Lucerne, Switherland

Overnight at the hotel

Day 07 Lucerne - Interlaken, Switzerland

Check out from the hotel after breakfast
Departure for a boat excursion to Lake Lucerne.
Lake Lucerne (434 m above sea level) is fascinating due to its picturesque landscape and historical sites. 20 boats - 5 of which are nostalgic paddle-steamers - enable you to take round trips and offer endless possibilities for excursions which can also be combined with mountain railways along the lake.

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Departure from Lucerne to Interlaken by train (2 hours)
Upon arrival Interlaken, walking city tour for four hours to discover the beauty of the city
Check in and installation at the selected hotel

Rest of the evening at leisure
Overnight at the hotel

Day 08 Interlaken - Paris, France

Check out from the hotel after breakfast
Transfer by train from Interlaken to Paris
Upon arrival Paris, check in and installation at the selected hotel
Rest of the evening at leisure

Overnight at the hotel

Day 09 Paris, France

Breakfast at the hotel
Departure for a full day guided tour (8 hours) to visit Montmartre
This is one of the most picturesque places of Paris with its delicious streets and courtyards, stone stairs where pilgrims go Sacré Coeur. Today it is known more for its bohemian life: Toulouse-Lautrec, Andre Breton, Picasso and Dali have given particularly deep impression. Ascent by funicular to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart (Sacré Coeur), begun in 1876 by a promise of Catholics after the disaster of the Franco-Prussian War I was not finished until 1914 thanks to a popular subscription of 40 million francs.

**Entrance inside the Basilica is not included

Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, France

Visit the Place du Tertre, the heart of Montmartre with its painters, caricaturists and typical restaurants. You can have lunch in Montmartre in one of its various restaurants (at your own expenses).
After lunch, proceed to Versailles to visit the castle and gardens
Visit the Palace of Versailles, the most magnificent in the world, recalling the bygone glory of the French court and true reflection of the will of King Louis XIV, the Sun King. Thanks to its dual vocation, royal residence and Museum of the History of France, the Palace of Versailles has an artistic treasure that is characterized by the quantity, quality and diversity of their artwork.

**Entrance inside Palace of Versailles is not included

Its gardens and fountains, and the wonderful Hall of Mirrors, a masterpiece of Versailles, was begun in 1678, when Versailles became the official residence. 17 windows overlooking the garden are related to the 17 arches decorated with mirrors, exceptional dimensions, made by the Parisian manufacture created by Colbert to compete with the Venetian products.

Back to the hotel after the tour and overnight in Paris

Day 10 Paris, France

Breakfast at the hotel
Departure for another full day sightseeing to visit the Louvre Museum followed by Orsay Museum.

** entrance fees to both Museums are included

The Louvre, originally a royal palace but now the world's most famous museum, is a must-visit for anyone with a slight interest in art. Some of the museum's most celebrated works of art include the Mona Lisa and the Venus of Milo.
The Louvre Museum is one of the largest and most important museums in the world located at the heart of Paris. The museum has a collection of over one million works of art, of which about 35,000 are on display, spread out over three wings of the former palace. The museum has a diverse collection ranging from the Antiquity up to the mid-nineteenth century.

Louvre at night.

Musée d'Orsay, located on the left bank of the Seine, is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986.