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Grand Tour 1
The gap-year journey of its day, the Grand Tour is a search for art
and enlightenment, adventure and debauchery.
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
12–14 DAYS
555 km 1390KM /
Venice 865 MILES
Marvel at
marble palaces
l L Verona # and gold mosaics GREAT FOR…
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Turin #
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BEST TIME TO GO
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# 710 km Spring (March to May)
is perfect for urban
Siena # Florence sightseeing.
Enjoy the
world’s greatest
Renaissance hits ESSENTIAL
Viterbo # I PHOTO
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# Florence’s
8
multicoloured, marble
duomo (cathedral).
m K
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Rome Naples HISTORY
Catch up on Ponder the fallen in Rome, the repository
2000 years of Pompeii and the
Western history treasures they left behind of over 2500 years of
European history.
1070 km 1390 km
R Location Caption details to go hereome Interior of St Peter's Basilica 29
