Day 1 · Florence
Arrive in Florence
A driver meets you at Florence airport and takes you to your hotel. The evening is yours.
6 days · 5 nights
Light and shadow: Caravaggio's paintings in Florence, Rome and Naples, with a private guide in each.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesA private journey for lovers of painting, travelling south by first-class train. Start with the Uffizi in Florence, see Caravaggio's work in the churches of Rome and the Galleria Borghese, and end in Naples, where his late paintings hang in Palazzo Zevallos and the Pio Monte della Misericordia.
The same person from your first question to the flight home, with a wedding or vow renewal planned alongside if you like.
How the days unfold. Your advisor tailors the pace, the hotels and the extras to you.
+1 day beforeA night in Florence first
Florence
Day 1 · Florence
A driver meets you at Florence airport and takes you to your hotel. The evening is yours.
Day 2 · Florence
Your guide meets you in the hotel lobby for a private walking tour that leads to the Uffizi Gallery. Among its Renaissance masterpieces by Michelangelo and Botticelli are the first Caravaggios of the journey.
Rome
Day 3 · Rome
A driver takes you to the station for the fast train to Rome. In the afternoon a guide walks you through the historic centre, past palaces, churches and ancient ruins, to San Luigi dei Francesi near Piazza Navona, the French national church in Rome since 1589.
Day 4 · Rome
A private car takes you to Villa Borghese, whose gallery holds works by Bernini, Canova, Raphael and some of Caravaggio's most important paintings. Afterwards walk through the gardens to Piazza del Popolo and the 15th century church of Santa Maria del Popolo, filled with art by Raphael, Bernini, Pinturicchio and Caravaggio.
Naples
Day 5 · Naples
A driver takes you to the station for the fast train south to Naples. In the evening your guide meets you at the hotel to visit the baroque Palazzo Zevallos and the Pio Monte della Misericordia, a charity founded in 1601 to carry out the seven works of mercy.
Day 6 · Naples
After breakfast your driver takes you to Naples airport.
+1 day afterA last night in Naples
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Florence · 2 nights
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Rome · 2 nights
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Naples · 1 night
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Add a few days before or after. Your advisor quotes them with the journey.
Before the journey · +1 day
Arrive a day early at the same Florence hotel and settle in before the touring begins.
After the journey · +1 day
Stay on at the same Naples hotel for another day in the city.
Tell us when you would like to travel. Your advisor confirms dates and hotels, tailors the trip to the two of you, and stays with you until you are home.
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8 days · 7 nights
Rome → Florence → Venice → Milan
Two nights each in Rome, Florence and Venice, then a last night in Milan. A private driver links Rome to Florence by way of Siena and Florence to Venice by way of Verona, a boat takes you out to Murano and Burano, and a first class train carries you on to Milan.
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4 days · 3 nights
Bologna
A short stay in Bologna built around its table. You make lasagna and gelato on your first evening, walk the historic centre with a guide on the second day, and taste three local wines at one of the city's oldest inns on the third, with free time around each.
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3 days · 2 nights
Bolzano
A short, relaxed stay in Bolzano, where Italian and Austrian traditions meet at the table. You taste your way through the old centre on your first evening, have a free morning on the second day, then walk the city with a sommelier to learn about South Tyrol's wines.
A private journey for lovers of painting, travelling south by first-class train. Start with the Uffizi in Florence, see Caravaggio's work in the churches of Rome and the Galleria Borghese, and end in Naples, where his late paintings hang in Palazzo Zevallos and the Pio Monte della Misericordia.
Every trip can be shaped around you before you book.
Arrive early or stay on at the end, in the same hotel or somewhere new.
Your travel expert books flights that fit the first and last day.
Choose a better room or a hotel with a view for the nights that count.
A honeymoon, an anniversary or a birthday, planned into the trip.
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