Welcome to Italy!  We will meet our tour guide and bus driver at the airport and begin our journey. We will head to Torino and start our trip with a guided tour of Turin including the Mole Antonelliana. Turin is an important cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. 

Hotel:  Doubletree by Hilton Torino or similar - 3 nights. This hotel is a restored 1920s Fiat factory. It has been featured on several TV shows and boasts a rooftop test track.

Visit the charming mountain town of Gressan and tour the Gressan cheese factory. Next visit Aosta, a quiet, picturesque town that lovingly preserves important traces of its extensive history. It boasts a rich, captivating artistic heritage along with pristine landscapes: from Monte Emilius to historic villages, churches and castles, undoubtedly among the most beautiful in Italy. It is the ideal destination at any time of year.

We begin the day with Grinzane Cavour Castle, a UNESCO world heritage site that stands in one of the most spectacular settings in the Langa, just 5 km from Alba. The Barolo wine region in Piedmont is an obligatory must-see for the wine connoisseur. Our wine-pairing lunch will feature Barolo wines and the local Moscato d'Asti dessert wine. Alba is a beautiful town in the Piedmont region of Italy, in the Province of Cuneo known for white truffles

Today we depart Turin and travel to Bergamo. En route see Milan, where we will enjoy a guided walking tour of the city including entrance into its magnificent cathedral.

Hotel  Mercure Palazzo Dolci, Bergamo or similar - 1 night

Visit Bergamo, a real masterpiece of history, culture, music and landscape, with a medieval heart on top of a hill surrounded by the majestic Venetian Walls, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Afterwards we will journey to Sirmione and en route we will take a boat ride over the scenic Lake Garda, the largest lake in Italy. In Sirmione explore the imposing medieval fortress of Scaliger Castle, one of the only existing lake fortresses.  Sirmione is a pedestrian paradise, situated on a peninsula that acts as a watershed between the territories of Brescia and Verona.

Hotel:  Stadt Citta, Bolzano or similar - 2 nights

We begin today with the town of Brunico (Bruneck in German) located within the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy. It is the major town in the Puster Valley and has an impressive town center with historic churches, colorful shopping streets and street side cafes. Lake Braies (Lago di Braies) is located about 100 km from the city of Bolzano in South Tyrol at an altitude of 1496 meters.It offers stunning views of the Dolomites, and there are also picturesque forests nearby.  We end today in Bressanone or Brixen is a town in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Bolzano. The Cathedral of Brixen (10th century), was rebuilt in the 13th century and again in 1745–54 along Baroque lines.

This morning we will drive through Northern Italy enjoying the scenery with a photo stop at Lake Dobbiaco and Vodo di Cadore. We will enjoy an agriturismo lunch at the family farm of relatives of one of Amici's members, Michelle. In Vodo we will also tour the town's art museum, featuring art by one of the family's esteemed ancestors. Afterwards we will visit the small picturesque village of Pieve di Cadore, which marks the natural gateway to the heart of the Belluno Dolomites.  Afterwards we tour the house in which the painter Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian, was born.

Hotel:  Antony Palace, Marcon (near Venice) or similar - 4 nights

See the impressive Redipuglia War Memorial, the largest war memorial in Italy. The memorial serves as the burial place of 100,187 Italian soldiers killed between 1915 and 1917 in the eleven battles fought on the Karst and Isonzo Front during WWI. Afterwards we will enjoy a wine tasting @ Dolegna del Collio in Gradisca d'Isonzo. We will end the day with a guided tour of Trieste, a beautiful city and seaport in northeastern Italy.