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lunch with our hosts, venture to a winery for a DAY • Pienza • Optional Pitigliano & Arrive Early, Stay Later
vineyard tour and tasting. Later, join your Trip Sovana tour Prices include accommodations, daily breakfast, and
Panoramic view of Siena, Tuscany, Italy Experience Leader on an optional hike through Today is yours to make your own discoveries. private airport transfer.
the Chianti Valley. Or, join our full-day optional tour to discover
B,L,D — Villa Il Leccio or similar the rich Jewish heritage of Pitigliano and the • Arrive early in Bologna on your Bologna and Parma
pre-trip extension for $175 per person, per night
Tuscany & Umbria: Rustic Beauty in the Italian Heartland DAY • Chianti countryside • Olive oil ancient Etruscan necropolis of Sovana. • Arrive early in Lucca before your main trip
B — Piccolo Hotel La Valle or similar
mill • Cooking class & farmhouse lunch for $200 per person, per night
Italy: Lucca, Chianti region, Pienza, Spoleto, Rome Drive through the Chianti countryside, DAY • Pienza • Perugia • Chocolate-
Departures: • Conclude your main trip or your Rome post-trip
For departure dates, available single space, and pricing, visit www.oattravel.com/ bta pricing Mar-Dec 2023 traveling through Tuscany’s rolling, vineyard- making experience • Spoleto extension with more time in Rome for $225 per
carpeted hills. Stop at an olive-oil mill and
Set off for Umbria and a walking tour of
enjoy a tasting of this staple of Tuscan cooking. Perugia, nestled in “the green heart of Italy.” person, per night
Then, continue to a nearby town for a cooking Conclude at a former goldsmith workshop
15 days from $ 3795 From the grape-laden vines of Chianti to the olive groves blanketing the hills of Trevi, lesson and lunch at an agriturismo farmhouse. turned chocolaterie. Learn about the business
including international airfare Italy’s Tuscany and Umbria regions are ripe for discovery. Travel along the narrow lanes B,L,D — Villa Il Leccio or similar from the owners before trying your hand at DAY ¡ • Umbria • Rome
Single Supplement: FREE of small towns, marvel at medieval fortresses, and stroll between elegant cypress trees. DAY • Pienza • Siena chocolate-making. Bid farewell to Umbria and begin the overland transfer
B,L,D — Hotel Clitunno or similar
to Rome. In Rome, enjoy a walking tour through
Immerse yourself in this rustic, romantic part of Italy, and enjoy a way of life as timeless Transfer to Pienza, beginning with a short
Save a FULL 10%, up to $590, with our as the rolling vineyards warming under the Tuscan sun. ride into Siena. Discover Siena’s Old Town, a DAY • Spoleto • Optional Umbrian the Trastevere district before enjoying lunch at a local
trattoria.
Good Buy Plan—reserve by 8/31/22 UNESCO World Heritage Site, and stroll from Folk Music Tour B,L,D — Hotel Savoy or similar
Piazza del Campo to Porta Romana. Departing On a walking tour of Spoleto, admire the
Siena, a scenic drive brings us through the hills Duomo di Spoleto, an eleventh-century DAY ¢ • Return to U.S.
WHAT TO EXPECT Culinary Delights of Bologna & Parma, Italy pre-trip impacts of marble quarrying in the area. Later of Crete Senesi before arriving in Pienza. cathedral. Later, join the optional tour to Transfer to the airport for your return flight home.
extension . this afternoon, enjoy a Home-Hosted Lunch B,D — Piccolo Hotel La Valle or similar Spello and enjoy a concert in a local Umbrian Or, begin your Rome: Ancient Sites & Hidden City Gems
Hotel San Luca Palace or similar with a local family in Marina di Carrara before musician’s home before dinner in a local post-trip extension.
returning to Lucca. DAY • Etruscan Museum • restaurant.
View all physical requirements at DAY • Lucca B,L — Hotel San Luca Palace or similar Montepulciano B,L — Hotel Clitunno or similar B
www.oattravel.com/ bta Set off to explore Lucca on a walking tour and Visit the Etruscan Museum for a talk on the
see the Duomo di San Martino, or St. Martin’s DAY • Lucca • Florence • Chianti region history of the Etruscans in the Chianciano DAY • Spoleto • Truffle hunting •
ITINERARY Cathedral. Board a bus to Florence, birthplace of the community. After, travel to Montepulciano and Controversial Topic: Truffle exclusivity
B,D — Hotel San Luca Palace or similar Renaissance, and enjoy a walking tour followed by stop outside of the Sanctuary of San Biagio, Visit a small mountain village nestled in the
DAY • Depart U.S. free time. Then, depart for the Chianti countryside. designed using the same architectural plan as Apennines and meet up with local truffle
Fly overnight to Florence, Italy. DAY • Lucca • Controversial Topic: Marble B,D — Villa Il Leccio or similar St. Peter’s Basilica. Then, drive to the center hunters and their dogs to seek out the precious
production • Carrara Marble Quarries • of this Tuscan village to see Via San Gallo, a
DAY • Lucca Home-Hosted Lunch DAY • A Day in the Life in the Chianti Valley historic street. mushrooms. Later, return to the village for
lunch and conversation with a local shepherd.
Transfer to Lucca, check into our hotel and meet Depart for Carrara and visit the ancient marble Enjoy our NEW A Day in the Life in the Chianti B,L — Piccolo Hotel La Valle or similar
those who traveled on our optional History and quarries. Afterward, meet a former quarry Valley, first stopping at a local goat farm to learn B,L,D — Hotel Clitunno or similar To learn more about
worker to discuss the Controversial Topic of the about sustainable agricultural methods. After this adventure, scan the
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