Europe
Italy
Italy built the world's first purpose made high speed railway, and the trains still run city center to city center at a pace that makes a car feel like a mistake. Venice to Florence is two hours; Florence to Rome is one hour twenty. Between the cities the regional lines climb into hills that have looked the same for five hundred years.
Our Italian journeys are shaped around the things that close and the things that fill: the museums shut on Mondays, the Palio that takes over Siena twice a summer, the access fee days in Venice. Get those right and the rest of the country arranges itself around a long lunch.
Highlights
- The Doge's Palace by its Secret Itineraries, through the cells and the roof spaces
- The Brancacci Chapel, thirty minutes, ten people at a time
- Brunelleschi's dome on a named slot, four hundred and sixty three steps up
- The Val d'Orcia with a driver, and lunch at a farm that makes what it serves
Our Journeys
Journeys in Italy
Italy
The Grand Tour to Siena
Nine days by rail, from Venice through Florence to the hills
The Grand Tour was the original bespoke journey, and its Italian leg still works. Arrive by water in Venice, come down the high speed line to Florence in two hours, then climb into the hills to Siena, where the trip ends inside the walls of a city that stopped growing in the fourteenth century and has been the better for it..
9 Days · From $4,400
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