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All land
travel and transfers during
the tour by air
conditioned Car, Mini
Van or Coach.
A small
personalized group of
maximum
20
passengers.
Accommodation
4 and
5 Star Hotels
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3
nights
in
Lido di Jesolo
4
nights
on Lake Garda
3 nights on Lake Como
3 nights on Lake
Maggiore
Meals
13
breakfasts
13 dinners
Guided
Tours & excursions
Every day
Admission
to the various
historical sites,
galleries and museums
mentioned in the
itinerary.
Professional tour
leaders and local guides
throughout the tour.
Assistance and support 24/7 in case of medical and non medical emergencies
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Airfare
Travel and Medical
insurance
Items of
personal nature, phone
calls, passport and
visas (if applicable),
laundry or tips
Personal
transport, excess
baggage, security and
government taxes, travel
insurance.
Beverages
at
meals.
Entry
fees to places other
than those specifically
mentioned in itinerary.
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Venice - Verona - Lake Garda - Lake
Como - Lake Lugano - Lake Maggiore ~
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14
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Breakfast
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Day
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Transfer
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Venice
Airport to Lido di Jesolo
Rest of the
day at leisure
Evening
Welcome Dinner Party
3 nights in
Lido di Jesolo
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Venice
Guided Tour
Visit St. Mark's square,
the Basilica and its Byzantine heritage
and the Doge's Palace.
Then, leave the square and crowds behind to discover the
"real Venice ", enter a labyrinth of narrow passageways
and alleys where an enchanting city of canals punctuated
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Treviso
Guided Tour
Behind the heavy gates of villas
and palaces, under the porticos and in the gardens, here
there is a sense of distinction and refinement of
Treviso.
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Day 4
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Transfer to
Lake Garda 3 nights. Rest of the
day at leisure
Lake Garda
offers the visitor a splendid natural scenery, full of
colours, surrounded by the
Dolomites
of Brenta in the north and the gentle slopes of the
morainic hills in the south.
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Morning: Verona
Guided
Tour.
The second city of art in
the region, Verona displays its artistic, cultural, and
natural treasures with pride.
Its
palaces, bridges, churches, and squares accompany the
visitor in an amazing journey.
Afternoon:
At
Leisure. Verona offers a lot to see and do.
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Sirmione Tour
Guided
Tour of historic centre and Castle. Sirmione is
the best known resort on the Lake
and is located at the far end of a long, narrow
peninsula. The entrance to the centre is dominated by
the castle.
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Malcesine Castle Tour
Malcesine
is a town with two faces: one historical, with the Della
Scala castle, palaces and small churches; the other
naturalistic, wonderfully represented by the enchanting
landscape of Mount Baldo with its numberless flower
species that earned it the title
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Transfer to
Lake Como, 3 nights. Rest of the
day at leisure
Walking along the narrow
streets of the Medieval town you can
reach Porta Torre and its
walls.
Promenade along the lake to Villa Olmo (once summer
residence of the Visconti Family) to admire the
neoclassic villas on the lake shore and Volta Museum. |
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Como to Bellagio Boat Tour
During the cruise the guide
will show you the most interesting spots and
Villas. Between
Como and Bellagio,
we
will find Villa Pliniana, Villa Erba, Villa
D’Este, Villa Pizzo,
Villa Fontanelle, Villa
Rosa, Villa Passalacqua and
Villa Hocevar. We stop for lunch in
Bellagio, the
"Pearl of Lake Como". |
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Lake Lugano
Tour
Since
as early as the Middle Ages, Lugano has been the hub of
a thriving traffic of goods and, particularly, it has
been the home of one of the most popular cattle fairs in
Europe, an event, which has given Lugano celebrity and
prosperity. |
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Transfer to
Lake Maggiore, 3 nights
Rest of the
day at leisure
to
explore Lake Maggiore
independently. Isola Bella and
Isola Grande are popular lake destinations. They are
easily reached from
Stresa by a short boat ride.
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Rocca Borromeo Tour
The Castle or Rocca Borromeo of
Angera, an unusual example of a completely preserved
medieval fortified building, rises on a spur of
calcareous rock that dominates
the southern part of Lake Maggiore.
The Castle houses
2 museums that bear important
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Lake Tour
Today we travel
along the shores of Lake Maggiore.
A mountain sequence encloses the
lake basin; dominating this landscape is the huge Alpine
chain of Monte Rosa: only 50km as the crow flies
separate Lake Maggiore's waters from these mountaintops,
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Departure from Milan
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