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THERMAL BATHS & SPAS ULTIMATE ARCHITOUR: AN ART JOURNEY THROUGH THE CULTURE OF WATER & BATH

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11 Nights accommodation in exclusive and fascinating 4 star sup./5 stars Boutique Hotels or Historical Mansions, with full buffet breakfasts: 1 Night in Rome, 1 Night in Saturnia – Tuscany, 2 Nights in Florence, 2 Nights in Sirmione – Lake Garda, 2 Nights in the Dolomites, 1 Night in Bormio, 2 Nights in the Swiss Alps.
Full day excursion to Capalbio, Saturnia Spas and Pitigliano – the so called little Jerusalem.
Full day excursion to Bagno Vignoni Spas, Pienza – the so called Ideal City.
Private Guided Tour of a Nobile di Montepulciano Winery with wine tastings..

Full day excursion to Montecatini Spas and Chianti Wine Country (with guided visit and tasting to a top Wine Estate).
Full day excursion to Salsomaggiore and Sirmione – Lake Garda Spas.
Full day excursion to Villa dei Cedri Spa near Verona.
Full day excursion of Lake Garda and the lovely villages of Gardone, Salò, Riva del Garda (with private boat tour of the lake).
Full day excursions to the Dolomites, Merano and Trauttmansdorff Gartens, Bormio Alpine Spas.
Private Guided Tour of the Production Facility of an historical smoked ham producer.
Private guided visit and tasting at the Braulio herbs liqueur caves.
Glacier Express mountain train journey.
Full day excursion through Switzerland: Arosa and Vals Spas.

Private Sightseeing Tours of Pitigliano, Pienza, Florence, Sirmione, Verona, Lugano with expert local English speaking guides; including all the entrance fees to the sites visited avoiding long waiting lines.

Exclusive access to several Historical Private Villas and Palaces with meetings with the landlords.

Approximately 50% of lunches & dinners included both at gourmet and local family run restaurants.
All private transfers by deluxe bus with English speaking driver available for transfers and excursions for the entire Tour (including airports).
Our professional assistance for the whole duration of the Tour.
The tour begins in Rome and ends in Milan.
Please note that price is based on 12 to 20 paying participants. In case of less than 12 participants, price may increase because of minimum fixed costs that need to be covered.

10 days
11 nights

€9100

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On Day 2 you will leave Rome along the Aurelia roman road first to Capalbio for a guided visit to the Tarot Garden (a surrealistic, wired garden by the French artist Niki de Saint Phalle) and then Saturnia, the spa town in the middle of etruscan region, enjoying both the popular public termal bath and the Terme di Saturnia Spa&Hotel. In the evening visit and dinner in Pitigliano, among the most spectacular perched villages in Italy. The next day you’ll first reach Bagno Vignoni, a borgo named and built around an old thermal reservoir which plays the role of the main square. After the lunch in Pienza, ideal Renaissance town designed upon a brief from Pope Pius II, you will move to the nearby Montepulciano experiencing the contemporary architecture of a renowned Wine Estate and a guided Vino Nobile tasting. You will stay in Florence for two nights and experience an unforgettable dinner at a Michelin star restaurant. The day after the main attraction will be Montecatini, built around a spa at the end of XIX century, and its milestones: Grotta Giusti,Tamerici and Tettuccio Bath. You will also visit a Wine Estate – regarded as an architecture masterpiece totally integrated in the tuscan hills – for a Chianti tasting and then back to Florence where the San Lorenzo Market will host your dinner.

Leaving Florence you’ll move north crossing the Appennines where another Italian spas milestone is located: Salsomaggiore – vibrant symbol of the Belle Epoque. From Terme Bezieri, a real Art Nouveau masterpiece with its flavour of decadence, you‘ll be able to breath the spirit of that glamorous historical period. Your day will end in Sirmione – Lake Garda, the fortified peninsula dear to Latin poet Catullus and whose Terme archeological site you’ll visit. The following day you’ll visit Villa dei Cedri thermal park and then romantic Verona. The following morning you will cross Lake Garda with a private boat and admire the beautiful villas of Gardone and Salò reaching Lefay Resort & Spa, to enjoy its SPA and terrace with a true outstanding lake view. You will then pass by Limone, having a walk on the brand new pedestrian-cycling suspended path, and Riva del Garda reaching the Dolomites.

In the morning the nearby amazing Trauttmansdorff Gartens are waiting you for a botanist guided visit. A gentle cableway in Lana will then bring us at 1500 mt asl at a resort where you will have lunch and then back to Merano to enjoy the Matteo Thun archistar Municipal Therme. The day after through the Stelvio Pass, among the Alps highest – glorified by thousands of cyclists – you will reach Bormio who found a new life thanks to the reopening of charming Bagni Nuovi and the Bagni Vecchi totally embedded in the mountains. Dinner after a visit to the renowned local herbs liqueur caves: a true labyrinth spiring under the streets of the old town.

Through the scenic Bernina Pass you will reach Skt. Moritz Bad, one of the oldest swiss spa station, where the famous horse chariots will ride you to the poetic Sils lakes and the Segantini Museum, where you will discover the art of this outstanding painter of the Alps. In the afternoon you will experience the Glacier Express, the spectacular red train climbing the mountains thanks to spiral tunnels. Passying the Solis and Landwasser viaducts and the Rhine gorge you will reach Thusis and then Flims The day after you will visit two contemporary spa architecture landmarks, Arosa Terme & Tsugghen Grand Hotel by Mario Botta and Vals Thermen by Peter Zhumtor – declared Swiss National Monument. The last day you’ll come back to Italy through the S. Bernardino Pass and Lugano where you’ll stop for lunch and a quick visit to a small gem: the B. Luini frescoes at the Santa Maria degli Angioli Church.

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