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We
invite you to join us exploring the very best of Tuscany. This
is the land of Medici princes and famous artists, of great
wines, wonderful food and balmy climate. The landscape is a tapestry of
rich colours, vineyards dripping in purple, cobalt sky and palazzos
that turn to gold in the evening sun.
We spend three nights exploring the historical and artistic
treasures of bustling Florence including a visit to the
Uffizzi Gallery with an expert guide. This is followed by
five nights in the old walled city of Siena - one of the most
perfectly preserved medieval towns in Italy. Its narrow cobbled
streets lead from piazza to piazza and burst into the amazing
bowl of the Campo with its fourteenth century Palazzo Pubblico.
From here it is not far to travel to see the
great treasures of Central Italy including Assisi home of St
Francis, patron saint of today's eco movement in Italy. We spend leisurely days
traveling the back roads to Tuscan villages where one hears the splash
of a thousand-year-old fountain or the strains of a
Puccini opera wafting from a small trattoria.
It is worth the trip just to experience the Grand Hotel Continental in Siena - a 17th century palace that has been
recently restored to its former glory and is now, critics agree,
one of the
great hotels of Italy.
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