• 3 Dinner (D)
• 15 Breakfast (B)

• Business class coach with extended leg room
• Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants
• 4 & 5-star stays

• Paris: Join your Travel Director and fellow guests at a local restaurant for a delightful dinner.
• San Sebastián: Enjoy an evening of pintxos, dining with locals in this Basque tradition. Your delicious dinner includes a wide variety of finger food delicacies, each with their own flavour, flair and presentation.
• Rome: Toast your Mediterranean journey with delicious Italian cuisine and wine.

• Monaco City: Admire the Italian Renaissance frescoes and State Apartments of the Prince’s Palace.
• Monaco City: Visit the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. Admire grand aquariums of the Mediterranean and tropical seas, and gain insight into the challenges of scientific research in Polar environments. 

• Vatican City: Visit the Vatican Museums and witness the genius of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel.

Walk Bordeaux’s UNESCO-listed core with a Local Specialist to see the creamy stone facades that line the quays. Take in the curve of the Garonne, the colonnaded Grand Théâtre, and the golden triangle of the Triangle d’Or before arriving at the Esplanade des Quinconces.

Learn how 18th-century prosperity reshaped the city into a showcase of harmonious neoclassicism, where wrought-iron balconies, mansions and mirrored squares reflect Bordeaux’s maritime and wine-trading heritage.

Join locals in the Old Quarter for a progressive dinner of Basque small plates. Move from bar to bar to sample pintxos—from skewered anchovies and guindilla peppers to slow-braised meats—paired with a glass of lightly sparkling Txakoli poured in a high, arcing stream.

Between stone lanes and lively counters, your host shares tips on reading the chalkboard menus and the etiquette of ordering. The flavors, chatter and clink of glasses capture San Sebastián’s culinary rhythm.

Explore Pamplona’s gracious Plaza del Castillo, a salon-like square ringed by arcades and Belle Époque balconies. Step inside Café Iruña, where mirrors, mosaics and dark wood recall the 1920s and the time of Ernest Hemingway.

Hear how medieval Navarre grew into a modern city renowned for its fiestas and layered Basque and Spanish traditions. This short urban stroll reveals the atmosphere that continues to animate Pamplona’s streets year-round.

Walk the Gothic Quarter with a Local Specialist to see the cathedral’s flying buttresses, Roman walls and timeworn lanes opening onto quiet squares. Continue along La Rambla and Passeig de Gràcia, where Modernista townhouses showcase sinuous ironwork and glazed tile.

From the Eixample’s sharp grid, admire the changing skyline as La Sagrada Família rises with its sculpted spires. Your guide connects medieval Barcino to the creativity of Gaudí and the city’s ongoing architectural conversation.

Soak up the Côte d’Azur mood on a gentle orientation that reveals the curve of the Bay of Angels and the palm-lined sweep of the Promenade des Anglais. Pastel shutters, Belle Époque facades and market scents frame the Riviera’s seaside elegance.

Pause to capture coastal views and hear how English winter visitors helped shape the promenade, now a beloved stage for strolls, cycling and sea-breezed people-watching.

Experience Monaco’s glamour with a scenic drive along part of the Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit, from harbor hairpins to tunnel echoes above Port Hercule. In the old town, walk with your Travel Director to the palace square and cliff-top viewpoints.

Learn how a tiny principality became synonymous with motor racing, aristocratic pageantry and Mediterranean sparkle. Yachts, flowered lanes and sunlit terraces provide a fitting Riviera backdrop.

Visit Pisa’s UNESCO-listed Piazza dei Miracoli to see the marble trio of Leaning Tower, cathedral and baptistery set on emerald lawns. With your Local Specialist, explore the symbolism behind Romanesque carvings and striped arcades.

Hear how the tower’s tilt emerged during construction and why Pisa’s maritime might bankrolled such splendor. The interplay of geometry, gravity and white Carrara marble creates a scene both photogenic and historic.

Walk Florence’s stone streets with a Local Specialist to view the cathedral’s multicolored marble, Giotto’s bell tower and the Baptistery’s recreated Gates of Paradise. In Piazza della Signoria, an open-air gallery frames Neptune, Hercules and the Palazzo Vecchio.

Along the way, hear how merchants, guilds and Medici ambition sparked the Renaissance, shaping artistry that still animates workshops and piazzas across the city.

Explore the world’s smallest state with a Local Specialist, moving through selected galleries of the Vatican Museums to the Sistine Chapel, where Michelangelo’s ceiling and Last Judgment command awe. Continue into St. Peter’s Basilica to see the Pietà and Bernini’s bronze canopy.

Along the way, your guide illuminates papal history, masterpieces and ceremonial traditions. On some departures, if Vatican access is restricted, you’ll instead visit the Capitoline Museums to encounter Rome’s ancient icons.

See Rome’s grand stages on an orientation that links Piazza Navona, the swoop of the Trevi Fountain and stately avenues lined with Renaissance palaces and Baroque churches. Viewpoints reveal domes, obelisks and the city’s ancient layers.

Hear how emperors, popes and architects shaped the Eternal City’s theatrical skyline—from classical forums to sweeping piazzas—creating a backdrop where daily life and millennia of history meet.

Toast your Mediterranean journey over a convivial Roman dinner. Savor seasonal antipasti, handmade pasta folded with local ingredients and regional wines poured generously as conversations flow.

Your Travel Director highlights Roman dining traditions—from neighborhood trattorie to time-honored recipes—so you depart with flavors and friendships as lasting mementos of the Eternal City.

Experience a quintessential Parisian night at one of the city’s celebrated cabarets. Dine on a multi-course menu before the curtain rises on dazzling costumes and live music, with choreography that nods to Belle Époque glamour.

The mood is festive, the lights theatrical and the artistry bold—an atmospheric way to see how Paris by night dazzles. This is an Optional Experience available at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Venture through rolling right-bank vineyards to a Bordelaise château for a guided tour of stone-vaulted cellars and a tutored tasting of Saint-Émilion wines, known for Merlot-driven depth and finesse. Learn about terroir and barrel aging from estate experts.

Stroll the medieval lanes of UNESCO-listed Saint-Émilion and see the remarkable monolithic church carved into limestone. This is an Optional Experience available at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Cross into France’s Basque coast to see Biarritz’s Grand Plage, seaside villas and the cliff-top lighthouse that made this a 19th-century spa resort. Continue to Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a fishing town with timbered houses and bustling quays.

Visit the church where Louis XIV married Maria Theresa in 1660 and hear how maritime fortunes shaped these Atlantic communities. This is an Optional Experience available at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Step inside the cliff-top Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, founded by Prince Albert I. Explore grand galleries and aquariums showcasing Mediterranean and tropical marine life, from coral gardens to graceful rays.

Exhibits illuminate ocean science, exploration and conservation—set within a palace-like museum overlooking the sea. This is an Optional Experience available at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Visit the Prince’s Palace State Apartments to admire staterooms adorned with Italian Renaissance frescoes, gleaming marquetry and ceremonial halls. From the palace square, take in sweeping views over Port Hercule and the yacht-filled harbor.

Your visit explores Grimaldi history and the rituals of a reigning principality in the heart of the Mediterranean. This is an Optional Experience available at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Travel south to explore Pompeii, the Roman city sealed in ash by Vesuvius in AD 79. Walk ancient streets to see bakeries, villas and vivid frescoes, and pause in the Forum where daily life once unfolded beneath Mount Vesuvius.

Your guide reveals plaster casts, household details and the suddenness of the eruption—an encounter with everyday antiquity preserved in time. This is an Optional Experience available at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Insight Vacations

Taste the city at table with a convivial evening in a neighborhood restaurant. Settle in with your Travel Director and fellow guests to savor seasonal French cuisine—think market-fresh starters, slow-cooked classics and refined desserts—paired with wines that reflect the terroir.

Between courses, your host brings Paris to life with local tips and stories, from café etiquette to hidden corners of the Left Bank. It’s a warm, flavorful welcome that sets the tone for days of discovery.

Explore the Loire’s garden landscapes en route to a Renaissance jewel: Château de Chenonceau, the elegant “Ladies’ Castle” poised across the arches spanning the River Cher. Wander parqueted galleries and flower-filled rooms shaped by Diane de Poitiers and Catherine de Medici.

Outside, stroll formal parterres bordered by lavender and roses, and pause for river views beneath the bridge-like gallery. Your visit blends architecture, courtly intrigue and the soft light that made the Loire the playground of kings.

Discover Paris on a city introduction that frames the capital’s icons in context. Glide past the Champs-Élysées and Arc de Triomphe, admire the iron lacework of the Eiffel Tower, and trace the elegant sweep of the Place de la Concorde. Along the banks of the River Seine, take in ornate bridges and the flying buttresses of Notre-Dame’s Île de la Cité.

Hear stories of revolution, empire and reinvention as boulevards open onto grand squares and Belle Époque facades. This experience distils Paris’s layers—from medieval heart to Haussmannian avenues—so you can orient yourself and return to favorite sights with confidence.