• 2 Dinner (D)
• 9 Breakfast (B)

• London: A modular trip means fellow travellers will join and leave at various locations. There’ll be some goodbyes, sure, but there’ll also be plenty of hellos with new like-minded travellers.
• Rome: If you require arrangements to be made for your accessibility needs, please inform your Trip Manager as soon as possible. We try our best to contact all accommodations and secure ground floor rooms for easy wheelchair access.Please remember that Italy can be physically challenging to get around. Coaches can’t access historical centers, and there will be lots of walking (on roads that are often uneven and cobbled). Travellers with accessibility needs will find this trip challenging.
• Madrid: Yep. Usually, we arrange a buffet for all your included meals. If you’d like a vegetarian option, please inform your Trip Manager beforehand, and they’ll sort it out for you.
• Rome: This would depend on the museums & attractions you’re planning to visit. If you’d like to know the exact timings, please contact our 24×7 Helpline to access your day-to-day itineraries to check when you’ll have free time in each city.
• Madrid: Of course! Just inform your Trip Manager if you need refrigeration on the coach. Please remember that the fridge is turned off overnight, so you’ll have to take your medication with you into your accommodation. We recommend that you bring a cooler bag with you as a backup. It’s your responsibility to store your medication with care. 

• Rome: Stroll around the Italian capital, ticking off some sights on your bucket list! 
• Rome:  Kick back with your Contiki crew and feast on some yummy Italian cuisine – served at a local restaurant working to train and provide jobs for members of the community with disabilities.  
• Siena: This medieval Tuscan city is packed with charming photo ops. From the Duomo to Piazza del Campo. 
• Florence: See the Duomo, Basilica Santa Croce, Giotto’s Bell Tower, the Baptistery & Piazza della Signoria on a locally guided walking tour of Florence.
• Pisa: Your ultimate chance to ‘hold the tower up’ as you pose for that classic Insta snap. 
• Lucca: Ramble around the cobbled streets of this Renaissance walled city in Tuscany. It’s an Insta post waiting to happen! 
• Cinque Terre National Park: We’ll take care of your rail pass, so you can just zip around the iconic clifftop villages and focus on the Insta stories. Wanna hike around too? You’re welcome to explore on foot along the way.
• Verona: This is the address behind the legendary love story. Visit Juliet’s House and see the spot that turned Verona into a global icon.
• Venice: Speed across the lagoon to the aqueous island of Venice.
• Rome: Wander through the ruins of the ancient Roman Empire’s political heart, while our Local Guide peels back the layers of history & reconstructs the past. From the assassinations at the Forum to the bloody battles in the Colosseum, learn how the roots of Western culture started here. 

Contiki

Explore Siena’s historic centre, where narrow streets open onto striking medieval spaces. Look out for the Piazza del Campo, the shell-shaped square at the heart of the city, and the richly decorated exterior of Siena’s Duomo.

This Tuscan centre is recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its remarkably preserved medieval character. Its brick buildings and steep lanes offer plenty to discover and photograph without needing to enter a monument.

Walk Florence with a Local Guide and see the Duomo, Baptistery and Giotto’s Bell Tower in the city’s cathedral precinct. The route also takes in Basilica Santa Croce and Piazza della Signoria, bringing several of Florence’s defining landmarks into one guided experience.

These streets reflect the wealth and artistic ambition that shaped Renaissance Florence. Your guide adds context to the architecture and public squares while you experience their scale and detail on foot; entry to the buildings is not specified.

See the Leaning Tower of Pisa and line up the classic photograph that makes its tilt part of the fun. The tower stands in Pisa’s Piazza dei Miracoli alongside the city’s cathedral and baptistery.

Begun in the 12th century, this marble bell tower started leaning during construction as its foundations settled into soft ground. The included experience is a chance to view and photograph the tower; climbing it is not specified.

Travel by private boat into Venice, crossing the lagoon towards the city’s historic heart. From the water, take in the unusual setting of a city built across islands, with canals and waterfront buildings coming into view.

Arriving by boat offers a fitting introduction to Venice, where waterways have long served as essential routes through the city. This included lagoon crossing is distinct from the optional gondola ride and Burano Island cruise.

Explore Bologna’s porticoes, the covered walkways that give the city’s streets their distinctive rhythm. Look up at their varied arches and columns as you discover public spaces shaped for walking, trading and gathering.

The UNESCO-listed porticoes developed over centuries and remain part of daily life in Bologna. Their shelter and lively street-level atmosphere offer a glimpse of the city beyond its celebrated food; no guided tour or building admission is specified.

Join an optional Tuscan evening in Florence featuring a risotto demonstration, local wine, antipasto and something sweet to finish. Watch the dish come together and enjoy a meal centred on familiar Italian flavours.

The demonstration adds a practical food experience to your time in a city known for its dining culture, while the shared table keeps the evening sociable. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Get out on Lake Como by boat for a different perspective on its waterfront settlements and mountain-backed shores. Being on the water lets you appreciate the scale of the lake and the steep landscape rising around it.

Boats have long connected communities along Como’s irregular shoreline and remain a natural way to experience its scenery. The route and vessel are not specified in the itinerary. This ride is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Ride a gondola through Venice and experience the city from its canals rather than its streets. Low to the water, you can take in bridges, building facades and the close quarters that make travelling through Venice so distinctive.

The gondola remains one of the city’s most recognisable traditions, adapted over centuries to navigate its waterways. The precise route is not specified. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Cruise to Burano, an island in the Venetian Lagoon known for its vividly painted houses. The trip offers a change of pace from central Venice and a chance to experience another side of lagoon life.

Burano also has a longstanding lacemaking tradition, part of an island identity shaped by craft and the water. Details of the visit and time ashore are not specified in the itinerary. This cruise is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Walk through Rome and take in the sights of Italy’s capital with your Contiki crew. Its streets bring ancient remains, grand piazzas and everyday city life into close view, making this a chance to get your bearings and start ticking off bucket-list sights.

Rome’s layers of history are part of its appeal: a turn along a busy street can reveal a centuries-old monument beside a neighbourhood café. This included stroll focuses on experiencing the city on foot, rather than entry to a particular attraction.

Share an included Italian dinner with your Contiki crew at a local Rome restaurant. It’s a relaxed setting for meeting your fellow travellers over a meal and settling into the rhythms of the city.

The restaurant also works to train and provide jobs for people with disabilities, giving this welcome meal a community purpose beyond the table. Enjoy the conversation and Italian cuisine while supporting a local initiative.

Ramble through Lucca, a Tuscan city known for its broad Renaissance walls and cobbled historic centre. Wander among intimate piazzas, old buildings and cafés, with plenty of chances to pause for photographs.

The walls still trace the city’s historic outline, giving Lucca a character distinct from Tuscany’s larger cities. This included visit is about enjoying its streets and atmosphere; no admission to a specific landmark is stated.

Explore the five villages of Cinque Terre with the included rail pass, travelling between colourful settlements along the Ligurian coast. Choose where to linger for harbour views, steep lanes and glimpses of the sea between the buildings.

You can also walk available trails where conditions and access permit. Terraced hillsides and tightly clustered villages reveal how local communities have made a home on this rugged coastline. Trail access and conditions can change, so check locally before setting out.

Pause beside Lake Como to take in the water and surrounding mountain scenery. This included stop offers a close look at the lakeside setting that has made the area one of northern Italy’s best-known destinations.

Villages and villas line the shore beneath steep green slopes, creating a landscape quite different from the cities on the tour. Enjoy the lake views from land; the boat ride offered here is a separate optional experience.

Visit Juliet’s House in Verona and see the courtyard associated with Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It’s a chance to encounter the place that has become a symbol of the city’s literary romance.

The story’s connection to this address is a later tradition, rather than evidence that Shakespeare’s characters lived here. That distinction is part of its interest: see how a fictional love story shaped a real destination. Interior admission is not specified.

Discover ancient Rome with a Local Guide, exploring the remains of the empire’s political heart and hearing the stories associated with the Roman Forum and Colosseum. Your guide brings the ruins into focus through accounts of public life, power struggles and gladiatorial spectacle.

These sites shaped Rome’s role in antiquity and still dominate the city’s historical imagination. The included experience is guided interpretation of the ancient area; entry inside the Colosseum or Forum is not explicitly confirmed.

Opt for a wine experience at a vineyard outside Lucca and spend time in the Tuscan countryside beyond the city walls. It’s an opportunity to focus on the region’s local wines in the place where they are produced.

Vineyards are a longstanding part of Tuscany’s agricultural landscape and food culture. The itinerary does not specify the estate, wines or tasting format, so those details should be confirmed on tour. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.