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Day 1 · Monday · Rome & Florence
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Arrival at Rome FCO airport and transfer to four-star hotel in Florence; dinner in hotel.
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Welcome dinner in hotel |
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Day 2 · Tuesday · Florence
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Dinner at Cibreo |
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Day 3 · Wednesday · Florence
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Cantinetta Antinori |
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Villa I Tatti in Settignano, home to Bernard Berenson, the Lithuanian Jew who became America's most illustrious critic and connoisseur of Renaissance art. For fifty years it was a mecca for intellectuals and collectionists from the world over. Today the art collection and library serve as a research facility for Harvard University. |
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Dinner at Coco Lezzone |
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Day 4 · Thursday · Florence
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Guided walking tour in the historic center (former ghetto) and the Galleria degli Uffizi, Italy's most important museum of painting and one the world's five most important collections.
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At leisure to visit other suggested museums, shop, or just relax
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Dinner at Ristorante Panacea in Fiesole, pausing for the stunning view of Florence below
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Day 5 · Friday · Pisa & Leghorn
Between the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th Centuries, the condition of the Jews in Tuscany assumed an aspect which endured for another two centuries. Three very diverse situations existed: the ghettos in Florence and Siena, the smaller outlying communities bordering the papal states as Lippiano, Pitigliano and Monte Savino, and Pisa and Livorno. Where in the first two strict limitations were imposed, in the latter there was an active and prosperous community. In no other country did Jews hold comparable privileges. A contract signed in the year 850 indicates that Pisa was probably the first Tuscan city in which Jews settled. "Marranos" or "new Christians" from Portugal, Levantines (Spaniards that moved to the Ottoman Empire) and Italian Jews flooded into Livorno and Pisa's free port before Cosimo I's implicit invitation. Following, Ferdinand I de' Medici's "Livornina" in 1593 marked the official beginning of the Jewish community and guaranteed a 25-year safe conduct for goods and person to any Jews who moved there. In the 17th Century, Livorno was a center for scholars with its nine Hebrew printers. Its original 18th Century synagogue was considered second only to Amsterdam's for its beauty.
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Guided visit in Pisa's synagogue, cemetery and Piazza dei Miracoli |
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Guided visit in the Livorno synagogue, museum, and historic Medicean port |
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Sabbath seafood dinner at Ristorante Il Romito |
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Day 6 · Saturday · Chianti Classico & Siena
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Azienda Agricola Capannelle |
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Check into four-star hotel in Siena |
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Farewell dinner at La Bottega del 30 in Villa a Sesta |
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Day 8 · Monday · Florence & Rome
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Transfer to Rome FCO airport for return flight or further destinations. |
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Included are all:
·accommodations (four-star hotel; bed & breakfast; double room occupancy)
·meals and pre-selected wines
·ground transportation and transfers in air-conditioned coach
·entrances to museum and monuments
·services of registered guides
·visits and tastings
Optional extras not included are:
·travel insurance
·air or train fares
·taxis or transfers to and from airports or other arrival and departure points not specified
in the program
·single room supplement
·meals not indicated in the program
·additional drinks
·rentals (car or mobile telephone)
·obtaining documentation
·personal hotel expenses (drinks, laundry, telephone calls)
·gratuities |
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