🇮🇹 🏛 Florence, Venice & Tuscany · The Eternal City, Italy — 10 Days
🇮🇹 🏛 Florence, Venice & Tuscany · The Eternal City, Italy — 10 Days
Description
Florence, Venice & Tuscany
Renaissance · Grand Canal · Uffizi · Cinque Terre · Chianti · 10 Days
Grand Canal → Florence
Renaissance Heart → Siena
Palio Square → Chianti
Wine Country → Cinque Terre
Coastal Villages
This is Italy at its most layered — three of the world's most extraordinary cities and landscapes compressed into 10 days of cultural immersion. Venice, built on water and sustained by trade for 1,100 years. Florence, where the Renaissance was born and where Michelangelo's David still stands in the Accademia. Tuscany, where the landscape itself is a work of art — cypress trees, hilltop towns, and vineyards that have produced wine since the Etruscans.
This expedition moves from Venice's canals to Florence's galleries to Tuscany's countryside, with Daylite Digital's Ambassador navigating the layers that most visitors miss — the private courtyards, the dawn gondola before the crowds arrive, the farmhouse kitchen where Tuscan cooking is still done by hand.
The Florentine People, the Medici & the World They Made
Florence is where the Renaissance was born — the Medici banking family's extraordinary patronage between 1400–1550 funded Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo simultaneously, producing the greatest concentration of artistic genius in any city in any century. The Florentine people's contribution to the Italian language is total — Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (1320), written in Florentine dialect rather than Latin, single-handedly created the Italian literary language still spoken today.
Venice — built entirely on 118 islands connected by 400 bridges — was the world's most powerful trading republic for 500 years (697–1797 AD), controlling the spice trade between Asia and Europe and producing Titian, Tintoretto, Vivaldi, and the Carnival tradition that spread mask culture across the Western world.
Your Daylite Digital Ambassador connects you to this layered world — the private palazzos, the Florentine workshops still producing leather and gold, and the Venice that exists before the tourist boats arrive at 9am.
From Venice's Grand Canal at dawn to Florence's Uffizi Gallery, from Chianti wine country to the clifftop villages of Cinque Terre — this expedition covers the full depth of northern Italy's Renaissance and coastal world.
- 10 days · 9 nights accommodation (tier selected)
- Silver: B&B / Guesthouse · breakfast at own cost
- Gold: 4-star Hotel · daily breakfast included
- Platinum: 5-star Hotel · all breakfasts · all transfers
- Digital itinerary · all tiers
- Silver: Venice Grand Canal & Rialto Bridge self-walk
- Silver: Florence Uffizi self-guided map · Tuscan hill town trail · train between cities guide
- Gold: Uffizi Gallery guided tour (x2) · Venice gondola & Murano glass tour
- Gold: Siena Palio square walk · Chianti Classico wine tasting · daily breakfast
- Platinum: Private gondolier at dawn Venice · Florence private art historian tour (Accademia — David)
- Platinum: Tuscan farmhouse cooking class · Cinque Terre private boat day · all transfers
Silver: breakfast at own cost · Gold: daily breakfast included · Platinum: all breakfasts + all transfers included
All experiences below are paid directly to local operators at point of service.
Optional services paid directly to Daylite Digital at time of booking.
Marco Polo Airport · water taxi to hotel · Ambassador contact established · evening Grand Canal walk · Rialto Bridge · overnight Venice
Private dawn gondolier (Platinum) · gondola & Murano glass tour (Gold/Platinum) · Grand Canal self-walk (Silver) · St Mark's Basilica · Doge's Palace · overnight Venice
Burano lace island · Murano glass factory (Gold/Platinum) · Venetian mask workshop · vaporetto island circuit · overnight Venice
High-speed train Venice to Florence · hotel check-in · Duomo & Baptistery · Piazza della Signoria · Ponte Vecchio · overnight Florence
Uffizi Gallery guided tour (Gold/Platinum) · self-guided map (Silver) · Accademia · David · private art historian (Platinum) · Oltrarno neighbourhood · overnight Florence
Chianti Classico wine tasting (Gold/Platinum) · Tuscan hill town trail (Silver) · San Gimignano medieval towers · vineyard lunch · overnight Florence
Siena · Piazza del Campo · Siena Cathedral · Palio square walk (Gold/Platinum) · Tuscan farmhouse cooking class (Platinum) · overnight Florence
Train to La Spezia · Cinque Terre private boat day (Platinum) · coastal trail walk · Vernazza · Monterosso · Manarola · overnight Florence
Boboli Gardens · Pitti Palace · Florentine leather workshops · gold artisan quarter · final Arno riverside walk · overnight Florence
Breakfast (tier-dependent) · final Florence piazza walk · Ambassador departure coordination · Florence Peretola or Pisa Airport · end of Italy Expedition
Silver
9 nights B&B / Guesthouse · breakfast at own cost · 10 days
- 9 nights · B&B or guesthouse
- Breakfast at own cost at reception
- Digital itinerary included
- Venice Grand Canal & Rialto Bridge self-walk
- Florence Uffizi self-guided map
- Tuscan hill town trail guide · train between cities guide
Gold
9 nights 4-star Hotel · daily breakfast · 10 days
- 9 nights · 4-star hotel
- Daily breakfast included
- Uffizi Gallery guided tour (x2)
- Venice gondola & Murano glass tour
- Siena Palio square walk
- Chianti Classico wine tasting
Platinum
9 nights 5-star Hotel · all breakfasts · all transfers · 10 days
- 9 nights · 5-star hotel
- All breakfasts included
- Private gondolier at dawn Venice
- Florence private art historian tour (Accademia — David)
- Tuscan farmhouse cooking class
- Cinque Terre private boat day
- All transfers included
Currency prices indicative · subject to live exchange rates · international flights excluded · all activities paid directly by traveler at point of service
Spring
18–24°C · wildflowers in Tuscany · manageable crowds · ideal for Cinque Terre coastal trail
Autumn
20–26°C · grape harvest in Chianti · golden Tuscan light · post-summer crowds · excellent value
Summer
28–35°C · peak season · Venice very busy · book all sites well in advance · early morning visits essential
Winter
6–12°C · Venice Carnival (February) · quietest museum access · Christmas markets · good value
Reserve Your Italy Expedition
From $1,750 per couple · 10 Days · Ambassador-Assisted · Accommodation Included
Reserve Your Italy ExpeditionTerms & Conditions
- Pricing per couple sharing · accommodation included as per tier selected
- Silver: breakfast at own cost · Gold: daily breakfast included · Platinum: all breakfasts + all transfers
- Daylite Digital provides accommodation booking only · Ambassador assistance is optional and subject to availability
- All activities, transfers (Silver/Gold), tours, entry fees, and meals outside tier inclusions are paid directly by traveler
- International flights to/from Italy not included
- Schengen visa may be required · arranged independently by traveler
- Train travel between Venice and Florence arranged independently or via Ambassador · not included in base price
- Cinque Terre private boat subject to weather and sea conditions · Platinum tier only
- Minimum 30 days advance booking required · full payment required to confirm reservation
- Cancellation policy: 50% refund if cancelled 30+ days before departure
- Itinerary subject to minor adjustments based on site availability and local conditions