Italy 2 week trip outline

ITALY 2 Week Schedule

July 18     
SATURDAY Departs SFO-FCO via FRA

July 19  SUNDAY
Arrive Rome 2:00 PM       
Sun Rise 5:49 am – 8:42 pm Temp: 95* Car service airport transfer DonDon

Spanish Steps
(10 min walk to Trevi) Trevi Fountain [Salvi 1762], Gelato Dinner

 
July 20 MONDAY    Temp 97*

Metro to St. Peter in Vicoli –
Michelangelo Moses Barberini 2 stops to Termini, Transfer to Cavor 
[Cavor Metro stop] (prisoners in Florence) (Salves in the Louve) Walk downhill to FORUM Purchase ROMA PASS

Rick Steve’s Audio download Forum & Colosseum
Explore Forum 1.5 hours

COLOSSEUM
1.5 hours explore Roma Pass (audio guide or tour) Lunch near San Clemente (pizza) Walk San Clemente Church - 3 churches on top of each other. Take bus or Taxi to Pantheon, St. Maria sopra Minerva,

Gesu church
(5:00 PM lighting ceremony) Jesuit’s home Pantheon Gelato places Cremeria Montefort west side

DINNER.
Taxi back to hotel.

 
JULY 21 TUESDAY Temp: 100*

11:00 am Gallery Borghese 11-1 pm
Tickets pre-purchased Need to arrive by 10:30 to sign up for English language tour or do audio. (first come first served)

Walk from hotel.
15-20 min walk to park

LUNCH           
Girarrosto Toscano 29 Via Campania

Combo Appitizer, Buffalo cheese, pasta, Bisteca for 2 Castle San Angelo Or Capitoline Museums

Dinner           
Piazza Novona – four rivers fountain, Tartufo?

JULY 22 WEDNESDAY   Temp 101*
Don Don Infante dondon.infante@yahoo.com POMPEII                   
Car service pick up at hotel 7:00 am.
 

Stop for breakfast on the road.     
Arrive Pompeii 9:30 am

2.5 hours self guided tour, use Rick Steves audio download Drive to Naples:
 

LUNCH
@ Ristorante la Scialuppa (the Rowboat) in Santa Lucia district. Borgo Marianari 4.

(telephone 081-764-5333)      
www.lascialuppa.it
 

Walk to Metro via Royal Palace, Castel Nuovo, Galleria Umberto I Station:
Enter @ Piazza Municipio Exit @ Museo (3 stops) Buy ticket at Tabacchi store or newsstand $1.30
 

Museo Archaeological (audio guide)  [2 hrs]

Farnesee collection Pompeii mosaics, statues, Secret Room Walk through Town (Rick Steves Audio Tour) [1.5 hrs] Spaccanapoli (Via Croce, Via Baigio)
 

Dinner 6:30
@ Antica Pizzeria De Michele

@ Via Pietro Colletta & Via Cesare Sersale #1.
 

Drive back to Rome hotel.

JULY 23 THURSDAY    Temp 99*

Metro or Taxi 11e Barbarini to Ottaviano
 

7:30   
Copula climb, St. Peter’s Basilica, Grottos

12:00 Lunch
Than walk to Vatican Museums
 

1:30
Vatican Museums Pio Clemintine, Pinocotta, SistineAudio Tour Maybe:                       
Castle St. Anglo

Dinner

JULY 24, FRIDAY Temp 99*

Car service to Florence via Assisi, Perugia, Sienna Pick up 6:30 am at hotel

2.5 hour drive to Assisi

Visit St. Francis of Assisi Basilica. (1.5 hour)
 

45 min drive Perugia Chocolate factory tour & shopping LUNCH in Perugia or Cortona

Drive to Sienna 1.5 hours

Afternoon visit to Campio and Sienna Duomo [3 hrs] Dinner in Sienna than drive to Florence. Arrive (8:30 pm)

JULY 25 SATURDAY Temp: 94*

Accademia    8:30 am         
David & prisoners [1 hr]
San Marco(around corner) Fra Anglica frescos [Closter – Savonarola ] [1 hr]
Medici Chapels in San Lorenzo church [Night & Day Dusk & Dawn] [1 hr]
Palace Medici-Riccardi [1 hr]

Mercato Centrale Lunch [1:00 pm]

Shopping outlets bus from Train station 2:30 pm Shops close at 8:00 pm [July summer sale]

JULY 26 SUNDAY Temp: 92*
maybe rain showers Uffizi Gallery 8:15 am [Audio guide] [3 hrs]

LUNCH

Bargello Sculpture museum [Donatello Room] [1.5 hr]
Pitti Palace & Gardens [1.5 hr]
Santa Maria Novella Church [Spanish Chapel] [1 hr]

JULY 27 MONDAY

Brunelleshi’s Duomo (1436) [3 hrs]

Baptistery & doors [Ghiberti N & E Gate of Paradise](1128) Campanile by Giotto (1350) @ Santa Mara Del Flori
 

LUNCH

Galileo Museum [1 hr]

Pallazzo Vecchio (state apartments) & Ponte Vecchio

Piazza Signoria & Loggia dei Lanzi [Neptune fountain, Cosimo I, Rape of Sabines]Santa Croce (Franciscan) & leather shops [1 hr]

Pazzi Chapel, Refectory, Michelangelo Galileo, Dante

JULY 28 TUESDAY   Milan Day Trip

8:25 am -10:18 am 2 hour train ride.
(Arrive by 7:35 am)

JULY 29 WEDNESDAY .
Italo Train #9984

Mid morning train 10:55 to Padova Arrives 12:32 Sheraton Padova

Chapel Scrovegni Chapel in evening 6:00 pm               
Dinner in town

JULY 30 THURDAY    
11:18 – 12:00

Trenitalia Train to Verona:           
Walk around town. Rick Steves Tour Lunch & Dinner Enoteca Can Grande

Piazza Bra at Via Dietro Liston 19D (045-595-022)

Or Ristorante Torcolo Behind Piazza Bra @ Via Carlo Cattaneo 11 (045-803-3730)
 

Return 20:29 (8:29 pm)

JULY 31 FRIDAY
Venice Museum Pass 32 euro at train staion Train to VENICE (11:00 am) $6.50 each way 26 min

Santa Lucia Train Station Take R or RV regional trains

Grand Canal, Get kids rolling Venice pass & adults buy 3 day transit pass Doge’s Palace, St. Mark’s Basilica, St. Mark’s Square, Correr Museum,

AUGUST 1 SATURDAY

VENICE MURANO Glass Museum opens around 10:00 am BURANO Lace Museum (11:00 am)
 

Walk around Venice. Correr Museum, La Fenice Opera House Dinner and music Café Florain or Caffe Quadri Train back to Padua 7:00 pm AUGUST 2 SUNDAY

Walk and explore VENICE
 

Rialto Bridge, Fish & Produce Market,

Mocenigo Costume museum, Ca’ Pesaro modern Art LUNCH

FRARI church

Gondola ride (by Santa Margarita area) & Ca’ Rezzonico
 

AUGUST 3 MONDAY   
Maybe walk around Padua downtown in morning Naples           

Lunch   
@ Ristorante la Scialuppa (the Rowboat)
 

Santa Lucia district.
Borgo Marianari 4 (telephone081-764-5333)        
www.lascialuppa.it

Antica Pizzeria De Michele

@ Via Pietro Colletta & Via Cesare Sersale #1 for dinner.

Florence (piazzale Michelangelo and San Miniato Church)

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SFO to BCN Spain    
14 day Spain Schedule         
81* /    69* Spain       
7:17 am – 8:24 pm Sunday 9/2 store @ Airport  Hauptbahnhof main station

Birkenstocks near Kleinmarkthalle (indoor Market) Hauptwache S or U Ban station than South Department Store North of S or U Ban station   Also Café Hauptwache near station.    75* / 58* Lunch at Romer Pils Brunnen one Block North of Kleinmarkthalle (German food) Get the Family S Bahn ticket.

Arrive Monday 9/3      Arrive Barcelona7:35 pm          
Walk around Sagrada for night view.

Taxi to Air BnB:
14 Passatge de Maiol, Across the street from Sagrada. 3 nights 1 block

Tuesday 9/4     81*/69*   7:12 am – 8:32 pm

Sagrada Familia 9:15 [ Lv @ 9:00 ]

Nativity Façade / Elevator    

Reserve Tickets + Audio $112 Taxi to Mercat Del Ninot for lunch.

Seafood lunch at La Medusa 73.   
amon from stall.

Taxi to La Pedrere (Casa Mila) / view from the outside or visit OR     visit Casa Batllo [both by Gaudi]                   
@ Passeig de Gracia 43 $21.5

Interactive Audio $3 Reserve Ticket.

Kids liked this house better.

Taxi to Park Guell 6:00 pm Taxi Reserve Ticket than Barri Gotic walk

Wednesday 9/5      
Metro to Plaza de Catalunya than start Rick Steve’s Ramblas Walk

Churros & Chocolat for breakfast @ Granja Viader off Ramblas (125 years old)   

@ 6 Cardedeu See remains of old Roman road and tombs behind Ramblas than walk to La Boqueria market (best am)  Say hello & take a picture with Juan.

Lunch @ Kiosko Universal (in the corner of market), buy porcini dried mushrooms, buy Saffron from Costco

Walk around Cathedral and Roman Towers (follow Rick Steves Barri Gotic walk) Picasso museum 4 pm-7 pm    

4 PM Reserve tickets $58

Dinner Fideua or Paella Taxi

La Mar Salada* Passeig Joan de Barbo 58 www.lamarsalada.cat Or Barraca Passeig Maritim Barcelonetta 1 www.tribuwoki.com

[ Option: Eixample district area walk / dinner tapas    Magic Fountains at Montjuic (Metro) ]

Thursday 9/6

Flt BCN–GRX Granada [Lv @ 8:30]

10:30 am – 12:00 Vueling Air 1.5 hr 88* / 55*

Bus to Air BnB @ Calle Alhondiga,

23 2 nights Near Cathedral (2 blocks)

2 pm/12 noon Walk around old town Cathedral

(6:45) $4 & Royal Chapel $4 (closes 7:30)

Cathedral 1 of 2 Renaissance churches (Cordoba) & 2^nd largest (Sevilla)

Royal Chapel Tombs of Queen Isabel & King Ferdinand. Alcaiceria / the Grand Bazar shopping

Reservation for Dinner Estrellas de San Nicholas. (do 1 hour before sunset) Taxi up hill.
Take photos at look out first.
Restaurant is next to look out.                
$$$ or eat at one of the Carmens.

Option: Carriage rides  Carretera de Jaen     

Option: Walk around Albayzin Moor district

Friday 9/7

Alhambra Churreria for breakfast. Churros & Chocolat. 84* / 61* Do the audio tour.
 

Alhambra palace     9:30 =am entry. [ Taxi Lv @ 8:30 ]

8:30 - 2 pm Need to Reserve/BOOK FAR AHEAD!

Palacio Nazzaries / Charles V’s Palace / GeneraLife Gardens [Games of Thrones location] Nap!

Walk around Albayzin Moor district. Taxi up the hill than walk down. View of Alhambra @ San Nicolas Viewpoint                         

7:40 am Sunset 8:50 pm     
Dinner at Albayzin El Acebuche de Amadeus
 

Saturday 9/8
Taxi to AM Train to Seville.

Book tickets ahead of time.

About 12 noon departure.

Air BNB   Calle Manuel Font de Anta 6 Sat-Mon 2 Nights( in 3 pm / Out 12) Christina North of center of town Off Calle Jesus del Fran Poder & Santa Ana Nap

Dinner at Catalina Bar de Tapas. Catalina de Ribera 4. Behind the old town & walk through the park.

La Casa del Flamenco $18/$16 ($68) 20:30/8:30 show 1 hour 6, Calle Ximenez de Encisco

Reserve Ticket

Sunday 9/9

9:30 Real [Royal] Alcazar palace        

$80  Reserve Ticket      89* / 65* 7:50 am-9:00 pm

Triana pottery district (closed Sunday and 2-5 pm): Lunch at Las Golondrinas: try the pork tenderloin! Bull fighting museum El Arenal. $8 Walk back to BnB via Sierpes and shop & visit @ Martian Ceramic @ Sierpes 74 Note lunch hours. Than take a nap like the locals.
 

Than taxi to cathedral than take a Carriage ride from Cathedral to Park. [Plaza Espana / Maria Luisa park] Walk to dinner in Triana @ Bar Bistec (1932) by Santa Ana Church

Monday 9/10

Cathedral Opens at 11:00 am – 6 pm & La Giralda tower. $20 ($80) Reserve ticket. Store bags @ BNB.
 

Flight from Seville - Madrid [ Lv @ 4:30 ] 5:55 pm – 7:00 pm SVQ-MAD Air Nostrum 2 persons No bags & 2 persons w/ 2 bags with ticket
 

Air BnB: Calle de Sta. Catalina, 8  

2 blocks from Thyssen Museum    

5 nights Puerto Walk Paseo Puerto del Sol 85* / 61*     

7:37 am – 8:54 pm

Dinner: Taberna EL BUO (not La Buha) Have the Spanish Tortillas and Paella @ Calle Gravinas 6, Chueca

Tuesday 9/11

Royal Palace 10:00 am $15 ($45) Reserve ticket    

Lunch at Mercado de San Miguel. Tapas, oysters, meats from (Raza Nostra meats).

Walk to train station or book on line for am & return pm Toledo on Thursday. Back to BnB for a Nap

Paseo del Arte combo ticket $25+12 for audio Kids are Free except at Thyssen museum. @ 5:00 pm 10:00- 7:00

Wed 9/12

Prado Museum 10:00 am – 8:00 (Free 6-8) Kids Free. Lunch across street @ VIP (American food) Churros and Chocolat snack at Chocolateria Valor. @ San Martin 7

Dinner: Tapas @ Casa Alberto [ 1827 Cervantes lived in the building ]@ Calle de las Huertas 18

Thur 9/13

AM Train to Toledo   
Taxi up the hill with one stop at lookout point ($15) Good Christmas photo spot!

Cathedral (10 am)      
Option: Army Museum    
8 x El Greco’s @ Santa Cruz art (9:45) museum   

Option: Los Cuatro Tiempo Rest. Game 1-5 pm    
Buy Knives @ Fabrica de Zamorano shop.
 

Fri 9/14

Gran Via Walk / Puerto walk Tapas Reina Sofia (Guernica)
10:00 – 9:00 pm (Free 7-9) Kids free. Cochinillo Asado Suckling pig @ El Neru Chocolat and churros @ Chocolateria San Gines [ 1894 ]
 

Sat 9/15          
[Lv for airport Taxi @ 9:00 am ]       
 
11:35 am – 2:00 pm    
MAD-EWR   
777-200          
8hrs 25 min              

3:25 pm – 6:30 pm         
EWR – SFO   
777-200          
6 Hrs

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