Barcelona, Southern France & Italy

With your Field Director, take walking tour of Las Ramblas, a pedestrian mall where you’ll find endless entertainment, restaurants, markets, monuments and shopping

Enjoy dinner in Barcelona

Visit Park Güell, a vast public park designed by Antoni Gaudí that features colorful mosaics and remarkable architecture

Take a guided tour of Barcelona

With your expert local guide you will see: 

• La Sagrada Família, Gaudí’s masterpiece cathedral that is over 130 years in the making
• Gothic Quarter, a memory of the Roman Empire, now lined with shops and restaurants
• Barcelona Cathedral, a Gothic Revival church known for its gargoyles and other mythical animals

Guided visit of La Sagrada Família, a massive cathedral that was started in 1883 and remains unfinished 

Spend a half day exploring Barcelona on your own

Enjoy a tapas lunch, a Spanish culinary tradition which consists of many small hot and cold plates

Travel via Carcassonne on your way to the French Riviera

Take a tour of Carcassonne, home to Europe’s most complete medieval fortress, and relive medieval times as you pass age-old ramparts

Take a day trip to Monaco, a tiny principality that packs wealth, royalty and the Casino Monte-Carlo into 0.8 square miles, and Èze, a hilly seaside town

Tour a perfume factory and watch olfactory experts concoct new fragrances

Take a walking tour of Nice and soak up the white-washed villas and the emerald waters that lap its endless beaches

Enjoy dinner in the French Riviera

Travel to Cinque Terre, a colorful hillside village with postcard views

🔹 Cultural engagement: Explore Cinque Terre and its “Five Lands,” a series of small villages that have been carved into the Italian coastline 

Enjoy dinner in Cinque Terre

Travel via Pisa to Florence

🔹 Guided learning: Tour Pisa with an expert local guide and see the world’s most famous blunder, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, before visiting the Baptistery and Cathedral 

🔹 Guided learning: Take a guided tour of Florence

With your expert local guide you will see:

• Piazza della Signoria, which is lined with classic statues
• Ponte Vecchio, a medieval bridge where many of Florence’s famed leather and gold artisans still keep shop 
• Basilica of Santa Croce, where Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Galileo and others are buried 
• Gates of Paradise, bronzed doors that depict scenes from the Old Testament and are considered an icon of the Renaissance 

Enjoy dinner in Florence

Travel by train to Rome, Italy's historic capital where the Roman Empire flourished and left an enduring mark with its intellectual, artistic, spiritual, and physical achievements  

Take a guided tour of Rome

With your expert local guide you will visit:

• Roman Forum, marking the former heart of the Roman Empire where Julius Caesar gave many of his political speeches
• The Colosseum, the world’s most famous arena used for gladiatorial combat

Take a guided tour of Vatican City, the headquarter of the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope

With your expert local guide you will visit:

• Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo’s breathtaking frescoes
• St. Peter’s Basilica, a site of religious and historical significance over which the Pope presides

Take a self-guided walking tour of Rome

You will see:

• Trevi Fountain, Rome's iconic landmark
• Pantheon, built to honor all the gods of Rome
• Piazza Navona, a lively square lined with restaurants and shops
• Spanish Steps, Europe's widest staircase

Enjoy dinner in Rome