DAY 1: DEPART

• Depart for Italy  

DAY 2: ARRIVAL

• Arrive in Italy
• Meet your KI Concerts tour manager
• Introduction to Italy and the region
• Check into hotel
• Dinner daily
• Overnight Mestre area  

DAY 3: VENICE

• Breakfast daily
• Sail to Venice on a private charter boat and dock near St Mark's Square. Marvel at how the people of this lagoon ruled the world’s waterways when the Venetians were in the ascendancy
• Enjoy a guided tour of the imposing Doge’s Palace decorated by 16th century artists such as Titian and Tintoretto, walk across the Bridge of Sighs and see Piombi Prison
• Concert
• Overnight Mestre area

DAY 4: VENICE AND TUSCANY

• Return to Venice
• Explore the narrow paths that wander through history, experience Murano glass blowing, or take an optional gondolier ride 
• Travel to Tuscany
• Check into hotel
• Overnight Montecatini

DAY 5: TUSCANY

• Tour ‘under the Tuscan sun’ visiting Pisa to see the Leaning Tower in all its glory or visit Lucca, one of Italy’s last fully walled cities dating back to Gothic times
• Exchange program with the local community (tbd)
• Concert
• Overnight Montecatini 

DAY 6: FLORENCE

• Enjoy a guided walking tour of Florence, the epicenter of the Renaissance. Visit the Piazza del Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio, and Piazza della Signoria
• Time to explore this extraordinary city. Those who wish to enter Accademia to see Michelangelo’s David can take the time to line up for this extraordinary experience (entrance cost not included), others may wish to ascend the 463 stairs to the top of the Cathedral’s cupola (entrance not included) or simply stroll along the River Arno
• Travel to Rome
• Check into hotel
• Overnight Rome

DAY 7: ROME

• Guided walking tour of the historical center of this great city touring the Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Piazza Navona and seeing Campo de’ Fiori and the Pantheon
• Continue exploring Rome
• Overnight Rome

DAY 8: VATICAN CITY

• Enjoy a tour of the Vatican City, the smallest country in the world
• Sing Mass at St. Peter's Basilica (tbd)
• Overnight Rome

DAY 9: ROME

• Enjoy a guided tour of Rome walking through the Roman Forum, home to the world’s first senate, seeing the Capitoline Hill, Citadel of ancient Rome, and the Tarpeian Rock before viewing the magnificent Colosseum itself
• Continue to explore Rome
• Concert
• Farewell dinner
• Overnight Rome

DAY 10: DEPART

• Depart from your hotel to Rome’s international airport and begin your journey home