Détail de la visite
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DAY 01 ISTANBUL – VENICE: ENTRY BY SEA INTO LA SERENISSIMA – SAN MARCO – RIALTO
Meeting at the designated time indicated by our guide at the Istanbul Airport International Departures Terminal. After baggage drop, passport control and check-in procedures, we depart on Turkish Airlines flight TK1867 at 06:50 for Venice. Arrival at Venice Marco Polo Airport at 08:20 local time. We take our private coach to Tronchetto and from there our private boat to Venice, entering by sea as the Grand Tour travellers once did. As we proceed along the Giudecca Canal, the lagoon itself explains why the city needed no walls for centuries. Upon arrival at St. Mark's Square, we visit the interior of St. Mark's Basilica (entrance ticket included in the package). Built in 828 for the relics of St. Mark brought from Alexandria, this Byzantine-plan structure, with its mosaics covering over 8,000 m² of gold ground and the story of the bronze horses brought from Constantinople in 1204 (those on the façade are copies), allows us to read the Republic's faith, diplomacy and trade network under one roof. In front of the Doge's Palace façade and the Bridge of Sighs, we discuss the 19th-century Romantic image of Venice born from the verses of Lord Byron. Following the historic Mercerie axis, which links St. Mark's political centre to Rialto's commercial heart, we reach the stone Rialto Bridge, completed in 1591. In the Rialto area, understanding Venice sometimes comes not from palaces but from a bacaro counter; in the Venetian manner, while exchanging a few words standing up, we enjoy a tasting of cicchetti with an ombra, and a Spritz or a non-alcoholic alternative for those who prefer. Since we are here, we honour this beautiful tradition. After free time for lunch and personal exploration, we regroup and transfer to our hotel. Accommodation in the Venice / Mestre / Treviso area.
DAY 02 DOLOMITES: TITIAN'S VALLEY OR THE PEAKS OF TRE CIME
Early in the morning we set off towards the high mountain region of the Dolomites. Via Auronzo di Cadore and Misurina, we reach Rifugio Auronzo at 2,320 metres altitude. From here we take an easy, flat panoramic walk of approximately 45–60 minutes along the southern walls of Tre Cime di Lavaredo. Along the walk, we discuss the observations of the French geologist Déodat de Dolomieu in 1791, after whom the rock is named; how the layers deposited in the shallow tropical seas of the Triassic period now form walls approaching 3,000 metres; the first ascent of Cima Grande by Paul Grohmann in 1869; and the Italian – Austro-Hungarian front line that ran across these ridges in 1915–1917. After the walk, we enjoy our included Alpine lunch at Rifugio Auronzo. Following a panoramic stop at Lake Misurina, we continue to Cortina d'Ampezzo, the Olympic town, where we take a short walk in the town centre and enjoy a tasting of strudel with coffee. At the end of the excursion, we return to our hotel. Accommodation in the Venice / Mestre / Treviso area.
Access to Tre Cime depends on weather, road, park and local authority regulations; where necessary, a safe alternative Dolomites route will be applied.
DAY 03 FROM GARDA TO VERONA: FROM CATULLUS TO SHAKESPEARE – SIRMIONE – VERONA
After breakfast, we set off towards Lake Garda, the largest lake in Italy. Our first stop is Sirmione, on the narrow peninsula extending into the water from the lake's southern shore. We enter the town over the bridge of the Rocca Scaligera, built in the 13th century by the Della Scala (Scaliger) family and considered one of the best-preserved lakeside castles in Europe, with its own water harbour. Sirmione, which the Roman poet Catullus called the "jewel of peninsulas and islands", contains at the tip of the peninsula the remains of the largest Roman villa in Northern Italy. Alfred Tennyson, the poet of the Victorian era, also came here in 1880 following Catullus's footsteps and dedicated a poem to Sirmione. After a guided walk and free time for lunch on the lakeshore, we set off for Verona. On our walk starting from the Arena, dating from the 1st century AD, and Piazza Bra, we pass through the Roman city gate Porta Borsari and reach Piazza delle Erbe, built on the site of the ancient forum. In Piazza dei Signori, we read the political history of the city, from the period of Cangrande della Scala, who hosted the exiled Dante, to the city's transfer to Venetian rule in 1405, while viewing the Gothic tombs of the Scaliger dynasty, the Arche Scaligere. Juliet's House is seen as a brief reference to how fiction became a place of memory in a city Shakespeare is thought never to have visited; the famous balcony was added in the 20th century. We complete our walk with an aperitivo experience, the Veneto's evening ritual, for guests who wish to join. Return to our hotel at the end of the tour. Accommodation in the Venice / Mestre / Treviso area.
DAY 04 TREVISO: THE EVERYDAY ELEGANCE OF VENETO – NOVENTA OUTLET – ISTANBUL
After breakfast, we complete our hotel check-out formalities and set off for Treviso. Woven with the arms of the Sile river and its canals, this city represents the measured, everyday elegance of Veneto in contrast to the splendour of Venice. Treviso became part of the Republic of Venice's mainland territories in 1339, and its walls, renewed at the beginning of the 16th century, also display the Republic's defensive architecture. Starting from Piazza dei Signori, where the medieval municipal building Palazzo dei Trecento rises, we walk along the Buranelli canal, named after merchants from Burano, and reach the historic fish market Pescheria, situated on a small island in the middle of the Cagnan canal. Treviso is regarded as a gift to world gastronomy, and we discover tiramisu, believed to have originated in this city, through a special tasting included in our programme. We then head to Noventa di Piave Designer Outlet and allow approximately 3 hours of free shopping time. At the designated time, transfer to Venice Marco Polo Airport. After baggage and passport procedures, we depart on Turkish Airlines flight TK1870 at 20:00 for Istanbul. Arrival in Istanbul at 23:35 local time and the end of our tour.
Ce qui est inclu
- Vol aller-retour Istanbul – Venise – Istanbul en classe économique avec Turkish Airlines et taxes aéroportuaires.
- 3 nuits d'hébergement en chambre avec petit-déjeuner dans un hôtel 4*.
- Tous les transferts en autocar privé inclus dans le programme.
- Expérience en bateau privé pour le groupe à Venise, en direction de Tronchetto – San Marco.
- Visite de l'intérieur de la Basilique Saint-Marc (sous réserve des conditions de réservation / d'exploitation).
- Dégustation à Venise de 2 cicchetti + ombra / Spritz / boisson sans alcool.
- 2e jour : déjeuner alpin au Rifugio Auronzo.
- Dégustation de strudel et de café à Cortina.
- Dégustation de tiramisu et café offert à Trévise.
- Visites de Venise, des Dolomites, du lac de Garde, de Sirmione, de Vérone et de Trévise, telles que précisées dans le programme.
- Accompagnement par un chef de voyage / guide expérimenté parlant turc.
- Assurance voyage obligatoire (il s'agit d'une assurance responsabilité civile professionnelle).
Non inclus
- Dépenses personnelles et extras à l'hôtel.
- Expérience apéritif à Vérone
- Taxe de sortie du territoire.
- Déjeuners et dîners non explicitement inclus dans le programme.
- Taxes de séjour perçues par les hôtels.
- Vols de correspondance sur les lignes intérieures.
- Frais de visa Schengen.
- Assurance voyage / assurance annulation.
