Arrival of the group in the morning at Florence airport and departure by private coach to the city center for a walking tour of a real open-air museum. Visit of the main monuments: Piazza del Duomo with the Cathedral and the Baptistery, Piazza della Signoria with its famous statues, Palazzo Vecchio and at the end the Ponte Vecchio. Free afternoon. Check-in at hotel, dinner and overnight stay.

Morning dedicated to the visit of the Uffizi Gallery, which houses one of the most famous artistic heritages in the world. Open to the public since 1765, the Uffizi Museum covers 8,000 m2, the world’s finest collection of Italian paintings and works by all the great European masters, from Albrecht Dürer to Francisco de Goya. It consists of works by artists ranging from Cimabue to Caravaggio, including Giotto and Leonardo da Vinci. Home to some of the greatest masterpieces of painting, painted by Michelangelo, Raphael, Mantegna, Titian, Parmigianino, Rembrandt, Giambattista Pittoni, Canaletto and Botticelli. Among the works of art gathered in the Uffizi Gallery, it is possible to admire Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Adoration of the Magi” and “The Annunciation”. The Office of Drawings and Prints of the Uffizi also houses one of Leonardo’s first drawings, produced during the period of training at Verrocchio’s studio: the Landscape with River, dated August 5, 1473. Afternoon spent exploring the links between the figure of the artist and the city center: from the residence in via delle Prestanze (now called via dei Gondi), to the gilded copper sphere of the Duomo for which Leonardo collaborated in the studio of his master Verrocchio, up to the basilica of Santissima Annunziata, where the Florentines, in the spring of 1501, flock to admire the cartoon of Sant’Anna with Mary and the Child Jesus. Without forgetting the Palazzo Vecchio, where it says, creating many controversies, that the famous fresco “the Battle of Anghiari” (that was believed lost for four centuries) has finally been found, hidden behind a work by Giorgio Vasari, the Battle of Marciano, enthroned in the Hall of the Five Hundreds of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Return to the hotel, dinner and overnight stay.

“Walking” in the footsteps of Leonardo da Vinci in his Tuscany from the place where he was born and raised is the most moving way to start the journey: Anchiano. In this hamlet in the municipality of Vinci, 40 km away from Florence, you can see and visit Leonardo’s birthplace, which has been transformed into a modern exhibition space that explains his paintings, his life and his inspiration through modern multimedia devices. A journey that allows you to interact with the drawings and paintings of the Master. From Anchiano to Vinci, where the first stop is at the Leonardiano Museum located in the Palazzina Uzielli where the sections of construction machinery, textile manufacturing machinery and mechanical watches are located. To get there, you have to cross the panoramic square below the castle which dominates the village and where there is the large sculpture by Mario Ceroli, “The Man of Vinci” (1987), which interprets and displays the image of the Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man. A few meters away, Piazza dei Guidi, reconfigured in 2006 on a project by Minimo Paladino, presents the museum dedicated to Leonardo. The exhibition route continues in the 13th century Chateau dei Conti Guidi, which now houses the Museo Leonardiano. Here you can see the many recreations of Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions such as a bicycle, a car, a helicopter, a parachute, a tank and the designs that inspired the wooden models, as well as various pulleys and gears and other engines. Inside the castle, over 60 models of machines are on display, each presented with precise references to the artist’s drawings and handwritten annotations: from military machines and instruments for scientific use to machines for moving through the air, in water and on land, to physical optics experiments. Return to the hotel, dinner and overnight stay.

– Option 1: Departure

– Option 2: Full day tour of Chianti with wine tasting
The excursion will reach Greve in Chianti, stopping in a cellar with a splendid panoramic terrace opening onto the Greve valley, tasting of 4 types of wine and visit of the vineyard and cellars. At the end of the visit, lunch consisting of a rich selection of cold meats, accompanied by local wine. After lunch, visit to the medieval village of Radda, main producer of “Chianti Classico”. Return to hotel, dinner and overnight stay.

Breakfast, transfer to the airport and end of our services.