Arrival of the group in the morning at Milan airport (Malpensa or Linate) and departure by private coach to the area around Piazza Duomo and visit of the Cathedral, Vittorio Emanuele II Gallery, Mercanti street and square, Theater Museum of la Scala. Continuation to Sforza Castle (Castello Sforzesco), built to be a fortress in the 14th century, now it is one of the most emblematic monuments of Milan. Today, it houses some of the best museums in the city and also the “Sala delle Asse”, also called the Tower Room or Paneling Room, whose ceiling was decorated by Leonardo da Vinci on a commission from Ludovic the More. Check-in at hotel, dinner and overnight stay.

Morning dedicated to the visit of the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci, founded in 1953 and today the largest museum where it is possible to explore the Italian collection of technical and scientific discoveries consecrated to transport, materials, energies, to the link between art and science, to the new frontiers between science and technology. Visiting the museum is an experience to be lived, with interactive science and technology workshops, participation in theatrical activities, temporary exhibitions and above all the largest collection of machines designed by Leonardo da Vinci. Continuation with the visit of one of the most famous paintings in the world: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci (Cenacolo Vinciano), made between 1494 and 1498 under the government of Ludovico il Moro, which represents the last meal between Jesus Christ and his apostles. The Last Supper is a huge wall painting 4.60 m high and 8.80 m wide located in the original dining room of the former Dominican convent which belongs to the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Return to the hotel, dinner and overnight stay.

Please note: the availability of tickets for The Last Supper is very limited and you will need to arrange the program based on the time available for the visit. According to actual conditions the access is allowed to a maximum of 18 people at a time for a maximum duration of 15 min.

In the morning visit of the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, which contains over a million old books and thousands of paintings by the world’s greatest artists such as Titian, Bramantine, Botticelli, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci. Of the latter it is possible to admire the painting “Portrait of a musician” as well as unique documents such as the Codex Atlanticus, kept in the Federiciana room, which constitutes the largest collection in the world of drawings and writings by Leonardo da Vinci. The Atlantic Codex consists of 1119 sheets dating from 1478 to 1519, containing various subjects such as sketches and preparatory drawings for painting, researches in mathematics, optics and astronomy, philosophical meditations but also curious war machine projects, hydraulic pumps and parachutes.
In the afternoon, a walking tour to discover the Navigli district, the canals which since the 12th century, with the construction of the Naviglio Grande, have been the protagonists of Milan’s economic fortune. The Navigli in fact allowed navigation through an area which, from the areas of Lake Maggiore and Lake Como, crossing the whole plain, extended from Lower Ticino to the sea. Over the centuries, the network of canals gradually extended with the construction of the Naviglio Pavese and, from the 14th century, the water played a role in the transit of the materials that were used for the construction of the Cathedral. Work that continued for the following centuries with important achievements such as the Viarenna and Naviglio de Martesana basin. The Renaissance period dates back to the improvement projects Leonardo da Vinci made, as a hydraulic engineer, to the system of basins, which regulated the flow of water. Return to the hotel, dinner and overnight stay.

Departure to Florence by private coach. Walking tour of the historic center, 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. 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.

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