Depart Home for Venice, Italy
Arrive in Venice, Italy
Airport Transfer
Check-In, Refresh and Relax
Welcome Dinner - Included
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Orientation Walking Tour of Venice – The group will become oriented with their “sestiere” (Venetian neighbourhood), the public transportation system, nearby pharmacies, markets, ATMs, etc. The association will introduce the group to the issue of over-tourism and explain the basic to-dos and not-to-dos in the city.
Structured Free Time and Cultural immersion
Aperitivo-Dinner with Finger Food in a Bacaro, Typical Venetian Bar – Included
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Venice Walking Tour – The places of power of the Venetian Republic: Piazza San Marco, Palazzo Ducale e Basilica, Mercerie, Rialto’s market.
Lunch Break
Ghetto Walking Tour – Visit of the Venetian Jewish Ghetto – The English word “ghetto” is derived from the Jewish ghetto in Venice. Visit to the Venetian Jewish Museum.
Venetian Dinner - The group will be taken for a delicious Venetian dinner with a wide variety of menu options to cater all diets
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Trip to Murano, Burano and Mazzorbo – Departure with the Vaporetto (Venetian “bus”) from Fondamenta Nove: visit to a glass production site and discover life in the Venetian lagoon.
Lunch Break in Burano
Return to Venice
Dinner – Included
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Transfer to Piran (approx. 3 hours)
Lunch Break
Piran Walking Tour – Introduction to the Stato da Mar (former maritime territories of the Republic of Venice). Visit to Piazza Tartini, Benečanka, maritime museum, and Nika's Tiny House. Encounter with a local historian.
Free Time
Transfer to Buje ( approx. 30 minutes)
Group Dinner in the Agriturismo – Included
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Day Trip Draga Valley
Dvigrad/Duecastelli - Learn about the history of Istria at the time of the Republic of Venice. Visit to the ghost town of Dvigrad
Rovinj/Rovigno – Stroll around the beautiful city of Rovinj. Encounter with a representative of the local “Ecomuseum Batana”.
Group Lunch at Spačio Matika
Poreč/Parenzo – Visit to the Basilica, UNESCO heritage. A quick look at the relations between Venice and the Byzantine Empire.
Group Dinner in Buje
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Transfer to Zadar (Approx. 4 hours) – Introduction to the former capital of the Venetian Stato da Mar. On the way there, we cross the territory of Rijeka/Fiume (former Habsburg Empire).
Check in, Relax and Refresh
Lunch Break
Zadar Walking Tour – A guided tour of the Old Town with a local researcher. The history of the Venetian conquest of Zadar, visit to the Venetian fortresses, the arsenal, Callelarga. Testing the guidebook’s Dalmatian dictionary and tasting local (Venetian) recipes.
Group Dinner in Zadar
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Transfer to Šibenik (approx. 1,5 hours)
Šibenik Fortress – Visit to the Venetian fortresses and encounter with a local historian of the organization Fortress of Culture – an excellent example of (re)use of cultural heritage.
Lunch Break
Arrival in Dubrovnik (approx. 3,5 hours)
Group Dinner
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Walking Tour of Dubrovnik – City walls, Rectors’ Palace, Synagogue, Ethnographic museum and Lazaret.
Lunch Break
Free Afternoon in Dubrovnik
Dinner – Included
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Pelješac Peninsula – Wine degustation in the Pelješac peninsula. This region was historically ruled by the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik), rival of Venice. The walls of Ston and the geopolitics around the city of Neum are a legacy of that period.
Free Afternoon in Dubrovnik
Farewell Dinner - Program Closing
Breakfast & Day Briefing
Airport Transfer
Departure from Dubrovnik, Croatia