Tour 14 June to 27 June 2012
Escorted by Dr Angela Mackie
Tour Operator: Claudio Polles
Tour begins and ends at the airport in Venice where we will be
met by the tour operator
Cost of tour: $AUS7650
Single room supplement $AUS1250
Download the booking and deposit form
TOUR COSTS INCLUDE -
- Transfers
- Accommodation with private facilities
- All excursions
- All breakfasts, all dinners (wines with evening meals)
- Entrance fees as per itinerary
NOT INCLUDED -
- Airfares and all associated airport and airline taxes
- Travel insurance
- Any personal costs
Day 1 Thursday 14 June
Arrival in Venice; travel to accommodation
Day 2 Friday 15 June Padua
Arena [Scrovegni] Chapel- frescoes by Giotto preceded by video
presentation
We will visit the Chapel twice today as each visit only lasts 15
minutes
Museo Civico:The old monastery now houses the municipal art
gallery: Giotto, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, et
al
The Church of the Eremitani: Andrea Mantegna, St James Led to his
Execution, c 1455, Church of the Eremetani, Padua, destroyed
1944
lunch
Palazzo della Ragione: Architecture and view Great Salone
Basilica of St Antonio of Padua
Scuola di S. Antonio - frescoes by Titian (examples of his early
work)
Day 3 Saturday 16 June Verona
Transfer to Verona
Roman Arena, c 30 AD
Juliet House!
Walk through Piazza delle Erbe and Piazza dei Signori to:
Sant' Anastasia
Teatro Romano
Duomo
Cartolari-Nichesola Chapel: The Assumption by Titian (1487-1576)
on the altar
Sansovino Chapel altar and the cloisters of Sant' Elena
Walk through Porta Borsari and along Corso Cavour to the
Castelvecchio (Art Gallery) for a visit of at least 2 hours
Basilica of San Zeno: wonderful example of Romanesque architecture
as well as the famous San Zeno Altarpiece by Andrea Mantegna
Day 4 Sunday 17 June LAKE GARDA
Relaxing day touring and shopping at the lakeside villages of
(Malcesine - Lazise - Garda - Bardolino)
Day 5 Monday 18 June Vicenza
Cathedral in Vicenza (door and dome by Palladio)
Also work by Tiepolo but he is not of the Renaissance but
Baroque
Palazzo Barbaran da Porto 1570-75 (Palladio here)
Casa Pigafetta (late Gothic/Early Renaissance) exterior only
Palazzo Thiene 1542 (exterior only)
Palazzo della Ragione (Basilica Palladiana) 1546-49, Piazza dei
Signori
Loggia del Capitaniato (also known as the Loggia Bernarda) 1565
exterior only
Day 6 Tuesday 19 June Vicenza
Villa Godi: early villa by Palladio
LUNCH in the stables at Villa Godi
Day 7 Wednesday 20 June Vicenza
Villa Capra ("La Rotonda") 1566-71 (located on outskirts of
Vicenza)
Day 8 Thursday 21 June Vicenza
Monte Berico, to view Vicenza's urban design.
Basilica of Monte Berico: Veronese: Supper of St Gregory the
Great, 1572
There is a walkway down which gives a view of exquisite private
gardens.
Palladio: Valmarana Chapel in the church of Santa Corona
Palazzo Chiericati 1550-1580 (Art Museum) Palladio
Exterior as well as view art inside
Teatro Olimpico 1584 Palladio with scenes by Scamozzi
Salvi Gardens, Palladian Loggia Valmarana and Longhena's
Loggia
Day 9 Friday 22 June
BASSANO DEL GRAPPA TO SEE PALLADIO'S BRIDGE and go to Castelfranco
to see the Giorgione in the Cathedral
VILLA BARBARO AT MASER and FRESCOES BY VERONESE
Wine tasting and lunch here.
Day 10 Saturday 23 June
Scuola Grande di San Rocco for the Tintoretto and Titian
A trip to the Island of Torcello to see the Basilica
Day 11 SUNDAY 24 June Venice
Piazzetta San Marco: Libreria Sansoviana, La Zecca, La
Campanile
Basilica of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
Titian's Madonna di Ca' Pesaro in the left aisle
Titian's Assumption of the Virgin, over the main altar. In
the Frari's sacristy is Giovanni Bellini Madonna and Child
with Saints (1488); sculpture Antonio Canova (1757-1822)
Donatello's John the Baptist
Day 12 MONDAY 25 June Venice
The Academy Renaissance works
Guggenheim Museum
Day 13 TUESDAY 26 June
Santa Maria dei Miracoli
Santa Zaccaria: Bellini: Sacra Conversazione
San Giorgio Maggiore (Palladio)
Church of the Santissimo Redentore (Palladio)
pm: Church of San Sebastiano (to see works of Veronese)
Santa Maria della Salute (Baroque church but Titian works in the
Sacritsty)
Day 14 WEDNESDAY 27 June
DEPART FOR VENICE AIRPORT