Day One: Sunday
DEPARTURE

• Depart the U.S.A.

Overnight: Flight

Day Two: Monday
ARRIVAL IN VENICE

• Arrive at the Marco Polo International Airport in Venice.
• Transfer to the hotel on your own. (Transfers can be arranged at additional cost.)
• 2:00 p.m. Meet your tour educator and other group members in the hotel lobby.
• Depart the hotel for an orientation tour along the alleys, bridges and canals as an introduction to Italy and the compelling beauty of this unique city, as well an orientation to the Jewish journey - Jewish Memory as History.
• Ride a gondola through the canals of Venice.
• LaDa'at Focus The Wonders of Italy: Welcome dinner and orientation with your tour educator.

Overnight: Venice

Day Three: Tuesday
VENICE & THE WORLD'S FIRST GHETTO | walking tour

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• LaDa'at Focus 2,000 Years of Italian Jewry: Introduction by your tour educator.
• Visit the Island of Murano to tour one of its many glass-making workshops.
• Sail to the colorful Island of Burano, noted for its lacework and colorfully painted houses.
  
• Lunch on own.
• Unchanged Legacy: Tour the Jewish Ghetto, the home and center of Venetian Jewish life, 1515-1848. Visit the Great Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Museum in the Nuovo Ghetto.
• Return to the hotel.
• Dinner on own and evening at leisure.

Overnight: Venice

Day Four: Wednesday
ROLLING HILLS & THE BEAUTY OF ITALY

• Breakfast at the hotel and check out.
• Depart Venice and travel through the beautiful countryside of Tuscany where Jewish life flourished between the 13th and 15th centuries. In the 1940s, the region was a refuge for Jews fleeing persecution.
• Visit a local Tuscan Farm in the countryside for wine tasting with local specialists and a dialogue about Italian culture.
  
• Visit Ferrara, established almost 1,000 years ago. Over the centuries, Jews migrated here from Rome, Spain and Germany. The community eventually numbered 2,000 souls; and with its ten synagogues, became one of the most flourishing and important in Italy. Even though Jews have lived in Ferrara since its founding, it was not until the 13th century that their numbers grew large enough to be granted political status and certain privileges, protected by the Edict of 1275.
• Continue south towards Florence and check into the hotel.
  
• Dinner on own and free time to explore the streets of Florence at night.

Overnight: Florence

Day Five: Thursday
JEWISH FLORENCE & THE CRADLE OF THE RENAISSANCE | walking tour

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• LaDa'at Focus The Jews of Tuscany: Introduction by your tour educator.
• Begin the tour of Florence with a close look at the Jewish world once centered here. The stories that emanate from the late 14th-century ghetto and the Moorish-style synagogue built in 1882 will be enhanced by a visit to the Museo Ebraica (Jewish Museum).
• Lunch on own, en route.
• Visit the Uffizi Gallery, one of the oldest and most famous art museums in Europe.
• Walk to the Duomo, celebrated for its magnificent dome designed by Brunelleschi, and view the Baptistery's renowned "Gates of Paradise" by Ghiberti.
• Continue with an exploration of the open-air art museum of Piazza della Signoria, ending at the Ponte Vecchio, or the "Old Bridge.”
  
• Return to the hotel.
• Dinner on your own and evening at leisure.

Overnight: Florence

Day Six: Friday
JEWISH STORIES ABOUND ON THE ROAD TO ROME

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Check out of the hotel, depart Florence and drive south towards Rome.
• Stop along the way in Pitigiliano, once known as “La Piccola Gerusalemme” -- Little Jerusalem -- because of its once-thriving Jewish community. Though the community is no longer, one can still walk through the restored synagogue, mikveh and kosher butchery, and even enjoy a glass of kosher wine.
• Lunch on own, en route.
  
• Continue to Rome, and take a panoramic tour of the ‘Eternal City' and its vistas.
• Check into the hotel.
  
• Optional Kabbalat Shabbat services at a synagogue in Rome.
  
• Shabbat dinner at a restaurant.

Overnight: Rome

Day Seven: Saturday
THE GLORY OF ROME WITH HIDDEN TREASURES REVEALED

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• LaDa'at Focus The Roman Empire and the Jewish People: Introduction by your tour educator.
• Embark on a tour to some of Rome's most beautiful structures, including the Spanish Steps, Europe's longest and widest staircase, the Trevi Fountain, the largest baroque fountain in the city, Piazza Navona (Navona Square) and more.
• Lunch on own.
  
• Tour ancient Rome, including the Coliseum, the Roman Forum and other monuments that recall Rome's great historic past. View the Arch of Titus, perhaps the best-known symbol of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.
  
• Return to the hotel.
• Dinner on your own and evening at leisure.

Overnight: Rome

Day Eight: Sunday
SACRED ROME

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• LaDa'at Focus Michelangelo and the Jews: Introduction by your tour educator.
  
• Enjoy a special visit to the Vatican Museum and view some of the seldom-revealed Jewish historic relics preserved there.
• Continue to the Sistine Chapel, followed by a visit to St. Peter's Basilica, built in the late Renaissance.
  
• Lunch on own.
• Continue to the Great Synagogue, built in 1904, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage housed inside it. 
  
• Tour the Jewish Ghetto, established by Pope Paul IV in 1555. Rome's Jews were stripped of their rights and forced to live in the walled-in, overcrowded area. The medieval streets wind their way towards the square from which Jews were deported during the Holocaust.
• Return to the hotel.
  
• Farewell dinner and group reflection at a typical Roman restaurant.

Overnight: Rome

Day Nine: Monday
DEPARTURE

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Check out of the hotel.
• Transfer on your own to the Rome International Airport. (Transfers can be arranged at additional cost.)
  
• Departure flight to the U.S.A., arriving the same day.