Also included are a social orientation, two pre-departure lectures, a bibliography, a detailed itinerary, restaurant guides, and maps. The trip begins in Florence, the heart and soul of Tuscany, where its people justly claim to have the best of everything, and the traveller will be surrounded by the works of Botacelli, Donatello, and Michelangelo, Marshall said. Following Florence are stops in the medieval city of Siena, through the Tuscan countryside to Assisi, across the slopes of Monte Subasio and the hill town of Umbria. Next is a stop in Orvieto, a city atop an extinct volcano, and then on to Rome the eternal city. No other city combines so successfully such a diverse heritage of classical antiquities, medieval buildings, Renaissance palaces and baroque churches, Marshall said.
Most people find Rome to be more of a state of being than a city.
Applications and deposits must be received by March 1.