Danielle Pugliese Houser
New member
Hello!
I am trying to plan my summer itinerary for our visit to Italy. I am having a hard time with the "logistics" of planning a 2 week trip!
My husband and I plan to arrive in Rome first. We plan on staying there for 4 days. After which we have a booking in a wonderful villa in Cortona for a week. During our stay in Cortona, we plan to take short day trips etc as well as enjoy the grounds of the villa, take cooking classes etc. After this week, I want to fit in Greve, Chianti, Florence (maybe? I have visited Florence numerous times and we even visited Florence on our honeymoon 7 years ago. That being said, one can ALWAYS revisit places...Florence being one of them!! ) So...my thought was to go to this great winery I read about (Verrazzano) and stay at their agrotourismo for 2 nights (much cheaper than Florence!!!) so that we could do the wine tasting one day and perhaps take a day trip to Florence? After this, we were planning to go to Bologna (my husband is a ducati owner and must take a tour of the Ducati factory in Bologna (maybe spend 2 days in Bologna). Finally, we plan to fly out of BOlogna back to the states. We will be renting a car after our visit in Rome and driving to the villa in Cortona. Oh , and one other thing.....a friend highly recommend a one night visit to NOrcia...after Rome. I am not sure if this is a wise thing to do because it is quite east....and I do not want to feel like I am on a harried tour of Italy!
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!
grazie mille
I am trying to plan my summer itinerary for our visit to Italy. I am having a hard time with the "logistics" of planning a 2 week trip!
My husband and I plan to arrive in Rome first. We plan on staying there for 4 days. After which we have a booking in a wonderful villa in Cortona for a week. During our stay in Cortona, we plan to take short day trips etc as well as enjoy the grounds of the villa, take cooking classes etc. After this week, I want to fit in Greve, Chianti, Florence (maybe? I have visited Florence numerous times and we even visited Florence on our honeymoon 7 years ago. That being said, one can ALWAYS revisit places...Florence being one of them!! ) So...my thought was to go to this great winery I read about (Verrazzano) and stay at their agrotourismo for 2 nights (much cheaper than Florence!!!) so that we could do the wine tasting one day and perhaps take a day trip to Florence? After this, we were planning to go to Bologna (my husband is a ducati owner and must take a tour of the Ducati factory in Bologna (maybe spend 2 days in Bologna). Finally, we plan to fly out of BOlogna back to the states. We will be renting a car after our visit in Rome and driving to the villa in Cortona. Oh , and one other thing.....a friend highly recommend a one night visit to NOrcia...after Rome. I am not sure if this is a wise thing to do because it is quite east....and I do not want to feel like I am on a harried tour of Italy!
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!
grazie mille