Operates: Monday, Thursday, Saturday
 

Duration: Approximately 10 hours
Meals: Lunch

Pickup Time/Location: 7:30 AM 
* Free pickup from hotels centrally located within Rome (1 hour prior to departure)
 

Tour Highlights: Assisi, Orvieto, Trasimeno Lake. The real Italy, far away from the modern highways and large cities, where small ancient villages are waiting to be discovered in the heart of the Umbrian countryside. Assisi is an oasis of art and architecture and home of Saint Francis one of Italy’s most loved saints

Tour Description: Leaving Rome in a northerly direction,driving along the Tiber Valley, we reach ORVIETO, a small town of Etruscan origins where we stop to admire the magnifcent 14th century cathedral, a masterpiece of gothic architecture. The tour continues through the green Tuscan Hils covered in olive groves and vineyards. This is the land of some of Italy’s best known D.O.C. (quality controlled) wines, which include Orvieto, Chianti and Brunello di Montalcino and a stop is included so that you can taste both some local wine and other typical Umbrian and Tuscan produce. Lunch too will be of traditional local dishes. In the early afternoon, having driven along the shores of Lake Trasimeno, we reach ASSISI, built at the foot of Mount Subiaso. Here, during a guided stroll through the lanes of this historic town, you will see the Church of St. Claire, St Francis’ birthplace, his childhood home, Townhall Square with its People’s Palace, Roman Temple dedicated to Minerva and of course the Townhall itself. Visit St Francis’ Basilica, close to the ancient city walls, with its magnificent frescoes painted between the 12th and 14th centuries. Leaving Assisi, we stop at the town of Santa Maria degli Angeli named after its church inside which, in the Chapel of Porziuncola, St. Francis died in 1226. Reaching Rome around 7.30 / 8.00 p.m., you will be left in the vicinity of your hotel.