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Characteristics
Type:	Package
Duration:	7 days
Location:	Florence
Accomodation:	included
Notes: Check-in on: Monday Single room extra charge: 40,00 Euro per night. Extra night extra charge per person: 60,00 Euro in low season; 95,00 Euro in high season.

Description

Admire the collections of artworks of the Medici in the Uffizi and in the Palatine Gallery, and spend a day with them in the Medicean villas, the majestic dwellings in the outskirts of Florence. When the Medici, wealthy landowners from the countryside, decided to move to Florence, the history of the city changed. Their banking activity allowed them to become the richest and most powerful family in town, and a hundred years later Grand Dukes of Tuscany.
The package is made of five days in Florence to follow the rise of Cosimo the Elder, to share the elegant atmosphere of the court of Lorenzo il Magnifico in the Medici Palace and to watch the daily life of the Gran Dukes on the Baroque stage of the Palazzo Pitti.
Discover the Medici, the wealthiest family in Florence during three centuries. Palaces, churches and artworks will tell you the story of the glorious Medici men and women, protagonists of their times. A private teacher, specialized in Medici history and art history will guide you along the memories they have left all around Florence. A lecture at your hotel will introduce the monuments you will visit with your teacher, for a full immersion in the city of the Medici.

THE PROGRAM

Monday
Arrival in Florence and check in at Hotel Adler Cavalieri, located in the very heart of the city
Tuesday
09.30 am Hotel Adler: lecture ‘The rise of the Medici family in Florence’
10.30 am San Lorenzo Church and the Medici Chapels: ‘Public demonstration and private devotion of the Medici during the Renaissance and the Baroque’
11.30 am Medici Palace: ‘Cosimo the Elder’s monumental residence from the Quattrocento to present times’
Afternoon free
Wednesday Morning at leisure
02.30 pm Uffizi Gallery ‘Collectors and painters at the Medici court in the oldest museum of the world’
Thursday
09.30 am Hotel Adler: lecture ‘Daily life at court during the Cinquecento and the Seicento’
10.30 am Piazza della Signoria ‘ The open air museum of the Medici’
11.30 am Palazzo Pitti ‘The Grand dukes’
apartments and their private collection of artworks’
Afternoon free
Friday
09.30 am Hotel Adler: lecture ‘Medici properties around Tuscany: the villas’
10.30 am Villa di Petraia and Villa di Castello: ‘Out in the country side: dwellings and gardens of the Medici in the surroundings of Florence’
Afternoon free
Saturday
Check out before 12.00 pm

Rates

Included in prices 5 nights in a Double Classic Room at Hotel Adler Cavalieri, 4 stars hotel, buffet, continental breakfast, 3 art private lectures with visits to Florence museums, one half day excursion Medicean villas, printed material.

Booking conditions

A 20% non-refundable deposit by credit card is requested to secure the booking. Full payment is due at least 15 days before the arrival.

Cancellation policy

The deposit is non-refundable.
If cancellation occurs within 15 days before the check-in date, no further penalty is required.
In case of cancellations from 14 days before the arrival until 3 days before the check-in date, cancellation penalty is 50% of total price, the 50% already paid (less bank transfer commissions) will be returned.
From 48 from the check-in date, and in case of no-show, cancellation penalty is 100% of total price.