ITALY PRIVATE SHORE EXCURSIONS:
SHORE EXCURSIONS IN ITALY FROM PORT OF:
LIVORNO, CIVITAVECCHIA, NAPOLI, SORRENTO,
PALERMO, CATANIA, TAORMINA, MESSINA, SIRACUSA.
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We at Driver in Italy offer you the following service from Port, Airport and station train Transfers in Italy
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SHORE EXCURSIONS IN TUSCANY, FOM LIVORNO PORT:
The name: Galileo Galilei
Shore excursion Pisa Lucca, description:
A 30 minute Pisa. To visit the Square of
Campo Dei Miracoli with the Duomo,
the Baptistery and Leaning Tower.
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A 30 minute, Lucca.
Church of St. Michele, Basilica of St. Frediano, Roman Amphitheatre, Villa Grabau, Giacomo Puccini's Birth House, Via Francigena.
Pisa:
The Primaziale, The Leaning Tower, The Cathedral, The Camposanto (Cemetary), The Baptistery.During its period of greatest prestige and power, Pisa, which was a rapidly-expanding city, wanted to erect its most important church, crowned by what is now known as the Leaning Tower, the Baptistery and the Camposanto. The architecture of the four structures, their harmony, was not the fruit of a single mind. Infact, the square is the result of the work of more than one brilliant architect working over several periods on the overall structure. Reinterpreting the geometry of architecture and borrowing from Islamic Art, they invented a new style: Romanesque. Pre-dating the Florentine Renaissance this style is found in figurative art as well in the work of exceptional artists such as Nicola and his son Giovanni, who influenced artists such as Brunelleschi, Donatello and Michelangelo himself.
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The name: Pier della Francesca
Shore excursion Cortona Arezzo description:
A 120 minute, Cortona. The Walls, The Gateways,
The Fortress, The Duomo - Church of St. Maria,
Church of St. Margaret, the Farneta Abbey,
Bramasole and Frances Mayes's House.
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A 30 minute return from Cortona, it's Arezzo.
A visit to the Piazza Vasari (Piazza Grande),
the Apse of the Pieve, the Logge Vasari, the
Law Court,
Fraternita dei Laici, Palazzo Lappoli, Palazzo-
torre dei Cofani,
the Cathedral, The Church of St. Francesco,
the Church of St. Domenico (The Crucifix by
Cimabue), the Joust of the Saracen,
the Antiques Fair.
Duration 9 hours
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The name: Leonardo da Vinci
Shore excursion Florence and Pisa, description:
A 70 minute, Florenze is magic town.
A visit to Basilica of Santa Maria Novella,
Pharmacy of Santa Maria Novella, Basilica of
an Lorenzo, Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore,
Fiore, Giotto's Bell Tower, Baptistery of Saint
John,Church of San Marco, Accademia Gallery,
Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata,Synagogue
and Jewish
Museum,Basilica of Santa Croce, Bargello, Basilica
of Santa Trinita, Palazzo Vecchio, Uffizi Gallery,
Vasari Corridor, Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge),
Palazzo Pitti (Pitti Palace), Boboli Gardens,
Basilica of Santa Maria del Santo Spirito,
Piazzale Michelangelo, Calcio Fiorentino,
Fountain of the Piglet.
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A 60 minute from Florenze, in return to go port of Livorno,it's Pisa: to visit the Square of Campo Dei
Miracoli
with the Duomo,the Baptistery and Leaning Tower.
Duration 9 hours
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The name: Vernaccia
Shore excursion Siena San Gimignano,description:
A 120 minuti, the city of Siena is subdivided
into three "Terzi", or Thirds, and seventeen
"Contrade". The "Terzi" are:
Terzo di Camollia,Terzo di Città,Terzo di San Martino
Porta Camollia, Fortezza Medicea, Basilica Cateriniana
of San Domenico, Fontebranda, Sanctuary of Santa Caterina
da Siena,Piazza Salimbeni, Basilica of San Francesco,
Church of Santa Maria in Povenzano.Cathedral of Santa Maria
Assunta, Piazza del Campo,Torre del Mangia,Fonte Gaia.
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A 30 minute from Siena in return to go port of Livorno:
San Gimignano,rises on a hill (334m high) dominating
the Elsa Valley with its towers.
Once the seat of a small Etruscan village of the Hellenistic
period (200-300 BC).
Duration 9 hours
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The name: Enoteca Italiana
Shore excursion Tuscany Wine Tasting, description:
Chianti tour:
Tuscany wine tasting and Gastronomic tours in:
CHIANTI: to visit 2 Castle and 3 Cellars for taste 3 Chianti wine differents.
MONTALCINO: to visit 3 Farms and 3 Cellars with taste 3 differents
wine Brunello di Montalcino
The price is inclusive: private car / minibus, personal driver, wine taste and light lunce.
Duration 8 hours
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For groups larger than 8 a city tax check point will be
added for the bus entrance to florence for: € 115,00 -
Pisa € 72,00 - Siena € 100,00 - Lucca € 35,00 and
San Gimignano € 60,00
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SHORE EXCURSIONS IN ROME:
From port of Civitavecchia
The name: Il Papa 1
Shore excursion Vatican museum tour
from Civitavecchia port for 5 Hours
The name: Il Papa 2
Shore excursion Colosseum Pantheon
from Civitavecchia port for 5 hours
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The name: The best of Roma
Private excursion in Rome: Vatican Museum,
St. Peter's Chuech, Imperial Forum Avenue,
Colosseum, Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain,
Navona Suare, Circus Maximus, Capitoline Hill
from Civitavecchia port for 9 hours
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For groups larger than 8 a city tax check point will be
added for the bus entrance to florence for: € 115,00
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The name: Pulcinella
SHORE EXCURSION AMALFI COAST description:
to visit Pompei, Sorrento, Positano, Amalfi and Ravello.
The price is inclusive: private car / minibus, personal driver guide
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SHORE EXCURSIONS IN SICILY:
Excursion Taormina Etna from port of Taormina, Messina, Catania
The name: Trinacria
Taormina Etna vulcan shore excursion, description:
mong the many beauties of the Sicily, Taormina
always enchants its visitors.You will visit its historic
centre"losing"you among the fascination of its streets,
and the evocative Ancient Theatre.We will lead you in the near little town of Castlemola where you can enjoy of
one of the best panorama that you have never seen,
and drink in the funniest bar of the Sicily.
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The name: Dionisio
SHORE EXCURSION SIRACUSA, description:
Siracusa and Ortigia. In this excursion you will discover
the beautiful city of Siracusa, included the little island of
Ortigia, old zone of the city. Siracusa is one of the most
evocative places in Sicily for the wealth of its archaeological
finds. We will visit, among other sites, the Archaeological
Park of the "Neapolis", the Greek Theatre and the Catacombs. First to say goodbye we will go in a factory
of papyrus where experts of the sector will explain you the
processing of payrus and where you could buy a precious
drawing on papyrus like souvenir.
Noto excursion valley:
This is a very rich area of culture, tradition and hold towns
defined "Gardens of stone", for its very high concentration
of buildingsin Baroque style. The excursion begins in Modica, famous for its chocolate too! After we will see
the evocative town of Noto, Unesco's World Heritage Site,
that will offer you everywhere capitals,hurches and nobiliary
buildings in baroque style. he third weekend of May
you will be able to see the famous Infiorata" of Noto:
scenographic carpet of flowers organized in the choreographic Via Nicolaci.
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The name: il Padrino
SHORE EXCURSION PALERMO CEFALU' description:
From port of Palermo.
Capital of Sicily Palermo.
Elegant town to visit:Palazzo dei Normanni, Piazza
dei 4 Canti,the Cathedral,the Monreale with Norman
Duomo, famous for the interior gil ded and polychrome
Mosaic decoration: 6400 sqm portraying scenes from the
Old and New Testament.
Shore excursion in Cefalu':
The famous small scale fishing port and historical
sites and Duomo Cathedral built by a Norman King in 1131.
History of Grek foundation.
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The name: a Coppola
SHORE EXCURSION SEGESTA - ERICE description:
Segesta: to visit The Doric Temple,
is also unusual for being a Hellenic Temple in a City
not mainly populated by Geeks and visit to the Theatre,
is in a beautiful place, in the top of a mountain, from
which site a vast and scenic panorama can be seen
to the north.
Erice: on the highest top a medieval village rises among
bristly towers. It is small village of Erice where once
the most famous temple rises as one of the most important
and best preserved monuments to have survived from
antiquity to present day dating back to 430 BC
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But also for costumers of the cruise in Italy:
Ragusa - Modica - Noto excursion
Trapani - Marsala - Segesta excursion
Agrigento - Piazza Armerina excursion
5 Terre excursion
Volterra - Bolgheri - Sassicaia excursion
Excursions for you personal in Italy
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Tuscany shore excursion
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FLORENCE-PISA-LUCCA
SHORE PRIVATE EXCURSION IN TUSCANY
EXCURSION IN PISA:THE BELL TOWER KNOWN AS THE LEANING TOWER
TOWN OF PISA;SQUARE CAMPO DEI MIRACOLI;
DUOMO AND BAPTISTERY
The first stone of the Leaning Tower was laid on Assumption Day, August 9th 1173. While it is possible to locate the names of the artists who signed their works in the other buildings in the square, the Leaning Tower has no such autograph. This curious fact adds to the several hundred year long debate over the first author and the first ten years of the construction of the Leaning Tower. In the year 1185 the first signs of the sagging foundation were seen, and the consequent inclination of the tower caused the halting of construction for nearly a century. The continuation of the tower was entrusted to Giovanni di Simone who had been working on the bell tower of San Francesco. The architect showed extraordinary skill in limiting the consequences of the inclination, thereby allowing construction to continue until 1284, the date of the defeat of the Meloria. The final storey of the bell tower, the seventh, used as a belfry, was conceived and realised by Tommaso Pisano approximately halfway through the 14th century.
EXCURSION IN LUCCA:
Lucca was founded by the Etruscans; Piazza San Michele occupies
the site of the ancient forum. Traces of the
amphitheatre
can still be seen in the Piazza dell'Anfiteatro.
The amphitheatre, where gladiatorial shows and games were tradionally held, was built in Lucca in the second half of the 1st century A.D.. The discovery, during the demolition of some walls, of which we have news in the 19th century, of coins belonging to the reign of Emperor Claudius, suggests that work on the building was begun after the middle of the century. However, the it certainly wasn't finished before the late Flavian Age, when funds were granted by an important citizen, Quintus Vibius, whose rank was that of an "eques" or knight and who, according to an inscription in his honour, found inside the arena in 1810, donated 100.000 sestertii in ten years. Progressively, the original function of the building was lost; with its proportions and position outside the town walls it became a threat to the town itself, as it risked falling into the hands of eventual enemies. It is likely that, from the 6th century A.D., during the Gothic wars and the siege of Narsetes, the amphitheatre was fortified for military purposes and its outer arches closed. Successively, other buildings used as houses and, for a certain period, even as prisons, were added to the structures that had survived abandon and plunder. Between 1830 and 1839, following a project by the architect Lorenzo Nottolini, the buildings accupying the ancient arena were pulled down and the inner area, its profile slightly adjusted, became the present day piazza. The remains of the Roman Amphitheatre are preserved, incorporated in buildings bordering the present day "Piazza dell'Anfiteatro", in the northern part of the town. The elliptic shape of the piazza corresponding, to great extent, to the area of the ancient arena, is the result of a 19th century restoration that permits us to appreciate the volume and the general outline of the ancient monument. Besides, on the outer perimeter, along the present day "Via dell'Anfiteatro", we can see some of the original walls, in particular in front of the "Piazza Scalpellini" and to the north, between the eastern gate, the only ancient one that remains and "Via del Portico".
EXCURSION IN FLORENCE:
Florence (Italian: Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany,
Italy, and of the province of Florence. From 1865 to 1870 the city was also the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. Arno River; Pitti Palace residence of the Medici family.
Florence is also famous for its magnificent art and
architecture.
The city has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
The Accademia Gallery was the first academy of drawing in Europe. It was founded in 1561 with high patronage of the Medici, specifically that of Cosimo I, by Giorgio Vasari, Agnolo Bronzino and Bartolomeo Ammannati, three of the central artists of Mannerism. At first the academy met in the cloister of the Church of the Santissima Annunziata. It was taken for granted at the outset that all the members of the Accademia were male; when the Accademia welcomed Artemisia Gentileschi to membership, it was a signal honor to a woman. Pietro Leopoldo, Grand Duke of Tuscany, decreed in 1784 that all the schools of drawing in Florence be combined under one roof, under the direction of the Accademia, now renamed "Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze" (Academy of Fine Arts Florence) and that it was to contain a gallery of paintings by old masters to help the studies of the young artists. The Accademia and the adjoining Gallery still occupy the premises that were assigned in via Ricasoli, a former convent and hospice. The Grand Duke also decided to include among the arts protected in this way, a conservatory of music (the Cherubini Conservatory) and, more extraordinary, a school of art restoration ( the "Opificio delle Pietre Dure"). The Gallery of the Accademia di Belle Arti houses the orginal David of Michelangelo since 1873. The sculpture was allegedly brought to the Accademia for reasons of conservation, although other factors were involved in its move from its previous outdoor location on Piazza della Signoria. The original intention was to create a "Michelangelo Museum", with original sculptures and drawings, to celebrate the fourth centenary of the artist's birth. Among the notable Renaissance works on display are an outstanding collection of XV and XVI century Florentine paintings by Paolo Uccello, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Sandro Botticelli and Andrea del Sarto and, from the High Renaissance, Giambologna's original plaster for the Rape of the Sabine Women.
RENTAL MINIBUS WITH DRIVER IN
TUSCANY AND RENTAL CAR WITH PERSONAL DRIVER IN FLORENCE.
ALSO: FLORENCE PRIVATE TRANSFERS FROM AND TO AIRPORT OF THE
FLORENCE, PISA, ROME, MILAN, BOLOGNA, NAPLES AND TUSCANY PRIVATE TRANSFERS
FROM AND TO PORT OF THE LIVORNO, CIVITAVECCHIA, LA SPEZIA, GENOVA, VENEZIA, NAPLES AND SORRENTO
Service Guide in City, Price:
€ 45,00 for one hour
Service Tour Escort full day:€ 180,00
Price do not include neither lunch
nor entrance fees.
For groups larger than 8 a city tax check point will be added for the bus entrance to Florence for ( 195.00 euro ) Pisa ( 90.00 euro) Siena (100.00 euro) San Gimignano (60.00 euro) Lucca 35.00 euro
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