Venezia, Firenze, Roma!

Three of Italy's most storied cities in eight days — Venice Lido, Florence, and Rome — each one a different chapter in the country's long and layered history. The itinerary moves at a pace that lets your group actually absorb what they're seeing, from the canals and calli of Venice to the Renaissance piazzas of Florence to the ancient streets of Rome. This is Italy presented in sequence, and the sequence matters: by the time students stand in the Roman Forum on Day 7, they've already moved through a thousand years of art and civilization to get there.