Giro d’Italia - 3 weeks
Italy (Tuscany, Umbria and the Italian Lakes)

On this page, you'll find a description of the trip, a thumbnail itinerary with links to more detailed descriptions of the regions that it follows, and the prices and departure dates.
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Italy has only been a nation since 1871, and her regions remain as different and varied as North America’s much larger states and provinces. Reflections of Roman and Etruscan history unify the land more than politics, and in passing make Italy a favorite destination for the travellers that we are.

Soft Tuscan scenes delight with their velvet hills and signature cypress trees espousing the contours of the land. Harmonious cities and towns are the jewels that they set, each cut of the same stone, and frozen in time. An aesthetes delight!

On to Umbria. Landscapes and cuisine rival those of Tuscany, but undiscovered Umbria’s warm welcome has no rivals. Hilltop citadels, built over the ages from Roman times, rise in jumbles from silver groves of olive trees. Their oil, and the region’s black truffles, reign supreme in one of Italy’s most varied and creative cuisines.

On to the lakes.... A perfect combination of man and nature, the Alps’ southern slopes spring from laughing lakes with a distinctly Latin flavor. A brief incursion into Italian Switzerland provides a respite from late trains, and a surprising juxtaposition of cultures.

Through it all, a beautiful language and an expansive people, at the root of European civilization.
Giro d'Italia
2008 Dates
Baggage Services Offered*
(optional)
Trip Price
June 1 - June 21
This trip visits Umbria, Tuscany, and then the Italian Lakes, in that order.
The trip assembles in Spoleto and disbands in Como.

Daily
Half
Lite
$5,095 US or C
3,295€

Prices in $ and € do not include precisely the same things. Click here for details, and for prices of optional extras (private single rooms, baggage services, “Access Packages”).
August 24 - September 13
Daily
Half
Lite
September 21 - October 11
Daily
Half
Lite

* At least 4 riders must subscribe to a given baggage service for it to operate (except for Lite, which always operates on this trip). Services already confirmed to be operating appear in bold. If the “Daily” service is confirmed, the “Half” service may no longer be offered to future sign-ups, though it will be provided to those who have previously selected it. See here for a discussion of our baggage services.

Thumbnail view of the trip’s itinerary.
For details within each region, click on the name under “Region Visited”...
Days
Days of the Week
Region Visited
 Details
1
Su
Access Package
 Assemble in Brig.
June 1 departure assembles in Spoleto.
1 - 7
Italian Lakes
Su & Mo
 The Simplon Pass & the Ossola Valley
Mo - Sa
 The Lakes, Ticino
Sa
Como, train to Pisa
8 - 14
Tuscany
Su - Tu
 San Gimignano, the Elsa Valley
Tu - Th
 Siena, Colline Sienese
Fr & Sa
 Chianti, to Florence
15 - 21
Umbria
Su, Mo
 Spoleto, the Umbrian Apennine
Tu - Th
 Valle Umbra, Assisi
Th - Sa
 Perugia, Lago Trasimeno
Sa
Trip disbands in Terontola
Access Package includes Sa night hotel
June 1 departure disbands in Como
22
Su
Earliest date for Intercontinental flights