Day 13 Montecatini Optional Pisa tour Italian immigration conversation

Destination: Montecatini
Meals included: B D
Accommodations: Ercolini & Savi

Breakfast: At the hotel.

Morning: Enjoy a day of leisure today, making independent discoveries in Montecatini or simply unwinding at your hotel.

Or, join us on an optional tour to the city of Pisa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is famous for so much more than its iconic Leaning Tower. You’ll explore the Piazza dei Miracoli (the Square of Miracles)—decorated by the stunning marble architecture of its Cathedral, the Baptistery (with its marvelous echo), and, yes, the Leaning Tower.

You'll stand beneath this famous tower, which brings to mind one of civilization's most illustrious names—Galileo Galilei, the genius who helped to found modern science. At the square's Cathedral, you can still view the lamp that inspired Galileo's theory of the pendulum. He used the vantage point of the top of Pisa's celebrated Leaning Tower to demonstrate principles of speed and velocity. After your tour, you’ll have some free time to explore Pisa independently.

Lunch: Included with the cost of our optional tour at a local restaurant in Pisa. Otherwise, lunch is on your own in Montecatini—ask your Program Director for local restaurant recommendations.

Afternoon: Your optional tour ends, and you’ll return to Montecatini, where you’ll have a free afternoon for your own discoveries—ask your Program Director for recommendations.

Before dinner, take part in an Exclusive Discovery Series conversation about immigration in Italy. You’ll learn from a local expert about how migrating population patterns are changing the face of the country, and how it affects contemporary politics.

Dinner: At a local restaurant.

Evening: You have the freedom to spend the rest of your evening as you wish—ask your Program Director for recommendations.

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