Need help from one of our Music specialists?
Contact Delphine at Halsbury:
0115 9404 303Tuscany School Music Tour
The beauty of Tuscany is incomparable, providing a truly striking and inspirational place for you to visit and perform. This region offers a variety of formal and informal venues suitable for bands, orchestras and choirs.
In addition to visiting small medieval towns with picturesque buildings, you will have the opportunity to explore the city of Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance. This city, characterised by terracotta rooves and art galleries, has plenty of recreational activities to keep your group entertained in between performances. A visit to the nearby town of Pisa to see its famous leaning tower will make your authentic Italian music tour complete!
from
£365 pp
7 days/4 nights
Call 0115 9404 303 to customise this trip
Not the right trip for you? Click to tailor make a new trip
Includes:
- 4 nights half board accommodation
- Return executive coach travel (TV/Video/WC/Seatbelts)
- Return Ferry/Tunnel crossings
- Free staff place ratio 1:8
- Detailed information pack
- 3 concert arrangements including publicity and advertising
- A service of a bilingual music coordinator
- Comprehensive travel and medical insurance
- Itinerary planning service
- Motorway tolls and taxes
- VAT
Suggested Activities
Sample Itinerary
Example AccommodationLeaning Tower of Pisa
The iconic symbol of Italy, Pisa's bell-tower would be a beautiful and architecturally significant building even without its famous lean. Rising eight storeys above the aptly named Campo dei Miracoli - the field of miracles - the tower was used by Galileo in his experiments on gravity. Take a close look at the cathedral and other buildings at the Campo dei Miracoli and you'll notice than none of t...
Florence Cathedral
Florence's striking black, white and pink cathedral captures Italian architecture at the very beginning of the Renaissance. Brunelleschi's dome took a mere sixteen years to complete and still dominates the Florentine skyline - don't miss the climb to the top. The cathedral itself took a little longer to finish, however, and the façade was not completed until 1886.
Uffizi Gallery
Florence's finest art gallery grew out of the private collection of the city's ruling de' Medici dynasty and spans Italian art from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Botticelli.
Florence St. John's Baptistry
The Florence Bapistry or Battistero di San Giovanni is a religious edifice in Florence. It is believed to be the oldest building in the city and is particularly famed for its three sets of magnificent and artistically important bronze doors.It stands in the Piazza del Duomo, just to the west of the Duomo. Until the end of the 19th century all Catholic Florentines were baptized in this church.
Florence Cathedral Belltower
The belltower of Santa Maria del Fiore, one of the most beautiful in Italy, was an (extremely costly) invention of genius by Giotto which was created more as a decorative monument than a functional one. In 1334 the great artist was nominated overseer of the building site for the new cathedral when work on it had already been interrupted for over thirty years and was commissioned to continue the co...
Galleria dell Accademia
Europe''s first school of drawing, this museum of art is chiefly famous for its several sculptures by Michelangelo, notably his David, in addition to an extensive collection of 15th- and 16th-century paintings.
Palazzo Pitti
The Palazzo Pitti, in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast mainly Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio. The core of the present palazzo dates from 1458 and was originally the town residence of Luca Pitti, an ambitious Florentine banker.The Pitti Palace rises on a big semicircular square. T...
Ponte Vecchio
Best known of all Florence''s treasures, this glorious bridge was the only one of six spared by the retreating Germans on 4 August 1944. Over the centuries flooding unfortunately took its toll; few traces of the 10th-century bridge remain. Today''s bridge, built in 1345, was filled with butcher''s shops which would routinely discard the carcasses into the Arno causing quite a stench. Grand Duke Fe...
The Boboli Gardens (Giardino di Boboli)
The Boboli Gardens (Giardino di Boboli) are rich and extravagant pleasure-gardens with large expanses to explore and photogenic views over Florence. Designed by the Grand Dukes as a venue for extravagant parties and celebrations the garden is dotted with statuary, fountains and a variety of features commissioned specially, or taken from the fabulous Medici art collections. The Boboli Gardens sprea...
The Gallery of Modern Art
The Gallery, which is situated on the second floor of the Pitti Palace, has a fine collection of paintings and sculpture, mostly Italian, dating from the late 18th century to World War I. The elegant rooms, which were formerly inhabited by the Lorraine grand-dukes, are decorated with works of the neo-classical and romantic periods. There is also a splendid collection of works by artists of the Mac...
| Morning | Afternoon | Evening | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Travel to Dover. | Ferry/Tunnel crossing. | Overnight travel. |
| Day 2 | Arrive in Monticatini Terme. Explore the resort. | Evening meal at your accommodation followed by a rehearsal. | |
| Day 3 | Depart for a full day in Florence. Morning to visit the Duomo, Cathedral Bell Tower. | Afternoon to visit the Uffizi Gallery, Pitti Palazzo and Botoli gardens. | Concert in one of the nearby villages. |
| Day 4 | Depart for Lucca and visit the Puccini house. Walk along the Renaissance walls. | Visit Pisa and its Leaning Tower. | Evening concer, part of a local festival. |
| Day 5 | Visit Viareggio, seaside resort on the Mediterranean coast. | Visit San Gimignano. | Evening concert in Montecatini. |
| Day 6 | Free time in Montecatini Terme for last minute shopping. | Depart for Calais. | Overnight journey. |
| Day 7 | Ferry/Tunnel crossing. | Arrive back at school |
Our dedicated itinerary planners will work with you to create your personal itinerary, request a quote above to find out more.
Hotel Leonardo da Vinci
The Leonardo da Vinci hotel is located in the centre of Florence, only 400 metres away from the Santa Maria Novella railway station.
The property features a bar and offers outdoor parking facilities.
The hotel offers comfortable and completely soundproofed single, double standard, double superior, triple and quadruple rooms.
All of the rooms feature a private bathroom with shower or bathtub, hair dryer, individually controlled air-conditioning, heating, satellite TV, direct dial telephone and writing desk.
The double superior rooms have been recently renovated and are additionally equipped with high-speed Internet connection, mini bar and electronic mini safe. Some rooms feature a private terrace.
Four rooms are specially equipped to welcome disabled guests.
The property features a bar and offers outdoor parking facilities.
The hotel offers comfortable and completely soundproofed single, double standard, double superior, triple and quadruple rooms.
All of the rooms feature a private bathroom with shower or bathtub, hair dryer, individually controlled air-conditioning, heating, satellite TV, direct dial telephone and writing desk.
The double superior rooms have been recently renovated and are additionally equipped with high-speed Internet connection, mini bar and electronic mini safe. Some rooms feature a private terrace.
Four rooms are specially equipped to welcome disabled guests.
