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Wednesday:
8.30am: Breakfast at the Mill:
10.00am: Visit Villa Torrigiani - house and garden - with its sunken
garden built by Le Notte, who did the gardens at Versailles - and the
tree planted by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, (it'll die before
she does!!);:
11.30: Visit Villa Garzoni - perhaps the most spectacular garden of
them all - it took 100 years to build and might take that long to restore!
- it was, however, where Carlo Lorenzini worked as "Bootboy" and as
everyone knows (?), he was the man who wrote "Pinnocchio" -he changed
his name to Collodi, once the story got famous!:
1.00pm: Lunch at "La
Nina" - a local restaurant;:
3.00pm: Visit Lucca - either to view the City , its churches (AND its
shops!) or the Villas "Pfanner"and "Bottoli" and their town gardens;:
6.00pm: Return to the Mill:
7.30pm: Cocktails:
8.30pm: Dinner at a local restaurant e.g." La Corona", "La Cantina".
Thursday:
8.30am: Breakfast at the Mill:
10.00am: Transfer to Pisa Airport for check-in and luggage disposal
AND to get your Boarding Card! (the 'plane won't leave with your luggage
on board and you not there!).:
11.00am: Visit the Piazza dei Miracoli to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa
, the Duomo, etc..:
12.45pm: Lunch at "Antico Teatro" in the Piazza Dante;:
2.30: Return to Pisa Airport for your flight.................... and,
sadly, "Goodbye".
Every guest is presented with an album, as a souvenir of their visit
to "THE VILLAS OF LUCCA".
Please
NOTE:- This itinerary is NOT set in granite. We set out to be flexible
and meet guest's needs in such ways as :-THE MEALS AT RESTAURANTS
are not "table d'hote" - we allow you, on average, €25 for
lunch per head and €36 per head for Dinner (that doesn't buy
you a Brunello to drink but you 'll eat well - you want a Brunello...we
have to say: You Pay!);
:YOUR GUIDE is also "your host" - thus providing ample opportunity for
"change";
:THIRD DAY provides the ability to slot in at least two, if not three,
further villas or visits to "figurine" factories (nativity figures,
for which our area is world famous), or Pinnochio's Park, or the Spas
at Montecatini, or the mountains and see where San Pellegrino slew the
Devil, or maybe just view the Most Beautful Bridge in the World ...
up to you.
ONWARD
TRAVEL can be organised by us (if it is possible) - we do know, within
Tuscany, a number of people who offer the same style of accommmodation
as we do - but late booking can be difficult........we'll try for you.
IT'S YOUR HOLIDAY ! OUR JOB IS TO MAKE IT MORE THAN MEMORABLE.
Philip Henderson
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