Combine Italy’s great cultural cities in this nine-night holiday. Fly to Venice and back from Rome, travelling between each city on the high-speed Italo intercity service, with comfortable seating and sleek, modern trains.

Arriving in Venice you will be whisked by private water taxi across the Venetian lagoon to your hotel for a three night stay. Depart from Santa Lucia station at the head of the Grand Canal, for the two-and-a-quarter-hour journey to Florence, which crosses the causeway to the mainland and then traverses the countryside of the Veneto and Emilia-Romagna.

After a further three-night stay in Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance, continue with the 90-minute train to Rome, gliding through the rolling hills and vineyards of Tuscany and Umbria. Finish with a three-night stay in the Eternal City – or ask about extending to include a stay in Naples.

Kirker clients receive complimentary entrance tickets to the most important sights in each city - the Doge's Palace in Venice, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel in Rome - where you will skip the queues and enjoy some of the world's most astonishing works of art by Tintoretto, Leonardo, Botticelli, Raphael and Michelangelo, to name just a few.