May 1 2023 - May 10 2023

Starting from $10,999

In beautiful Florence, go behind the scenes of the Medici family's glorious residential palaces, country villas, and grandiose churches, and stand in awe before the works of art they commissioned throughout the city. Through their art patronage, banking empire, and contributions to the papacy and royal houses throughout Europe, the Medici family changed the course of European cultural history, creating the Renaissance as we know it. Admire masterpieces by Michelangelo, Fra Angelico, Donatello, and other titans who were supported by the Medici. See many exclusive surprises, including a behind-the-scenes tour of secret passages not usually open to the public in the Palazzo Vecchio, once the Medici seat of power; an inside look at the Medici's extraordinary collection of artists' self-portraits inside the recently renovated and reopened secret passageway between the Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti, a Medici residential palace; and special access to one of Florence's world-renowned art conservation laboratories, originally a 16th-century Medici artistic workshop.