Three cities that explain Italy — taken slowly enough to actually see them.
Most first journeys through Italy are a checklist run at a sprint. This one is the opposite: eight nights across Rome, Florence and Naples, with the connective tissue — the trains, the transfers, the tables — handled so quietly you forget they were ever a question.
You travel between cities by first-class rail or private car through the Val d’Orcia, doors open before official hours, and every guide is someone we would invite to dinner. The triangle is the classic; the way through it is yours alone.
8
Nights, three cities
11
Private doors opened
48h
To your first proposal
This is a sketch, not a package. Dates, pace, houses and tables all bend around who’s travelling — no two versions of this journey have ever left the studio the same.
02Day by day
Days 1–3 · Rome
The city, before it wakes.
Arrive to a palazzo suite above the Spanish Steps. The next two mornings belong to empty rooms: the Sistine Chapel before the doors open, the Forum with an archaeologist who has spent thirty years underneath it. Afternoons drift — Trastevere, a long lunch, a tailor if you like.
Vatican at dawn — the Sistine ceiling in near silence
Evening rooftop aperitivo over the seven hills
A trattoria table that hasn't changed since 1962
Toward the dome, at dawn
Days 4–6 · Florence
Renaissance, at eye level.
North by first-class rail — ninety minutes, prosecco poured. Florence is smaller, denser, and best read through people: an art historian walks you into the Uffizi at opening, then hands you to the Oltrarno — goldbeaters, bookbinders, a workshop that has gilded frames for the Medici chapels since anyone can remember.
Uffizi & David with an art historian, first slot of the day
Oltrarno ateliers — three workshops, doors closed to the public
Dinner in the hills above the city, lights coming on below
Florence, at dusk
Days 7–8 · Naples & the bay
South, where Italy gets louder.
The last leg swaps marble for sea light. Naples is visceral — a pizza masterclass at a third-generation oven, the Spaccanapoli at walking pace, Caravaggio where he left it. On the final day, a private launch crosses the bay for a farewell swim and a long lunch facing Vesuvius.
Pizza masterclass — flour, fire, and a family that invented it
Private launch on the bay — Capri’s cliffs, a quiet cove
Farewell dinner with Vesuvius across the water
Naples, the source
03Moments
The frames you’ll keep.
Travel sideways
RomeTwo thousand years, before breakfast.The tableEvery meal, a small ceremony.In betweenItaly at 300 km/h, glass in hand.The bayCrossing, glass in hand.
04Where you’ll sleep
Rooms with a point of view.
Rome · nights 1–3
A palazzo above the Steps
High ceilings, a terrace over the rooftops, and a bar downstairs that remembers your order by night two.
Florence & Naples · nights 4–8
Arno light, then bay light
A townhouse room over the river in Florence; a grande-dame suite facing Vesuvius for the last act.
Houses are named in your proposal — we hold allocations at a handful of properties we know room by room.
05In good hands
Door to door
Private drivers and first-class rail between all three cities — luggage travels without you noticing.
Hosts, not guides
Historians, chefs and artisans we’d invite to dinner — two or three per city, never a script.
Tables & tickets
Every reservation, entrance and timed slot pre-arranged — you never stand in a line.
In-trip concierge
One WhatsApp thread, answered by a person in Rome, for anything — from a forgotten charger to a fourth seat at dinner.
One contact
A single itinerary designer from first sketch to the flight home — no handovers, no call centres.
Time, protected
Early doors, late closings and off-hours access wherever it can be arranged. Your hours go to Italy, not logistics.
06Make it yours
Start from this sketch.
Tell us who’s travelling and what you’d change. A first, itemized proposal comes back within 48 hours — built once, for you.
