Geography, Environment, and Sustainability

Grand Tour 2023

Participants: Izaiah Bowling, Kayleigh Clark, Kaleigh Del Greco, Lilly Eubanks, Marina Sanders, Alexandra Singh, Rachel Tang, and Jadon Wright. 

Check out Alexandra’s brief video about our 2023 trip, which she put together as part of her final project (capstone) in the M.S. in Sustainability & Environment.

June 15-16: Transatlantic flight (students arrive in Milan / class starts)

• arrival MXP & train to Milano Centrale
• check-in at Milano Ostello
• lunch (and coffee) at Kitchenette 
• subway orientation
• phones at TIM Piazza Cordusio
• gelato at Ciacco
• walk in Parco Castello Sforsceco
• dinner at Trattoria da Abele 

• breakfast at bar
• walk in fashion district (Via della Spiga)
• lunch at Un Posto A Milano 
• visit La Scala museum
• gelato at Naturalia
• dinner at Pizzeria Spontini
• opera at Teatro alla Scala: Verdi, Macbeth

• breakfast at bar in Piazza del Duomo
• visit Duomo (and Piazza dei Mercanti and Colonne di San Lorenzo)
• street food lunch (and walk) in Navigli district
• visit Basilica di Sant’Ambrogio
• aperitivi at NoLo.So

• checkout & 1005 Train (EC35) from Milano Centrale to Padova (arr. 12:15pm)

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• check-in at Best Western Plus Hotel Galileo
• lunch at Boss della Focaccia
• soundwalk to Prato della Valle
• coffee at Caffè Pedrocchi
• freetime

• visit Cappella degli Scrovegni and Museo degli Eremitani
• visit Basilica di Sant Antonio
• lunch in the market of Palazzo della Ragione
• visit Duomo
• gelato at Gelateria Giotto
• tour of Palazzo Bo
• cicchetti at Corte Sconta
• freetime

• boat tour (Il Burchiello) to Venice
• lunch picnic with food from Lo Stizzeri

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• arrival at Riva degli Schiavoni, vaporetto passes, and check in to Airbnb on the Lista Vechia dei Bari
• dinner at Osteria ai do farai
• nighttime vaporetto ride on the Grand Canal

• walk by Ponte del Rialto
• morning mass at Basilica San Marco
• visit Piazza San Marco area, including Chiesa della Pietà (Vivaldi’s church)
• lunch at Muro San Stae
• gelato at Bacaro del gelato
• visit Ghetto Ebreo
• cicchetti at Cantina del vino gia’ Schiavi
• opera at Teatro La Fenice: Wagner,Der fliegende Hollaender 

• checkout and train (Frecciarossa 9413) from Venezia SMN to Bologna Centrale

• check in at Combo Bologna
• lunch at Ristorante Adal
• gelato at Stefino
• orientation to bus system and groceries (Despar, NaturaSi, Paladino)

• walking tour of central Bologna
• coffee sampling at Caffe Terzi
• lunch at Centro Natura
• freetime

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• lunch at Trattoria da Vito
• gelato at Cremeria la vecchia stalla
• visit Archiginnasio/Teatro Atomico
• freetime

• check out and train (Frecciarossa 8506) to Roverto

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• check in at Ostello della citta’ di Rovereto
• gelato at Gelateria la Torretta
• lunch at Osteria del Pettiroso
• visit MART
• aperitivi at Caffe Gambrinus

• bus to Riva del Garda
• lunch at Il Bastione
• gelato at Etabeta
• return to Rovereto
• dinner at Locanda al castello

• bus to Besenello
• walk to Castel Beseno
• lunch at  Plotegher House
• return to Rovereto
• freetime

• check out and train (Frecciarossa 8507) to Bologna

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• check (back) in at Combo Bologna
• visit Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica                     
• lunch at Drogheria della Rosa
• freetime

• freetime or OPTIONAL day trip to Rimini (beach )

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• train to Florence (Frecciarossa 9515)
• walking tour by Santa Maria Novella to Palazzo Pitti
• visit Giardini Boboli
• walk across Ponte Vechio to Duomo
• lunch at Osteria Nuvoli
• solo trips to get gelato at Gellateria alla Carraia & solo trips back to Bologna

• train to Ravenna (TTPER 17543)
• visit … Mausoleo di Galla Placidia, Basilica di San Vitale, Battistero Neoniano, Archiepiscopal Museum
• lunch at Ca’ de Ven (and pass by Dante’s tomb)
• visit Basilica di Sant’Apollinare Nuovo
• return to Bologna (TTPER 17554)

• freetime (required solo trips)

• check out and train (Frecciarossa 9619) to Naples

• arrive, get metro tickets, and check in to apartment on Vico San Nicola a Nilo
• walking tour and groceries
• dinner at Pizzeria Sorbillo
• pastries (sfogliatella riccia, sfogliatella frolla, baba’ al rhum, etc.) from Pasticceria Capparelli

• visit Naples Archeological Museum
• lunch at La Cantina di Via Sapienza
• visit Teatro San Carlo and walk in Porto area
• opera at Teatro San Carlo: Puccini, La Boheme

• visit Pompei
• picnic lunch (and dinner!) with delicacies from Geppino (Cava de’ Tirreni)

• visit Ercolano
• lunch at Alleria (Portici)
• dinner from Antica Pizza Fritta da Zia Esterina Sorbillo

• train (Frecciarossa 9490) to Rome

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• arrive and check in at Hostel Trastevere
• walking tour of Trastevere (Santa Maria in Trastevere, Santa Cecilia in Trastevere)
• gelato at Fior di Luna
• lunch at BaGhetto
• tour of Le domus Romane di Palazzo Valentini
• freetime

• walking tour of ancient Rome (Foro Boario, Circus Maximus, Arch of Constantine, Colosseum, Imperial Fora, Villa Aldobrandini, Campidoglio)
• visit Largo Argentina
• coffee granita at Tazza d’Oro
• lunch at Trattoria del Pallaro
• visit Basilica di Sant’Andrea
• shopping at Ibiz and Dolciumi Onorati
• freetime

• visit Pantheon
• coffee at Sant’Eustachio
• walking tour of central Rome (Ponte Sisto, Campo dei Fiori, Piazza Navona, Mausoleo di Agosto / Ara Pacis, Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain)
• walking tour of Aventine Hill (Giardino degli Aranci, Santa Sabina, Pizza of the Knights of Malta)
• lunch at Flavio al Velavevodetto
• freetime

• visit Catacombe di S. Domitilla & S. Callisto
• lunch at (a random bar and) Aventina
• gelato at Torce
• freetime

• visit Vatican City and St. Peter’s Basilica
• lunch at Pizzeria da Simone
• gelato at Otaleg
• freetime

• visit Baths of Caracalla
• visit S. Giovanni in Laterano & Ponitifcio Santuario della Scala Santa
• visit Museo storico della Liberazione – Roma
• lunch at Osteria Isadoro
• visit Basilica di S. Clemente
• freetime

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• concluding lunch at Osteria Poerio
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• departures from Rome (end of class)

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