A Spiritual Journey to Spain, France & Portugal- Pilgrimage
$6,095.00A Spiritual Journey to Spain, France & Portugal- Pilgrimage
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Beauty of the Amalfi Coast
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THE BEAUTY OF THE AMALFI COAST
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Naples – Caserta – Pompeii – Sorrento – Island of Capri – The Amalfi Coast
Amalfi – Positano – Ravello – Sassi di Matera – Bari
Alex International presents the Beauty of the Amalfi Coast!! This amazing adventure explores an area of Italy that is not the typical Rome, Florence, Venice… This is the second of our series on Italy. It introduces the traveler to an Italy that is intriguing, like the mysterious Matera (The Passion of the Christ), Naples Underground just to name a few. It also takes the inquisitive traveler to beautiful breath-taking places like Sorrento, Capri, Amalfi and Positano. You will also experience the mystifying Reggia of Caserta. All these beauties of Italy will be explored at a time of year where the weather is splendid, and crowds seem to lessen. Check out our itinerary and sign up asap. Spaces are limited. Visit us at alexinternationaltours.com
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ITALY – Molise 2022
AN UNDISCOVERED GEM
Molise is a mountainous region with a wealth of little gems scattered all over the territory, often in the most unexpected places or hidden in nearly inaccessible mountain villages, at the end of scenic, but challenging roads. All of this, of course, makes it a paradise for travelers wishing to explore Italy on an offbeat road trip.
The Rural Village Stay “le Sette Querce”
Day by day itinerary
Day one: Departure from the USA (Las Vegas or other major USA city)
Day two: Welcome aperitif, dinner
Arrival at Rome Fiumicino airport. Transfer to the structure Rural village “le Sette Querce”
Check in, welcome aperitif with wines and local products. Visit the village on the carriage pulled by donkeys. Dinner with products of the territory and traditional recipes. Musical show.
Day three: Breakfast, lunch, dinner, entertainment
After breakfast departure to the Sacred Complex of the fourth century BC. built at 950 m above sea level, by the Samnite people. Pietrabbondante with temples, theater, craft shops, and domus publica was the place where the entire Samnite population gathered to plan military strategies against the Romans.
Continue to Agnone. The settlement of Lombard origin and great center of craft activities in the twelfth century with the presence of Venetian artists and artisans who came in the wake of the Borrello family.
Among these, the Marinelli family, founder and owner of the thousand-year-old bell foundry that since 1924, with Pius XI, was portrayed by the Papal Coat of Arms. We will visit the museum and the pontifical foundry.
The day will continue with a walk in the historic center towards the Venetian district with a visit to the Emidiana Library at the church of Saint Emidio.
Return to the hotel, dinner, entertainment
Day four: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Pompeii is one of the most visited archaeological sites in the world. We will visit the Roman city covered with the ashes of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD to learn about the life of the Romans of that era, through streets, fountains, houses, baths, taverns. We will visit the Forum, the Temple of Apollo, the great Amphitheater, the oldest stone construction ever discovered, home to bloody battles between gladiators, the wonderful House of the Faun, an ancient villa of over 3000 square meters, one of the oldest and most majestic houses in the city.
Naples-The Neapolitan subsoil. A network of tunnels and underground tanks of over 2,000,000 square meters used during the Second World War as a refuge from the disastrous bombings. The first artifacts date back to about 5,000 years ago. Subsequently, in the third century BC, the Greeks opened the first underground quarries to obtain the blocks of tuff necessary to construct the walls and temples of their Neapolis and dug a series of funerary hypogea. The impressive development of the underground network began in Roman times with a complex network of aqueducts.
A walk in the historic center and dinner with Neapolitan pizza.
One of the oldest cities in Europe, whose historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Through the squares and narrow streets of the historic center, in a picturesque and timeless atmosphere you will fall in love with this pearl of the Mediterranean.
Return to the hotel
Day five: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Scapoli is a village of bagpipe builders. A town of medieval origin that preserves in its ancient urban nucleus a museum dedicated to the bag aerophone with a collection of instruments from all over the world. During our visit we will have the opportunity to visit the artisan workshop of a master conductor.
Rocchetta a Volturno – Visit to the International Museum of the World Wars. One of the largest museums in Italy for the number of exhibits, dedicated to the First and Second World Wars, born of the passion of the two directors in the territory where the Italian Liberation Corps was born.
Cooking Class – Italy is famous in the world for its beautiful landscapes, historical, artistic, but also for the flavors of its table. Pasta, bread, pizza are the excellences that best represent it in the world. A chef will teach you how to make homemade bread following the ancient recipes of the local tradition.
Return to the hotel, dinner
Day six: Breakfast, lunch, dinner, entertainment
Matrice – Santa Maria Della Strada – Along the sheep tracks in Pescasseroli Candela is located the church of Santa Maria della Strada in Matrice. The building was consecrated in 1148 and for its location was certainly an important resting place for pilgrims who went from the internal territories of the current Molise to the sanctuaries of Puglia.
Larino – The ancient Larinum, a Roman municipality, extended over a large fertile area that overlooked the valley floor of the lower course of the Biferno river. It was also located at the center of important roads that allowed its rapid development thanks to the numerous and profitable commercial exchanges. Visit to the forum, the amphitheater, the baths, the domus
Termoli – Termoli is one of the most picturesque villages of Molise that stands on a rocky promontory on the Adriatic Sea. The city’s symbolic monument is the cathedral of Santa Maria della Purificazione which preserves the relics of San Basso and San Timoteo, beautiful example of Romanesque architecture in Molise.
In the village, surrounded by ancient walls, you can also visit the Swabian castle whose structure was enhanced by Frederick II, and from the outside path you can admire the trebuchet, an ancient palisade fishing machine.
Return to the hotel, dinner, entertainment
Day seven: Breakfast, lunch (bagged), dinner
Caserta, the Royal Palace the “little Versailles of the Kingdom of Naples” last great jewel of the Italian Baroque, built at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at the behest of the royal family of the Bourbons of Naples and designed by the architect Luigi Vanvitelli.
Grand, imposing, extraordinary in its beauty and richness so much to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an unmissable destination for anyone visiting Campania.
The visit itinerary includes the monumental Royal Palace with the Hall of Halberdiers and the Hall of the Bodyguards, the Hall of Alexander and the Hall of Mars, the Hall of Astrea, the Throne Room and the Council Room. In addition, of course, to the apartments of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Palatine Library, the beautiful Hall of the crib, the Royal Hall, the Vestibule and the famous Palatine Chapel. The wonderful Garden Park of the Royal Palace, one of the most beautiful in Europe with panoramic views, water games, waterfalls and cascades, sculptures, caves and monumental fountains.
Return to the hotel, dinner
Day eight: Breakfast, lunch, dinner, entertainment
Campobasso is a territory inhabited since the Samnite era and urban nucleus of Lombard origin. Campus Vassorum developed strongly in the Norman era and later with the great families of the Monforte, which gives its name to the imposing castle and the gods of Capua. Visit the historic center, the Samnite Museum and the museum of mysteries.
Isernia – Through the historic center of Isernia “the first capital of Italy” to admire the signs of its evolution in history. The remains of the sacred area, below the neoclassical cathedral dedicated to St. Peter the Apostle, tell the religion, society and politics of almost two thousand and five hundred years ago.
Visit to the Paleolithic Museum of Isernia – the pine forest dating back to 600,000 years ago where there is the oldest human find in Europe.
Return to the hotel, dinner, entertainment
Day nine: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
San Vincenzo al Volturno is one of the most important abbeys in Europe from the time of Charlemagne. We will visit the remains of the churches, refectory, kitchens, guesthouse and major basilica of the 9th century. On the site, in the crypt of Epiphanius (visible only to small groups) there is also one of the most important pictorial cycles of the whole early Middle Ages linked to the figure of Mary.
Dating back to the twelfth century is instead the so-called New Abbey where still today, in continuity with the medieval monastic tradition, a Benedictine community operates.
The medieval village perched on travertine is certainly one of the most beautiful in all of Italy. To frame the town is the important Mainarde chain, the upper Volturno valley and the magnificent lake. Visit to the village, to the gates, to the churches, the museum of the Apennine fauna, to the small museum of ancient objects.
Return to the hotel, dinner
Day ten: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Venafro
Ancient city of Roman origin that had numerous and valuable remains of this era in its historic center: the theater, the amphitheater, the numerous inscriptions and sculptures incinto the buildings.
We will visit the Pandone castle with the marvelous sixteenth-century frescoes created by Enrico Pandone, lord of the city, with horses in low-level life-size.
Venafro is also the city of oil, the most famous and expensive in the whole Roman Empire. To praise the quality of the precious Venafrano oil were Cato, Orazio, Plinio, Giovenale. The tour includes a short visit to the historic olive tree regional park and a course of extra virgin olive oil tasters.
Monteroduni
Molise is also a land of grapes, almonds, hazelnuts. We will visit, with tasting, the Valerio Winery to learn about the DOC wines of the Region combined with the flavors of the territory and the Papa Chocolate factory, famous in Italy and in the world.
Return to the hotel, dinner and entertainment.
Day eleven: Return to USA
Breakfast
Transfer to Rome Fiumicino airport
Price $4,600.00 Includes: (price guaranteed till June 6th, 2022)
Flight from Las Vegas or other Major USA airport to Rome/return to USA
Transfers (airport to hotel/hotel to airport)
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ITALY – Molise 2023
AN UNDISCOVERED GEM
Italy, Molise
“Molise is a mountainous region with a wealth of little gems scattered all over the territory, often in the most unexpected places or hidden in nearly inaccessible mountain villages, at the end of scenic, but challenging roads. All of this, of course, makes it a paradise for travelers wishing to explore Italy on an offbeat road trip.”
The Rural Village Stay “le Sette Querce”
11-day tour
October 4th – 14th, 2023 – $4800 all inclusive
Day one: Departure from the USA (Las Vegas or other major USA city)
Day two: Welcome aperitif, dinner
Arrival at Rome Fiumicino airport. Transfer to the structure Rural village “le Sette Querce”
Check in, welcome aperitif with wines and local products. Visit the village on the carriage pulled by donkeys.
Dinner with products of the territory and traditional recipes. Entertainment
Day three: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
San Vincenzo al Volturno is one of the most important abbeys in Europe from the time of Charlemagne. We will visit the remains of the churches, refectory, kitchens, guesthouse, and major basilica of the 9th century. On the site, in the crypt of Epiphanius (visible only to small groups) there is also one of the most important pictorial cycles of the whole early Middle Ages linked to the figure of Mary.
Dating back to the twelfth century is instead the so-called New Abbey where still today, in continuity with the medieval monastic tradition, a Benedictine community operates.
Scapoli is a village of bagpipe builders. A town of medieval origin that preserves in its ancient urban nucleus a museum dedicated to the bag aerophone with a collection of instruments from all over the world. During our visit we will have the opportunity to visit the artisan workshop of a master conductor.
Rocchetta a Volturno – Visit to the International Museum of the World Wars. One of the largest museums in Italy for the number of exhibits, dedicated to the First and Second World Wars, born of the passion of the two directors in the territory where the Italian Liberation Corps was born.
Return to the hotel, dinner, entertainment
Day four: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
After breakfast departure to the Sacred Complex of the fourth century BC. built at 950 m above sea level, by the Samnite people. Pietrabbondante with temples, theater, craft shops, and domus publica was the place where the entire Samnite population gathered to plan military strategies against the Romans.
Continue to Agnone. The settlement of Lombard origin and great center of craft activities in the twelfth century with the presence of Venetian artists and artisans who came in the wake of the Borrello family.
Among these, the Marinelli family, founder, and owner of the thousand-year-old bell foundry that since 1924, with Pius XI, was portrayed by the Papal Coat of Arms. We will visit the museum and the pontifical foundry.
The day will continue with a walk in the historic center towards the Venetian district with a visit to the Emidiana Library at the church of Saint Emidio
The visit ends at the Di Nucci dairy, a national and international award-winning company to learn about the techniques for making the famous caciocavallo (CHEESE) from Alto Molise
Return to the hotel, dinner, entertainment
Day five: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Pompeii
Pompeii is one of the most visited archaeological sites in the world. We will visit the Roman city covered with the ashes of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. to learn about the life of the Romans of that era, through streets, fountains, houses, baths, taverns. We will visit the Forum, the Temple of Apollo, the great Amphitheater, the oldest stone construction ever discovered, home to bloody battles between gladiators, the wonderful House of the Faun, an ancient villa of over 3000 square meters, one of the oldest and most majestic houses in the city.
Naples-The Neapolitan subsoil (weather permitting). A network of tunnels and underground tanks of over 2,000,000 square meters used during the Second World War as a refuge from the disastrous bombings. The first artifacts date back to about 5,000 years ago. Subsequently, in the third century B.C, the Greeks opened the first underground quarries to obtain the blocks of tuff necessary to construct the walls and temples of their Neapolis and dug a series of funerary hypogea. The impressive development of the underground network began in Roman times with a complex network of aqueducts.
A walk in the historic center and dinner with Neapolitan pizza.
One of the oldest cities in Europe, whose historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Through the squares and narrow streets of the historic center, in a picturesque and timeless atmosphere you will fall in love with this pearl of the Mediterranean.
Return to the hotel, dinner, entertainment
Day six: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Isernia – Explore the historic center of Isernia “the first capital of Italy” to admire the signs of its evolution in history. The remains of the sacred area, below the neoclassical cathedral dedicated to St. Peter the Apostle, tell the religion, society, and politics of almost two thousand and five hundred years ago.
Visit to the Paleolithic Museum of Isernia – the pine forest dating back to 600,000 years ago where there is the oldest human find in Europe.
Sepino – The city was born after the Romans conquered the ancient settlement of Terravecchia, in the third century B.C. and built a new center in a strategic place on the plain.
The ancient city enclosed by a wall and four doors, saw its apogee in the Augustan age when it was equipped with the Forum, the thermal baths, the basilica, and the wonderful theater.
Saepinum saw the abandonment of its most important buildings and the shrinkage of the inhabited area in the 6th century AD. up to the total abandonment in favor of a more protected and defensible position on high ground in the early Middle Ages.
Today Saepinum shows the whole urban structure of an intact Roman city, so complete that it deserves the nickname of “Little Pompeii”.
Return to the hotel, dinner, entertainment
Day seven: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Caserta, the Royal Palace the “little Versailles of the Kingdom of Naples” last great jewel of the Italian Baroque, built at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at the behest of the royal family of the Bourbons of Naples and designed by the architect Luigi Vanvitelli.
Grand, imposing, extraordinary in its beauty and richness so much to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an unmissable destination for anyone visiting Campania.
The visit itinerary includes the monumental Royal Palace with the Hall of Halberdiers and the Hall of the Bodyguards, the Hall of Alexander and the Hall of Mars, the Hall of Astrea, the Throne Room and the Council Room. In addition, of course, to the apartments of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Palatine Library, the beautiful Hall of the crib, the Royal Hall, the Vestibule, and the famous Palatine Chapel. The wonderful Garden Park of the Royal Palace, one of the most beautiful in Europe with panoramic views, water games, waterfalls and cascades, sculptures, caves and monumental fountains.
Return to the hotel, dinner
Day eight: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Larino – The ancient Larinum, a Roman municipality, extended over a large fertile area that overlooked the valley floor of the lower course of the Biferno river. It was also located at the center of important roads that allowed its rapid development thanks to the numerous and profitable commercial exchanges. Visit to the forum, the amphitheater, the baths, the domus.
In Larino, an oil production company of the famous and excellent variety of extra virgin olive oil “Gentile di Larino” will be visited. The entire production chain will be shown with a visit to the olive grove, a description of the harvesting techniques, a visit to the oil mill and the packaging laboratory. Followed by the tasting of oil with organic products grown in the garden of the owners of the company.
Cooking Class – Italy is famous in the world for its beautiful landscapes, historical, artistic, but also for the flavors of its table. Pasta, bread, pizza are the excellences that best represent it in the world. A chef will teach you how to make homemade bread following the ancient recipes of the local tradition.
Return to the hotel, dinner, entertainment
Day nine: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Montecassino
The monastery is the cradle of Western monasticism and a place of worship visited by thousands of visitors. Montecassino is also known for the tragic events of World War II. On February 15, 1944, 500 tons of bombs were dropped on the abbey and the building was razed to the ground
Roccapipirozzi
The village of Roccapipirozzi is of medieval origin and the signs of the architecture built for defensive purposes are still clearly visible. The fortress has an articulated and irregular plan, conditioned by the natural course of the spur of the fortress on which an ancient cylindrical tower is developed and preserved, which is part of a larger structure relating to the feudal lord’s dwelling. In the village a redevelopment project is underway with the construction of 80 rooms, museums, craft shops and various commercial activities. Everything is designed with respect for the traditions of the place and in the use of ancient materials
Return to the hotel, dinner, entertainment
Day ten: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Venafro
Ancient city of Roman origin that had numerous and valuable remains of this era in its historic center: the theater, the amphitheater, the numerous inscriptions and sculptures incinto the buildings.
We will visit the Pandone castle with the marvelous sixteenth-century frescoes created by Enrico Pandone, lord of the city, with horses in low-level life-size.
Venafro is also the city of oil, the most famous and expensive in the whole Roman Empire. To praise the quality of the precious Venafrano oil were Cato, Orazio, Plinio, Giovenale. The tour includes a short visit to the historic olive tree regional park and a course of extra virgin olive oil tasters.
Monteroduni
Molise is also a land of grapes, almonds, hazelnuts. We will visit, with tasting, the Valerio Winery to learn about the DOC wines of the Region combined with the flavors of the territory and the Papa Chocolate factory, famous in Italy and in the world.
Return to the hotel, dinner and entertainment.
Day eleven: Return to USA
Breakfast\Transfer to Rome Fiumicino airport
Price $4, 800 Includes:
English speaking tour guides
Flight from Las Vegas or other Major USA airport to Rome/return to USA
Transfers (airport to hotel/hotel to airport)
9 nights stay at The Rural Village “le Sette Querce”
Welcome reception/donkey cart ride
Breakfasts, lunches, and dinners (wine, mineral water)
Entertainment
All entrances to sites
English speaking our guides
Tour bus
Cooking class
Oil tasting
Wine tasting
Cheese tasting
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Italy’s Religious Treasures
Rome: Vatican City – San Giovanni Rotondo: San Pio
Cascia: Santa Rita di Cascia – Santa Maria degli Angeli
Assisi: San Francesco d’Assisi and Santa Chiara
October 13th to 23rd, 2023
( 10 nights) $5,800
This tour is part of a Pilgrimage with the Our Lady of the Lake Church and that Fr. Tony will be accompanying the group.
Molise, Positano, and Sicily
$7,800.0019 Day Tour of Molise, Positano, and Sicily!
September 23 – October 11, 2024
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The Beauty of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
$6,595.00The Beauty of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
11 days
May 28 – Jun 07, 2024
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Tour of Italy and Mediterranean MSC cruise Double inside
$0.00The price includes:
- Flight Las Vegas – Rome/Venice – Las Vegas
For the Italy land tour
- Coach service for the land tour in Italy
- Check-in, ZTL and bus parking at all the art cities to visit
- Central 4 star hotels
- Lunch in restaurants – Rome, Siena and Florence
- Drinks included with meals (1/4 wine + ½ mineral water per meal)
- Private boat in Venice
- Excursions and guided tours as scheduled
- The entrances to the sites to visit: Rome (Vatican: Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museums), Florence: (Accademia Gallery)
- Tourist tax at hotels
- Medical insurance, baggage, accident and repatriation
- Accompanying service Alex International Tours
For the MSC Mediterranean cruise
- “Fantastic” type: accommodations in cabins on the upper decks of the ship – free breakfast in the cabin – 24h service in the cabin – 50% reduction on fitness services (eg yoga) and personal trainer (subject to availability) – special events for children – priority of choosing the restaurant shift.
- Registration fees
- Boarding / disembarking fees and port taxes
- Daily service charges (tips)
- Full board on board with gastronomic surprises
- Unlimited drinks at main meals lunch and dinner (wine, mineral water, draft beer, soft drink)
- Unlimited drinks outside meals at the ship’s bars (coffee, tea, wine, mineral water, draft beer, soft drinks, fruit juices, alcoholic beverages)
- Gala evening with the Commander
- Participation in all activities of animation: games, competitions, treasure hunt, tournaments, theme nights
- Baggage transport service in the port at the start / end of the cruise boarding and disembarking in ports where the ship will not dock the dock.
- Medical insurance, baggage, accident and repatriation
- Accompanying service Alex International Tours
The price does not include:
For the Italy land tour
- Personal extras
- The entrance fees not mentioned in the included fees
- Travel cancellation insurance (on request)
- Single room supplement in the hotel $250.00
- All that is not specified under “the price includes”
For the MSC Mediterranean cruise
- Personal extras
- Land excursions during the cruise
- Access to the private Sun Deck
- Any customs fees for material boarding
- All that is not specified under “the price includes”
Tuscany and Cinque Terre tour
$6,500.00Alex International Tours presents – Tuscany and Cinque Terre
October 22 -October 31, 2025
$6500 per person Price Guaranteed till November 28th, 2024, and based on 20 min. participants.
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Splendors of Italy
Call for availability 928-486-3104
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- Round-trip flights on major carriers; Comfortable motor coach
- 8 overnight stays in centrally located 4-star hotels
- Breakfast and 7 dinners (1 dinner at a typical pizzeria in Rome)
- Lunch in restaurants: Lake Garda – Monterosso (Cinque Terre) – Rome
- Beverages included with meals (¼ wine + ½ mineral water)
- Private ferry to Venice
- Excursion by ferry to the Cinque Terre (Vernazza and Monterosso)
- Excursions and guided tours as scheduled
- The entrances to Florence: (Michelangelo’s David at the Accademia Gallery), Rome (Vatican: Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museums, Colosseum)
- 24 hour Alex Collection Expert Tour Manager for the duration of the trip
- Medical, baggage and accident insurance
- Hotel tourist tax
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Mystery of Faith Tour
Father Chauncey Winkler of Our Lady of the Lake, and Father Steve Kunkel of St. Thomas The Apostle Parish in Phoenix will accompany you on this 14 days Mystery of Faith pilgrimage