The Italian Campaign Featuring Salerno, Anzio & Monte Cassino

Itinerary

12 Day Itinerary

• Day 1

  Local departure by coach or Door-to-Door service, then to northern France for an overnight stay.

• Day 2

  To the Cremona or Parma area for an overnight stay.

  Meals - Breakfast, Dinner

• Day 3

  Continue south through Italy, making a stop at Florence War Cemetery en-route to Pomezia for a two-night stay.

  Meals - Breakfast, Dinner

• Day 4 - Anzio

  Today, we look at Operation Shingle, the landings at Anzio, and the subsequent fighting in the Bridgehead. WE begin at Campo di Carne and the infamous flyover, scene of heavy fighting in 1944. We then visit the Beachhead Cemetery before visiting the Anzio War Museum. After lunch in Anzio, where you have time to walk to the memorial at the Harbour, we see Anzio War Cemetery and finish at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery at Nettuno, where the US dead from Sicily to the Liberation of Rome are buried.

  Meals - Breakfast, Dinner

• Day 5 - The Battles of Cassino

  We depart Pomezia for Cassino, and here we look at the fighting for Cassino in 1943 and 1944, visiting the Mignano Gap to see the war museum and Italian Cemetery, and then follow the Allied advance to the ‘Winter Line’. After lunch, we visit Cassino War Cemetery and the Cassino Memorial, visit the memorials along the Rapido river and then travel into the Liri Valley to look at the final battles for Cassino and the attack on the Hitler Line. We then check into our hotel in Cassino for a three-night stay.

  Meals - Breakfast, Dinner

• Day 6 - Salerno & Caserta

  We begin our tour at Salerno where Operation Avalanche brought American and British forces ashore in September 1943. We see Salerno War Cemetery and then drive along the beachhead from the British to the American sector. We have the lunch period in Paestum, where fighting took place among the Greco-Roman Ruins, and then travel back via Caserta to visit Caserta War Cemetery and the grave of England Cricketer, Hedley Verity.

  Meals - Breakfast, Dinner

• Day 7 - Monte Cassino

  This morning we journey up to Monte Cassino and see the Polish Cemetery and battlefield area where they fought for the capture of the monastery, and then visit the Monte Cassino Monastery with its impressive views. After lunch, we have a walking tour of Cassino Town seeing where the fighting was in 1944, and then travel to Minturno War Cemetery to see where the British soldiers killed on this part of the Italian front are buried.

  Meals - Breakfast, Dinner

• Day 8 - Sangro River & Ortona

  Leaving Cassino, we cross the mountains to the Adriatic coast and see the Sangro River War Cemetery overlooking the valley where fighting took place in 1943. After lunch, we look at the Canadian advance on Ortona, seeing the Sterlin Castle battlefield and the Moro River Canadian War Cemetery. We have time in Ortona itself to see where the street fighting took place in December 1943, and then we depart for an overnight stay in the Teramo area.

  Meals - Breakfast, Dinner

• Day 9 - The Gothic Line

  We continue along the Adriatic coast to where the Gothic Line battles were fought in September 1944, seeing the Coriano Ridge War Cemetery and Rimini Ghurka Cemetery. After lunch, we travel up to the Bellaria / Cesenatico area for an overnight stay.

  Meals - Breakfast, Dinner

• Day 10

  We depart and cross the area of the final battles in Italy in 1945, pausing for lunch before we continue to our overnight hotel in the Austrian Tyrol.

  Meals - Breakfast, Dinner

• Day 11

  Travel through Germany to Belgium for an overnight stay.

  Meals - Breakfast

• Day 12

  Return home.

  Meals - Breakfast

Accommodation

You will stay overnight in a hotel in the Parma / Cremona area and then for two nights in a hotel in the Pomezia area. 

You will then stay for three nights at the 4-star Best Western Hotel Rocca in Cassino. 

Thereafter you will stay overnight in the Teramo area, overnight in the Bellaria/Cesenatico area and overnight in Austria. 

Hotels throughout the tour will be 3-star and 4-star.  

First and final overnight stays in northern France and Belgium will be in city-style hotels.