The Italian Campaign Featuring Salerno, Anzio & Monte Cassino
- Duration: 12 days
- Board Basis: Half Board
- Tour Ref: D2TLEGITC
Holiday Summary
- Travel Type: Coach
PLEASE NOTE: Price is per person and based on two people sharing a twin/double room. Single room supplements and upgrades are not included.
Itinerary
12 Day Itinerary - 2024
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 Cassino for a five-night stay.
Meals - Breakfast, Dinner
Day 4 - 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 5 - The Battles of Cassino
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’ and visit the memorials along the Rapido river. After lunch, we visit Cassino War Cemetery and the Cassino Memorial and then travel into the Liri Valley to look at the final battles for Cassino and the attack on the Hitler Line.
Meals - Breakfast, Dinner
Day 6 - 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 7 - Anzio
Today, we look at the Battle of Anzio, seeing the Sicily Rome American War Cemetery at Nettuno before having our lunch period in the seaside town of Anzio. After we see the Anzio War Museum, Anzio War Cemetery and the Beachhead Cemetery, before going to the infamous Flyover at Campo di Carne, the scene of heavy fighting in 1944.
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 Montesilvano/ 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 for six nights at the 4-star Best Western Hotel Rocca in Cassino. The hotel offers a restaurant, bar, lift and lounge.
Overnight stay in the Montesilvano / Teramo area, the Cessenactico / Bellaria area and in Austria will be in a minimum 3-star hotel.
Overnight stays in northern France, northern Italy and Belgium will be in city-style hotels.