The Leonardo Trail in 10 Days — Milan, Florence, Rome, the Loire, Paris
Ten days after Leonardo da Vinci: his Milan wall, his Tuscan birthplace, his tomb at Amboise and the Mona Lisa by night in Paris.
≈ €1,139 per person
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Ten days following Leonardo da Vinci's life in the places it happened, all in euros and all but one leg by train. Milan gives you the Last Supper, his vineyard, his notebooks and his pupils; Florence the workshop where he learned, the three early paintings in the Uffizi and the room where his lost battle mural was begun; then a day walking up to the farmhouse at Anchiano where he was born. A day in the Vatican finds the unfinished Saint Jerome and his face on Raphael's Plato, before the one flight, to the Loire, where he spent his last three years at the Clos Lucé, is buried in the chapel at Amboise and may have given Chambord its staircase. It ends in Paris: Fontainebleau, where the king kept the Mona Lisa, the Louvre on a late-opening night, and a pupil's full-size copy of the Last Supper at Écouen. The weekdays are the hard constraint. Start on a Tuesday: it keeps Milan off a Monday, when the Last Supper shuts, and off a Wednesday, when the Ambrosiana does; it puts the Uffizi on a Thursday, the Vinci day on a Friday rather than a Sunday, when the bus runs once, and the Louvre on a Wednesday late opening. Book the Last Supper first, the moment its three-month block opens, then the Uffizi, the Vatican and the Louvre. Budget covers every ticket, train, bus, the Rome to Paris flight and the listed meals; beds and the flights in and out are extra.
Day by day
Day 1 — Milan: the notebooks, the pupils' church and the wallMilan: the notebooks, the pupils' church and the wall
Day 2 — A statue and a canal lock, then south to Florence and Verrocchio's workshopA statue and a canal lock, then south to Florence and Verrocchio's workshop
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Every venue was checked against current public sources — hours, prices, closures — before it was published. Walks and transit legs are not in the count.
checked against tripadvisor.com · m.yelp.com · bibliotheque-mazarine.fr · chambord.org · museivaticani.va · rankeat.fr + 45 more
2 more flagged venues on the days beyond this preview.
How we check
Anything with a kitchen or a ticket gate is verified individually: the official site where one exists, plus recent traveler reviews. Public squares, parks and viewpoints get an existence check. A venue we can’t confirm is flagged below rather than quietly kept, and the whole itinerary is re-checked on a cadence — past 12 months without one, the checked claim is dropped and the date above stops being a promise.