My wife and I are taking our first trip to Italy in April. We are flying out of Charlotte direct into Rome and are taking the train to Florence. Here is our current itinerary:
Day 1 : We should arrive in Florence around noon and will check into our hotel. We plan to spend the day adjusting to the time and doing RS's Renaissance Walk to see the city.
Day 2: Accademia, Duomo including the Baptistry, Belltower, and the museum. Spend the afternoon walking and viewing some of the churches like Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella and possibly the Medici Chapels.
Day 3: Uffizi Gallery, Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens. Walk around the city.
Day 4: First train back to Rome should be there before 10 A.M. Plan on checking into the hotel and seeing the Capitoline Museum and Hill. (This will be a Monday so most museums closed). Then spend time walking we want to see Trastevere and do RS's Heart of Rome walk in the evening to view the stops along this route including Pantheon, Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps.
Day 5: Colosseum, Roman Forum, Palatine Hill in the morning. Borghese Gallery in the afternoon
Day 6: Vatican Day. If time allows we may walk around a few other neighborhoods in Rome
Day 7: If there is more we want to see in Rome we will leave this day open for it, but we will most likely take a day and visit Orvieto to see what it has to offer and get a day away from the city.
Day 8: fly back home
Should we buy any of our train tickets ahead of time?
We currently have our museum tickets for Florence but need to buy all tickets for Rome, would you recommend skip the line tickets? Any of the passes worth the money for our trip based on our sites?