The Italian Campaign featuring Salerno, Anzio & Monte Cassino
Tour
DEPARTS: Cassino Hotel
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Price: per person, twin share
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Deposit: 30%
The Italian Campaign featuring Salerno, Anzio & Monte Cassino
Following the landings at Salerno in September 1943 during Operation Avalanche, Winston Churchill saw Italy as the ‘soft under-belly’ of the Third Reich. However, it became a costly WW2 battlefield with thousands of casualties involving iconic battles like the landings at Anzio, and the fighting for Monte Cassino. We see the role of troops from many nations including New Zealand, with a visit to the Polish Cemetery at Cassino and understanding the huge sacrifice made by the Indian Army. Amazing terrain and fascinating battlefield sites.
Itinerary
Day 1 > Arrive Cassino
Join your tour group at the Cassino hotel this evening. (D)
Day 2 > Salerno & Caserta
We start our tour at Salerno, where British forces landed in 1943, seeing the beach head and the Roman Ruins where the Americans fought. We visit Salerno War Cemetery, seeing the grave of the great-grandson of the Duke of Wellington, and then on to the beachhead area, where the British and American troops landed, before taking lunch close to the Greek-Roman ruins at Paestum. In the afternoon, we travel to Caserta, visiting the War Cemetery, looking at the story of Yorkshire and England cricketer, Hedley Verity, and see where General Alexander had his headquarters during the Italian Campaign. (B,D)
STAR INCLUSIONS ★ Salerno War Cemetery ★ Beachhead area ★ Paestum Ruins ★ Caserta War Cemetery
Day 3 > Monte Cassino
We travel up to the monastary on Monte Cassino, seeing the incredible view, and visit the Polish war Cemetery. After lunchtime in Cassino, we visit Cassino War Cemetery and the Cassino Memorial. We end the day at the German War Cemetery. (B,D)
STAR INCLUSIONS ★ Monte Cassino War Cemetery ★ Monte Cassino Abbey ★ Polish War Cemetery ★ German War Cemetery
Day 4 > Hill 593, Snakeshead Ridge & the Liri Valley
We continue with our look at Monte Cassino with a specially arranged visit to Hill 593 and Snakeshead Ridge, where much of the actual fighting took place. (Please Note: this will involve some walking.) We also walk down to Albaneta Farm and the wreck of a Sherman Tank, now a memorial to Polish troops. After lunch, we look at the fighting in the Liri Valley, seeing the ground at Acquino Aerodrome and looking at the Hitler Line defences between Acquino and Pontecorvo, before ending the day at the Gari/Rapido River, the scene of a disastrous American assault in 1944. (B,D)
STAR INCLUSIONS ★ Snakeshead Ridge ★ Albaneta Farm ★ Polish Sherman Tank Memorial ★ Acquino ★ Rapido River
Day 5 > Anzio
Today, we look at the Battle of Anzio, seeing the US War Cemetery at Nettuno. After lunch in the seaside town of Anzio, we see the Anzio War Museum and Cemetery and the Beachhead Cemetery, before going to the infamous Flyover at Campo di Casni, scene of fighting in 1944. (B,D)
STAR INCLUSIONS ★ Nettuno US Cemetery ★ Anzio War Museum ★ Anzio Flyover
Day 6 > Minturno & Cassino Town
We head south from Cassino and visit Minturno War Cemetery where many of the men who died in the fighting for the high ground at Monte Camino and in the river crossing at the Garigliano are buried. After lunch have some free-time in Cassino town. (B,D)
STAR INCLUSIONS ★ Minturno War Cemetery ★ Cassino
Day 7 > Sangro & Ortona
We depart Cassino and head north today, travelling to the Adriatic coast at Ortona, where we have a short walking tour of the town seeing where street-to-street and house-to-house fighting took place. Ortona was a place of great Canadian sacrifice in December 1943. We also visit the war museum and spend lunchtime in the town. In the afternoon, we visit the Canadian dead at the Moro River War Cemetery and end the day in the Sangro Valley and Sangro War Cemetery. From here we travel along the Adriatic coast to our hotel in Ravenna, discussing the Gothic Line battles along the way. (B,D)
STAR INCLUSIONS ★ Ortona ★ Sangro War Cemetery
Day 8 > Austrian Tyrol
We depart Ravenna 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. (B,D)
Day 9 > Belgium
Travel through Germany to Belgium for an overnight stay (passengers departing the tour in Europe will farewell the group at the hotel). (B)
Day 10 > Depart
We leave the hotel after breakfast and travel to the Channel port. You will leave your tour coach behind as you join your transfer vehicle for your return journey to the UK. (B)
Dates
TOUR DATES | TRAVEL BY | DAYS | PRICE |
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12th October 2020 | Silver Service | 10 | $2,848.00 |
10th May 2021 | Silver Service | 10 | $3,022.00 |
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Inclusions
★ 9 nights’ hotel accommodation
★ Daily continental breakfast and 8 evening meals
★ Specialist Battlefield Historian
★ All battlefields sites as per the itinerary
★ Travel by Silver Service coach
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