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|By Dana Gardner
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|July 7, 2014 08:00 AM EDT
The advent of the application programming interface (API) economy has forced a huge, pressing need for organizations to both seek openness and improve security for accessing mobile applications, data, and services anytime, anywhere, and from any device.
Awash in inadequate passwords and battling subsequent security breaches, business and end-users alike are calling for improved identity management and federation technologies. They want workable standards to better chart the waters of identity management and federation, while preserving the need for enterprise-caliber risk remediation and security.
Meanwhile, the mobile tier is becoming an integration point for scads of cloud services and APIs, yet unauthorized access to data remains common. Mobile applications are not yet fully secure, and identity control that meets audit requirements is hard to come by. And so developers are scrambling to find the platforms and tools to help them manage identity and security, too.
Clearly, the game has clearly changed for creating new and attractive mobile processes, yet the same old requirements remain wanting around security, management, interoperability, and openness.
BriefingsDirect assembled a panel of experts to explore how to fix these pressing needs: Bradford Stephens, the Developer and Platforms Evangelist in the CTO's Office at Ping Identity; Ross Garrett, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Axway, Kelly Grizzle, Principal Software Engineer at SailPoint Technologies. Welcome, Kelly. The sponsored panel discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Here are some excerpts:
Gardner: We are approaching the Cloud Identity Summit 2014 (CIS), which is coming up on July 19 in Monterey, Calif. There's a lot of frustration with identity services that meet the needs of developers and enterprise operators as well. So let's talk a little bit about what's going on with APIs and identity.
What are the trends in the market that keep this problem pressing? Why is it so difficult to solve?
Interaction changes
Stephens: Well, as soon as we've settled on a standard, the way we interact with computers changes. It wasn't that long ago that if you had Active Directory and SAML and you hand-wrote security endpoints of model security products, you were pretty much covered.
But in the last three or four years, we've gone to a world where mobile is more important than web. Distributed systems are more important than big iron. And we communicate with APIs instead of channels and SDKs, and that requires a whole new way of thinking about the problem.
Garrett: Ultimately, APIs are becoming the communication framework, the fabric, in which all of the products that we touch today talk to each other. That, by extension, provides a new identity challenge. That's a lot of reason why we've seen some friction and schizophrenia around the types of identity technologies that are available to us.
So we see waves of different technologies come and go, depending on what is the flavor of the month. That has caused some frustration for developers, and will definitely come up during our Cloud Identity Summit in a couple of weeks.
Grizzle: APIs are becoming exponentially more important in the identity world now. As Bradford alluded to, the landscape is changing. There are mobile devices as well as software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers out there who are popping up new services all the time. The common thread between all of them is the need to be able to manage identities. They need to be able to manage the security within their system. It makes total sense to have a common way to do this.
APIs are key for all the different devices and ways that we connect to these service providers. Becoming standards based is extremely important, just to be able to keep up with the adoption of all these new service providers coming on board.
Gardner: As we describe this as the API economy, I suppose it's just as much a marketplace and therefore, as we have seen in other markets, people strive for predominance. There's jockeying going on. Bradford, is this a matter of an architectural shift? Is this a matter of standards? Or is this a matter of de-facto standards? Or perhaps all of the above?
Stephens: It's getting complex quickly. I think we're settling on standards, like it or not, mostly positively. I see most people settling on at least OAuth 2.0 as a standard token, and OpenID Connect for implementation and authentication of information, but I think that's about as far as we get.
There's a lot of struggle with established vendors vying to implement these protocols. They try to bridge the gap between the old world of say SAML and Active Directory and all that, and the new world of SCIM, OAuth, OpenID Connect. The standards are pretty settled, at least for the next two years, but the tools, how we implement them, and how much work it takes developers to implement them, are going to change a lot, and hopefully for the better.
Evolving standards
Garrett: We have identified a number of new standards that are bridging this new world of API-oriented connectivity. Learning from the past of SAML and legacy, single sign-on infrastructure, we definitely need some good technology choices.
The standards seem to be leading the way. But by the same token, we should keep a close eye on the market changing with regards to how fast standards are changing. We've all seen things like OAuth progress slower than some of the implementations out there. This means the ratification of the standard was happening after many providers had actually implemented it. It's the same for OpenID Connect.
We are in line there, but the actual standardization process doesn't always keep up with where the market wants to be.
Gardner: We've been this play out before that the standards can lag. Getting consensus, developing the documentation and details, and getting committees to sign off can take time, and markets move at their own velocity. Many times in the past, organizations have hedged their bets by adopting multiple standards or tracking multiple ways of doing things, which requires federation and integration.
Kelly, are there big tradeoffs with standards and APIs? How do we mitigate the risk and protect ourselves by both adhering to standards, but also being agile in the market?
Grizzle: That's kind of tricky. You're right in that standards tend to lag. That's just part and parcel of the standardization process. It's like trying to pass a bill through Congress. It can go slow.
You're right in that standards tend to lag. That's just part and parcel of the standardization process.
Something that we've seen some of these standards do right, from OAuth and from the SCIM perspective, is that both of those have started their early work with a very loose standardization process, going through not one of the big standards bodies, but something that can be a little bit more nimble. That's how the SCIM 1.0 and 1.1 specs came out, and they came out in a reasonable time frame to get people moving on it.
Now that things have moved to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), development has slowed down a little bit, but people have something to work with and are able to keep up with the changes going on there.
I don't know that people necessarily need to adopt multiple standards to hedge their bets, but by taking what's already there and keeping a pulse on the things that are going to change, as well as the standard being forward-thinking enough to allow some extensibility within it, service providers and clients, in the long run, are going to be in a pretty good spot.
Quick primer
Gardner: We've talked a few technical terms so far, and just for the benefit of our audience, I'd like to do a quick primer, perhaps with you Bradford. To start: OAuth, this is with the IETF now. Could you just quickly tell the audience what OAuth is, what it's doing, and why it's important when we talk about API, security and mobile?
Stephens: OAuth is the foundation protocol for authorization when it comes to APIs for web applications. OAuth 2 is much more flexible than OAuth 1.
Basically, it allows applications to ask for access to stuff. It seems very vague, but it's really powerful once you start getting the right tokens for your workflows. And it provides the same foundation for everything else we do for identity and APIs.
The best example I can think of is when you log into Facebook, and Facebook asks whether you really want this app to see your birthday, all your friends' information, and everything else. Being able to communicate all that over the OAuth 2.0 is a lot easier than how it was with OAuth 1.0 a few years ago.
Gardner: How about OpenID Connect. This is with the OpenID Foundation. How does that relate, and what is it?
If OAuth actually is the medium, OpenID Connect can be described as the content of the message. It's not the message itself.
Stephens: If OAuth actually is the medium, OpenID Connect can be described as the content of the message. It's not the message itself. That's usually done with the Token, Javascript object notation (JSON) Web Token, but OpenID Connect provides the actual identity information.
When you access an API and you authenticate, you choose a scope, and one of the most common scopes is OpenID Profile. This OpenID Profile will just have things like your username, maybe your address, various other pieces of identity information, and it describes who the "you" is, who you are.
Gardner: And SCIM, you mentioned that Kelly, and I know you have been involved with it. So why don't you take the primer for SCIM, and I believe it's Simple Cloud Identity Management?
Grizzle: That's the historical name for it, Simple Cloud Identity Management. When we took the standard to the IETF, we realized that the problems that we were solving were a little bit broader than just the cloud and within the cloud. So the acronym now stands for the System for Cross-domain Identity Management.
That's kind of a mouthful, but the concept is pretty simple. SCIM is really just an API and a schema that allows you to manage identities and identity-related information. And by manage them, I mean to create identities in systems to delete them, update them, change the entitlements and the group memberships, and things like that.
Gardner: From your perspective, Kelly, what is the relationship then between OAuth and SCIM?
Managing identities
Grizzle: OAuth, as Bradford mentioned, is primarily geared toward authorization, and answers the question, "Can Bob access this top-secret document?" SCIM is really not in the authorization and authentication business at all. SCIM is about managing identities.
OAuth assumes that an identity is already present. SCIM is able to create that identity. You can create the user "Bob." You can say that Bob should not have access to that top-secret document. Then, if you catch Bob doing some illicit activity, you can quickly disable his account through a SCIM call. So they fit together very nicely.
Gardner: In the real world, developers like to be able to use APIs, but they might not be familiar with all the details that we've just gone through on some of these standards and security approaches.
How do we make this palatable to developers? How do we make this something that they can implement without necessarily getting into the nitty-gritty? Are there some approaches to making this a bit easier to consume as a developer?
The best thing we can do is have tool-providers give them tools in their native language or in the way developers work with things.
Stephens: As a developer who's relatively new to this field -- I worked in database for three years -- I've had personal experience of how hard it is to wrap your head around all the standards and all these flows and stuff. The best thing we can do is have tool providers give them tools in their native language, or in the way developers work with things.
This needs well-documented, interactive APIs -- things like Swagger -- and lots of real-world code examples. Once you've actually done the process of authentication through OAuth, getting a JSON Web Token, and getting an OpenID Connect profile, it's really simple to see how it all works together, if you do it all through a SaaS platform that handles all the nitty-gritty, like user creation and all that.
If you have to roll your own, though, there's not a lot of information out there besides the WhitePages and Wall Post. It's just a nightmare. I tried to roll my own. You should never roll your own.
So having SaaS platforms to do all this stuff, instead of having documents, means that developers can focus on providing their applications, and just understand that I have this media and project, not about which tokens carry information that accesses OAuth and OpenID Connect.
I don't really care how it all works together; I just know that I have this token and it has the information I need. And it's really liberating, once you finally get there.
So I guess the best thing we can do is provide really great tools that solve the identity-management problems.
Tools: a key point
Garrett: Tools, that's the key point here. Whether we like it or not, developers tend to be kind of lazy sometimes and they certainly don't have the time or the energy to understand every facet of the OAuth specification. So providing tools that can wrap that up and make it as easy to implement as possible is really the only way that we get to really secure mobile applications or any API interaction. Because without a deep understanding of how this stuff works, you can make pretty fundamental errors.
Having said that, at least we've started to take steps in the right direction with the standards. OAuth is built at least with the idea of mobile access in mind. It's leveraging REST and JSON types, rather than SOAP and XML types, which are really way too heavyweight for mobile applications.
So the standards, in their own right, have taken us in the right direction, but we absolutely need tools to make it easy for developers.
Grizzle: Tools are of the utmost importance, and some of the identity providers and people with skin in the game, so to speak, are helping to create these tools and to open-source them, so that they can be used by other people.
Identity isn't the most glamorous thing to talk about, except when it all goes wrong, and some huge leak makes the news headlines.
Another thing that Ross touched on was keeping the simplicity in the spec. These things that we're addressing -- authorization, authentication, and managing identities -- are not extremely simple concepts always. So in the standards that are being created, finding the right balance of complexity versus completeness and flexibility is a tough line to walk.
With SCIM, as you said, the first initial of the acronym used to stand for Simple. It's still a guiding principle that we use to try to keep these interactions as simple as possible. SCIM uses REST and JSON, just like some of these other standards. Developers are familiar with that. Putting the burden on the right parties for implementation is very important, too. To make it easy on clients, the ones who are going to be implementing these a lot, is pretty important.
Gardner: Do these standards do more than help the API economy settle out and mature? Cloud providers or SaaS providers want to provide APIs and they want the mobile apps to consume them. By the same token, the enterprises want to share data and want data to get out to those mobile tiers. So is there a data-management or brokering benefit that goes along with this? Are we killing multiple birds with one set of standards?
Garrett: The real issue here, when we think about the new types of products and services that the API economy is helping us deliver, is around privacy and ultimately customer confidence. Putting the user in control of who gets to access which parts of my identity profile, or how contextual information about me can perhaps make identity decisions easier, allows us to lock down, or better understand, these privacy concerns that the world has.
Identity isn't the most glamorous thing to talk about -- except when it all goes wrong -- and some huge leak makes the news headlines, or some other security breach has lost credit-card numbers or people's usernames and passwords.
Hand in hand
In terms of how identity services are developing the API economy, the two things go hand in hand. Unless people are absolutely certain about how their information is being used, they simply choose not to use these services. That's where all the work that the API management vendors and the identity management vendors are doing and bringing that together is so important.
Gardner: You mentioned that identity might not be sexy or top of mind, but how else can you manage all these variables on an automated or policy-driven basis? When we move to the mobile tier, we're dealing with multiple networks. We're dealing with multiple services ... cloud, SaaS, and APIs. And then we're linking this back to enterprise applications. How other than identity can this possibly be managed?
Stephens: Identity is often thought of as usernames and passwords, but it's evolving really quickly to be so much more. This is something I harp on a lot, but it's really quickly becoming that who we are online is more important than who we are in real life. How I identify myself online is more important than the driver's license I carry in my wallet.
And it's important that developers understand that because any connected application is going to have to have a deep sense of identity.
As you know, your driver's license is like a real-life token of information that describes what you're allowed to do in your life. That's part of your identity. Anybody who has lost their license knows that, without that, there's not a whole lot you can do.
Bringing that analogy back to the Internet, what you're able to access and what access you're able to give other people or other applications to change important things, like your Facebook posts, your tweets, or go through your email and help categorize that is important. All these little tasks that help define how you live, are all part of your identity. And it's important that developers understand that because any connected application is going to have to have a deep sense of identity.
Gardner: Let me pose the same question, but in a different way. When you do this well, when you can manage identity, when you can take advantage of these new standards that extend into mobile requirements and architectures, with the API economy in mind, what do you get? What does it endow you with? What can you do that perhaps you couldn't do if you were stuck in some older architectures or thinking?
Grizzle: Identity is key to everything we do. Like Bradford was just saying, the things that you do online are built on the trust that you have with who is doing them. There are very few services out there where you want completely anonymous access. Almost every service that you use is tied to an identity.
So it's of paramount importance to get a common language between these. If we don't move to standards here, it's just going to be a major cost problem, because there are a ton of different providers and clients out there.
If every provider tries to roll their own identity infrastructure, without relying on standards, then, as a client, if I need to talk to two different identity providers, I need to write to two different APIs. It's just an explosive problem, with the amount that everything is connected these days.
So it's key. I can't see how the system will stand up and move forward efficiently without these common pieces in place.
Use cases
Gardner: Do we have any examples along these same lines of what do you get when you do this well and appropriately based on what you all think is the right approach and direction? We've been talking at a fairly abstract level, but it really helps solidify people's thinking and understanding when they can look at a use-case, a named situation or an application.
Stephens: If you want a good example of how OAuth delegation works, building a Facebook app or just working on Facebook app documentation is pretty straightforward. It gives you a good idea of what it means to delegate certain authorization.
Likewise, Google is very good. It's very integrated with OAuth and OpenID Connect when it comes to building things on Google App Engine.
The thing that these new identity service providers have been offering has, behind the scenes, been making your lives more secure.
So if you want to secure an API that you built using Google Cloud on Google App Engine, which is trivial to do, Google Cloud Endpoints provides a really good example. In fact, there is a button that you can hit in their example button called Use OAuth and that OAuth transports OpenID Connect profile, and that's a pretty easy way to go about it.
Garrett: I'll just take a simple consumer example, and we've touched on this already. It was the idea in the past, where every individual service or product is offering only their identity solution. So I have to create a new identity profile for every product or service that I'm using. This has been the case for a long time in the consumer web and in the enterprise setting as well.
So we have to be able to solve that problem and offer a way to reuse existing identities. It involves so taking technologies like OpenID Connect, which is totally hidden to the end user really, but simply saying that you can use this existing identity, your LinkedIn or Facebook credentials, etc., to access some new products, takes a lot of burden away from the consumer. Ultimately, that provides us a better security model end to end.
The thing that these new identity service providers have been offering has, behind the scenes, been making your lives more secure. Even though some people might shy away from using their Facebook identity across multiple applications, in many ways it's actually better to, because that's really one centralized place where I can actually see, audit, and adjust the way that I'm presenting my identity to other people.
That's a really great example of how these new technologies are changing the way we interact with products everyday.
Standardized approach
Grizzle: At SailPoint, the company that I work for, we have a client, a large chip maker, who has seen the identity problem and really been bitten by it within their enterprise. They have somewhere around 3,500 systems that have to be able to talk to each other, exchange identity data, and things like that.
The issue is that every time they acquire a new company or bring a new group into the fold, that company has its own set of systems that speak their own language, and it takes forever to get them integrated into their IT organization there.
So they've said that they're not going to support every app that these people bring into the IT infrastructure. They're going with SCIM and they are saying that all these apps that come in, if they speak SCIM, then they'll take ownership of those and pull them into their environment. It should just plug in nice and easy. They're doing it just because of a resourcing perspective. They can't keep up with the amount of change to their IT infrastructure and keep everything automated.
They can't keep up with the amount of change to their IT infrastructure and keep everything automated.
Gardner: I want to quickly look at the Cloud Identity Summit that's coming up. It sounds like a lot of these issues are going to be top of mind there. We're going to hear a lot of back and forth and progress made.
Does this strike you, Bradford, as a tipping point of some sort, that this event will really start to solidify thinking and get people motivated? How do you view the impact of this summit on cloud identity?
Stephens: At CIS, we're going to see a lot of talk about real-world implementation of these standards. In fact, I'm running the Enterprise API track and I'll be giving a talk on end-to-end authentication using JAuth, OAuth, and OpenID Connect. This year is the year that we show that it's possible. Next year, we'll be hearing a lot more about people using it in production.
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Seeger Weiss LLP is investigating injury claims associated with common pain and fever reducing drug acetaminophen—also known as Tylenol. Tylenol has been linked with severe liver damage, liver failure, and death.
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As a solution provider it is vitally important you don't get locked into a specific vendor's solution. This couldn't be truer in the world of on-demand or cloud computing. The way Amazon works is vastly different from Google, and different from Flexiscale. So how do you utilize the strengths of them all without compromising your own requirements?
This session will take a look at a real world application, which spans across a number of different cloud hosts, providing redundancy, self-healing and self-scaling solutions without the fear of dancing to one vendors tune.
Williamson joins a star-studded lineup covering the hottest IT topic for years, with IBM, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Intel, HP and Amazon all offering, using or developing high-end computing services typically described as "cloud computing" - through which massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided as a service using Internet technologies.
Forrester Research analyst James Staten calls cloud computing "classic disruptive innovation - where the mainstream dismisses the product and small companies have time to create a real differentiated value." But there are so many offerings just now that what infrastructure architects are looking for above all is a set of organizing principles they can use to guide them in choosing between them all.
Such principles. and a host of associated topics, will be addressed in San Jose by:
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- Reuven Cohen - Founder & Chief Technologist, Enomaly
- Mike Eaton - CEO, Cloudworks
- Jonathan Bryce - Founder at Mosso (Rackspace)
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- Mike Feinberg - Senior Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure Group, EMC
- Billy Marshall - Founder & CEO, rPath
- Dr Thorsten von Eicken - CTO & Founder, RightScale
- Songnian Zhou - Co-Founder & CEO, Platform Computing
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- Patrick Harr, CEO - Nirvanix
- Dave Durkee - CEO, ENKI
- Peter Nickolov - Chief Software Architect, 3Tera
- John Janakiraman - CTO, Skytap
- Stuart Charlton - Chief Software Architect, Elastra
- Lars Leckie, Principal, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
- Dr Rich Wolski - Professor, U.C. Santa Barbara
- Javier Soltero - Co-Founder & CEO of Hyperic
- Omer Trajman - Director of Field Engineering, Vertica Systems
- Rachel Chalmers - Senior Analyst, Enterprise Software, The 451 Group
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The first trailer for director Lee Daniels' upcoming film "The Butler" has made its way out via Yahoo! Movies. Featuring many famous faces in Hollywood as notable persons, the video centers on Forest Whitaker who delivers an impressive acting for his portrayal of a butler named Cecil Gaines.
Rising from tough beginnings, Gaines proves that he can change his life as well as his family's through his service at the White House. Giving all his best to serve eight presidents of the United States, Gaines earns trust from them and even changes them in a way that cannot be done by other butlers.
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- 5-day tour of Italy from Rome with hotel accommodation in Florence and Venice
- Explore the UNESCO-listed town of Assisi, birthplace of St Francis of Assisi
- Get to know Tuscany during visits to Siena, Florence and Montepulciano
- Learn about Florence's incredible Renaissance architecture on a walking tour, seeing Brunelleschi's Dome and more
- Discover the charms of Venice with your guide while exploring St Mark's Square
- Four nights of centrally located hotel accommodation included
- Enjoy the St Mark's Basilica with skip the line ticket
Recent Photos of This Tour
- Gondola FriendsPhoto by: Heather T
United Kingdom, 06 2009
- venicePhoto by: Imelda T
10 2015
- VenicePhoto by: Manjunath B
10 2014
- A romantica VenezaPhoto by: Léo
08 2013
- VenicePhoto by: waelelerian
09 2012
- FlorencePhoto by: waelelerian
09 2012
- TuscanyPhoto by: Faizal S A K
10 2011
- VenicePhoto by: Faizal S A K
10 2011
- PaduaPhoto by: Faizal S A K
10 2011
- BolognaPhoto by: Faizal S A K
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- PisaPhoto by: Faizal S A K
10 2011
- FlorencePhoto by: Faizal S A K
10 2011
- SienaPhoto by: Faizal S A K
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- AssisiPhoto by: Faizal S A K
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- Venice, Italy...Photo by: Jigs
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- Pisa (Optional Tour)Photo by: Jigs
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- St. Marc'sPhoto by: Heather T
United Kingdom, 06 2009
- MontepulcianoPhoto by: Heather T
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- FlorencePhoto by: Heather T
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- SiennaPhoto by: Heather T
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What You Can Expect
Two nights of accommodation in Florence and two nights in Venice are included at your choice of accommodation level (select when booking); some meals are included, and you'll have free time to enjoy other meals on your own. Hotels are centrally located to provide easy access to the cities' top attractions and activities. When you're with your guide, enjoy walking tours and learn about these different regions and cities of Italy, from art and history to cuisine and way of life. See the Itinerary for details on each day of the tour.
Please note: Rates do not includes city taxes, which you'll pay directly at the hotels upon arrival or check-out according to local city board procedure. City tax will change according to hotel category. Hotels are subject to availability at time of booking. In the rare event that the mentioned hotel is unavailable, you will be accommodated in another centrally located hotel of the same star rating. During high season, this tour operates in English only.
Leave central Rome by luxury coach and travel north to the region of Umbria to the hilltop town of Assisi. A UNESCO World Heritage-listed town, Assisi is best known as the birthplace of Italy's patron saint, St Francis of Assisi. Stop for a walk around town with your guide, seeing the incredible Basilica di San Francesco, which is dedicated to the saint, as well as Santa Maria degli Angeli Church where he is said to have worshiped.
Hop back on board your coach and travel west into Tuscany to visit the enchanting city of Siena. Surrounded by ancient walls, the city is best-known as the venue for the Palio (its colorfully chaotic horse race). Stroll around at leisure, exploring Piazza del Campo where the race takes place each year, and see other city highlights like Siena Cathedral and Palazzo Comunale—Siena's elegant Gothic palace. Return to your coach and travel to Florence in time for dinner at your hotel.
Overnight: 1st Category (4-star) and 2nd Category (3-star) Grand Hotel Mediterraneo or Hotel Raffaello in Florence
Day 2: Florence (B, D)
After breakfast at your hotel, head out on a morning tour by coach with your guide. Taking in the city's architectural highlights (of which there are many!), your tour visits places like Piazza della Signoria—home to majestic Palazzo Vecchio—and Piazza della Duomo to see Florence Duomo topped by Brunelleschi's Dome. Admire Giotto's Bell Tower and learn about Renaissance art in the city from your guide. Lunch in a typical Tuscan restaurant in Piazza Santa Croce
Finish your tour back at your hotel, and then spend the rest of your day at leisure. Perhaps take a stroll across Florence's magnificent bridge—the Ponte Vecchio—to visit the bohemian Oltrarno neighborhood, or relax in the beautiful Boboli Gardens (entry own expense).
Overnight: 1st Category (4-star) and 2nd Category (3-star) Grand Hotel Mediterraneo or Hotel Raffaello in Florence
Day 3: Florence – Bologna – Padua – Venice (B, D)
Check out of your hotel after breakfast and travel north out of Tuscany to Bologna in Emilia Romagna. Famously the birthplace of everyone's favorite pasta dish—Spaghetti Bolognese—the foodie haven of Bologna has some pretty magnificent monuments, too. Walk around town with your guide, passing through Piazza Nettuno to see the Fountain of Neptune, and admiring lavish palaces like Palazzo Re Enzo and Palazzo del Podestà.
Leave Bologna after lunch (own expense), and relax on the journey northeast to Padua, the neighboring town to Venice. Enjoy time at leisure here to explore the city's handsome streets, enjoy a coffee in the sun (own expense) or visit its most celebrated monument—St Anthony's Basilica. Meet your guide at the pre-arranged time, and travel to Venice. Check in to your hotel and enjoy dinner.
Overnight: 1st Category (4-star) Hotel Carlton (Grand Canal) or 2nd Category (4-star) Hotel Delfino in Venice Mestre
Day 4: Venice (B, D)
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel, and then set out to discover the delights of Venice. On a walking tour admire highlights of the famous water-filled city like Piazza San Marco—home to Doge's Palace and St Mark's Basilica with skip the line ticket—and the elegant Rialto Bridge. Discover where to go to buy the best Murano glass and then finish your tour either in town or back at your hotel.
Explore the city independently in the afternoon, and make the most of the opportunity to lose your bearings in one of the world's most romantic cities; explore the footpaths lining the canals and cross from elegant bridge to even-more-elegant bridge as you get to know this incredible city. Return to your hotel in time for dinner and spend your night at leisure.
Overnight: 1st Category (4-star) Hotel Carlton (Grand Canal) or 2nd Category (4-star) Hotel Delfino in Venice Mestre
Day 5: Venice – Montepulciano – Rome (B)
Leave Venice after breakfast and return south to Tuscany, traveling by luxury coach. Rather than a city stop, your tour's last visit is to the hilltown of Montepulciano in a picturesque area known as Val d'Orcia. As you explore the town independently, soak up the views of the gently rolling Chianti hills that surround you, and admire the gorgeous Renaissance architecture that abounds. The town is best known for its wine production, so make the most of your time here to shop for quality Tuscan wines. After enjoying lunch (own expense), return to your coach and travel south to Rome, where your tour ends.
Customer Reviews
June 2016
Loved the cities and churches on the tour. Hotel accomodations were good. Dinners in Venice were fabulous! The additional tours were worth the extra paid. We'd do it again.
June 2016
You wil really enjoy if you get the right tour guide. Be prepared for lots of walking and long days.
June 2016
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June 2016
This was a wonderful tour, if you want to see a lot of Italy in a short time. You go to so many places on the drive to Florence and Venice, it was great. Our tour guide was awesome she did a great job! Also it is well worth the money to get all the extras you will be so glad you did. Especially in Venice the upgraded room was awesome and the night tour was great. We felt like we were on a movie set. All the places you stop at is amazing! The Gondola ride was so much fun!!! This was one of my most favorite trips ever! Thanks so much to our tour guide and bus driver for getting us everywhere safely. Sherry
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I loved all the stops in the small villages. It was also nice to have the add-on tours as an option. Had a very knowledgeable guide and bus drivers.
May 2016
Good hotels, good food, good guide!!!
April 2016
Great tour for first timers to whet their taste of Italy. The local tour company organised the activities and timings perfectly. Just follow the tour director's advice and everything will be fantastic. A big thanks to Mirjam our Tour Director who made all the difference for our tour. Always helpful and gives great advice and always gives everyone a fun facts!!! TQTQ Mirjam. Also, our coach driver Sabatino a great driver. Always on time and helpful. Much appreciated! Cheers!
April 2016
My family had a great time on the 5-Day Best of Italy tour. Our tour director, Mirjam, went out of her way to ensure that everyone on the tour had a memorable experience. The hotel in Florence and in Venice were nice along with the meals that were included with the tour. Overall, it was a very good tour.
Noni.B Malaysia
March 2016
I travelled with my young daughter and we enjoyed very much our experienced in Italy with the travel agent. Highly recommended. the best way to enjoy new experience in Italy with local tour leader who can share many tips while travelling in many different cities of Italy.
January 2016
The tour operator well organized and very professional , the tour Director Clara is the best in the business, knowledgeable, very professional, personable she is well organized knew how and when to dismayed information so not to overwhelmed the group with unnecessary information, the five days went without a hitch on time with the right amount of stops and sightseeing thanks to the director Clara, The director beside herself as an excellent guide also provided very knowledgeable guides for the few sights, and we couldn't got anywhere with our great , knowledgeable, professional and excellent driver Luigi made us feel very safe driving and very comfortable, also luigi very professional and pleasant, maneuvered the huge bus beautifully around narrow road and on the highway, the director Clara and Luigi I commend them for the job well done sometime they went above and beyond to accommodate everyone, I cannot say enough about the great tour we took for five days tour of Italy I recommend this tour for my family ,friends and who ever read these comments, when you book this tour you must upgrade I guarantee you will get more than your money worth. You have my full permission to use this ae promotional for your business. If you have any question call me or email me .
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