City trilogy

Taking advantage of several airport links from the UK and Italy’s slick rail services, you can easily complete a trilogy of Rome, Florence and Venice on a single trip. Spend three nights in each, soaking up a pageant of icons – from the Spanish Steps and the Colosseum in Rome, the Uffizi and Michelangelo’s David in Florence, and the Grand Canal and St Mark’s Square in Venice. Classic Collection (classiccollection.co.uk) can put this trilogy together from £2,297 for nine nights, including b&b, flights, first-class rail and private transfers to hotels, plus several other twin or multi-centre holidays.