A TRIP TO REMEMBER! Mario made our trip to Italy and France seamless and stress free.

Our family of 4, parents and two teenagers, traveled to Europe November... read more 2021. The trip was originally scheduled for 2020. Due to the pandemic, we were not allowed to travel on our original dates. Mario was so easy to work with in adjusting our trip accordantly.

Mario planned an 11 day dream trip for us, beginning in Rome, traveling to Orvieto, Florence, Cinque Terre, Chianti, Sienna, Venice, Italy, and more. He handled all of our transportation, which was FIRST CLASS! This took a lot of stress away due to our family not speaking Italian and being from another country.

If I get to travel to Europe again, I would not hesitate to reach out to The Grand Tour of Europe to help make the most of my trip! Highly recommend!!!!

  As an American who has had a home in Florence (Firenze) Italia the last twenty years, I know Italy quite well and I have used many, many guides and their... read more services.

I can tell you that my ONLY GO-TO GUIDE is Mario from The Grand Tour Europe . . . . He is extremely intelligent, witty, conversant and a true Lover of Life. His enthusiasm for his subjects is a marvel—each of his tours carries a passion that makes you wonder if it is Mario’s first time in doing so because his energy and excitement are contagious.

I hope that you will not fail to use Mario and his unique and incredible guided tours. To fail to know Mario is to fail to know, and love, Italia!

  Our friends put us in touch with Mario about 4 months before our trip and we were in regular contact with him about our plans. He was highly responsive... read more and professional in our interactions.

In Italy we spent half a day with Mario at Pompeii and another half day in Rome and they were both wonderful. He is highly knowledgeable and able to communicate his knowledge in an informative entertaining way. He was flexible in making and changing plans and responding to our requests. It was great!

Mario also arranged for our travel to and from the Amalfi Coast (beginning after we toured Pompeii). The drivers he provided were of the highest caliber, friendly and also highly experienced driving the sometimes very challenging mountain roads.

Thanks for helping to make our trip such a success!!

  I recently discovered Mario Bernardi's virtual tours of Italy's favorite destinations and magnificent art works. His vast knowledge of Italian history and art, together with his mastery of Google Earth,... read more Google Maps, Google Street View, 360 degree pictures and video resources bring his virtual tours to life. I strongly recommend his virtual tours to anybody who loves Italy and Italian art, or to anybody who is planning a trip to this wonderful country. I'm looking forward to traveling again and to joining one of his live tours.

  My wife and I toured the most famous sites of Venice, plus a few behind-the-scenes spots, for a full day with Cristina. She was amazing! Cristina conveyed the rich history... read more of Venice, back to the days of its inception with barbarians forcing the local Romans into hiding in the archipelago of islands which is now the Venice we know. We navigated in and out of St. Marks and the Doge's Palace, through the crowds, never having to wait for admission. In St. Mark's she took us up to the altar, and the sarcophagus of St. Mark, and showed us the great gilded Byzantine altarpiece turned currently away from the sanctuary. Behind the busy square, we popped into the small workshop of one of the few remaining Remeri, the carpenters who specialize in creating the forcola and oars for the gondolas (like stepping back in time). In a city which could appear like little more than an anachronism and tourist trap, this tour highlighted an Italian city with a very special and rich history, and ongoing artists, musicians, and craftsmen who keep alive the creativity we cherish in the Italian culture. Kudos to Cristina, and the Grand Tour Team!

  Mario has lead us around the famous chapel and I'd like to thank him, because I visited a lot of times that site but, with Mario's knowledge of italian art... read more and gather to 3D images and the flight of 360° around the vault, I have never seen in this way. He has gave us the possibility to climb the whole Chapel and the care of "PARTICULARE" like the Francesco GUICCIARDINI, Mario has shown us the essence of one of the most important masterpiece of the universal art. Thank you and I'am looking for the next virtual visit... Bravo!