What to do in Florence

First up, it has to be the iconic Uffizi. Visit with an historian who will decode the wonder behind every Botticelli and Caravaggio, and then head to the Accademia for Michelangelo's David, preferably after-hours when you’ll have the marble (almost) all to yourself. Up on the terraces of the Duomo, eye-to-eye with Brunelleschi's dome, you’ll have the best view in the city – and then back on the ground, wind through medieval lanes in search of the bucchette del vino, the wine windows that Florentines have been pouring through (literally) for four centuries. Otherwise, shop the Mercato Centrale with a chef and turn it into lunch, or book a vertical Brunello tasting at Palazzo Capponi. For the arty, book a hands-on, fresco workshop with an Accademia di Belle Arti professor, and for the active, cycle into the surrounding hills for vineyard views and a taste of rural life.