The Malta Independent 15 June 2025, Sunday
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Unique Da Vinci Experiences

Malta Independent Saturday, 5 August 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago

Some of the best European landmark Westin hotels in Milan, Florence, Rome and Paris present exciting and exclusive opportunities for Leonardo Da Vinci enthusiasts with new travel packages.

The Westin Palace hotel in Milan offers a three-hour city tour including a visit to The Last Supper - featured in the blockbuster film The Da Vinci Code. Travellers can choose to live their own private and personal Da Vinci experience which allows for a personal, guided art expert to accompany private viewings of the fresco.

The Da Vinci Milanese experience can be enriched by a private visit to the original Atlantic Codex containing famous drawings by the genius. Sections of the 12-volume manuscript are preserved in the Room of Treasures at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, a gallery that is opened a few times a year for no more than four people at a time.

The Westin Excelsior hotel in Florence invites visitors to discover Leoanardo’s roots. Enjoy a private-car tour through the Tuscan countryside, discover the medieval town of Vinci and visit the home where the genius was born as well as the Leonardo Museum located in the 12th century Medieval Castello Guidi. A Florentine Da Vinci experience can be further enriched by visiting the exhibition The mind of Leonardo – The universal genius at work at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. This is the only collection of its kind featuring Leonardo’s art, anatomy, technology, water and flight drawings, paintings, studies, inventions and prototypes, including a model of the astonishing flying machine.

Complete an Italian cultural trip by staying at The Westin Excelsior hotel in Rome, the Eternal City, where you can visit the Coliseum, the Roman Ruins, the Pantheon and the historical city center, St Peter’s and the Vatican.

A few steps from the Place Vendôme, right in front of the Tuileries Gardens and the Louvre Museum, The Westin Paris invites you to visit Paris and live a Da Vinci code experience in the footsteps of the characters in Dan Brown’s famous novel. Come and find out the truth of what’s hidden in the famous works of Leonardo Da Vinci, the Mona Lisa and the Virgin on the Rocks, while visiting the Louvre Museum. Your Parisian discovery will be further enriched by a visit to the Saint Sulpice Church and other historical landmarks of the City of Lights.

These hotel experiences will spoil your senses with unique, personal and custom-made Leonardo Da Vinci packages featuring priceless Italian and French art and treasures, not accessible to most!

Bookings and reservations:

Offers are valid till 31 December and are subject to availability.

The Westin Palace Milan:

For the city tour, package rates from €45,000 per room per night for a minimum of 2 nights’ stay in deluxe accommodation, Mediterranean including buffet breakfast.

Private visit to Last Supper and Atlantic Codex is an exclusive offer, by request only and subject to a supplemental charge. For further information and reservations please contact the hotel directly.

Tel.: +390 263 362 200

Email: [email protected]

The Westin Excelsior Florence:

For the Florentine tour, including entrance to the Uffizi Galley, rates from €34,500 per room per night for a minimum of 2 nights’ stay in deluxe accommodation, including buffet breakfast.

The excursion to the city of Vinci is on request and subject to a charge. For further information and reservations please refer to the hotel directly.

Tel.:+390 552 716 3757

Email: [email protected]

The Westin Excelsior Rome:

Rates from €32,500 per room per night in deluxe accommodation; taxes and breakfast are not included.

tel. +390 647 087 911 email: [email protected]

The Westin Paris

For a Da Vinci Code Package, including entrance to the Louvre Museum, rates from €379 per room, per night, for a one-night stay in a double guestroom, offering a magnificent view of the Tuileries Gardens, the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower; buffet breakfast is included.

Tel. +33(0) 144 771 111 Email : reservation.01729@westin.

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