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Italian MotoGP: Mugello and the Tuscan Hills

MotoGP World Championship · Circuito del Mugello · Rome · Florence · Milan
11 Days · 10 Nights
From USD 10,000+ per person
"Mugello — the most beautiful circuit in MotoGP, set in the Tuscan hills, where Ducati's red army and 80,000 Italian fans create the most passionate atmosphere in the World Championship."
The Journey

MotoGP, Tuscany,
Rome, and Milan

The Italian MotoGP at the Circuito del Mugello is, by consistent agreement among riders, team principals, and the media that covers the sport, the most beautiful race of the World Championship season — a 5.245-kilometre circuit cut into the Tuscan Apennine hills north of Florence, where the Arrabbiata and Casanova-Savelli corners and the 1,141-metre main straight (the longest in MotoGP, where the top speed regularly exceeds 360 km/h) are set against a backdrop of cypress-lined ridges, vineyards, and the hill towns of the Mugello valley that provide the most cinematically dramatic racing environment in the sport. The circuit has been owned by Ferrari since 1988, a fact that adds a particular automotive cultural density to a venue already embedded in the most motorsport-saturated nation in the world.

The Gran Premio d'Italia MotoGP takes place annually at Mugello, typically in late May or early June — the height of the Tuscan spring, when the hills are at their most vivid green and the weekend atmosphere in the surrounding countryside combines the passion of Italian motorsport culture with the food, wine, and hospitality that the Mugello valley's agriturismo tradition has been providing since the circuit first opened. The race is Ducati's home grand prix — the Bologna factory is 100 kilometres north — and the presence of Francesco Bagnaia, Enea Bastianini, and the wider Italian rider contingent creates an atmosphere that the 80,000-strong crowd sustains across the full three-day weekend with an intensity that no other event in the calendar matches for sheer emotional heat.

This eleven-day itinerary combines the complete race weekend with Italy's three greatest cities: Rome for the Colosseum, the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel, and the Pantheon; Florence for the Uffizi Gallery, Michelangelo's David, and the medieval architecture of the city that invented the Renaissance; and Milan for the Duomo, the Brera gallery, the Last Supper, and the fashion and design culture that makes it the most commercially serious city in Italy. The itinerary moves from south to north through the country, ending in Milan for the Malpensa connection.

Signature Moments

Six Encounters
with Italy

Mugello — the most beautiful circuit in the World Championship. And then Rome, Florence, Tuscany, and Milan to complete the argument.

01
Mugello — 360 km/h and 80,000 Italians Dressed in Red
The 1,141-metre main straight — the longest in MotoGP, where top speeds regularly exceed 360 km/h in the most sustained sprint in the World Championship. The Arrabbiata and Casanova-Savelli corners cut into the Tuscan hills; the Ferrari-owned facilities; and 80,000 Italian spectators who consider Ducati's home race the most important event of the season regardless of what the standings say.
02
The Sistine Chapel — Michelangelo's Ceiling at Full Scale
500 square metres of Genesis, ancestors, prophets, and sibyls — completed between 1508 and 1512 in a programme whose ambition is most legible at the ceiling's actual scale. The Creation of Adam in the fourth bay: the most reproduced detail in Western art, and the image whose original context — one of nine narrative panels flanked by 343 further figures — is least communicable through reproduction. At full scale, the programme becomes physically apparent.
03
The Uffizi — Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael in One Building
The Birth of Venus and Primavera in Room 10–14; Leonardo's Annunciation and Adoration of the Magi; Raphael's Pope Leo X; and the Caravaggio rooms that demonstrate what happened when the 16th century's accumulated techniques were pointed at darkness. The most concentrated collection of Italian Renaissance painting in the world, in the building commissioned by Cosimo de' Medici in 1560 to house the Medici administrative offices — and then the collection.
04
Chianti Classico — The Sangiovese on Galestro Limestone
A private tasting at a Chianti Classico estate on the galestro and alberese soils between Florence and Siena — the Sangiovese-dominant blends tasted in the cantina where the barrels are stored, in the context of the landscape that the wine expresses. The SS222 through Greve, Panzano, Radda, and Gaiole: the most beautiful wine road in Italy and the most convincing argument that this appellation is a specific place before it is an agricultural commodity.
05
Four Seasons Firenze — 11 Acres of Private Garden
A 15th-century palazzo and convent in central Florence with the largest privately held garden in the city centre — 11 acres of Renaissance garden enclosed within the city walls, where the cypress trees, the loggia, and the original frescoed ceilings produce the most historically grounded luxury hotel experience in Florence. Il Palagio's Michelin star; the proximity to the Duomo, Uffizi, and Accademia; and a building that has been accumulating Florentine history since the Medici era.
06
Bulgari Hotel Milan — The Brera Garden and The Last Supper
The Bulgari Hotel in Milan's Brera district — the 4,000-square-metre garden in the former Capuchin monastery, providing the most improbable green sanctuary in central Milan. The spa; Il Ristorante; and the private garden that makes this the correct final address for the itinerary. Two minutes from the Pinacoteca di Brera; 10 minutes from Santa Maria delle Grazie, where Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper has been in the refectory wall since 1498.
Curated Highlights

What Defines This Journey

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Italian MotoGP — Mugello's 360 km/h Main Straight
Circuito del Mugello: 5.245 kilometres in the Tuscan hills, with the 1,141-metre main straight where MotoGP bikes exceed 360 km/h — the highest top speeds on the calendar — and the Arrabbiata and Casanova-Savelli corners where the circuit's elevation changes produce the most technically demanding braking zones in the World Championship. Full three-day access: practice, qualifying, Sprint Race, and the Grand Prix. Ducati's home race, in front of 80,000 Italian fans.
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Rome — Colosseum, Vatican, and the Pantheon
Rome's three defining monuments: the Colosseum (70,000-capacity amphitheatre completed in 80 CE, where the gladiatorial contests and animal hunts that constituted Roman public entertainment were conducted for 400 years); the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel (Michelangelo's ceiling, completed 1512, with the Creation of Adam and the Last Judgement of 1541); and the Pantheon (the 118-metre concrete dome of 125 CE that remained the largest in the world until Brunelleschi's Florence cathedral dome of 1436).
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Uffizi Gallery — The Florence of the Medici
The Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence — the most important collection of Italian Renaissance painting in the world, assembled by the Medici family between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries in the building that Giorgio Vasari designed in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici. Botticelli's The Birth of Venus and Primavera (both c.1484); Leonardo da Vinci's Annunciation; Raphael's Pope Leo X; and Caravaggio's Medusa: the Florentine collection that established what the Renaissance meant as a cultural programme.
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Tuscany Wine Country — Chianti and Brunello
The Tuscan wine estates of Chianti Classico and Montalcino — where Sangiovese grape cultivation on the limestone and clay hillsides between Florence and Siena has been producing the wines that define Italian viticulture for four centuries. The agriturismo farm stay culture; the wine road (Strada del Vino e dell'Olio) through the Chianti hills; and the Brunello di Montalcino estates where Italy's most age-worthy red wine has been produced in the hill town south of Siena since Biondi-Santi created the appellation in 1888.
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Michelangelo's David — Florence's Defining Sculpture
Michelangelo's David (1504) in the Galleria dell'Accademia — the 5.17-metre marble statue carved from a single block of Carrara marble that Agostino di Duccio had abandoned in 1464, whose representation of the Biblical David at the moment of decision (before rather than after the defeat of Goliath) established the ideological programme of Florentine Republicanism as a visual argument. The most reproduced sculpture in Western art, and the one that communicates least in reproduction.
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Milan — Duomo, Brera, and The Last Supper
Milan's three cultural anchors: the Duomo di Milano (begun 1386, the fifth-largest cathedral in the world, with the Madonnina visible from the Po Valley plain); Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper (1495–98) in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, accessible only by timed ticket in groups of 25; and the Pinacoteca di Brera for Mantegna's Dead Christ and Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus. The Via Monte Napoleone for the luxury retail culture that makes Milan the commercial capital of Italian fashion.
Sample Itinerary

Key Moments & Movements

The Italian MotoGP Grand Prix takes place annually at the Circuito del Mugello in Tuscany, typically in late May or early June. The circuit is 30 kilometres north of Florence in the Mugello valley. The race weekend includes the Sprint Race on Saturday and the Grand Prix on Sunday. The itinerary begins in Rome and moves north through Florence and Tuscany to the race, continuing to Milan for the final days.

Every Richseen journey is individually crafted. Race dates, grandstand allocation, and hotel are confirmed upon ticket issuance for the relevant season.

Days 1–2
Rome — Colosseum · Vatican · Pantheon · Trevi Fountain
Arrive at Rome Fiumicino Airport and transfer to the hotel in the Centro Storico or Trastevere. Day 1: the Colosseum and the Roman Forum — the amphitheatre completed in 80 CE and the administrative centre of the Republic and Empire laid out across the valley between the Palatine and Capitoline hills. The Palatine Hill museums for the imperial palace archaeology. Day 2: the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel — timed entry at opening; Michelangelo's ceiling (1512) and Last Judgement (1541); St Peter's Basilica and Bernini's colonnade. The Pantheon and the Trevi Fountain in the afternoon. Trastevere for the evening.
Rome Hotel (Hotel de Russie or equivalent)
Days 3–4
Florence — Uffizi · David · Duomo · Ponte Vecchio
Freccia Rossa high-speed train from Rome to Florence (1 hour 30 minutes). Day 3: the Uffizi Gallery — Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera; Leonardo's Annunciation; Raphael's Pope Leo X; and the Caravaggio and Titian rooms in the Vasari Corridor building. The Ponte Vecchio and the Arno embankment in the evening. Day 4: the Galleria dell'Accademia for Michelangelo's David; the Duomo di Firenze and Brunelleschi's dome (completed 1436, the largest masonry dome ever constructed); and the Boboli Gardens behind the Palazzo Pitti. The Piazzale Michelangelo at sunset for the panoramic view of Florence.
Florence Hotel
Day 5
Chianti Wine Country · Siena · Move to Mugello
Morning: the Chianti Classico wine road south from Florence — the SS222 through Greve in Chianti, Panzano, Radda, and Gaiole, with a private wine tasting at one of the estates whose sangiovese vineyards on the galestro limestone slopes produce the most characteristically Tuscan wine in the region. Siena for the afternoon: the Piazza del Campo (the most beautiful medieval public square in Italy), the Duomo di Siena with its striped marble inlay, and the Palazzo Pubblico whose Ambrogio Lorenzetti frescoes of Good and Bad Government (1338) remain the most politically ambitious paintings in the medieval tradition. Drive north to the Mugello valley for the race weekend hotel.
Mugello Valley Hotel
Day 6
MotoGP Practice — Circuito del Mugello
Full day at the Circuito del Mugello — MotoGP Free Practice sessions at the circuit where the 1,141-metre main straight produces the highest top speeds in the World Championship, and where the Arrabbiata 1 and 2 corners and the Casanova-Savelli section demand the most precise balance between downforce and top-end speed of any layout on the calendar. The Tuscan hills visible from every grandstand; the Ferrari ownership of the circuit visible in the attention to detail of every facility; and the Italian crowd at its most enthusiastic pre-race warmth.
Circuito del Mugello — Practice
Day 7
MotoGP Qualifying + Sprint Race
Full day at Mugello — Qualifying in the morning, where the pole position lap at the 5.245-kilometre circuit requires the most precise combination of aerodynamic setup, tyre temperature management in the Tuscan morning air, and the commitment to carry maximum speed through the Arrabbiata complex that separates the front row from the second. The Sprint Race in the afternoon: 11 laps of Mugello in front of the Italian crowd that has been attending this race since 1976, whose knowledge of MotoGP is matched only by their enthusiasm for Ducati specifically and Italian machinery generally.
Circuito del Mugello — Qualifying + Sprint
Day 8
Italian MotoGP Grand Prix
Race day at the Circuito del Mugello — the Gran Premio d'Italia MotoGP, 23 laps of the 5.245-kilometre Tuscan circuit. The main straight where 360 km/h arrives at the end of the longest DRS zone in the World Championship; the Arrabbiata corners where the circuit's elevation changes make the braking points the most technically complex of any race; and the 80,000 Italian spectators dressed in red who have been making this race the most emotionally intense event on the calendar since Valentino Rossi was winning it regularly. The race that any Italian rider considers the most important of the season, regardless of what the points standings suggest.
Circuito del Mugello — Grand Prix
Days 9–10
Milan — Duomo · Last Supper · Brera · Fashion District
Drive or train north from Mugello to Milan (3 hours). Day 9: the Duomo di Milano — the fifth-largest cathedral in the world, begun 1386, with 3,400 statues and the Madonnina at the apex of the tallest spire. The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II: the 1877 glass-roofed shopping arcade. La Scala for the evening: whatever is playing, in the opera house where Verdi and Puccini had their premieres. Day 10: The Last Supper — timed ticket at Santa Maria delle Grazie. The Pinacoteca di Brera for Mantegna's Dead Christ and Raphael's Marriage of the Virgin. The Via Monte Napoleone and Via della Spiga for the luxury retail culture that makes Milan the most commercially serious address in Italian fashion.
Milan Hotel (Bulgari or equivalent)
Day 11
Departure — Milan
Final morning in Milan — the Navigli canal district for the morning market and the aperitivo culture that begins earlier here than the rest of Italy pretends; or the Fondazione Prada for Rem Koolhaas's 2015 conversion of a 1910 gin distillery into the most architecturally considered contemporary art foundation in the city. Private transfer to Milan Malpensa Airport for onward journey.
Milan Malpensa Airport
Luxury Stays

Where You Rest Matters

Centro Storico, Rome, Italy
Rome — 2 Nights
Hotel de Russie (or equivalent)
Via del Babuino, Rome, Italy
The Hotel de Russie on the Via del Babuino — the most considered luxury hotel between the Piazza del Popolo and the Spanish Steps, with the terraced garden providing the most peaceful outdoor space available in Rome's historic centre. The most culturally appropriate address for Rome's ancient circuit, adjacent to the Borghese Gallery and within walking distance of both the Pantheon and the Vatican museums.
Oltrarno, Florence, Italy
Florence — 2 Nights
Four Seasons Hotel Firenze
Borgo Pinti, Florence, Italy
Four Seasons Hotel Firenze — a 15th-century palazzo and convent in the heart of Florence, with an 11-acre private garden that is the largest privately held green space in the city centre. The Michelin-starred Il Palagio restaurant; the original frescoed ceilings and loggia; and the most architecturally significant hotel setting in Florence, within walking distance of the Duomo, the Uffizi, and the Accademia. The cultural weight of a building that has been accumulating Florentine history since Cosimo de' Medici's era.
Mugello Valley, Tuscany, Italy
Mugello — 3 Nights + Milan 2 Nights
Mugello Agriturismo / Bulgari Hotel Milan
Mugello Valley, Tuscany · Brera, Milan
The Mugello race weekend accommodation: an agriturismo estate in the valley, where the Tuscan farmhouse setting provides the cultural context that the circuit's hillside location demands. The Bulgari Hotel Milan for the final two nights: the most considered hotel in the Brera neighbourhood, with the private garden, the spa, and the proximity to the Last Supper and the Via Monte Napoleone that makes it the natural conclusion to a journey through Italian culture.
Exclusive Experiences

Moments Designed for You

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MotoGP
Mugello Main Straight — 360 km/h in Tuscany
The Mugello main straight at full speed — the 1,141-metre section where MotoGP prototypes exceed 360 km/h in the most sustained straight-line sprint in the World Championship, with the Tuscan hills behind the circuit and the Ferrari-owned facilities flanking the approach to the Nammatali chicane. From the grandstand at the end of the straight: the bikes arrive faster than at any other point on the circuit, brake harder than at any other corner on the calendar, and the sound they produce at 360 km/h is the most visceral demonstration of what current MotoGP machinery is capable of.
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Art
Sistine Chapel Ceiling — Michelangelo's Four Years
The Sistine Chapel ceiling — completed by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, covering 500 square metres with scenes from Genesis, the ancestral figures of Christ, and the prophets and sibyls who bracket the central narrative. The Creation of Adam in the fourth bay from the altar: the most reproduced detail in Western art, and the image whose original context — as one of nine narrative panels flanked by 343 further figures — is least communicable through reproduction. At the ceiling's full scale, the ambition of the programme becomes physically apparent in a way that no photograph or reproduction has ever managed.
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Terroir
Chianti Classico Estate — Wine in the Tuscan Hills
A private wine tasting at a Chianti Classico estate between Florence and Siena — the galestro limestone and alberese clay soils that produce the Sangiovese-dominant blends of the appellation, tasted in the cantina where the barrels are stored and in the context of the landscape that the wine expresses. The estate visit provides the most direct connection between the glass and the hillside that produced it, and the most convincing argument that the Chianti Classico region is not primarily an agricultural commodity but a specific place with a specific character that the wine communicates with varying degrees of success depending on the producer.
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Ancient
Pantheon — The Dome That Held the Record for 1,300 Years
The Pantheon in Rome's Piazza della Rotonda — the 125 CE concrete dome of 43.3 metres that remained the largest in the world until Brunelleschi's Florence cathedral dome (42.5 metres) was completed in 1436, and which was achieved using unreinforced Roman concrete in a structural calculation whose elegance has been producing scholarly admiration since the engineering was first properly analysed in the twentieth century. The oculus at the apex: 8.7 metres in diameter, open to the sky, providing the only light source in the building and producing a shaft of light that moves across the interior as the earth rotates.
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