Zack's European Adventure - 2026

Amsterdam is the Netherlands' capital, known for its artistic heritage, elaborate canal system and narrowhouses with gabled facades, legacies of the city's 17th-century Golden Age. Its Museum District housesthe Van Gogh Museum, works by Rembrandt and Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum, and modern art at theStedelijk. Cycling is key to the city's character, and there are numerous bike paths.

Florence, capital of Italy's Tuscany region, is home to many masterpieces of Renaissanceart and architecture. One of its most iconicsights is the Duomo, a cathedral with aterracotta-tiled dome engineered by Brunelleschi and a bell tower by Giotto. The Galleria dell'Accademia displays Michelangelo's "David" sculpture. The Uffizi Gallery exhibits Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" and da Vinci's "Annunciation."

Pompeii is a vast archaeological site in southern Italy's Campania region, near the coast of the Bay of Naples. Once a thrivingand sophisticated Roman city, Pompeii was buried under meters of ash and pumice after the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuviusin 79 A.D. The preserved site features excavated ruins of streets and houses that visitors.

Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC, Rome was first the centre of the Roman Republic, then of the Roman Empire, and it became the capital of the Christian world in the 4th century. The World Heritage site, extended in 1990 to the walls of Urban VIII, includes some of the major monuments of antiquity such as the Forums, the Mausoleum of Augustus, the Mausoleum of Hadrian, the Pantheon, Trajan's Column and the Column of Marcus Aurelius, as well as the religious and public of papal Rome.