Start your trip in Bologna, a laid-back city packed with great food, lively squares, and plenty of pre-match buzz. Learn everything you can about pasta and pizza making, explore an underrated gem of Italy, and enjoy a few drinks as the excitement builds for the main event.

Then it’s on to Rome, home of some of the most famous sights in the world. Pull on the red and head to the Stadio Olimpico to roar Wales on against the Azzurri.

Assemble at Heathrow Airport for your flight to Bologna.

10:30 - Check in at Heathrow Terminal 5

12:30 - Board your flight to Bologna Airport (BLQ)

15:50 - Arrive in Bologna

Once you have landed and collected your luggage, board your coach transfer to your accommodation.

Check-in for the next 2 nights at your hotel located close to the train station.

Remainder of the evening at leisure

Fusing haughty elegance with down-to-earth grit in one beautifully colonnaded medieval grid, Bologna is a city of two intriguing halves.

One side is a hard-working, high-tech city located in the super-rich Po valley where suave opera-goers waltz out of regal theatres and into some of the nation's finest restaurants. The other is a bolshie, politically edgy city that hosts the world's oldest university and is famous for its graffiti-embellished piazzas filled with mildly inebriated students swapping Gothic fashion tips.

Think Bologna, think Bolognese...and it's here that we're appealing to your culinary senses with pasta making classes at the world-famous Fico Eataly World.

Breakfast at your accommodation.

Spend the morning sightseeing around the city of Bologna.

This evening, partake in a local, authentic pizza and pasta-making class at Fico Eataly World.

FICO, the world's largest agri-food park, opened in 2017 in a formerly dilapidated wholesale farmers' market 7km northeast of Piazza Maggiore.

The 100,000-sq-metre culinary theme park, is a gastronomic juggernaut. It features 45 restaurants, including ventures from Michelin-starred chefs like Enrico Bartolini; and Trattoria da Amerigo, a detour-worthy restaurant in Emilia-Romagna's truffle territory.

It also includes endless speciality shops and kiosks slinging Italy's greatest culinary accomplishments and drool-worthy wine and beer sections.

Some of the additional distractions are interesting: workshops and demos along with factories covering pasta making, parmigiano reggiano, gelato, mortadella – the list goes on and on.

To get here, catch the TPER FICObus (one-way/return €5/7).

Breakfast at your accommodation

For the group that has spent the last 2 nights in Bologna, walk the short distance to the train station for journey to Rome.

Transfer time - 2 hours 15 minutes

Upon arrival in Rome, make your way via Metro to your accommodation and check in for the next 3 nights. Hotel NH Roma Centro (4*)

The rest of the evening is at your leisure.

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The Rome-Only customers will arrive at a London Airport for their flight to Rome Airport (FCO)

TBC - Board your flight to Rome Airport (FCO)

Once you have landed and collected your luggage, board your coach transfer to your accommodation.

Once you have arrived, check-in for the next 3 nights.

Rest of the evening at your leisure

Breakfast at your accommodation

This morning, enjoy an EXCLUSIVE l'aperetif event hosted by MSG Tours to prepare you for the fixture this afternoon.

After your event, make your way to Stadio Olympico for the main event, ITALY v WALES.

Kick off - 14:10h

After the match, hopefully, celebrate a Wales victory in style in Rome.

Breakfast at your accommodation

Today you have a free day to explore the wonderful city of Rome in your own time.

Breakfast at your accommodation

Final free morning and early afternoon in Rome.

14:30 -Check out of your accommodation and board your coach transfer to Rome Airport (FCO).

17:50 - Board your flight to London Heathrow

19:35 - Land at Heathrow Terminal 5

Once you have landed and collected your luggage, make your own way home.

End of tour.