What we’re about
🌍 Travel to Italy without leaving home!
With Next Stop Italy, you can experience authentic, high-quality virtual tours led by licensed local guides who love sharing their heritage.
From your living room, you’ll journey through Italy’s breathtaking art, history, and traditions. Wander Florence under the stars, drift through Venice’s canals, soak up the views of the Amalfi Coast and Capri, step inside treasures like the Uffizi and the Vatican Museums, uncover charming corners of Tuscany and Umbria, and relive the past in Pompeii and imperial Rome.
✨ We offer two kinds of online adventures:
- Slide-based tours featuring vivid visuals and fascinating stories
- Live walking tours that immerse you in Italy’s streets, piazzas, and daily life
đź’ˇ Our tours are tip-based: your contributions make it possible to keep these experiences alive and to support the amazing work of our guides.
HOW TO JOIN:
- Pick the Italy Virtual Tour you’d like to attend.
- Register with your full name (first and last).
- Receive your personal Zoom link.
- Enjoy the tour in English and join the Q&A session at the end—just like being there in person!
Upcoming events
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•OnlineThe Archaeological Wonders of Pompeii Virtual Tour
OnlineREGISTRATION REQUIRED! Click here to register
Step into the streets of Pompeii, the Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD and miraculously preserved for centuries.
Join us for a captivating virtual tour with slides, exploring temples, villas, shops, and theaters that reveal what daily life was like in one of the most fascinating cities of the ancient world.
We’ll stroll through the Forum, once the political and commercial heart of Pompeii, visit the baths where citizens gathered to relax, and admire the elegant mosaics and frescoes of noble Roman houses. You’ll also see the amphitheater, one of the oldest ever built, and the poignant plaster casts that remind us of the city’s tragic end.
With every image, you’ll travel deeper into history — guided by expert storytelling that brings Pompeii’s streets and people vividly back to life.
Don’t miss this extraordinary journey through time and discover the wonders of Pompeii from your home!
HOW TO JOIN:
The tour will be hosted on Zoom. To register, you are required to enter your full name (first and last name).After the registration, you will receive via email a personal link to access the virtual event. To protect your privacy, your camera will be disabled during the event.
The tour will last approximately 1 hour. At the end of the tour you will be given the chance to interact and make questions just like a live tour. The tour takes place in English!
PRICE: How much does the virtual tour cost?
Our virtual tours are tip-based and not free, they rely entirely on contributions from participants. This means we do not impose a fixed ticket price to join. Every participant is welcome to take part in the tour and decide how much to contribute based on their satisfaction and personal budget. You can leave a tip here: https://nextstop-italy.com/donation/
âť—Please noteâť—: To ensure the sustainability of the project, we regularly monitor the donations received, based on participation in previous tours, and, if necessary, we may apply participation limits or suspend accounts.This is essential to maintain the quality of our tours, ensure fairness, and continue rewarding the valuable work of our guides.
Can’t watch our virtual tour live due to the time zone or are you unable to join us live? Register at the virtual tour and we will send you the recording hence you can watch it in your own time! Recordings are also tip-based, as they support our cultural project and the work of our guides.
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•OnlineA Renaissance Man: Lorenzo Ghiberti and the Gate of Paradise – Florence
OnlineREGISTRATION REQUIRED! Click here to register
Step into the heart of Renaissance Florence and discover the genius of Lorenzo Ghiberti, the visionary artist who gave life to the world-famous Gates of Paradise.
Join us for a captivating virtual tour that brings to life the story of a man who transformed bronze into beauty and forever changed the course of art and architecture. Together, we’ll explore the Baptistery of San Giovanni, where Ghiberti’s golden doors shimmer with scenes from the Old Testament — each panel a masterpiece of perspective, emotion, and technical mastery.
It was Michelangelo himself who, upon seeing these magnificent doors, declared them “worthy to be the Gates of Paradise.” From that moment, the name became eternal — a tribute from one Renaissance genius to another.
Through detailed images and storytelling, we’ll follow Ghiberti’s journey, his workshop filled with apprentices destined to become masters, and the artistic atmosphere of Florence in the 15th century, where innovation and faith walked hand in hand.
Join us live on Zoom and uncover the extraordinary story of Lorenzo Ghiberti!
HOW TO JOIN:
The tour will be hosted on Zoom. To register, you are required to enter your full name (first and last name).After the registration, you will receive via email a personal link to access the virtual event. To protect your privacy, your camera will be disabled during the event.
The tour will last approximately 1 hour. At the end of the tour you will be given the chance to interact and make questions just like a live tour. The tour takes place in English!
PRICE: How much does the virtual tour cost?
Our virtual tours are tip-based and not free, they rely entirely on contributions from participants. This means we do not impose a fixed ticket price to join. Every participant is welcome to take part in the tour and decide how much to contribute based on their satisfaction and personal budget. You can leave a tip here: https://nextstop-italy.com/donation/
âť—Please noteâť—: To ensure the sustainability of the project, we regularly monitor the donations received, based on participation in previous tours, and, if necessary, we may apply participation limits or suspend accounts.This is essential to maintain the quality of our tours, ensure fairness, and continue rewarding the valuable work of our guides.
Can’t watch our virtual tour live due to the time zone or are you unable to join us live? Register at the virtual tour and we will send you the recording hence you can watch it in your own time! Recordings are also tip-based, as they support our cultural project and the work of our guides.
Check out all our Italy Virtual Tours2 attendees
Past events
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