Have a look at the Chapman University Choir's 2008 Incantato Italy Tour

For pictures and videos of the 2008 Chapman University Choir Italy Tour with Incantato that followed a similar itinerary to La Canada, have a look at our main blog. Here is also a video from the final highlight concert in Rome.

Travel Insurance

Incantato Tours strongly recommends getting travel insurance for your upcoming journey.
Not only are you covered medically should anything happen when traveling, but with TravelGuard's policies, you also protect your investment should you have to cancel or interrupt the trip. Last but not least, there is also coverage for delayed and lost luggage, etc.
Here is a direct line to purchase travel insurance online, and you can do so with your credit cards and also select the option that is best for you.



In the meantime, have a look at the most comprehensive coverage option The Protect Assist Gold below.

Protect Assist (Gold) -

Comprehensive Travel Protection for the World Traveler

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Comprehensive non-insurance travel services* automatically included with plan!
With the ProtectAssist plan, every customer also has access to these valuable travel services when they travel:
· Arrangements for last-minute flight changes
· Hotel finder and reservations
· Rental car reservations
· Emergency medical assistance
· BagTrak® -- lost baggage tracking
· Pre-trip health and safety advisories
· Live e-mail and phone messaging to family and friends
· Cash transfers
· Airport transportation
· Golf course reservations
· Event ticketing
· Floral services
· Identity Theft restoration

Business Assistant* (available when Optional Cancel for Work Reasons coverage is purchased)

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Eligibility
Citizenship: All Nationalities
Residency: United States
New York, Oregon, and Washington residence please call to purchase
Some rider options are not available and other restrictions may apply
Destination: Worldwide
Ages: All Ages
Max Trip Length: 365 Days

Flight Schedule for La Canada HS

Those of you who chose the air-land package will be flying the friendly skies on the long-hauls with either Lufthansa German Airlines or Swiss Air, two of the world’s premier airlines, on the 2011 La Canada High School Performance Tour to Italy. For more information on your on-board experience, please visit the Swiss Air and Lufthansa websites. The Incantato Tours team wishes you a safe and relaxing flight.

GROUP 1

Departure for Europe:

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

LUFTHANSA flight LH457, leave LOS ANGELES LAX at 2:50PM

Arrive in FRANKFURT FRA at 10:35AM on Thursday, March 31, 2011

LUFTHANSA flight LH326, leave FRANKFURT FRA at 12:20PM

Arrive in VENICE VCE at 1:35PM

Return to USA:

Thursday, April 7, 2011

LUFTHANSA flight LH843, leave ROME FCO at 12:15PM

Arrive in MUNICH MUC at 1:50PM

LUFTHANSA flight LH452, leave MUNICH MUC at 3:45PM

Arrive in LOS ANGELES LAX at 7:05PM

GROUP 2

Departure to Europe:

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

SWISS AIR flight LX41, leave LOS ANGELES LAX at 7:25PM

Arrive in ZURICH ZRH at 3:45PM on Thursday, March 31, 2011

SWISS AIR flight LX1664, leave ZURICH ZRH at 5:40PM

Arrive in VENICE VCE at 6:50PM

Return to USA:

Thursday, April 7, 2011

SWISS AIR flight LX1727, leave ROME FCO at 9:35AM

Arrive in ZURICH ZRH at 11:20AM

SWISS AIR flight LX40, leave ZURICH ZRH at 1:10PM
Arrive in LOS ANGELES LAX at 4:40PM

Welcome to Italy!

Italy is located partly on the European Continent and partly on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within the Italian Peninsula, and Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers 301,338 km² and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.2 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country in Europe, and the twenty-third most populous in the world.

The land known as Italy today has been the cradle of European cultures and peoples, such as the Etruscans and the Romans. Italy's capital, Rome, was for centuries the political center of Western civilization, as the capital of the Roman Empire. After its decline, Italy would endure numerous invasions by foreign peoples, from Germanic tribes such as the Lombards and Ostrogoths, to the Normans and later, the Byzantines, among others. Centuries later, Italy would become the birthplace of the Renaissance, an immensely fruitful intellectual movement that would prove to be integral in shaping the subsequent course of European thought.

Through much of its post-Roman history, Italy was fragmented into numerous kingdoms and city-states (such as the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Duchy of Milan), but was unified in 1861, a tumultuous period in history known as the "Risorgimento". In the late 19th century, through World War I, and to World War II, Italy possessed a colonial empire, which extended its rule to Libya, Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, Ethiopia, Albania, Rhodes, the Dodecanese and a concession in Tianjin, China.

Modern Italy is a democratic republic and the world's eighteenth most developed country, with the eighth or tenth highest quality of life index rating in the world. It is a founding member of what is now the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Italy is also a member of the G8 and G20. It is a member state of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Trade Organization, the Council of Europe, and the Western European Union as well. The country's European political, social and economic influence make it a major regional power, alongside the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Russia, and Italy has been classified in a study, measuring hard power, as being the eleventh greatest worldwide national power. The country has a high public education level, high labor force, is a globalized nation, and also has 2009's sixth best international reputation. Italy also has the world's nineteenth highest life expectancy, and the world's second best health care system. It is the world's fifth most visited country, with over 43.7 million international arrivals, and boasts a long tradition and several achievements in the arts, science and technology, including the world's highest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites to date.

Your performance tour travel route through Italy

La Canada Choirs to atted Papal Audience on Wednesday, April 6, 2011

The La Canada High School Choirs are confirmed to participate in and briefly perform at the Papal Audience at the Vatican at 10:30AM on the morning of April 6, 2011.

Papal Audiences are held on Wednesdays if the Pope is in Rome, giving pilgrims and visitors the chance to "see the Pope" and receive the Papal Blessing or Apostolic Blessing from the successor of the Apostle Peter during their visit.
The Audience with the Pope consists of small teachings and readings mainly in Italian but also in English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese and sometimes other languages depending on groups visiting.
The Pope will offer a greeting in each language and specially mention any visiting group such as choirs from various countries.
At the completion of the Audience, the Pope will join with the attendees in praying the Lord’s Prayer in Latin.
At the end of the Prayer, as Head of the Catholic Church, he will impart his Apostolic Blessing upon the crowd, which extends to loved ones who are sick and suffering, and also blesses any religious articles such as rosary beads that people have brought with them for the purpose of the blessing.