Love cats and love Italy? This tour is for you!
The American group “Friends of Roman Cats” , which aims to help homeless cats in the USA and Italy and educate people about their plight and care, hopes to organise a “Cats and Culture” tour in 2010. This will be the third such tour organised by the group.
The tour, for a group of up to 26 people, will last 14 days and begins at Lake Maggiore. The group will then travel to Cremona to see both the city and a cat sanctuary housed in a convent. Then it is on to Padua . Venice is the next stop, with visits to its famous sights before a stop at a cat sanctuary at the Lido and a look at a cat colony maintained at a large hospital. Here the cats make a positive contribution to hospital life by seeking out rodents.
Then it is on to Florence, where the group will spend several days touring its breathtaking sights. A visit to a cat colony in the graveyard of the San Miniato Church is planned, along with another to the cats of the Boboli gardens.
After a night in Arezzo the group will travel to Rome, where our intrepid cat lovers will tour the city before visiting the cat colonies of Torre Argentina, the Protestant Cemetery and the Colisseum.
A tour price has not yet been set.
Friends of Roman Cats hopes that the Americans on the tour will return to their country with a new perspective on the treatment of stray cats: In Italy healthy stray cats and dogs are not put down but are accepted as part of the landscape and fed by local people. The dogs of Pompeii are an example of this. Friends of Roman Cats promotes a trap-neuter-return policy for the care of strays. The group also helps sick or injured cats in the USA and Italy.
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