Great Tours of Tuscany
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GREAT TOURS OF TUSCANY
Our company arranges Great tours of Tuscany, we offer a wide range of proposals, we can customize everything at our clients’ requests.
DAY TRIP FROM ROME TO CHIANTI AND SIENNA
If you love red wine you cannot miss a visit to the stunning Chianti!
Our experienced English speaking driver will meet you at your hotel to drive you to the amazing Chianti area, the landscape is characterized by vineyards and olive groves and fortresses, parish churches and castles dominating the splendid surroundings.
Our tours includes the visit to the Castle of Brolio to enjoy the best view of Sienna and have the first taste of chianti, then you will have a detailed win tasting in an amazing winery.
After a typical lunch our driver will bring you to Sienna where our native tour guide will show you to gems of the incredible medieval little town.
This Tuscan town has it all: one of the most spectacular cathedrals in Italy, winding medieval streets, some of world’s finest Renaissance art, the famous Palio races, and even the childhood home of one of Italy’s two patron saints, St. Catherine.
You will go back to Rome full of emotions and memories and, why not, with 1 or 2 bottles of good Chianti!
DAY TRIP FROM ROME TO SIENNA AND FLORENCE
Medieval and renaissance, what else to ask?
At a short distance from Rome you have the opportunity to visit the long time swore enemies Sienna and Florence.
Sienna and Florence have been fierce rivals since the Middle Ages, still today, the Sienese are fiercely proud of their past. Just take the Palio, a bareback horse race that enflames the city into chaos twice yearly: Siena’s 17contrade, or quarters, compete with one another for the trophy. From the medieval banners that deck out the city during the races to the festive parades, the Palio feels like something straight out of the Middle Ages.
In the afternoon the driver will bring you to Florence, there you will meet your tour guide who will walk you to discover all the major attraction in the town centre. The Sightseeing tour of Florence is a 3 hours private walking tour it includes: Santa Croce, piazza della Signoria, Ponte Vecchio, Duomo (inside), Battistero and much much more.
HALF DAY OR FULL DAY WALKING TOUR OF FLORENCE
Our highly competent and professional tour guides will allow you to discover Florence’s best known treasures such as the Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio, the squares, the monuments, the Old Bridge. Explore the town centre from an extraordinary perspective. An excellent and complete introductory tour dedicated to those who want to know all the facts and secrets of two thousand years of Florentine history.
The tour can be expanded including the Uffizi or the Accademia.
The Uffizi Gallery is one of the most important art collections in the world. Discover how the art of painting developed over the centuries. Your knowledgeable guide will explain the works of the greatest artists from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance: Giotto, Botticelli with his famous Venus, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and many more.
The Accademia hosts the magnificent giant marble sculptures created by Michelangelo, and above all, the glorious David. If you explore the museum with a bit more time, the Accademia will offer you much more in the less crowded halls, satisfying any curiosity for botany, music, art symbols and painting techniques.
3 HOURS PRIVATE WALKING TOUR OF SIENNA
If you are fascinate with the Medieval, Sienna is the place to go!
Your native, fun and knowledgeable English-speaking guide will explain the history of Sienna and point out all the main attractions.
Our private walk of Sienna includes the stunning 13th-century Piazza del Campo where the famous Palio horse race is still held twice each summer, the main cathedral, the Duomo, one of the most impressive examples of Italian gothic architecture, built between 1180 and 1370.
While walking try to listen carefully by chance you may listen to the sound of beautiful music coming from within the walls of the palace Chigi-Seracini, an international eminent music and musicology center. It was here that Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741) was rediscovered in the 1930s, and his works were performed publicly for the first time since his death. Last but not least a stop at the headquarters of the world’s oldest existing bank: the Monte dei Paschi di Siena, founded in 1471.
WINE TASTING (FULL DAY TOUR BY CAR)
Let’s indulge, its holiday after all!
Visit to 2 wineries both in the Chianti Classico region with guided visits of winery cellars and tasting their exceptional Chianti wines, from the classic to the riserva. Our tour includes also a delicious light meal in an amazing typical osteria in a stunning little borgo.
Our English speaking driver will meet you at your accommodation after a 40-minute drive we’ll reach to the heart of Chianti to visit our first winery. In a private tour of the wine cellar, you will have the chance to savour wine and olive oil produced locally. Then, the tour proceeds to some off-the-beaten-track, picturesque Chianti villages, with plenty of time to buy local products in typical small shops. As noon gets closer, we will be glad to take you to an amazing place for lunch, where you could eat delicious Tuscan food surrounded by the breath-taking scenery of Tuscan hills. In the afternoon, the tour will reach to the second wine estate, where you will start getting more familiar with the flavours and characteristics of Chianti wines. With a panoramic, relaxed drive we will escort you back to your accommodation.
Skip the line tour.
Native Tuscan authorized tour guide.
No hidden extras.
Our tour include the underground level and the third tier.
Please notice that, even with the printed tickets, you do have to stand in the line for the Colosseum, since there is a security check first.
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