Tour Highlights

*7 Night Stay at One Hotel in Chianti

*Truffle Demonstration & Tasting at a Tuscan Estate

*Florence Walking Tour 

*Academy Gallery & the Statue of David

*Pasta Making Cooking Class 

*Winery Tour & Tasting

*Pecorino Cheese Tasting 

*Music & Wine Experience with a local Sommelier at a Farmhouse in Montalcino

*Sienna Walking Tour 

*Dinner at Tuscan Farmhouse & Winery 

*San Gimignano

*Gelato Tasting  

*Lunch at a local Farmhouse famous for Saffron 

*Lake Trasimeno Boat Excursion 

*Island Maggiore with Lunch & Wine 

*Full Day at Leisure to Relax or Explore on Your Own 

**All prices for Tuscany portion based on double occupancy.  Single supplement $700.00

***We will be offering an "optional" 6-day/5-night pre-tour package with details and pricing to be announced at a later date.  All prices will be based on double occupancy-single supplement TBD.

Arrive in Florence, meet your Tour Director  and transfer to your hotel in Chianti for a  seven night stay. The Chianti Region is filled  with wonderful vineyards and charming hill  top towns. This evening enjoy a Welcome  Dinner of Tuscan favorites and locally  produced wine with your fellow travelers 

Today enjoy a Florence City Tour featuring a visit to the Academy Gallery to see Michelangelo’s original Statue of David, a truly awesome sight. Then view the Cathedral to see Giotto’s Bell Tower and Baptistry with its impressive ‘Gates of Paradise’. These buildings demonstrate the traditions of Florentine art and architecture from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.  Also see the open-air museum of Piazza Della Signoria & Santa Croce, which houses the tombs of Michelangelo and Galileo.  Later this afternoon travel to a lovely  Tuscan Estate, where you will be greeted  with a welcome drink. Then enjoy a Truffle  Demonstration with access to a protected  area on the property followed by delicious  tastings of oil and truffle butter bruschetta,  salami, pecorino, and wines from the estate.  Enjoy a wonderful dinner before returning  to your hotel in Chianti for the night. 

Today enjoy an Organic Cooking & Pasta-Making Class and lunch in San Gimignano.  You will be greeted with a welcome drink  to enjoy while the chef discusses the class  and food to be made and his recipes.  The restaurant staff will assist you with  putting on your aprons and chef hats and  let the cooking fun begin! At the end of  the cooking class you will get to eat and  enjoy what you have prepared for lunch.  Later this afternoon visit a local winery for  Winery Tour & Tasting experience. Sample  organically farmed extra virgin olive oil,  vinegar and Chianti Classico Wine. Dinner is  included this evening. 

Travel to the incredibly picturesque Val d’Orcia Region filled with ancient villages, gorgeous farmhouses, isolated homesteads, roads lined with cypress trees, fabulous vineyards and olive groves. Enjoy spectacular Tuscan hills views enroute to visit a local cheese producer for a delicious typical Pecorino Cheese tasting. Continue to a traditional farmhouse in Montalcino, where you will enjoy a multi-sensory experience of music and wine! Four wines will be matched  with music tracks selected by a local Sommelier.  Later, just outside Siena, we will visit a local  Tuscan farmhouse with an opportunity to meet  the owner and enjoy dinner featuring typical  Tuscany dishes paired with their local wines. 

This morning travel to Siena, the heart of Tuscany. Enjoy a Siena Walking Tour as you stroll the medieval streets to the dramatic Campo, scene of the annual Palio horse race. Also see  the town’s famous black and white striped  cathedral and enjoy some time at leisure.  Enjoy lunch at a family-run farmhouse that  specializes in saffron production outside Siena.  Later we travel to San Gimignano, the epitome  of a Tuscan hill town, where nobles built more  splendid towers to outdo one another and  indulge in their need for status. The medieval  structures of this city have largely remained  intact and San Gimignano, with its large number  of art treasures, is truly considered an open-air  museum. Next enjoy a delicious gelato ice cream  in one of the oldest gelaterias in Italy which is  famous world-wide for unique flavors. Taste the  saffron & pine nuts flavored gelato, a registered  trademark. Dinner is included this evening. 

Today is at your leisure to relax at the hotel or explore on your own. An optional tour will be available today.

Begin your morning with a hearty breakfast and journey to Lake Trasimeno located in the Umbria Region of Tuscany.  The heart-shaped Lake Trasimeno is surrounded by rolling hills, olive groves, woods of oak and cypress trees, vineyards and sunflower fields that frame castle-topped medieval towns and villages.  Free time to explore and walk around  the medieval town of Tuoro, considered  one of the most beautiful villages in Italy.  Next enjoy a Boat Cruise to the Island  Maggiore, where we will have lunch at  a traditional restaurant located on the  lake. Tonight a special Farewell Dinner is  planned.  

Today transfer to Florence for your flight home with wonderful memories of Tuscany.