What will you do
- Drive Vintage FIAT 500 along Chianti Hills
- Try out ancient crafts
- Cruise along Arno river on a traditional wooden boat
- Visit Florence
- Tour of the Uffizzi Gallery
- Cooking class and wine tastings
- Visit Medieval Villages
- Stay in 5* Accomodation
Your itinerary
Arrival in Florence. Transfer to hotel and check in, free evening.
Day 1
Arrival in Florence
Welcome at Florence Airport by our English-speaking Assistant, transfer to your Hotel in Florence.
Check-in at 5* Hotel Regency or similar:
Dinner at leisure and overnight in Florence.
5* Hotel Regency
Overlooking the lovely Piazza d’Azeglio and a luxuriant park, this 5-star property is located just a few minutes from Florence center, a short walk from main attractions. Featuring high quality services and a welcoming atmosphere of a private home, the hotel offers 32 rooms decorated in classic style with valuable furniture and elegant finishing. The hotel restaurant, Relais le Jardin, serves delicious traditional cuisine in luxury surroundings. Guests can also enjoy a cozy lounge and a charming urban garden – a special green corner in the city for a relaxing moment with a drink or a romantic al-fresco dinner
Visit of "Lo Struscio Fiorentino", Lunch and barchetto cruise.
Day 2
Unusual Florence
After breakfast enjoy an unusual visit of Florence "Lo Struscio Fiorentino" (2,5 hrs), which will be highlighted by a gourmet break in a famous café in the city. A Stroll "lento pede" (on foot slowly) in the heart of the centre to discover curiosities, legends, anecdotes, popular beliefs of medieval and Renaissance Florence
Lunch at leisure
In the afternoon enjoy the unique and rare privilege of admiring Florence's magnificence leisurely, relaxing and savoring an aperitivo wine, aboard a traditional local "barchetto" (the Florentine Gondola) on the Arno river.
With our guide you will have a nice stroll to reach the banks of Arno river to the boarding point of the "barchetto": entirely made of wood it is one of the 4 still existing originals!
Hop aboard, and the local "barcaiolo" will steer gently over the water using a long wooden pole while our guide entertains you with an account of Florence's eventful history full of colourful local anecdotes, telling you some of the secrets the river holds and explaining the bridges, majestic palaces and slender towers you see on shore. Sit back and enjoy the cruise as you ride beneath the Ponte Vecchio, and then admire it and the Uffizi Gallery, Palazzo Corsini and gorgeous Santa Trinita Bridge from mid-river.
Dinner at leisure and overnight in Florence.
5* Hotel Regency
Overlooking the lovely Piazza d’Azeglio and a luxuriant park, this 5-star property is located just a few minutes from Florence center, a short walk from main attractions. Featuring high quality services and a welcoming atmosphere of a private home, the hotel offers 32 rooms decorated in classic style with valuable furniture and elegant finishing. The hotel restaurant, Relais le Jardin, serves delicious traditional cuisine in luxury surroundings. Guests can also enjoy a cozy lounge and a charming urban garden – a special green corner in the city for a relaxing moment with a drink or a romantic al-fresco dinner
Visit of the outstanding Uffizi Gallery, an ancient pharmacy and a parfumeur.
Day 3
Florence : Uffizzi Gallery, pharmacy and parfumeur
Day
In themorning guided visit of the outstanding Uffizi Gallery, one of the richest museums in the world, which offers a beautiful collection of the Italian Renaissance painting.
Lunch at leisure
In the afternoon you will discover an ancient Pharmacy and an exclusive Parfume Atelier: a path between the ancient Florentine pharmacies and a journey through time, which allows you to discover a centuries–old tradition in memory of herb art Denatesca “through the whole history of this city. You will visit one of the oldest pharmacies, Santa Maria Novella.We continue our tour through the world of fragrances with an exclusive visit of Atelier Villoresi one of Italy‘s most famous parfumeurs. Lorenzo Villoresi’s production is still entirely according to traditional methods
Dinner at leisure. Overnight in Florence
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5* Hotel Regency
Overlooking the lovely Piazza d’Azeglio and a luxuriant park, this 5-star property is located just a few minutes from Florence center, a short walk from main attractions. Featuring high quality services and a welcoming atmosphere of a private home, the hotel offers 32 rooms decorated in classic style with valuable furniture and elegant finishing. The hotel restaurant, Relais le Jardin, serves delicious traditional cuisine in luxury surroundings. Guests can also enjoy a cozy lounge and a charming urban garden – a special green corner in the city for a relaxing moment with a drink or a romantic al-fresco dinner
Discovery of Chianti, famous for it's wines and landscape, on board a vintage car
Day 4
Chianti by Vintage FIAT 500
Meeting in the hotel lobby with your guide and departure for a half-day dedicated to the discovery of Chianti (famous throughout the world for its famous wines and its landscape) on board of vintage FIAT 500 - self-driving experience!
Places like Greve, Gaiole, Radda or Castellina in Chianti are the mainstays of the Gallo Nero world, a quality brand of the Chianti producers' association. But, in addition to the vineyards, the Chianti region also offers small country churches, the "pievi"; medieval villages and imposing castles, witnesses of centuries-old battles for domination in this territory of great strategic importance.
A short trip to the heart of Tuscany, with its green valleys, offering landscapes of romantic beauty. You will discover a wonderful countryside, as beautiful as it is varied, where vineyards, olive groves and forests alternate. A countryside with small Roman churches, castles perched on their hills, simple farms, superb villas and medieval villages.
You will stroll through one of these picturesque villages with their enchanting charm and be invited to one of the best estates that produce Chianti, where you can, of course, taste the wines of the region and let yourself be tempted by a Tuscan "ham and cheese snack".
Return to Florence in the afternoon.
Dinner at leisure. Overnight in Florence.
5* Hotel Regency
Overlooking the lovely Piazza d’Azeglio and a luxuriant park, this 5-star property is located just a few minutes from Florence center, a short walk from main attractions. Featuring high quality services and a welcoming atmosphere of a private home, the hotel offers 32 rooms decorated in classic style with valuable furniture and elegant finishing. The hotel restaurant, Relais le Jardin, serves delicious traditional cuisine in luxury surroundings. Guests can also enjoy a cozy lounge and a charming urban garden – a special green corner in the city for a relaxing moment with a drink or a romantic al-fresco dinner
Meet with our chef, cooking lesson and walk in Certaldo
Day 5
Certaldo and Cooking class with Giuseppina
After breakfast, transfer to Certaldo where we will meet our special chef Giuseppina.
We will start the day at the market where you will buy the fresh products for your recipes
The language spoken by our hosts is English but our guide will be there to translate if necessary. We will take all our time to cook and relax in a warm atmosphere.
We finished the lesson with a lunch and you will enjoy the dishes prepare by yourself.
Then quietly we will take a walk in the wonderful little village of Certaldo.
Certaldo Alto (the oldest part of the village), is a jewel of medieval times: the ramparts, towers and alleys plunge visitors into the 14th century, when Giovanni Boccaccio, who was born here and whose house can be visited, wrote his Decamerone. Our guide will take you on a stroll to visit the Palazzo Pretorio, an old power centre, as well as the beautiful church of Saint Jacopo and Saint Philippe (outside).
Return to your Hotel in Florence in the late afternoon. Dinner at your own leisure. Overnight in Florence
5* Hotel Regency
Overlooking the lovely Piazza d’Azeglio and a luxuriant park, this 5-star property is located just a few minutes from Florence center, a short walk from main attractions. Featuring high quality services and a welcoming atmosphere of a private home, the hotel offers 32 rooms decorated in classic style with valuable furniture and elegant finishing. The hotel restaurant, Relais le Jardin, serves delicious traditional cuisine in luxury surroundings. Guests can also enjoy a cozy lounge and a charming urban garden – a special green corner in the city for a relaxing moment with a drink or a romantic al-fresco dinner
Transfer to the airport for onward departure
Price Includes
- Transfers by private car/minivan
- 5 overnights in 5* Hotels, breakfast included
- Unusual walking tour of Florence
- Guided visit of Florence and Uffizzi Gallery
- Visit to an Ancient Pharmacy and to a perfume atelier in Florence
- By private boat along Arno river with aperitive
- Chianti Hills on a Fiat 500
- Wine tasting in a prestigious wine estate in Chianti region
- Cooking class with our special chef Giuseppina
Price per person
From 3,800 EUR
2 pax basis sharing a dbl room
Your host
ALICE CONTIERO
- I have been working in tourism since I was 18 years old. Today at 40 years old, I am the general manager of a DMC with 15 tourism professionals , and I am happy to bring my experience and passion in every trip that I create tailored for my special customers. No limit to the imagination, incredible experiences, exquisite food, art and culture that await you in my beautiful Italy .
Florence & Tuscany – Unusual & Gourmet
6 Days