TTT38RF – Transfer Tour ROME – FLORENCE via Montepulciano

Join this private transfer from your accommodation in Rome to Florence with a stop for sightseeing in Montepulciano.

P.N.: all services provided are customizable according your needs.

  • Meeting Point at your accommodation in Rome: Customers will be met by a Tuscany Taste Tour’s representative holding up a sign with the customer’s name.
  • Our drivers are NOT OFFICIAL LICENCE GUIDES and they can give you commentaries of the sites seen from inside the vehicle. We are professional speaking drivers but are not allowed, by an agreement with Labour Union, to enter museums, churches and other monuments.
  • Dresses: Please dress respectfully for visiting religious monuments, local custom requires cover knees and shoulder. Comfortable walking shoes recommended.
  • Wheel Chair Accessible : Our Mercedes Van has room for wheel chair or collapse mobility scooter , but our Van are NOT equipped by ramp to enter inside the van by wheel chair.
  • The vehicle will escort you for the entire service. Walking is limited unlike bus tour where you have to walk the whole day.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
  • 9 a.m. Pick up from your accommodation in Rome;
  • On arrival in Montepulciano , on the main square;
  • Strolling in Montepulciano; ( 2 hours);
  • departure to Florence ;
  • Departure to your accommodation in Florence;
  • 2. 30 p.m Drop off ;

TTT32FR – Transfer Tour FLORENCE – ROME via Montepulciano

Join this private transfer from your accommodation in Florence to Rome with a stop for sightseeing in Montepulciano.

P.N.: all services provided are customizable according your needs.

  • Meeting Point at your accommodation in Florence: Customers will be met by a Tuscany Taste Tour’s representative holding up a sign with the customer’s name.
  • Our drivers are NOT OFFICIAL LICENCE GUIDES and they can give you commentaries of the sites seen from inside the vehicle. We are professional speaking drivers but are not allowed, by an agreement with Labour Union, to enter museums, churches and other monuments.
  • Dresses: Please dress respectfully for visiting religious monuments, local custom requires cover knees and shoulder. Comfortable walking shoes recommended.
  • Wheel Chair Accessible : Our Mercedes Van has room for wheel chair or collapse mobility scooter , but our Van are NOT equipped by ramp to enter inside the van by wheel chair.
  • The vehicle will escort you for the entire service. Walking is limited unlike bus tour where you have to walk the whole day.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
  • 9 a.m. Pick up from your accommodation in Florence;
  • On arrival in Montepulciano , on the main square;
  • Strolling in Montepulciano; ( 2 hours);
  • departure to Rome ;
  • Departure to your accommodation in Rome;
  • 2. 30 p.m Drop off ;
Montalcino

TTT27F – Wine Tour Montepulciano and Pienza from Florence

Montepulciano is a medieval and Renaissance hill town and comune in the Italian province of Siena in southern Tuscany.

Montepulciano is a wine-producing region. The Vino Nobile di Montepulciano has Denominazione di origine controllata e garantita status and is, with the Brunello di Montalcino and Chianti Classico, one of the principal red wines of Tuscany. The Rosso di Montepulciano and Vin Santo di Montepulciano have Denominazione di origine controllata status.

Enjoy the beauties of our countryside dotted by olive trees, pino trees and lot of vineyards!!!!

P.N.: all services provided are customizable according your needs. The pick up and drop off time can be change according the arrival and departure time of the ship.

  • Meeting Point at your accommodation in Florence: Customers will be met by a Tuscany Taste Tour’s representative holding up a sign with the customer’s name.
  • Our drivers are NOT OFFICIAL LICENCE GUIDES and they can give you commentaries of the sites seen from inside the vehicle. We are professional speaking drivers but are not allowed, by an agreement with Labour Union, to enter museums, churches and other monuments.
  • Wheel Chair Accessible : Our Mercedes Van has room for wheel chair or collapse mobility scooter , but our Van are NOT equipped by ramp to enter inside the van by wheel chair.
  • This tour is NOT RECOMMENDED for all customers with walking problems, limited mobility .
  • Our vehicles ARE EQUIPPED by the local permission to drop the customers off in Vernazza.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
  • 9  a.m. Pick up from your accommodation in Florence;
  • On arrival in Montepulcinao, the first stop at the San Biagio.
  • departure to the winery for your wine tastings!!!;
  • Lunch at the local trattoria in Montepulciano;
  • Strolling in Montepulciano;
  • Departure Pienza;
  • departure to the farm for a cheese tastings;
  • Departure to your accommodation in Florence;
  • 6.30 p.m Drop off ;
Torre di Pisa

TTT30F – Pisa,Volterra and San Gimignano private full day tour from Florence

Join this private shore excursion from Livorno lead by an english-speaking driver where you will discover the beauties of Volterra passing along the Etruscan Coast and the Tuscan countryside, arriving to San Gimignano known all over in the world as the Manhattan of Tuscany! San Gimignano is also known for the famous white wine, “Vernaccia” which you might taste at the local winery.

P.N.: all services provided are customizable according your needs.  The pick up and drop off time can be change according the arrival and departure time of the ship.

  • Meeting Point at your accommodation in Florence: Customers will be met by a Tuscany Taste Tour’s representative holding up a sign with the customer’s name.
  • Our drivers are NOT OFFICIAL LICENCE GUIDES and they can give you commentaries of the sites seen from inside the vehicle. We are professional speaking drivers but are not allowed, by an agreement with Labour Union, to enter museums, churches and other monuments.
  • Dresses: Please dress respectfully for visiting religious monuments, local custom requires cover knees and shoulder. Comfortable walking shoes recommended.
  • Wheel Chair Accessible : Our Mercedes Van has room for wheel chair or collapse mobility scooter , but our Van are NOT equipped by ramp to enter inside the van by wheel chair.
  • The vehicle will escort you for the entire service. Walking is limited unlike bus tour where you have to walk the whole day.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
  • 9 a.m. Pick up from your accommodation in Florence;
  • On arrival in Piazza dei Cavalieri , just the time to take few pics of this beautiful square where you will admire the famous “Scuola Normale Superiore”;
  • drop off in front of the Leaning Tower, the Baptistery and the Dome of Pisa;
  • Volterra is situated in a commanding position and overlooking beautiful Tuscan countrysides. This medieval Etruscan town features well preserved walls.
  • Piazza dei Priori is surrounded by austere palaces. The 13th century Palazzo Pretorio has paired windows and is linked with the Torre del Podestà. Also known as Torre del Porcellino because of the wild boar sculpted high up on a bracket. The early – 13th century Palazzo de Priori, opposite, is decorated with terracotta, marble and stone shields of the Florentine governors.
  • Roman Theater (Teatro Romano) discovered about 60 years ago;
  • Departure to San Gimignano ( 30 minutes);
  • Lunch at the local trattoria or at the winery in San Gimignano;( this is a suggestion!);
  • Drop off in front of Porta San Giovanni or Piazza della Cisterna;
  • Strolling around this little town tastings the best gelato in the world;
  • Departure to Florence;
  • 6 p.m. drop off ;
Chianti

TTT26F – Chianti Private Full Day Tour from Florence

Chianti wine is any wine produced in the Chianti region of central Tuscany. It was historically associated with a squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called a fiasco . However, the fiasco is only used by a few makers of the wine as most Chianti is now bottled in more standard shaped wine bottles. In the mid-late 19th century, Baron Bettino Ricasoli (later Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy) helped establish Sangiovese as the blend’s dominant grape variety, creating the blueprint for today’s Chianti wines. The first definition of a wine area called Chianti was made in 1716. It described the area near the villages of GaioleCastellina and Radda; the so-called Lega del Chianti and later Provincia del Chianti (Chianti province). In 1932 the Chianti area was completely redrawn and divided into seven sub-areas: Classico, Colli Aretini, Colli Fiorentini, Colline Pisane, Colli Senesi, Montalbano and Rùfina. Most of the villages that in 1932 were added to the newly defined Chianti Classico region added in Chianti to their names, for example Greve in Chianti, which amended its name in 1972. Wines labelled Chianti Classico come from the largest sub-area of Chianti, which includes the original Chianti heartland. Only Chianti from this sub-zone may display the black rooster (gallo nero) seal on the neck of the bottle, which indicates that the producer of the wine is a member of the Chianti Classico Consortium, the local association of producers. Other variants, with the exception of Rufina north-east of Florence and Montalbano south of Pistoia, originate in the named provinces: Siena for the Colli Senesi, Florence for the Colli Fiorentini, Arezzo for the Colli Aretini and Pisa for the Colline Pisane. In 1996 part of the Colli Fiorentini sub-area was renamed Montespertoli.

During the 1970s producers started to reduce the quantity of white grapes in Chianti. In 1995 it became legal to produce a Chianti with 100% Sangiovese. For a wine to retain the name of Chianti it must be produced with at least 80% Sangiovese grapes. Aged Chianti (38 months instead of 4–7) may be labelled as Riserva. Chianti that meets more stringent requirements (lower yield, higher alcohol content and dry extract) may be labelled as Chianti Superiore, although Chianti from the Classico sub-area is not allowed in any event to be labelled as Superiore.

P.N.: all services provided are customizable according your needs.  The pick up and drop off time can be change according the arrival and departure time of the ship.

  • Meeting Point at your accommodation in Florence: Customers will be met by a Tuscany Taste Tour’s representative holding up a sign with the customer’s name.
  • Our drivers are NOT OFFICIAL LICENCE GUIDES and they can give you commentaries of the sites seen from inside the vehicle. We are professional speaking drivers but are not allowed, by an agreement with Labour Union, to enter museums, churches and other monuments.
  • Dresses: Please dress respectfully for visiting religious monuments, local custom requires cover knees and shoulder. Comfortable walking shoes recommended.
  • Wheel Chair Accessible : Our Mercedes Van has room for wheel chair or collapse mobility scooter , but our Van are NOT equipped by ramp to enter inside the van by wheel chair.
  • The vehicle will escort you for the entire service. Walking is limited unlike bus tour where you have to walk the whole day.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
  • 9.30 a.m. Pick up from your accommodation in Florence;
  • Departure to Chianti Region passing trough the beauties of ours tuscan countryside for a stopping at the local winery in Montespertoli;
  • Departure to Greve in Chianti passing by  the famous “Chiantigiana road ” (222);
  • Strolling in Greve in Chianti ( Piazza Matteotti… here you might have a linght lunch at the local butcher shop famous all over in the world!!);
  • Departure to Florence, passing by Montefioralle, Panzano and Badia a Passignano;
  • 5. 30 p.m Drop off.

TTT12F – Wine tour Bolgheri Full Day Tour from Florence

This service is dedicated to all those people who are interested in “Wine” to understand the steps from the birth of “grapevine” up to it pouring in the glass.

Bolgheri is located in the comune of Castagneto Carducci, a few kilometers north-west of the chief town and lies in the Province of Livorno in Italy, on the foothills of the Colline Metallifere, south of Bibbona.

Bolgheri, cradle of Giosuè Carducci, it known in the world for his “Super Tuscans Wines” and inimitable Avenue of Cypresses. (2500!!!) Bolgheri became an internationally known region following an event in 1974 arranged by Decanter where a 6-year-old Sassicaia won over an assortment of Bordeaux wines. Prior to this, Bolgheri had been relatively anonymous producers of ordinary white wines and rosés. Due to the particular characteristics of the soil and micro climate sunny, dry and moderately windy, the grape varieties of Bordeaux origin tend to thrive, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot.

P.N.: all services provided are customizable according your needs. The pick up and drop off time can be change according the arrival and departure time of the ship.

  • Meeting Point at your accommodation in Florence: Customers will be met by a Tuscany Taste Tour’s representative holding up a sign with the customer’s name.
  • Our drivers are NOT OFFICIAL LICENCE GUIDES and they can give you commentaries of the sites seen from inside the vehicle. We are professional speaking drivers but are not allowed, by an agreement with Labour Union, to enter museums, churches and other monuments.
  • Dresses: Please dress respectfully for visiting religious monuments, local custom requires cover knees and shoulder. Comfortable walking shoes recommended.
  • Wheel Chair Accessible : Our Mercedes Van has room for wheel chair or collapse mobility scooter , but our Van are NOT equipped by ramp to enter inside the van by wheel chair.
  • The vehicle will escort you for the entire service. Walking is limited unlike bus tour where you have to walk the whole day.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
  • 9 a.m. Pick up from your accommodation in Florence;
  • on arrival in Bolgheri passing along the coast line!!;
  • Stop at the winery where you will enjoy a wine tastings and the visit of the farm.
  • Strolling in Bolgheri where you might have a lunch at the local trattoria.
  • We will drive to Castagneto Carducci on the top for a breathtaking view of our bay;
  • Stop at the winery where you will enjoy a wine tastings and the visit of the farm.
  • departure to Florence;
  • 6.30 p.m Drop off.
Siena

TTT09F – Pisa, Siena and San Gimignano Tour from Florence

Legend says that Siena was founded by Senio and Ascanio, sons of Remus, of the famous duo Romulus and Remus who founded Rome. More than anywhere else, Siena embodies the aspect of a medieval city. With its yellowish – brown buildings (from which the colour “sienna” was named) and encircled by massive city walls or ramparts. Pisa with its Leaning Tower… San Gimignano with its towers and its white wine…. This is a tour dedicated to all of customers want to have a fun day guided by an english speaking driver around the gently hills in Tuscany admiring the beauties of the countryside dotted by olive trees, cypresses, vineyards and the famous umbrella trees “Pino marittimo”!  

P.N.: all services provided are customizable according your needs.  The pick up and drop off time can be change according the arrival and departure time of the ship.

  • Meeting Point at your accommodation in Florence: Customers will be met by a Tuscany Taste Tour’s representative holding up a sign with the customer’s name.
  • Our drivers are NOT OFFICIAL LICENCE GUIDES and they can give you commentaries of the sites seen from inside the vehicle. We are professional speaking drivers but are not allowed, by an agreement with Labour Union, to enter museums, churches and other monuments.
  • Dresses: Please dress respectfully for visiting religious monuments, local custom requires cover knees and shoulder. Comfortable walking shoes recommended.
  • Wheel Chair Accessible : Our Mercedes Van has room for wheel chair or collapse mobility scooter , but our Van are NOT equipped by ramp to enter inside the van by wheel chair.
  • The vehicle will escort you for the entire service. Walking is limited unlike bus tour where you have to walk the whole day.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
  • 9 a.m. pick up at your accommodation in Florence;
  • On arrival in Piazza dei Cavalieri , just the time to take few pics of this beautiful square where you will admire the famous “Scuola Normale Superiore”;
  • drop off in front of the Leaning Tower, the Baptistery and the Dome of Pisa;
  • departure to Siena ;
  • Basilica of San Domenico;
  • Dome and Bapstery;
  • Piazza del Campo, Torre del Mangia, Palazzo Pubblico , Piazza del Mercato;
  • Lunch at the local Trattoria or at the winery in San Gimignano;(this is a suggestion!);
  • Departure to San Gimignano in front of Porta San Giovanni or Piazza della Cisterna;
  • Strolling around this little town tastings the best gelato in the world;
  • Departure to Florence;
  • 6.30 p.m. drop off .

TTT26S – Chianti Shore Excursion from La Spezia Port

Chianti wine is any wine produced in the Chianti region of central Tuscany. It was historically associated with a squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called a fiasco . However, the fiasco is only used by a few makers of the wine as most Chianti is now bottled in more standard shaped wine bottles. In the mid-late 19th century, Baron Bettino Ricasoli (later Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy) helped establish Sangiovese as the blend’s dominant grape variety, creating the blueprint for today’s Chianti wines. The first definition of a wine area called Chianti was made in 1716. It described the area near the villages of GaioleCastellina and Radda; the so-called Lega del Chianti and later Provincia del Chianti (Chianti province). In 1932 the Chianti area was completely redrawn and divided into seven sub-areas: Classico, Colli Aretini, Colli Fiorentini, Colline Pisane, Colli Senesi, Montalbano and Rùfina. Most of the villages that in 1932 were added to the newly defined Chianti Classico region added in Chianti to their names, for example Greve in Chianti, which amended its name in 1972. Wines labelled Chianti Classico come from the largest sub-area of Chianti, which includes the original Chianti heartland. Only Chianti from this sub-zone may display the black rooster (gallo nero) seal on the neck of the bottle, which indicates that the producer of the wine is a member of the Chianti Classico Consortium, the local association of producers. Other variants, with the exception of Rufina north-east of Florence and Montalbano south of Pistoia, originate in the named provinces: Siena for the Colli Senesi, Florence for the Colli Fiorentini, Arezzo for the Colli Aretini and Pisa for the Colline Pisane. In 1996 part of the Colli Fiorentini sub-area was renamed Montespertoli.

During the 1970s producers started to reduce the quantity of white grapes in Chianti. In 1995 it became legal to produce a Chianti with 100% Sangiovese. For a wine to retain the name of Chianti it must be produced with at least 80% Sangiovese grapes. Aged Chianti (38 months instead of 4–7) may be labelled as Riserva. Chianti that meets more stringent requirements (lower yield, higher alcohol content and dry extract) may be labelled as Chianti Superiore, although Chianti from the Classico sub-area is not allowed in any event to be labelled as Superiore.

P.N.: all services provided are customizable according your needs.  The pick up and drop off time can be change according the arrival and departure time of the ship.

  • Meeting Point at La Spezia Port: Customers will be met by a Tuscany Taste Tour’s representative holding up a sign with the customer’s name.  Take the free shuttle bus you will find under the ship to the waiting area for private car service located outside the port.
  • Our drivers are NOT OFFICIAL LICENCE GUIDES and they can give you commentaries of the sites seen from inside the vehicle. We are professional speaking drivers but are not allowed, by an agreement with Labour Union, to enter museums, churches and other monuments.
  • Dresses: Please dress respectfully for visiting religious monuments, local custom requires cover knees and shoulder. Comfortable walking shoes recommended.
  • Wheel Chair Accessible : Our Mercedes Van has room for wheel chair or scooter , but our Van are NOT equipped by ramp to enter inside the van by wheel chair.
  • The vehicle will escort you for the entire service. Walking is limited unlike bus tour where you have to walk the whole day.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
  • 9  a.m. Pick up from La Spezia port;
  • Departure to Chianti Region passing trough the beauties of ours tuscan countryside for a stopping at the local winery in Montespertoli;
  • Departure to Greve in Chianti passing by  the famous “Chiantigiana road ” (222);
  • Strolling in Greve in Chianti ( Piazza Matteotti… here you might have a linght lunch at the local butcher shop famous all over in the world!!);
  • Departure to La Spezia, passing by Montefioralle, Panzano and Badia a Passignano;
  • 5. 15 p.m Drop off at the ship;
Duomo di Lucca

TTT11S – Pisa and Lucca Half Day Shore Excursion from La Spezia Port

Lucca was colonised by the Romans in the 2C BC and it has retained the plan of a Roman military camp, with the two principal streets perpendicular to each other.

P.N.: all services provided are customizable according your needs.  The pick up and drop off time can be change according the arrival and departure time of the ship.

  • Meeting Point at La Spezia Port: Customers will be met by a Tuscany Taste Tour’s representative holding up a sign with the customer’s name.  Take the free shuttle bus you will find under the ship to the waiting area for private car service located outside the port.
  • Our drivers are NOT OFFICIAL LICENCE GUIDES and they can give you commentaries of the sites seen from inside the vehicle. We are professional speaking drivers but are not allowed, by an agreement with Labour Union, to enter museums, churches and other monuments.
  • Dresses: Please dress respectfully for visiting religious monuments, local custom requires cover knees and shoulder. Comfortable walking shoes recommended.
  • Wheel Chair Accessible : Our Mercedes Van has room for wheel chair or collapse mobility scooter , but our Van are NOT equipped by ramp to enter inside the van by wheel chair.
  • The vehicle will escort you for the entire service. Walking is limited unlike bus tour where you have to walk the whole day.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
  • 9.30 a.m. Pick up from La Spezia port;
  • On arrival in Piazza dei Cavalieri , just the time to take few pics of this beautiful square where you will admire the famous “Scuola Normale Superiore”;
  • drop off in front of the Leaning Tower, the Baptistery and the Dome of Pisa;
  • on arrival in Lucca, first stop in Piazza Napoleone;
  • Strolling around this town passing by the famous Piazza del Giglio, Duomo di San Martino ( Holy Face), Torre del Guinigi, Via Fillungo and the famous Amphitheater;
  • we suggest lunch at the local trattoria or at the winery. The countryside around Lucca is awesome!!
  • 3.30 p.m Drop off at the ship;

TTT12S – Wine tour Bolgheri full day Shore Excursion from La Spezia Port

This service is dedicated to all those people who are interested in “Wine” to understand the steps from the birth of “grapevine” up to it pouring in the glass.

Bolgheri is located in the comune of Castagneto Carducci, a few kilometers north-west of the chief town and lies in the Province of Livorno in Italy, on the foothills of the Colline Metallifere, south of Bibbona.

Bolgheri, cradle of Giosuè Carducci, it known in the world for his “Super Tuscans Wines” and inimitable Avenue of Cypresses. (2500!!!) Bolgheri became an internationally known region following an event in 1974 arranged by Decanter where a 6-year-old Sassicaia won over an assortment of Bordeaux wines. Prior to this, Bolgheri had been relatively anonymous producers of ordinary white wines and rosés. Due to the particular characteristics of the soil and micro climate sunny, dry and moderately windy, the grape varieties of Bordeaux origin tend to thrive, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot.

P.N.: all services provided are customizable according your needs. The pick up and drop off time can be change according the arrival and departure time of the ship.

  • Meeting Point at La Spezia Port: Customers will be met by a Tuscany Taste Tour’s representative holding up a sign with the customer’s name.  Take the free shuttle bus you will find under the ship to the waiting area for private car service located outside the port.
  • Our drivers are NOT OFFICIAL LICENCE GUIDES and they can give you commentaries of the sites seen from inside the vehicle. We are professional speaking drivers but are not allowed, by an agreement with Labour Union, to enter museums, churches and other monuments.
  • Dresses: Please dress respectfully for visiting religious monuments, local custom requires cover knees and shoulder. Comfortable walking shoes recommended.
  • Wheel Chair Accessible : Our Mercedes Van has room for wheel chair or collapse mobility scooter , but our Van are NOT equipped by ramp to enter inside the van by wheel chair.
  • The vehicle will escort you for the entire service. Walking is limited unlike bus tour where you have to walk the whole day.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
  • 9 a.m. Pick up from La Spezia port;
  • on arrival in Bolgheri passing along the coast line!!;
  • Stop at the winery where you will enjoy a wine tastings and the visit of the farm.
  • Strolling in Bolgheri where you might have a lunch at the local trattoria.
  • We will drive to Castagneto Carducci on the top for a breathtaking view of our bay;
  • 5 p.m Drop off at the ship;