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 driver by the concierge of your hotel or by the entrance of your apartment.
  • 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 : We can accommodate travelers that have just collapsible wheelchair. Our vehicles are not equipped by the ramp for a wheelchair.
  • 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 Baptistery;
  • 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 .

TTT02F – Siena, Monteriggioni and San Gimignano Tour from Florence

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”!  San Gimignano is well known as the Manhattan of Tuscany for its towers… ( just 14!!!) for the best gelato in the “world” and of course on the most famous white wine produced in Italy….Vernaccia di san Gimignano.

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 driver by the concierge of your hotel or by the entrance of your apartment.
  • 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 : We can accommodate travelers that have just collapsible wheelchair. Our vehicles are not equipped by the ramp for a wheelchair.
  • 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 Monteriggioni is a county in the Province of Siena in Tuscany. Sitting on a small natural hillock, this completely walled medieval town in the Siena Province of Tuscany, was built in the 13th century by the overlords of Siena. We will stop on the main square. Here you might walk on the wall around the Castle.
  • departure to Siena ( just 15 minutes by Cassia road);
  • 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;
  • 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 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 driver holding up a sign with their name on it.  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 :We can accommodate travelers that have just collapsible wheelchair. Our vehicles are not equipped by the ramp for a wheelchair.
  • 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 driver holding up a sign with their name on it.  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 :We can accommodate travelers that have just collapsible wheelchair. Our vehicles are not equipped by the ramp for a wheelchair.
  • 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;

TTT13S – Pisa and Lucca Full 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 driver holding up a sign with their name on it.  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 : We can accommodate travelers that have just collapsible wheelchair. Our vehicles are not equipped by the ramp for a wheelchair.
  • 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 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.
  • 5 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 driver holding up a sign with their name on it.  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 :We can accommodate travelers that have just collapsible wheelchair. Our vehicles are not equipped by the ramp for a wheelchair.
  • 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 side!!;
  • 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;

TTT10S – Pisa and San Gimignano Shore Excursion from La Spezia Port

Pisa, is a charming city in Tuscany, known throughout the world for its famous Leaning Tower (Torre Pendente) in the Field of Miracles, we can find the Baptistery (Battistero) – the largest of its kind in Italy and Cemetary-(Camposanto).This area of Pisa is known as the Campo dei Miracoli.

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 driver holding up a sign with their name on it.  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 :We can accommodate travelers that have just collapsible wheelchair. Our vehicles are not equipped by the ramp for a wheelchair.
  • 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 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 San Gimignano ;
  • Departure to San Gimignano ( 45 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 La Spezia port in time to embark;
  • 5 p.m. drop off at the ship.

TTT26C – Chianti Shore Excursion from Carrara 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 Carrara Port: Customers will be met by a Tuscany Taste Tour’s driver holding up a sign with their name on it.  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 : We can accommodate travelers that have just collapsible wheelchair. Our vehicles are not equipped by the ramp for a wheelchair.
  • 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
  • 8.15 a.m. Pick up from Carrara port;
  • Departure to Chianti Region passing trough the beauties of our 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 Carrara, passing by Montefioralle, Panzano and Badia a Passignano;
  • 5. 30 p.m Drop off at the ship;

TTT13C – Pisa and Lucca Full Day Shore Excursion Carrara 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 Carrara Port: Customers will be met by a Tuscany Taste Tour’s driver holding up a sign with their name on it.  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 :We can accommodate travelers that have just collapsible wheelchair. Our vehicles are not equipped by the ramp for a wheelchair.
  • 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 Carrara 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.
  • 5 p.m Drop off at the ship;

TTT12C – Wine tour Bolgheri Shore Excursion from Carrara 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 Carrara Port: Customers will be met by a Tuscany Taste Tour’s driver holding up a sign with their name on it.  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 :We can accommodate travelers that have just collapsible wheelchair. Our vehicles are not equipped by the ramp for a wheelchair.
  • 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 Carrara port;
  • on arrival in Bolgheri passing along the coast side!!;
  • 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;