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My Exclusive Best of Tuscany Tour with lunch and wine tasting
from € 140.00
Experience the highlights of the breathtaking Tuscan countryside!
My Exclusive The Best of Tuscany tour is a private tour exclusively for you. This is the real Tuscany in your own private tour - shimmering olive groves, glorious vineyards, amazing medieval hilltop towns (Tuscany's most famous) and stunning frescoes.
We bring the past to life with incredible stories as you traverse Tuscany's stunning landscape. If you have limited time and want to see Tuscany's most famous and beautiful hilltop towns, experience a wine estate and cellar in a magnificent setting, taste great wines and savor a delicious gourmet Tuscan lunch then this is the tour for you!
Includes: Full day tour, transportation to San Gimingnano, Siena and Monteriggione by mini-bus or private car with your own private guide. Also included is a mouthwatering Tuscan lunch with wines and wine tasting at a classic Tuscan wine estate with a visit to the cellar.
Excludes: Optional gratuities
Please note: This tour can meet at your hotel, if you are staying in the Florence city center. Please provide us with your hotel name and address and indicate in the notes section of your booking if you would like to meet at your hotel lobby instead of the Walking Tours office.
The Run-down of My Exclusive The Best of Tuscany Tour:
The My Exclusive Best of Tuscany is an 9-hour tour to San Gimignano, Siena and Monteriggione, three remarkable medieval towns in the Chianti region. To facilitate your enjoyment, your private tour guide explains the history and highlights of each fascinating hill town in private transport on the way while you enjoy the very beautiful and aptly famous Tuscan landscape. The tour guide also stops for photo opportunities at particularly scenic locations.
Upon arrival at each town our guide gives you free time to explore after pointing out the best places to see artisan's studios, local proyducers of typical Tuscan products, nice places to 'people watch' while enjoying a cold drink and where to explore the town's highlights. The tour also includes a typical light Tuscan lunch of quality products produced in Tuscany. You also visit a classic Tuscan wine estate with an introduction to Tuscan wine and a wine tasting and olive oil tasting. This tour is designed to give maximum enjoyment for a day's outing to Tuscany's most famous hill top towns.
This tour is designed to give maximum enjoyment for a day's outing to Tuscany's most famous hilltop towns.
The Best of Tuscany Tour Shopping Suggestions - what to buy in Siena, San Gimignano and Monteriggione: These towns are great for quality small gifts to take home. Beautiful, locally produced traditional design ceramics are available in all towns. San Gimignano is an 'art town' with a large variety of artistan studios to browse. Salami, cheeses, traditional cakes and biscuits like Siena's famous Panforte are great to buy. Ask your guide to point out great shops with high quality produce. The wine estate you visit has a great selection of wines and olive oils as well.
Walking Tours as a policy accepts no commissions from shops so that we are free to recommend the very best to you.
| One person | 550.00 € | From 550.00 € per person |
| Two people | 600.00 € | From 300.00 € per person |
| Three people | 650.00 € | From 216.67 € per person |
| Four people | 700.00 € | From 175.00 € per person |
| Five people | 950.00 € | From 190.00 € per person |
| Six people | 1,000.00 € | From 166.67 € per person |
| For seven persons | 1,120.00 € | From 160.00 € per person |
| For eight persons | 1,200.00 € | From 150.00 € per person |
| For nine persons | 1,350.00 € | From 150.00 € per person |
| For ten persons | 1,450.00 € | From 145.00 € per person |
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2013/06/10
vanessa said:
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2013/06/10
David said:
Excellent, highly knowledgeable and professional
I am currently in Italy and last week was in Florence where I used their services for four tours: First Original Florence Walk, then Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery, Original David Academia Tour and last Best of Tuscany with Volterra. I cannot say enough good things about them. The guides were native English speakers, they were highly knowledgeable and experienced about their subject, and all were very pleasant and helpful. None of the groups I was in last week were very big the largest about 13 or 14. When there was a larger group they split it in half and brought in another guide. They used a radio type communication device in all but one of these groups which worked extremely well for me, since I have a hearing problem and wear hearing aides. The "Best of Tuscanny with Volterra" tour had only three participants even though the minimum states at leasts four. It was the best tour of their offerings and all were great. This is the best company I have used in all my traveling.
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2013/06/01
Fred & Cinda Armstrong said:
Two tours with Klaus - David and the walking tour of Florence, one with Helen - Uffizi, and a day in Tuscany with Stephan were all absolutely superb. They were totally knowledgeable, attentive, and timely. We had heard of your company from a colleague. Her recommendation of excellence was totally accurate, and we will be more than happy to pass your name to others whenever possible.
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2013/05/29
Cindy said:
Big waste of time and money
The description of the tour is not what we got. We booked a tour for a Wednesday and were informed at the start of the tour that we would not be seeing St Peter's because the Pope holds audience on Wednesday's and the Bascilica is closed. This was a big waste of money; we are very disappointed!
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2013/05/19
Tanya Harrison said:
Fantastic
My boyfriend and I took the original Florence walking tour, and I have to say it was the best tour of our week stay in Italy. This tour was fantastic because we had Brenda as our tour guide. When someone loves their job so much it really shines through their work and made us enjoy so much more than what there was to see and know about Florence. Brenda was very knowledgeable, funny and well spoken. We also enjoyed her running commentaries on the various happenings around the streets such as watching a woman parking her Vespa on the street or a van moving in a tight space. Very enjoyable and thank you Brenda for a great time!
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2013/03/23
Elaine Lam said:
I took the Florence tour of Florence Artisans. It was amazing. It was the best tour !!!! Our Guide, Helen was fantastic. She took us to places we'd NEVER have been able to find on our own. She was friendly and very informative. In fact, local people were greeting us with such a warm reception which I can only attribute to the fact that she is a well known and liked friend to the city.
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2013/03/22
JT said:
I took two tours with Art Viva, and multiple tours with Aventurra Bellisima. Art Viva outperforms hands down. Their tour guides (Elizabeta and Klaus) were fantastic-- knowledgable, engaging, entertaining, and particularly Klaus on art-- he is a superstar art and history teacher. Also, the tour sizes were small <8. (Regrettably only one of Aventurra guides spoke English with sufficient facility to make the tour comprehensible and tour sizes were large 10-20). If I could do it again, I would have chosen Art Viva for all the tours.
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2013/03/21
Robert Waters said:
Fantastic
We recently did 3 tours in Florence with Artviva and these were the most informative tours I have been on. In addition to the excellent information, you could tell that the guides LOVED their job. It was a pleasure to be on tours that were so interesting and with such enthusiastic and pleasant guides. I recommend this to anyone wanting to really learn about Florence , its art and its history and meaning.
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2013/02/24
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2013/01/22
Helen Campbell said:
Excellent
Nice size for a tour group – not too big. Excellent coverage of the main issues in Renaissance history. Wonderful details – really enjoyed it. Thanks so much.
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