According to your arrival flight your driver Italian lifestyle tutor will be waiting for you at the arrival hall at Florence airport for transfer to Chianti countryside and take a half day tour including stops in the sweet villages of Montefioralle with its medieval castle, and Greve with the lovely arcaded foothpath… but in Greve you can’t miss a stop at the falorni butcher shop.. and here be captured by all the smells, and seat to take a tipical butcher food and wine tasting. Drop off Villa Casagrande, 1 DBL deluxe BB 3 nights. Time to relax and discover Figline and if you are still hungry you can take dinner in the beautiful restaurant of the hotel
ACCOMMODATION TO FIGLINE VALDARNO
ACCOMMODATION 3NIGHTS BB DELUXE DOUBLE ROOM HOTEL VILLA CASAGRANDE
DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY
FROM FLORENCE TO TASTE CHIANTI AS WELCOMING WITH LIGHT LUNCH
Today will be a relaxing passage between the city's ferment to a bath of nature of Chianti villages and our light lunch will be the right way to taste the essence of flavors, scents and views made of vineyards, olive groves and streets bordered by cypress
If you cross these lands and breathe the harmony that holds everything, vineyards, olive groves set and men at work between nature and villages ,immediately we will feel the well-being ... but really the secret is enter into the lifestyle and quality of food and wines : that we will do today! let's go to try!! So we will not fail to stop in Greve where, in the Market Square, what since the Middle Ages is the vital heart, and to remind us will be the Verrazzano that from the top of his statue stands at the command, still today it is made to incece of local products between the stalls of the Market, on Saturdays, and under the arcades full of small shops. A walk will make us appreciate the sweet living, the well living. that made of genuineness. just like the ones we're going to taste in the light lunch of our foodies pit stoplight lunch in the historic butcher's shop where since 8 generations you can breathe aromas and smells. the same ones we'll breathe before our tasting [...]
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MON 14TH OCT
FIGLINE - SIENA -SAN GIMIGNANO - CASTELLINA - FIGLINE
Today after breakfast with your driver Italian lifestyle Tutor departure to discover the Chianti area with its ilove groves and vineyards, and stop in beautiful Siena to discover its small streets and the famous Piazza del Campo, and then visit the Italian manhattan, San Gimignano and here you can’t miss trying the excellence.. saffron..with a tasting saffron light lunch at saffron producer. During the day you won’t miss the tasting at Nittardi winery!
DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY
SIENA AND SAN GIMIGNANO: MEDIEVAL TOWNS AND SAFFRON
Being in Tuscany and not being fascinated by the Middle Ages is impossible, here it is an identity for every city and village, but some more than others know how to recall the atmospheres : Siena and San Gimignano the two highlights!!
So our journey Today will be a discovering Middle Age of Siena and San Gimignano where Siena, as the first , is welcoming us in its exceptional enchanting and relaxed atmosphere. While walking the narrow streets with their red brick houses and medieval palaces the renaissance will seem just moment ago. And when you will see the bas-rilif with the medieval skyline of Siena, immediatly you will immaginate San Gimignano ..where we'll continuing the day! San Gimignano, our “manhattan”, stunning Medieval town has still 15 of its towers still standing, there were 72 in total!! Towers, small streets, artisans’ shops, Vernaccia wine and... saffron : all here are highlights …so get going: for our Foodies pit stop a saffron tasting light lunch are waiting for us to try the excellence of this area![...]
INVITATION WINE TASTING AT THE NITTARDI WINERY
GUIDED WINE TASTING WITH THE WINEMAKER
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TUE 15TH OCT
FIGLINE - AREZZO - FIGLINE
This morning after breakfast departure towards the Vla Di Chiana Valley, and today discover Etruscan Arezzo, less touristic but truly lovely…then a interesting “green” winery to visit for wine tour and tasting with food and on the return on the Old Roman road stop at Il Borro village owned by ferragamo rich in artisans’ shops and really pleasant to walk around. Then drop off at the hotel to get change before transfer to Claudio restaurant for dinner. Tranfer back after dinner
DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY
AREZZO AND THE MONNALISA VILLAGES ALONG THE GREEN WINERY WITH TASTING
Today among the authentic lands of Roman heritage up to Arezzo to experience the slow and vital style of its villages and the symbiosis with its flavors that we will taste in the winery for our Foodies pit stop
Our experience today will deep us to the slow daily life that follows nature... even in the cities that will also appear to us small villages silent but with unsuspected treasure chests.... like Arezzo. where the stroll along its course between elegant shops up to the Piazza Grande will show all the pleasantness of the real Italian style between fine antiques and architectural styles of the bourgeois palaces that it well explain the authenticity and refined sophistication of these lands. And this finess it will be more evident when, resumed the journey that it will take us, crossing the lands immortalized by Leonardo in his Mona Lisa, along the Roman way, we will visit the Borro hamlet, the tiny village where everything is recovered to remain intact in time by those kings of D'Italia who was Duke of Aosta until the current Ferragamo... with its craftsmen who continue to work. Its vineyards to produce and... holy shroud, the copy given to the king.... to protect!! But the same goes for its wine productions and we would understand it very well by moving in the cellar for our Foodies pit stop with the wine tour and tasting accompanied by food, when we will taste, with our palate, the natural result of that symbiotic relationship between land and human work, focus on the respect of slow time that becomes elegance.... in the wines as well as in the villages.[...]
TRANSFER TO CHEFCLAUDIO RESTAURANT AND FAREWELL DINNER
ROUND PRIVATE SHUTTLE AND TASTING DINNER
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WED 16TH OCT
FIGLINE- CHIANTI - FIRENZE - ROMA
Private transfer and full day including 2 hours guided tour of the city focusing on the medici dynasty that will lead you through the Chianti countryside outside Florence to deepen the history of this family with the added figura of writer Machiavelli with a guided wine tour and tasting with cold cuts at Machiavelli Villa including visit of the studio where Machiavelli wrote his masterpiece “The Prince”. Drop off at Florence train station to catch your train to Rome and private transfer from Termini train station to your hotel
DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY
FLORENCE: MEDICI VS MACHIAVELLI WITH LIGHT LUNCH
Being in Florence and not feeling the power is impossible. it is the legacy of the Medici! The historic walk in Florence between lights and shadows of the powerful dynasty and then go to Chianti to meet the statesman Machiavelli in what was his home to drink his wine and eat in "his" Osteria
Today our experiencewill be a dive into history. that, as always here in Tuscany, ends up in "Wine"! We will start from Florence to re-run among the palaces, churches and streets to hunt the Medici dynasty ... up to the Palace that was for them royal but that in fact has always been the "Wall street from the Medievo" ... We will start from Florence where we will take the half-day guided tour to discover the essence of the Renaissance and its highlights made by the Medicean dynasty. Then continuing the story of the Medici an unusual tour of Chianti leads us to discover the Machiavelli wine and figure. Crossing the incredible vineyard we will stop at Villa Machiavelli where we will visit the underground cellars, the Italian Garden and the studio where his wrote the famous political treatises. Final make a nice wine tasting with cold specialties in the "inn" that was muse of the political book of Machiavelli .. just what for Lorenzo the Magnificent was written!! [...]
TRANSFER BY FAST TRAIN TO ROME AND PRIVATE TRANSFER TO YOUT HOTEL
FAST TRAIN E-TICKETS FLORENCE-ROME AND PRIVATE TRANSFER TO HTL
WINE TOUR AND TASTING
FOODIES' PIT STOP WITH WINE TASTING AND FOOD 
ROME
