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Tour details:
Day 1 Arrival and check-in at the hotel in the heart of Tuscany. Welcome dinner and overnight.
Day 2 Visit to and free time in San Gimignano. Lunch. Continuation to Siena and a guided tour of the city center incl the Cathedral, Piazza del Campo and Torre Mangia. Free time. Return to the hotel. Dinner and overnight.
Day 3 Trekking around Siena together with a nature guide to discover some of the fascinating aspects of the area. Picnic-lunch. Return to the hotel, free time, dinner and overnight.
Day 4 Check-out and departure for Lake Trasimeno. Embarcation and transfer with boat to Isola Maggiore. Free time to explore (on this little island the specialty is Irish embroidery). Lunch. Continuation to the hotel and check-in. Welcome dinner and overnight.
Day 5 In the morning a visit to a local farm specializing in wine and olive oil. Guided visit and tasting incl light lunch. In the afternoon a visit to the chocolate museum in Perugia. Guided visit of the museum, possibility to visit the factory and tasting. Return to the hotel. Dinner and overnight.
Day 6 Free day for your own discoveries.
Day 7 Check-out and departure. |
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Note:
Medieval Siena with Piazza del Campo, the Palazzo Pubblico, Mangia Tower and the Cathedral; the city with its masterpieces by Martini, Lorenzetti and Boninsegna, with its beautiful churches and old Basilicas. And also the noble Tolomei, Piccolomini and Salimbeni palaces, the restaurants and shops in the best Sienese wine and food tradition.
San Gimignano stands surrounded by a 13th-c. wall among the sunny hills of Val d'Elsa and age-old Vernaccia vineyards. The wall encircles a medieval centre of unspoilt splendour, now an open-air gallery for numerous art exhibitions. Tombs found in the area reveal the town to be of Etruscan originThe many towers that enthral tourists today were built by the town's merchants as they vied to outdo one another in prestige and magnificence.
Assisi is known to all as the town of St Francis and St Clare and is a peaceful place with resplendent white and pink-stoned buildings. This ancient town of Roman origin is dominated by the imposing outline of its Rocca Maggiore (1376). Present-day Assisi is full of life. The town's peaceful streets are always thronged with tourists and pilgrims attracted to the extraordinary beauty and serenity of the place. Assisi has made its living from tourism and pilgrimage since the Middle Ages, shortly after the death of St Francis. But this does not detract from the place or the person and has actually helped to keep Assisi an artistic centre while preserving valuable craft skills such as a local style of embroidery and wrought ironwork.
Perugia provides a magnificent setting for concerts held as part of Umbria Jazz, the most important Italian jazz festival. It is also the home of a popular chocolate sweet called Baci. Perugia is also a city of the past, originally founded by the Etruscans and is one of the most famous artistic and cultural centres in Umbria. Present-day Perugia is still soaked in history and this is its appeal. Its light-filled squares are bordered by the elegant decorated facades of medieval palaces.
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