Your romantic interlude will include, three nights in an elegant king size room. Red roses, strawberries and a bottle of ‘spumante’ on arrival, breakfast served in your room or join the buffet with a wide range of locally produced cheeses, cold cuts, fresh fruit, cakes and bread. In the romantic setting of the restaurant enjoy dinner of four courses based on a selection of typical dishes (excluding wines and spirits), complimentary late check out and bid you farewell with a bottle of fine wine.

On arrival you will receive a presentation box of typical Tuscan specialties in your deluxe room with a bottle of fine wine. Enjoy your luxurious room and surrounding for 3 nights, a lavish buffet breakfast with a wide range of locally produced delicacies, three à la carte dinners served in the romantic atmosphere of the restaurant (excluding wines). Optional arrival and departure transfers.

Met at Florence airport or rail station and transferred to your home base. Traditional menu with wine for your welcome dinner.

On your guided visit Patrizia will explain the processes of olive oil with tastings. Guided boat trip along the Arno River, view the valley where Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. Visit San Giovanni Valdarno, hometown of Masaccio, stroll arcaded sidewalks and Piazza. Dinner with wine.

Depart with your driver to explore two beautiful Medieval villages. Leisurely visit Monteriggioni and San Gimignano. Evening return to base followed by dinner.

Depart for San Miniato. Visit the Medieval town, then meet a licensed truffle hunter and his truffle-sniffing dog and off to an exciting truffle hunt. Visit the truffle laboratory followed by tasting and a light lunch. On to Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, then back to base for dinner.

Morning excursion to the outdoor local market. Afternoon transfer to your cooking lesson. You will learn to prepare a complete Italian dinner. After the hard work enjoy it for dinner with wine

Your Tuscan experience comes to an end after breakfast with a transfer to Florence airport or station.

Met at Florence airport and transferred to your home base. Dine on a traditional menu and classic wine.

Depart for San Miniato. Visit the Medieval town, then meet a licensed truffle hunter and his truffle-sniffing dog and off to an exciting truffle hunt. Visit the truffle laboratory followed by tasting and a light lunch. On to Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, then back to base for dinner.

Transferred to the local station, train to Arezzo. Meet your guide at the platform and visit the city and the frescoes of Pier Della Francesca. On your return continue to visit a cheese producer, learn the processes of local cheese and ricotta with tastings. Visit the Medieval Square in Figlini.

Transferred to the local station reach Florence by train. Meet your tour guide on the platform and visit the historical centre. Leisurely afternoon in Florence. Return by train when you are ready. Met and transferred to home base on arrival.

Leisurely departure for the Chianti Region. Visit three renowned vineyards and the cellars followed by tastings and light lunch.

Your Tuscan experience comes to an end with your private transfer to Florence

Met at Florence airport and transferred to your home base. Dine on a traditional menu and classic wine.

Transferred to the local station, train to Arezzo. Meet your guide at the platform and visit the city and the frescoes of Pier Della Francesca. On your return continue to visit a cheese producer, learn the processes of local cheese and ricotta with tastings. Visit the Medieval Square in Figlini.

On your guided visit Patrizia will explain the process of olive oil with tastings. Guided boat trip along the Arno River, view the valley where Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. Visit San Giovanni Valdarno, hometown of Masaccio, stroll arcaded sidewalks and Piazza. Dinner with wine.

Leisurely departure for the Chianti Region. Visit three renowned vineyards and the cellars followed by tastings and light lunch.

Panoramic drive through the Chianti visit the Park of the Sculpture in a pristine location internationally renowned artists have created huge sculptures of contemporary art. Feel the special atmosphere in the paint laboratory. Visit Medieval Siena, followed by a gala dinner.

Your Tuscan experience comes to an end with your private transfer to Florence

Meet your tour escort and departure for Montepulciano. Visit the town and taste the renowned “Nobile” wines. In Pienza view the Palazzo Piccolomini, Cathedral, Palazzo Civico and the Romanesque Abbey of Sant’Antimo. Continue to your hotel in Poggiponsi.

Travel along the lovely Tuscan landscapes to Siena. Visit this beautiful medieval city, the Cathedral, Piazza del Campo, Palazzo Comunale, the Tower of Mangia and Piazza del Campo. Evening return to your hotel.

Along the coast to Carrara and the impressive marble quarries carved deep into the mountain, the origin of many masterpieces. Lunch at the quarries. Visit Volterra, once an Etruscan settlement in the 8C bC, known for its mining of fine quality Alabaster, at a workshop observe artisans work the alabaster.

Depart for Alberese, visit a country estate in the Maremma Region. Meet the “butteri”, the Italian counterpart of “cowboys”, learn about local traditions, then wine tasting with typical snacks. Visit the vast Etruscan site of Populonia on the Etruscan Riviera. Return to Rome in the evening.

Meet at Hotel Moderno Verdi for early morning departure to Tuscany. You will arrive in Pisa where you will visit: Piazza dei Miracoli that includes the famous Leaning Tower, the Baptistery and the Cathedral. In the afternoon you will move on to Volterra a medieval town located on the top of a hill. Afterwards depart to Chianciano for overnight.

Early morning departure to Pienza a town situated on the top of a hill where you will visit: Piazza Pio the II, Renaissance style, that includes many palaces, like Palazzo Piccolomini, Comunale and Borgia. Enjoy some free time in the city before departing to Montepulciano and then onto Montalcino, characterised by its great fortress that surrounds it among the three valleys: Asso, Aria and Orcia. Return to Chianciano for overnight.

San Gimignano is known as the "tower city". You will visit: Porta San Giovanni, Piazza della Cisterna, Palace del Popolo, Civical Museum and Sant'Agostino. Later reaching Siena where you will have free time. Siena's notoriety is due to the celebration of the Palio, a horse race among all the district areas of the town, called "contrade".

In the morning you will travel through the "Strada del Chianti", one of the most important wines produced in Italy. After a short trip around valley, hills, small villages of Medieval origin, towers, vineyards and farms you will arrive in Castellina in Chianti an old Medieval city surrounded by walls. Next move on to Greve in Chianti, with an asymmetric square rich of galleries and balconies. After some free time you will depart to Lucca, where you will visit: Piazza Napoleone, Piazza Anfiteatro, the Cathedral, Piazza San Martino. Evening return to Genova where services will end.

Met at Florence airport and transferred to your home base. Dine on a traditional menu and wine.

On your full day excursion guided visit of the Park of the Sculpture set in a pristine forest of oaks where internationally renowned artists from five continents, have created huge sculptures of contemporary art. A leisurely visit to Medieval Siena will follow.

Transfer to the nearby station and train trip to Florence. At the platform meet your assistant and start your walking tour. At Palazzo Vecchio, meet the tour guide and visit an unusual Florence, including the indoor food Market and at a laboratory learn about marbled paper.

Cooking class with Claudio for 3 hours followed by lunch. On your guided visit of the mill, Patrizia will explain the process of olive oil, and taste the delicate honey. Transfer to your accommodation in Monteriggioni.

Departure for Volterra with your driver. Visit this Etruscan city then visit an Alabaster Laboratory.

Discover the unique landscapes of the Orcia Valley (a WHS). Visit Pienza, named the Ideal Renaissance City. We visit a Brunello vineyard followed by tastings over a light lunch. Then to a cheese producer and tastings.

Drive to the Siena countryside. You will be instructed by a qualified instructor and discover the woods by Nordic walking with poles, on the way visit a medieval Chapel, renaissance gardens and a picnic lunch.

En route stop in San Gimignano during your transfer to Florence airport or station.

Met at Florence airport or rail station and transferred to your home base in Chianti. Welcome dinner with traditional menu and wine

Discover the quaint Medieval Village of Monteriggioni and San Gimignano the city of towers. In the evening start your first cooking lesson based on how to make bread and pizza baked on the wood fired oven. Sample it all at dinner

With Patrizia you will go trough a guided tour of the mill, from modern to traditional process to tastings. Ending with a light snack. Afternoon walk in the woods try to spot the Cinta Senese breed. Be ready to cook with Claudio and prepare dinner.... then enjoy it with wine.

Transferred to the local station, train to Arezzo. Meet your guide at the platform and visit the city and the frescoes of Pier Della Francesca. Return by train, met by your driver and on to visit a local cheese producer and the processes of local cheese and ricotta with tastings. Visit the Medieval Square in Figlini.

Transferred to the local station travel by train to Florence, met at the arrival platform by your guide for a walking tour of this Renaissance city. You will be accompanied to the train and met by your driver on arrival. After a rest be ready for your cooking class followed by dinner

Excursion with your driver to the Chianti Region. Visit three vineyards specialising in different wines. Tastings will be followed by a light lunch. Gala dinner in the evening.

Your Tuscan experience comes to an end with breakfast and transfer to Florence airport or rail.

Independent arrival at the deluxe Relais near Cortona. At 20.00 welcome cocktail with Silvia, your host for the week. The aperitif will be followed by a traditional dinner.

Early breakfast ready to start your first harvest day, with Riccardo and Benedetto learn the art of cutting the grapes. Picnic lunch, then continue with the harvest. Commence your first cooking lesson. Dine on your creations accompanied by fine Tuscan wines and live Tuscan music.

Meet in the lobby and depart for a guided tour of Cortona. Lunch at a typical trattoria. Afternoon return to the Relais in readiness for your second cooking lesson with traces of Etruscan influence. Dine on the prepared dishes and drink a selection of superior Tuscan wines.

Departure for the hilltop town of Montalcino. Visit two famous cellars specialising on Brunello wines. Lunch at a vineyard and wine tasting. Return to the Relais in time for your third cooking lesson based seasonal produce, such as mushrooms, truffles and grapes. Dinner with wines.

Rendezvous at the vineyards and view the progress. Return for your cooking lesson based an ancient recipe, enjoy the dish for lunch. An extraordinary experience awaits you after dinner, become an active participant in the traditional wine making process… crushing the grapes in a vat with your feet!

Leisurely morning and possibility of an afternoon check out. Optional transfer the Rail Station or Airport

Independent arrival at the historical property near Cortona. Welcome aperitif and à la carte dinner of traditional dishes.

Over a glass of Prosecco sample each dish as you acquire hints on the art of presentation! Guided tour of Cortona and its Etruscan Museum, continue to the Monastery of Saint Francis ‘Le Celle’. Dine leisurely on the menu presented.

Your preparations may include local pecorino cheese flan with pear sauce and fresh seasonal vegetables, traditional pici pasta with cherry tomatoes, ‘tagliata’ steak from the Valdichiana and delicate desserts. Through the lovely countryside to Montepulciano, wine tasting at a renowned cellar. Dine on the menu prepared.

Discover the importance of using seasonal produce in today’s cooking lesson. Afternoon excursion to sample unique cheeses near Pienza and guided visit of this perfectly preserved medieval city. Back to base in time to dine on the menu prepared in the morning.

Your Tuscan culinary affair comes to an end after breakfast.