Heart of Italy Food Tour
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Overview
Highlights
- Experience Winery Tour with Tastings
- Explore Sorrento, Walking Tour
- Visit this Renaissance city’s most iconic piazzas, buildings, and sites for a 2-hour walking tour introduction
- Enjoy Emilia-Romagna Food Tour
- Pasta Making Class in a Tuscan Villa
- ‘Eat Like a Local’ Food & Artisan Walking Tour
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- Boutique accommodations (4 star hotels)
- Airport meet & greet with private transfers
- Ground transportation during tour
- All meals except 2 evenings for dinner at your leisure
- Wine tastings & select alcoholic beverages with most meals
- Entrance fees for all sightseeing
- English speaking local guides
- 24/7 wi-fi access*
- Clean drinking water
- Basic travel insurance with optional upgrades
- All taxes & gratuities
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Itinerary
Benvenuto in Italia! Upon arrival at the Naples Airport we will have a driver waiting for you Meal: Dinner
and they’ll whisk you away in a private car on a beautiful, winding drive past Mt. Vesuvius, approximately 90 minutes until you reach our hotel in Sorrent...
Meet your tour leader and the rest of your group for the first time in the hotel lobby. We will have a short introduction and welcome before walking straight to the port for our welcome dinner at a local seafood restaurant. Watch the night scene come to life in the marina while dining on fresh catch of the day.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
After a leisurely morning and breakfast on your own time at the hotel, we’ll meet our local tour guide in the hotel lobby. We’ll start out with a 2-hour walking tour, hearing tales of what it was like to grow up in this small coastal town and meeting local artisans. Then, we’ll continue on for a light lunch a beautiful, private venue before returning to our hotel for a bit of down time.
Meet in the hotel lobby for a 30 minute drive to a small town along the Amalfi Coast. We’ll start our experience by walking through the lemon groves and learning how to make the local limoncello liqueur. And what’s a tour without a tasting?! Have a little tart and tas...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Meet in the hotel lobby where we’ll walk about 10 minutes down to the port to meet our boat captain. We’ll hop on board our beautiful private boat as we sail across the sea towards the island of Capri. We’ll spend the morning on the boat, touring around the island and...
Upon arrival in Positano we will meander through the small pedestrian walkways up to meet our drivers who will take us to the high hillsides above the town. We will enjoy beautiful views while dining on the patio of Marika’s home, with a truly farm-to-table dinner wit...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Your luggage will be picked up from your hotel room and you’ll meet your group in the hotel lobby to check out and prepare for our journey towards Naples. We’ll drive about 1-2 hours depending on traffic.
As the birthplace of pizza, Naples is a mandatory stop! But, did you know that pizza was originally fried, not baked? We will pop in for an early lunch at a family-owned eatery popular among the locals.
After our lunch break, we’ll hop back on our private vehicle for the 5-minute drive to the train station. There we will prepare to board our train which departs at 1:00 PM. The train ride is 2 hours and 50 minutes, and when we reach Florence we will be picked up by ou...
Meet in the hotel lobby where we’ll meet our local guide, an art and history buff. She’ll take us to visit this Renaissance city’s most iconic piazzas, buildings, and sites for a 2-hour walking tour introduction. After our tour we will walk directly to dinner where we...
Meet in the lobby for our ‘eat like a local’ walking tour of the city. We’ll discover the Oltrarno - the neighborhood on the ‘other’ side of the Arno River. We’ll visit a variety of eateries with about 4 tastings between stopping for lunch at a local trattoria. Our wa...
Meet in the lobby where we will walk through the city to a local home in Florence. We’ll dine in a typical manner, just like a Florentine, with a casual dinner cooked by our host in her home.
We’ll return to our hotel approximately 10:00 PM.
Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Meet our chef in the hotel lobby where we will walk together to the Sant’Ambrogio market. We’ll learn about the ingredients used in our pasta class and will buy a few provisions as well.
We’ll drive about 30 minutes from the market to a villa in the Tuscan coun...
After returning to Florence you’ll have the rest of the evening free at your leisure to explore the city and have dinner on your own. We’re happy to help coordinate museum visits, sightseeing, or dinner reservations.
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Yes, we know it’s early! But it’s worth it! We’ll check out of our hotel and meet in the lobby for approximately 2 hours to our food tour of Emilia-Romagna.
We’ll join a local guide in the countryside of Emilia-Romagna to learn how their traditional and iconic foods are made, including:
Parmigiano-Reggiano factory Small family Balsamic aging facility Prosciutto di Parma factoryAt each stop we’ll savor ta...
After a few full days, we’ll pull back to a leisurely, peaceful pace in the countryside. We will check in and then you’ll have the rest of the evening to settle in to the resort on your own. Enjoy a glass of wine or dinner at the onsite restaurant. Or spend your evening walking the property and meandering through the vineyards.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Meet at the reception area of the resort for a visit to the wine cellars to see how they produce their wines in house, and then end with a flight of tastings. Wine before lunch… consider it an appetizer. :)
After our winery tour we will walk down to the on site restaurant for a small tasting menu lunch paired with the wines we just tried. If the weather is nice we’ll sit on the patio so bring bug repellent and any hats or sun protection as needed. You’ll have the afternoon free on the winery resort until we depart for our farewell dinner.
Meet in the reception area to take a private van to a nearby town (about 15-30 minutes driving) where we will have dinner at a very traditional, small, family-owned restaurant with quite the history. Riccardo will share his restaurant’s story before dining on typical local fare.
We will return to the resort at approximately 10:00 PM.
Meal: Breakfast
On our day of departure we will have an optional group breakfast at the resort. And then you will have a private driver to take you to the airport in Bologna (BLQ) or the train station if you have an onward destination in Italy
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The total tour cost includes the tour price (regular or promotional) and the compulsory local payment. The promotional price is subject to change. Check directly with the operator for the latest price offer. The tour operator requires you to pay only the tour price to purchase your travel. The compulsory local payment will be paid when you join the trip. All prices are based on double, twin or triple share occupancy. Solo passengers will be accommodated in a double, twin or triple room according to availability with a passenger(s) of the same gender. Single supplement only needs to be paid if the passenger does not want to share and requests their own room. Discounts can only be applied at the time of booking and cannot be added at a later date, regardless of any changes made to the original booking.
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