PIEDMONT CASTLES, TRUFFLES AND WINE TOUR
8 Days / 7 Nights
Upon arrival at Turin Airport, meet your driver and transfer to your hotel. Rest of the day at leisure. Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Turin.
After breakfast at the hotel, start your full day Turin private guided tour. Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Turin.
Breakfast at the hotel. Depart with your private driver to Monferrato area. On the way you will stop in Asti, where together with your local guide you will do a walking tour of its medieval city centre. Then continue to your hotel. Dinner and overnight in Asti Monferrato.
After breakfast at the hotel, depart for the excursion to Casale Monferrato area, a land of rolling hills covered with vineyards and dotted with castles. Your route today will take you through small villages crowned with ancient castles. Reach the 13th century Castello di Uviglie. Here tour the castle grounds and the Wine estate for a lunch and wine tasting. In the afternoon meet your local guide for a private guided tour of Casale Monferrato historic center. In the late afternoon return to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast, transfer to Alba. Enjoy lunch based on truffle in a characteristic local restaurant. In the afternoon you will visit the world-renowned International Truffle Fair. In the late afternoon transfer to your hotel in the Langhe area for dinner and overnight.
Breakfast at the hotel. This morning you first visit Cherasco historic centre. After a 2-hour visit continue on to Serralunga to visit the Castle of Serralunga d’Alba. Lunch in a characteristic local restaurant. In the afternoon you will learn all about one of this region’s most famous specialties, the truffle. Then you will go truffle hunting into the woods with the trifolau (truffle hunter) and his dog. Next you will visit a local farm and taste some of their products, which include cheeses and salamis, paired with good local wine. In the late afternoon transfer to your hotel in the Langhe area for dinner and overnight.
Breakfast at the hotel. Your day in the Langhe starts with a visit to the Castle of Grinzane Cavour. Then continue to Barolo village and visit to its Castle and Barolo Wine Museum. Lunch in a local characteristic restaurant. In the afternoon visit the Marchesi di Barolo wine cellar with wine tasting. End your tour of the Langhe by visiting the village of La Morra. Return to your hotel and rest of the evening at leisure. Dinner and overnight.
After breakfast at the hotel, transfer from Langhe to Turin Airport for your return flight.
NORTHERN ITALY WINE TOUR
Unique food & fizz
7 Days / 6 Nights
Upon arrival at Venice Airport in the afternoon, board your coach and transfer to Treviso for a guided tour of the city centre. Then enjoy your first Italian dinner in a rural osteria tasting a radicchio risotto with a glass of Prosecco. Transfer to your hotel in the Venice area and overnight.
After breakfast in hotel, transfer to Venice for a full day guided tour of the city built on water. Board the vaporetto to sail along the Grand Canal. Then enjoy a guided walking tour in the heart of Venice with a local guide. Free lunch and time at leisure to make the most of your day in Venice, during which you’ll have the chance to take a gondola cruise. While on board enjoy an authentic Italian aperitivo drinking a Spritz. Return to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast in hotel, transfer to Padua for a half day guided tour of this medieval city. Free lunch. Then board your coach and make your way to the wine-producing area of Colli Euganei. Make a stop to have a wine tasting at a local agriturismo. Transfer to your hotel in the Lake Garda region for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast in hotel, board your coach to visit the resort town of Sirmione on Lake Garda. Free lunch. Then continue travelling to the wine-producing area of Valpolicella. Once arrived, have dinner at an original trattoria with local specialties paired with some good red wine. Return to your hotel for overnight stay.
After breakfast in hotel, depart for a half day tour of the medieval town of Bergamo. Free lunch. Then make your way to the famous wine region of Franciacorta. Learn about the whole wine production process by visiting a cellar and tasting some of their great wines. Finally continue on to the Cinque Terre region. Accommodation in hotel, dinner and overnight.
After breakfast in hotel, start your full day private guided tour of Cinque Terre, five little villages inscribed on the UNESCO’s World Heritage List. You will take a walk along the dry stone walls that delimit centuries-old vineyards. Free lunch. Enjoy a refreshing aperitivo on a terrace overlooking the sea in Vernazza, with a glass of Cinque Terre wine and Genovese focaccia bread. Return to the hotel for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast in hotel, leave for Milan and have a guided tour of the city centre. Then transfer to Milan airport for your return flight.
LAKE GARDA, VENICE & VERONA
with a wine experience in the Franciacorta region
6 Days / 5 Nights
On arrival a coach will take you to Verona’s city centre for a guided tour, including the ancient Roman arena and Juliet’s House. Continue on to Lake Garda and check in the hotel. Dinner and overnight Lake Garda.
Today you will have a tour of the lake. Stopover at Salò and continue on to Sirmione at the lake’s southern tip. Today you will also see lush groves of olives, citrus trees and of course vines used for making the Bardolino wines. Indipendent lunch. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Today head north to the Dolomite Mountains. You have plenty of stops today as well as the opportunity to ascend on a cable car (subject to seasonal operation) to enjoy panoramic views of the whole area. Indipendent lunch. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Today transfer to the famous wine producing area of Franciacorta, where you will visit a wine cellar to learn all about the Franciacorta together with the tasting of the best wines combined with local cheeses and salami. Transfer into a classy restaurant with tasting menu and pair wines. In the afternoon return to the hotel for dinner and overnight.
After an early breakfast you will take the drive to Venice. Once arrived, take a walking tour to see all the highlights of “La Serenissima” (Doge’s Palace, St. Mark’s Basilica and Square, the Campanile, etc.). Then, for art lovers there is Accademia, housing the finest Renaissance work, or the Guggenheim with exhibits by the main modern and contemporary artists. For lunch, away from St. Mark’s Square, small restaurants offer three course meals at reasonable prices. Later, what better than taking a trip on a gondola? A short ride on one of them is a lovely and peaceful way to explore the backwaters of the city. In the late afternoon, board your coach and return to the hotel, dinner and overnight.
After breakfast in hotel transfer to the airport for your return flight.