- Guided Tours Arezzo
- Guided Tours Barga
- Guided Tours Bolgheri
- Guided Tours Carrara
- Guided Tours Certaldo
- Guided tours Chianti
- Guided Tours Chiusi
- Guided Tours Cortona
- Guided Tours Elba
- Guided Tours Florence
- Guided Tours Grosseto
- Guided Tours Livorno
- Guided Tours Lucca
- Guided Tours Montalcino
- Guided Tours Massa Marittima
- Guided Tours Montepulciano
- Guided Tours Pienza
- Guided Tours Pietrasanta
- Guided Tours Pisa
- Guided Tours Pistoia
- Guided Tours Pitigliano
- Guided Tours Prato
- Guided Tours San Gimignano
- Guided Tours San Miniato
- Guided Tours San Quirico d'Orcia
- Guided Tours Siena
- Guided Tours Viareggio
- Guided Tours Vinci
- Guided Tours Volterra
SAN MINIATO - GUIDED WALKING TOURS WITH LOCAL GUIDES
CLASSICAL TOUR: Strategically located to control important medieval crossways, the town became the seat of the Imperial Vicars. Among the important guests: Federico Barbaresca and Federico II.On a leisurely walk we visit the San Domenico church with interesting frescos and works of Francesco Curradi, a painter devoted to the Domenican order. Then we visit the Piazza della Repubblica with its Palazzo del Vescovo embellished by Francesco Chimenti. From there we reach the Duomo and finally the Torre di Federico II from where we enjoy an amazing view. The tour concludes with a visit to the Sanctuary of the Santissimo Crocifisso which houses a wooden crucifix much adored since the fourteenth century.
Duration: 1,5-2 hrs.
For a full day tour in this area, you could combine our Certaldo tour with a guided tour in Volterra or alternatively with a tour in Vinci.
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A FEW STEPS FROM SAN MINIATO
WINE: Some time ago, Tuscan wine was just a pleasant every-day beverage, not a competitive product on international markets. A virtual revolution in cultivating and producing techniques has created Tuscan wines that offer outstanding quality and unbelievable variety. Our guided tour takes you from the vineyard to the final bottled product. This journey at the estate of a selected Tuscan wine-producer is an ideal way to get a short, enjoyable and profound introduction to the fascinating world of our wines. The tour will be complemented by a guided tasting of 3 types of Tuscan wine in the estate's winery or in the garden.Duration: 1,5 - 2 hrs.
Tasting: price on request
TRUFFLES: The province of Pisa is privileged habitat for truffles! Their search and use in local gourmet restaurants has a long tradition. Here, the white truffle embodies rural and social micro-history. In the San Miniato area and in hilly Volterra, fairs and village banquets celebrate the maturing of these tasty fungi, which thrive under oak trees and poplars. During our guided tour, you will accompany a licensed truffle hunter and his trained truffle-sniffing dog in an exciting hunt for truffles. After this you will participate in a delicious truffles tasting!Duration: 2 hrs.
Entrance fee (privat truffle hunting reserve) and tasting: price on request.
MEAT, SAUSAGES AND HAM: The bounty of Tuscan meats includes wild-boar-salami typical for San Gimignano, marble-white Colonnata bacon or famous Florentine Chianina steak. They offer infinite possibilities to get to know our region's century old roots in a rural world. Our guided visit to a quality meat producer introduces in the craft of genuine Tuscan food. The tour ends with a guided tasting of 5 types of Tuscan sausages and prosciutto.Duration: 1 - 1,5 hrs.
Tasting: price on request
OLIVE OIL: Olive oil is the protagonist of a famous form of nutrition known as the Mediterranean Diet. Yet it is more than just a healthy and tasty ingredient in Italian cooking! Throughout the centuries, cultivation of olive trees has created the vibrant civilization of the Mediterranean area crossing political and linguistic borders. Our guided tour takes you from a Tuscan olive grove to various parts of the production process in a traditional olive oil mill. We immerse ourselves into the history of a hard and persistent rural labor. The tour will be followed up with a guided tasting of 3-4 types of olive oil during which your food guide will explain you the professional tasting tecniques.Duration: 1,5 - 2 hrs.
Tasting: price on request
CHOCOLATE:According to a popluar shorthand immage of Tuscany this region of central Italy is exclusively based on the production of great art works, wine, olive oil and pecorino cheese. In the last decade, however, in the Arno valley between Pisa and Prato a great quality artisanal production of chocolate has developed.
Our guided tour in the laboratory of one of the best artisan chocolate makers (Chantal Coady, The Chocolate Companion) is thought to promote the idea of excellency in chocolate making far from the procedures of the chocolate industry. An essential part of this tour is a guided tasting of 6 types of choccolate during which your food guide will illustrate you the art of a professional tasting of olive oil.
Duration: 1,5 hrs
Price: on request
Duration: 1,5 hrs
Price: on request
