TUSCAN WANDERING
THE AREZZO PROVINCE & CHIANTI (7 NIGHTS)
ITINERARY YOUR ACCOMMODATION
Fly to Pisa and pick up your hire car from the airport. 1. La Madonnina (Arezzo) The drive to La Madonnina takes 2 hours, 15 minutes. 2. Torre Vecchia at La Canonica di Cortine (Chianti)
NIGHTS 1 – 3: LA MADONNINA
• Your Taste of Tuscany Experience: Enjoy a complimentary cookery lesson to master the art of perfect pasta with Maria. FLORENCE
Pisa Airport 2 1 Greve in Chianti An hiari NIGHTS 4 – 7: LA CANONICA DI CORTINE Panzano in Chianti Monterchi San Gimi nano Montevarchi Radda in Chianti The drive to La Canonica di Cortine in Chianti takes one hour, PISA AREZZO 40 minutes. We suggest a stop-off in San Gusmé, Castello di Volterra Casti lion Fiorentino Brolio or Radda in Chianti along the way. SIENA Montepulciano Cortona Pienza • Your Taste of Tuscany Experience: Montalcino Enjoy a complimentary wine tour and tasting at the boutique Ba no Vi noni
winery of Fattoria Le Fonti. Ba ni San Filippo Lake Trasimeno
DAY 8: RETURN TO PISA AIRPORT TUSCANY
The drive takes 1 hour, 25 minutes.
Departures from Departures from Departures from 5 – 18 May and 13 – 27 October 19 May – 1 June and 29 September – 12 October 2 June – 16 June and 15 – 28 September £750pp £785pp £845pp
Price includes 7 nights’ bed and breakfast accommodation, return flights, car hire and your complimentary Taste of Tuscany experience. Supplements may apply.
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NOT TO BE MISSED AS YOU WANDER
THE AREZZO PROVINCE
CORTONA AREZZO ANGHIARI LAKE TRASIMENO Made famous by Under the Featured in the film Life Officially one of the ‘most Lying just over the Umbria Tuscan Sun, this hilltop town is Beautiful, Arezzo charts beautiful villages in Italy’, border, Lake Trasimeno has is elegantly upmarket with the centuries of history with historic Anghiari is also a a number of medieval towns boutiques and artisan shops its impressive Duomo, member of the ‘Slow City’ gathered around its shores to prove it. An atmospheric churches, fortress and Roman movement, committed and plenty of attractions to spot to sip excellent reds amphitheatre. It also hosts the to a life lived more fully, fill a day from wine tasting from nearby Montepulciano lively Joust of the Saracen in more leisurely and with the to walking and cycling in the and Montalcino. June and September. emphasis on tradition. surrounding countryside.
CHIANTI
PANZANO IN CHIANTI SAN GIMIGNANO SIENA FLORENCE The venue for the annual With its 16 towers, San Twice a year, the grand main A day trip is never enough to Vino al Vino Wine Festival in Gimignano is one of square hosts Siena’s Palio, absorb the magnificent art and September, this historic town Tuscany’s most impressive the highly competitive horse architecture both inside and is also where you’ll find the cityscapes and its historic race, but at all other times visit outside the city’s museums famous butcher’s shop and centre, including the Duomo, for the elaborate Cathedral and galleries. Boutiques, restaurants of Dario Cecchini, Collegiata di Santa Maria of Santa Maria Assunta – an fine dining and landscaped a larger-than-life legend in Assunta and Musei Civici, awe-inspiring Romanesque- gardens only make Florence culinary circles. is a World Heritage Site. Gothic masterpiece. more memorable.
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