LET S START AGAIN! ’ Things to do in Tuscany 2020 Private chef services Cooking classes Tours to visit local producers Massages at your villa Yoga and well-being Painting classes Horse-back riding Truffle hunting Dinner parties Breakfast services Pizza baking classes Vespa and quad tours Wine, cheese, olive oil tours and much more... THINGS TO DO IN TUSCANY IN 2020 IDEAL FOR COUPLES, FAMILIES AND SMALL GROUPS OF FRIENDS EXPLORING AROUND IN-HOME FOOD SERVICES RECOMMENDED BY US WITH YOUR TUSCAN FRIENDS ❖ Olive oil tour and tasting • Catered meals prepared by a local ✓ Massages - at your lodging ❖ Visit to a cheese farm and cheese- cook ✓ Yoga lessons based lunch • Breakfast service by a local cook ✓ Manicure & pedicure - at your lodging ❖ Visit to Lajatico with tasting of Andrea • Wine tasting session with guide ✓ Horse-back riding Boellis fail ies • Olive oil tasting session with guide ✓ Adventurous quad trip Family portrait with professional ❖ Cookig lass at ‘itas far • Cooking class: pasta ✓ Visit to Volterra and wine tasting photographer ❖ • Cooking class: pizza Vespa tours Painting class at your villa ❖ • Cooking class: typical Tuscan food ✓ ❖ Truffle hunt and truffle-based lunch ✓ Transfer service with private drivers ❖ Wine tour in Terredipisa wine district ✓ Bike guided tours ❖ Visit to Lari, Martelli pasta factory and ✓ Trekking guided tours uthers shop with prosciutto tasting ❖ Make your own cheese! Cheese making laboratory And other interesting ideas! Become a friend of Arianna & Friends. Meet us and other locals and share the traditions and lifestyle of our beautiful land! Arianna & Friends – The most authentic tours in Tuscany Via Salaiola 50/10 & 50/11, 56030, La Rosa - Terricciola (PI) www.ariannandfriends.com [email protected] Tel & fax: +39 0587 672088 Tel +39 0587 672174 Tel +39 0587 635440 WHATSAPP: +39 3296168473 P.IVA: 01835170505 COMMUNITY TOURISM IN THE RURAL TUSCANY Dear Guests, Here a ope letter for ou to uderstad ho e are ad ho e operate ad… h to hoose us! Lets itrodue ourseles: Ariaa & Frieds is self Arianna, of course, Massimo, my inseparable business partner, and our main precious friends: Consuelo, Luca and Moira. We consider ourselves very different from all other tour operators. The main difference is that he ou ook ith us, oue going to meet us in person once you are in Tuscany. Our tours and guided visits to local farms and producers and to historical towns are only held directly by the internal staff of Arianna & Friends, the same ones you have a first contact with during the email exchange, and some external selected collaborators-friends. With us you are sure 100% that you will ot hae a guide but just the best guides, who are knowledgeable, passionate, enthusiastic & fun. We ae oied that its the people that ake the diffeee i ou tou epeiee! The local producers we work with have become our friends as they work with passion and devotion and are ready to share their knowledge with you. You will get to meet them and learn about their life, their business, their choices and philosophy. Behind a bottle of wine, you will appreciate the work and the attitude of the wine maker; behind a package of pasta, you will see the lifestyle of a whole family. We want to offer a very personable and authentic experience to you and this is why we selected what we consider to be the most suitable destinations to make you feel like at home and personally experience and absorb all aspects of our culture. We also organize private chef services, cooking classes, private transportation, small civil and symbolic weddings, trekking tours. We are renowned for arranging offers with tickets to Teatro del Silenzio for the yearly event by Andrea Bocelli in Lajatico and for offering vespa tours including the visit to the Piaggio museum that is very close to us. Our office is in the territory of Terricciola, in the countryside between Pisa and Volterra, near Lajatico and near the vespa town. This is where we operate, in an area called Terre di Pisa that is very representative of the Tuscan countryside. It is a small area of Tuscany where you find a wide variety of interesting combinations of typical Tuscan tours in a matter of few kms. And this fact is unique! There are no other parts of Tuscany that can offer so much within few kms. This gives us the possibility to support local farms offering wine & food and cultural day tours, designed for visitors who want to visit the real Tuscany, feel like home, spend a day like in a family, visit authentic hilltop villages, meet excellent wine/olive oil/cheese/truffle/pasta/saffron producers and above all have access to destinations that are out of the mass-tourism mainstream. Here tourists are ot just tourists. Here i Terre di Pisa tourists are treated like friends. Arianna & Friends means also this: our aim is that at the end of a day spent with us you become one of our friends and we will remain your Tuscan friends for all the times you will be back to our beautiful region. One day one of our guests said: with Arianna & Friends you come like friend, you leave like family! BECOME A NEW FRIEND OF OURS! EXPLORING AROUND WITH YOUR TUSCAN FRIENDS F1. CLASSIC OLIVE OIL TOUR From Monday From Monday through Saturday through Saturday A must-do half-day tour! What does eta igi olie oil ean? What does old pressed ea? How comes that commercial olive oil costs much less than the local olive oil from a small farm? How to use olive oil for cooking? WITH SNACK WITH LUNCH Find all answers to your questions about olive oil during our 3-hour olive oil € 0 for 2 people € 0 for 2 people tour while visiting a local oil mill. You will learn how to differentiate a quality Every extra person: Every extra person: one from a commercial one with a comparative tasting, learning that a lot of € adult € adult information you already know is incomplete. We loe ou gee gold ad child or teen child or teen € € we want to share this passion with you. EXTRA: In October and November you (4-17 years) (4-17 years) can see the oil mill transforming olives into olive oil. For free. Duration: 2.5 hours Duration: 3 hours F12. CHEESE TASTING TOUR From Monday through € for 2 people Visit an organic cheese farm near Volterra and taste their delicious cheeses. Saturday Meet the family of Giovanni, cheese producers for generations, who started Every extra person: their business in Sardinia and brought their knowledge and expertise to € adult Tuscany over 50 years ago. Today they are one of the best organic farms in Duration: 3 hours € teen (12-17 years) Note: the visit adapts to the the territory of Volterra. After visiting the sheep shed and the milking facility, working schedule of the cheese € child (4-11 years) the guide will show you the pasteurizing room and the aging cells, revealing farm on that day. Some days the secrets for making a great organic cheese and explaining the methods to you will be able to see the daily production of cheese and some turn milk into delicious cheese. Your lunch will be served in the former barn, days not. Still you will be able now turned into a rustic style restaurant, and will include several tasty to see other stages of the cheese making such as the dishes, all cheese-based of course. ageing. F13. CHEESE MAKING CLASS ON PECORINO FARM SPECIAL! From Monday through € for 2 people Further to the guided visit to the organic cheese farm as described in our Saturday cheese tour coded F12, you can experience one additional hour of hands-on Every extra person: experience making fresh cheese at the farm. Find out all the phases of this € adult fascinating process and make your own cheese! Duration: 4 hours € 5 teen (12-17 years) You will use fresh milk form the farm, warm it up and add the rennet until € child (4-11 years) you have created your caciotta cheese to take home with you in a vacuum pack. A unique and tasty souvenir from Tuscany, made with your own hands! Lunch will be served after and it will include many dishes prepared with the several cheese types form the farm. F22b. TE‘‘E DI PI“A TWO-WINERY TOUR From Monday through € 350 for 2 people This is the best tour for discovering the ie DOC alled Tee di Pisa, the Saturday lands around Pisa, a recently founded appellation among the DOCs in Every extra person: Tuscany. Terre di Pisa is also the name a very authentic rural destination for € 85 adult visitors who want to experience a real Tuscany. Passionate wine makers in Duration: 6 hours € 45 teen (12-17 years) this wine district in Terricciola, Peccioli, Volterra, San Miniato areas, joined € 5 child (4-11 years) to have a common territorial brand and decided to spread the voice to wine loers fro all the orld, reatig a e ig ae of ie produtio. With your guide, you will visit two of the Terre di Pisa wineries, meet the wine makers and talk about this remarkable project, sharing their intentions and goals. Youll also taste the other ies produed at the ieries that are representative for their identity. In total we will taste 8-10 wines and enjoy great views on the Tuscan valleys. Lunch is included at one of the wineries. F23. BOLGHERI WINE TOUR From Monday through € for 2 people Bolgheri: a destination for those who want to sample exclusive wines, Friday different form the classical Tuscan wines.