Become a Friend of Arianna & Friends. Meet Us and Other Locals and Share the Traditions and Lifestyle of Our Beautiful Land
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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. #1 & fax: +39 0587 672088 Tel. #2: +39 0587 672174 Tel. #3: +39 0587 635440 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! Let’s itrodue ourseles: Ariaa & Friends is myself Arianna, of course, Massimo, my inseparable business partner, and our main precious friends: Consuelo, Luca, Moira and Veronica. Oh, I almost forgot Canotto … our -legged mascot! We consider ourselves very different from all other tour operators. The main difference is that he ou ook ith us, oue goig to eet us i peso oe ou 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, 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. BECOME A NEW FRIEND OF OURS! Moira, Arianna & Massimo, Luca, Consuelo, Veronica and… Canotto THINGS TO DO IN TUSCANY PRIVATE DAY EXCURSIONS & ACTIVITIES 2020 F- PRIVATE WINE & FOOD DAY TOURS - wine, olive oil, cheese, beer, saffron pg 5-13 G- PRIVATE HILLTOP TOWNS & FOOD DAY TOURS Lari, Volterra, San Miniato combined with pasta factories, oil mills, cheese farms, wineries pg 14-19 H- PRIVATE TRUFFLE HUNTING EXPERIENCES & FOOD TOURS pg 20 -21 J - PRIVATE HARVESTING EXPERIENCES - grape and olive harvest pg 22 4 K- PRIVATE GUIDED VESPA TOURS pg 23-26 L- PRIVATE ART CLASSES & ITALIAN LANGUAGE CLASSES pg 27-28 M- PRIVATE MAJOR ART TOWN TOURS - for foodies, classics, hidden gems, art passion, artisans pg 29-36 P- HORSES & SAN ROSSORE PARK pg 37 GUEST“ FEEDBACK“ pg 39 INSTRUCTION FOR BOOKING AND BOOKING FORM pg 41-42 You find OPTIONS FOR COOKING CLASSES and PRIVATE CHEF SERVICES in separate catalogues TRANSPORTATION POLICY Please, note that all rates in this catalogue do not include any transportation to the venues or meeting points and are meant on a self-driving base. Transfer services by cars, vans, minibuses or coaches with fully licensed professional drivers can be booked upon request at an extra charge. PRIVATE ► WINE & FOOD DAY TOURS 2020 code and name of activity availability rates F1. CLASSIC OLIVE OIL TOUR From Monday From Monday A must-do half-day tour! What does extra virgin olive oil mean? What does through Saturday through Saturday cold pressed mean? 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 Every extra person: Every extra person: quality one from a commercial one with a comparative tasting, learning that € adult € adult a lot of information you already know is ioplete. We loe ou gee € child or teen € child or teen gold and we want to share this passion with you. EXTRA: In October and (4-17 years) (4-17 years) November you can see the oil mill transforming olives into olive oil. For free. Duration: 2.5 hours Duration: 3 hours F27. COOKING CLASS & OLIVE OIL TOUR From Monday € 440 for 2 people If you want to extend your olive oil tour and add a cooking workshop with through Saturday in 5 focus on how to use olive oil in the food, this is your activity. the morning with Every extra person: After visiting the oil mill and understanding how the good extra virgin olive lunch or in the € 45 adult afternoon with dinner oil is harvested and made, you will go to a local farm and start cooking € 0 teen (12-17 years) dishes of the Tuscan traditions using extra virgin olive oil in several ways: € 0 child (4-11 years) fresh on fresh food, fresh on cooked food, cooked, baked. We will make Duration: 6 hours mainly tasty dishes with bread, legumes and vegetables and we will choose (including time of your the menu according to seasonal products. EXTRA: In October and November meal) not suitable for gluten free you can see the oil mill transforming olives into olive oil. For free. F2. CHEESE & OLIVE OIL TOUR From Monday € 30 for 2 people A great full-day tour for you with a visit to an organic cheese farm in the through Saturday countryside near Volterra with a wonderful view over the gentle hills of Every extra person: Tuscany, joined to a visit to a traditional olive mill, with olive oil tasting. A € adult Duration: 6 hours tour for you to understand the difference between authentic extra virgin € teen (12-17 years) olive oil from Tuscany and commercial olive oils. At the organic cheese € child (4-11 years) farm, you will visit a sheep shed, the production room and the cheese ageing cells. In the end, a delicious lunch is served based on cheese and various typical products. NOTE: this tour adapts to the production of cheese at the farm. If the farm is producing cheese in the day of the visit you will see the operations in the dairy. In case of no production, you will still see all the rest, like the ageing phase. F7. WINE & OLIVE OIL TOUR From Monday through € 0 for 2 people A day dedicated to two of the most significant products of Tuscany: wine Saturday and extra virgin olive oil. According to availability, we will choose either the Every extra person: area of Terricciola or Volterra or San Miniato, all great for quality olive oil € adult Duration: 6 hours and wine experiences. At a local winery you will see the wine cellars and the € teen (12-17 years) barrique room in the company of a wine maker and you will taste at least 5 € child (4-11 years) of their wines. A rustic lunch with traditional local dishes is included. Stunning views are guaranteed part of the tour. You will also visit an olive mill and experience a comparative olive oil tasting session to appreciate authentic extra virgin olive oil and be able to identify the good olive oil as opposed to the commercial one. It will be a day rich in information about Tuscan lifestyle, history and traditions in the company of our best guides. F4. VIP SUPERTUSCAN WINES & NOBLE PALACE TOUR From Monday through From Monday Visit to an aristocratic palace in the medieval hamlet of Ghizzano, near Friday through Friday Peccioli. It is the country residence of the counts Venerosi Pesciolini, a WITH FULL LUNCH family that settled in the village 700 years ago and has always produced WITH SNACK (minimum 4 people) 6 wines.