11 days Tuscany tour
Florence - Pietrasanta - Siena - Chianti region
Your journey at a glance
- Your tour includes the following stops
- Florence (3 nights)
- Pietrasanta (2 nights)
- Siena (2 nights)
- Chianti region (3 nights)
- Further highlights
- Lucca
- Livorno
- San Gimignano
Geotoura – Hotel concept
When we include a hotel in our programme, it is not only a high standard of quality that is important to us. We prefer typical local accommodation, often boutique hotels with a special ambience. They emphasise the character of an individual trip: Panoramic views, particularly lovely furnishings, a location in historic centres, no mass tourism and, of course, exceptionally friendly hosts – these are important criteria for us.
We divide our hotels into four separate Geotoura categories. Of course, you have the choice and can also combine the categories on one trip.
Boutique Hotels – Four categories
Encantador (“Charming”): Our most affordable option. Lovingly furnished rooms that offer everything the discerning traveller expects.
Especial (“Special”): Hotels with a special ambience – historic palaces, monasteries, haciendas or beach hotels with exceptional charm. Perfect for the classic cultural tour.
Extraordinario (“Extraordinary”): Luxurious hotels in excellent locations and with the highest level of comfort, often in centuries-old aristocratic palaces, old oil mills or haciendas.
Luna de Miel (“honeymoon”): For the honeymoon – span. Luna de miel – or if you want to treat yourself to something out of the ordinary …
Character of this travel idea
Experience culture
The Medici were not only rich, they were also excellent connoisseurs of art. It was Francesco de Medici who made his family’s rich and exquisite art collection accessible to a wider public with the Uffizi Gallery. On the 3rd floor of the spacious building, you enter his world and that of the best artists of their time: Botticelli, Michelangelo, Titian, Raphael, but also Cranach, Holbein and Rubens. The Medici also played a key role in shaping the face of Grosseto.
The six-sided wall that has surrounded the historic centre since the Medici period is still completely intact today. The arrow-shaped bastions also date back to the Medici reign. Each stop on your 11-day tour of Tuscany will show you the traces that the Medici left behind in the region and may even reveal a family secret or two.
Experience nature
Volterra is not only worth a visit as a city. Even the journey there in a hire car is a pleasure. Drive through a gently rolling hilly landscape whose wide, green meadows are repeatedly interrupted by small groups of trees.
The ubiquitous cypress trees tower up along the road as if they were standing guard for your visit. The journey to some of the destinations on this 11-day round trip in the footsteps of the Medici is an absolute delight in terms of the Tuscany .
Tuscany Culinary delights
The cuisine of Tuscany is simple, rustic and extremely tasty. Bread, and unsalted bread at that, plays a major role here and will accompany you everywhere on your round trip through Tuscany. Fettunta or one of the many crostini variations are often served as a small greeting from the kitchen. Soups are also popular – rich ones such as ribollita or pappa al pomodoro. Vegetable soups such as carabaccia, zuppa di porri or fagioli are also extremely delicious.
Compared to the rest of Italy, the pasta dishes are rather modest. Pappardelle, for example, are delicious – wide ribbon noodles that are often eaten with meat sauces such as game, hare or even rabbit. Meat dishes are generally very popular in Tuscany. Whether boiled, roasted or braised, as bistecca or arista alla fiorentina, ossobuco, stracotto or peposo – the range of meat dishes is immense.
This also applies to vegetables, with beans and black cabbage, cavolo nero, being the frontrunners here and used in numerous dishes. Why not enjoy a picnic in the countryside? With pecorino, finocchiona, an aromatic fennel salami, cantuccini and a good bottle of Chianti or Montepulciano in the basket, this becomes a culinary experience.
The authentic Tuscany
Why can't I find any prices on geotoura.com?
We do not offer standardised packages. Your Geotoura trip is customised according to your wishes.
We make this possible thanks to our high level of expertise and in-depth knowledge of the country as well as our excellent network of partners. You can look forward to extraordinary experiences, charming boutique hotels and very special insider tips on site.
Geotoura stands for the perfect planning of your personalised dream trip. Your individual price will therefore only include what really enriches your holiday.
Compared to standard holidays, this price is competitive. You will usually receive the comprehensive holiday design within 24 hours on working days.
Highly personalised trips are our speciality and the pleasure you deserve.
