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Experience Overview
If Tuscany has ever called your name, this is your chance to answer. For seven days, you’ll settle into a charming farmhouse in San Gimignano — your home for the week and your base for exploring the heart of central Italy. Wake up to vineyard views, stroll medieval streets, and soak up sunsets over rolling hills, all at a pace that feels truly local. With free days to embrace the countryside or head out on day trips to Florence, Siena, and Volterra, this isn’t just a visit — it’s living Tuscany, one unforgettable day at a time.
Highlights
- Share an apartment in our local friend Ugo's home
- Eat delicious Tuscan cuisine and sample regional wines
- Stroll the lanes of medieval San Gimignano
- Walk along the beautiful Tuscan countryside
- Make new friends at your home away from home.
Trip Details
Product Code: 39546
Tour Type: Small Group
Accommodation: Budget
Transport: Local bus, train, walking
Guide Language: English
Travel Styles: Local Living, Budget
Tour Operator: G Adventures
Supplier Code: EIFL
Starts: Florence, Italy
Finishes: Florence, Italy
Duration: 7 days
Departures: Guaranteed
Physical Rating: Light
Includes
Activities
- Your Welcome Moment: Meet Your CEO and Group Your Local Living Moment: Home Cooked Dinner with Ugo, San Gimignano Your Foodie Moment: Half-day Cooking Class, San Gimignano Your Local Living Moment: Local Wine Tasting, San Gimignano
- Orientation walk Florence
- Welcome briefing with local host
- Dinner at Ugo's
- Cooking class in San Gimignano
- Orientation walk San Gimignano
- Orientation walk Volterra
- Alabaster workshop tour and demonstration
- Hike through the Tuscan Countryside
- Free time to explore Siena
- All transport between destinations and to/from included activities
Accommodation
- Hotel (1 nt), apartments in a locally owned home (5 nts).
- 6 breakfasts, 1 dinner
Transport
- Local bus, train, walking
Group Leader
- CEO (Chief Experience Officer) throughout.
Price
Price per person: (Double Occupancy) CAD $1904 ($272 /day)
Itinerary
Day 1: Florence
Arrive at any time.
Exclusive inclusions: Activity - Your opportunity to meet your CEO and fellow travellers, and learn more about your tour. Opt to join the group for a local meal afterwards. Don't forget to see the notice in the lobby (or ask reception) for the official time and place to meet up with the group.Accommodation - B&B Hotel Firenze City Center
Day 2: Florence/San Gimignano
Enjoy a morning orientation walk in Florence, then travel in the afternoon via train and bus to your home for the week. Take an orientation stroll with the CEO for a first glance at San Gimignano then sit down to a home cooked dinner with your Local Living host, Ugo.
Transfer by train and bus to San Gimignano and walk to your home for the week, which is located just outside the beautiful medieval hill town of San Gimignano. The property owner, Ugo, is a San Gimignano native and is a fountain of information about the area. He lives in one of the apartments in his remodeled medieval house.
Meals included: Breakfast,Dinner
Exclusive inclusions: Activity - Head out for a walk through the heart of Florence with your CEO as the sunshine fades and the monument lights come on. On the return trip stop to eat gelato.Transport - Climb aboard, take a seat, and enjoy the ride.Transport - Climb aboard, grab a seat, and enjoy the ride.Activity - Enjoy a dinner prepared by your host, Ugo. Sit back, relax and take in the aromas and flavours of delicious Italian home-cooking.Accommodation - Agriturismo Casa Florelia
Day 3: San Gimignano
Enjoy an included half-day cooking class this morning before setting out on an afternoon walk on top of the medieval city walls of San Gimignano for a new perspective on the town and sweeping views of the area.
Enjoy an included half-day cooking class this morning before setting out on an afternoon walk on top of the medieval city walls of San Gimignano for a new perspective on the town and sweeping views of the area.
Meals included: Breakfast
Exclusive inclusions: Activity - Expand your culinary skills with a cooking class. Learn how to prepare typical Tuscan dishes and enjoy the fruits of your labour.Activity - Take a walk with your CEO around San Gimignano's medieval walls dating back to the 13th century and enjoy sweeping views both outside the walls and down little backstreets within the town. Walk all 2,176 metres or opt out partway.
Day 4: San Gimignano
Set off for Volterra today, a medieval city known for its ancient Etruscan walls, and visit an Alabaster workshop. Tour the facility and take in a demonstration before exploring on your own with a free afternoon.
Meals included: Breakfast
Exclusive inclusions: Transport - Climb aboard, grab a seat, and enjoy the ride.Activity - Take part in a tour of the workshop, where you'll learn a brief explanation of alabaster and its rich history. Following this, enjoy a demonstration of the working process, seeing firsthand how the material is transformed. Finish with a visit to our showroom where you can admire the finished pieces.Free_time - Explore Volterra's medieval streets with free time.Transport - Climb aboard, take a seat, and enjoy the ride.
Day 5: San Gimignano
This morning, take a leisurely walk through the Tuscan countryside along the historical Via Francigena path to Montauto, where great views of San Gimignano from afar await. Then enjoy some free time to visit the San Gimignano market. In the evening, enjoy a tasting of some local wines.
The Via Francigena, a historical path in use approximately 1,000 years ago by those making pilgrimage between Canterbury, England, and Rome, runs very close to the Local Living house. It is great path for those who wish to explore the Tuscan countryside by foot.
Meals included: Breakfast
Exclusive inclusions: Activity - Take the ancient Via Francigena path, which passes alongside our accommodation, and walk through some woods, across a stream, and then through vineyards up to Montauto, which offers outstanding views of San Gimignano. Head back down the hill and along a country road.Activity - What's a Tuscan holiday without sampling its renowned wines? Sample local wine varieties from a local vineyard before returning to the rustic farmhouse for the night.
Day 6: San Gimignano
Enjoy a day trip to Siena including an orientation walk with the CEO. Spend one final evening at the the agriturismo as you see fit with free time.
Meals included: Breakfast
Exclusive inclusions: Transport - Climb aboard, grab a seat, and enjoy the ride.Activity - Head to nearby Siena and wander this medieval walled city. Options abound! Visit the gorgeous Duomo and the Piazza del Campo, where the famous Palio horse race is held each summer. Climb the Torre del Mangia for fantastic views of the Tuscan landscape.Activity - Wander through the medieval town of Siena, safely nestled in the heart of Tuscany. Feast your eyes on the gothic architecture while exploring the historic centre, a designated UNESCO World Heritage site.Transport - Climb aboard, grab a seat, and enjoy the ride.
Day 7: San Gimignano/Florence
Transfer by bus and train to Florence. Depart in the early afternoon from the Florence train station. Book flights for no earlier than 3 pm.
Meals included: Breakfast
Exclusive inclusions: Transport - Climb aboard, grab a seat, and enjoy the ride.Transport - Climb aboard, take your seat, and get around like the locals do.Activity - Not ready to leave? Your CEO can help with travel arrangements to extend your adventure.
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Tour Operator
G Adventures
G Adventures, founded in 1990 by Bruce Poon Tip, is a global adventure travel company specializing in small-group tours that emphasize authentic, sustainable, and culturally immersive experiences. Originally launched as GAP Adventures (“Great Adventure People”), the company pioneered the concept of community-driven travel by offering affordable trips that connect travelers with local communities while minimizing environmental impact. Today, G Adventures operates in more than 100 countries, offering a wide range of itineraries across themes such as active adventures, wildlife, wellness, family, and National Geographic–partnered tours, while maintaining a strong commitment to responsible tourism and social enterprise through its Planeterra Foundation.
In Business Since 1990
Reviews
Melissa - Traveled, May 2024
Excellent, well organised, itinerary covered some wonderful places, giving great travel experience's.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 06/20/2024
Holger - Traveled, August 2023
Very nice tour. Elisabetta did an excellent job!
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 08/16/2023
Robyn Dyer - Traveled, June 2022
I had a wonderful time exploring a beautiful area of Italy in a way that felt authentic. It was a great pace and I loved getting to know more about the area.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 06/27/2022
Glen Story - Traveled, May 2022
Our Tuscan trip was amazing!
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 06/21/2022
Christopher Ronan - Traveled, June 2022
Anna made this trip by showing us everything and her company I will miss being around.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 06/27/2022
Sophia Bechtold - Traveled, May 2022
I really enjoyed the trip and i will recommend it. I already did :) it was lovely to be in tuscany, eat all the food, drink wine and see those beautiful cities. Thank you!
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 06/21/2022
Katherine - Traveled, September 2019
Overall a really good experience.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 10/17/2019
Sharon - Traveled, June 2019
Veronica is exceptional as a guide. She is very organized, knowledgeable and fun to be with.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 07/08/2019
Susan M. - Traveled, August 2018
Great organisation. Knowing Laura could sort things out, getting etc tickets etc. Fantastic knowledge of all we saw.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 09/02/2018
Lee G. - Traveled, August 2018
The ceo and level of support the group received was exceptional!
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 09/08/2018
