Tuscany Tours
CHIANTI TOUR
The tour starts at 9.00am (the time is flexible following guests’s request) and the first stop is in San Gimignano, a nice town famous for the 14th century towers still standing there. The visit continue in Monteriggioni, a small hamlet where the ancient walls are all along the perimeter of the town. Then the driver will bring you to Siena for visiting the beautiful Piazza del Campo and the Cathedral. The following stop is in a winery on the way back to the Antica Torre di Via Tornabuoni n.1
The day tour ends at 5.30pm.
PRATO, LUCCA AND PISA TOUR
The tour starts at 9.00am and the first stop is in Prato with its beautiful romanic-gothic Cathedral. The second stop is in Lucca, a very nice and walkable town. The last stop is in Pisa where you will visit the Leaning Tower, the Baptistery and and the Cathedral located in Piazza dei Miracoli.
The tour ends at 5.30 pm
5 TERRE TOUR
The tour starts at 8.00a and the first stop is in Rio Maggiore where you buy the tickest for the ‘Love Road’ and for the cruise; then you walk up to Manarola passing the beautiful ‘Love Road’. The tour continues with a cruise that takes you to Vernazza ( if the sea is calm) with a stop in the wonderful area of Corniglia (last stop).
The tour ends at 5.30pm.
UMBRIA TOUR
This beautiful tour starts in Assisi, where San Francesco spent all his life; the second stop is in Perugia where you will visit the city center and the famous fountaine square, piazza IV Novembre. The last stop will be in Cortona.
The tour ends at 6.00pm
PLAYING GOLF AS A FLORENTINE
An experience with “Italian Me” to combine your passion for golf with the knowledge of Florence and Tuscany.
The first part will be done in the classroom, and after that you will be accompanied by an experienced player to visit one of the golf courses most renowned nationwide. You will spend the rest of the time playing and delightfully chatting in Italian.
The experience will have a minimum duration of 4 hours and the language will be Italian.
BE A FLORENTINE RUNNER
An experience with “Italian Me” to combine your passion for jogging and the knowledge of Florence.
In the morning or evening, as you prefer, you can run with a Florence marathon runner who will accompany you in the usual paths of Florentine runners. On the same day you may complete the experience with a class lesson.
RENAISSANCE: THE BEGINNING
A moment to begin deepen your knowledge of Florence, its language, its culture, its artistic heritage. The teacher of the Language School Italian Me will accompany you in the classroom and in Florence at a meeting with the first masterpieces that started the Renaissance:
Masaccio (The Trinity in Santa Maria Novella), Brunelleschi (Church of San Lorenzo), Donatello (the Crucifix in Santa Croce) , Michelozzo (Palazzo Medici Riccardi), the Villa Medici in Fiesole.
The experience will last for four hours and the language will be Italian, calibrated according to the knowledge of the participants.
FLORENCE AS A MOVIE SET
A chance to start studying or deepen your knowledge of Florence, of its language, its culture, its artistic heritage. You will begin with a class lesson at the Language School Italian Me and then the teacher will accompany you to discover some streets and Squares where some of the most beautiful film that took place in Florence have been filmed:
A Room with a View by James Ivory, A Tea with Mussolini by Franco Zeffirelli, Il Giovane Favoloso by Mario Martone, Inferno by Dan Brown.
The whole experience will last 4 hours and the language spoken will be italian, calibrated on the knowledge of the attendees.
BRAVO! BIS!
This is the time to begin or deepen your knowledge of Florence, its language, its culture, its artistic heritage. You’ll start with a lesson at the language school Italian Me and then the teacher will accompany you to an orientation tour of the city, focusing on the ancient theaters of Florence. The last part will include a visit to some Florentine local handcraft shops working to the shows preparations: from make-up to the scenery.
The experience lasts 4 hours and the language used will be the Italian, calibrated according to the knowledge of participants.