Full-Day Countryside Experience Among the Florence Hills with Barbeque
Florence, Italy
Trip Type: Dining Experiences
Duration: 1 day
Escape the everyday city life of Florence and enjoy the real dolce vita with a private authentic countryside life experience. Visit the places where the main ingredients of Italian cuisine are produced, like cheese, wine and gelato and enjoy the views of the Chianti hills and vineyards. You will shop for the ingredients with your guide and use them to cook together while relaxing in an authentic 300-year old farmhouse. After lunch, head to San Gimignano and afterwards, visit a small family-owned authentic biological winery.
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Escape the everyday city life of Florence and enjoy the real dolce vita with a private authentic countryside life experience. Visit the places where the main ingredients of Italian cuisine are produced, like cheese, wine and gelato and enjoy the views of the Chianti hills and vineyards. You will shop for the ingredients with your guide and use them to cook together while relaxing in an authentic 300-year old farmhouse. After lunch, head to San Gimignano and afterwards, visit a small family-owned authentic biological winery.Meet your guide in the center of Florence where you will be picked up by private car and accompanied by your own personal tour guide. You will leave Florence and head towards the beautiful Tuscan hills where you will be able to admire the vineyards and olive fields that make the countryside special.
Have breakfast in a local establishment that makes the best cappuccino in the area, then you will visit a sheep cheese farmhouse where you will learn the secrets to making cheese and pick up some for lunch.
The next stop is a cattle farm where you will see the animals and buy some typical Florentine steaks, then head to an ancient farmhouse where you can admire the Roman architecture and enjoy a huge barbecue comprised of local meats,cheeses and vegetables along with their own wine. If you want, you can cook together with them. Lunch (rigorously slow, as Italian tradition dictates) will be had in the farm garden, surrounded by vineyards and olive trees, under the Tuscan sun.
After lunch, head towards the San Gimignano hillside, one of the most astonishing medieval villages of Tuscany. Here you can visit a ceramics studio where you will see the potters make vases and other unique creations. Have gelato in a typical, local gelateria and walk around the city, visiting its famous towers.
After San Gimignano you will visit a family-owned vineyard where Chianti wine is made, for a comprehensive wine tasting session. Then return to the ancient farmhouse for dinner, where you can make pizza together with the owner/guide, all the while tasting more wine.
At the end of your unforgettable day, you will be brought back to Florence.
Have breakfast in a local establishment that makes the best cappuccino in the area, then you will visit a sheep cheese farmhouse where you will learn the secrets to making cheese and pick up some for lunch.
The next stop is a cattle farm where you will see the animals and buy some typical Florentine steaks, then head to an ancient farmhouse where you can admire the Roman architecture and enjoy a huge barbecue comprised of local meats,cheeses and vegetables along with their own wine. If you want, you can cook together with them. Lunch (rigorously slow, as Italian tradition dictates) will be had in the farm garden, surrounded by vineyards and olive trees, under the Tuscan sun.
After lunch, head towards the San Gimignano hillside, one of the most astonishing medieval villages of Tuscany. Here you can visit a ceramics studio where you will see the potters make vases and other unique creations. Have gelato in a typical, local gelateria and walk around the city, visiting its famous towers.
After San Gimignano you will visit a family-owned vineyard where Chianti wine is made, for a comprehensive wine tasting session. Then return to the ancient farmhouse for dinner, where you can make pizza together with the owner/guide, all the while tasting more wine.
At the end of your unforgettable day, you will be brought back to Florence.
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