About Us

UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN Tours offers chauffeured driven guided tours of Florence and Tuscany, renowed throughout the world for their art, culture, history, traditions, food and beautiful landscapes. Our established reputation for reliability and professionalism ensures a wide range of personalised and professional services in comfortable vehicles. At Tuscany Limousine Service we have the flexibility to tailor our services to meet the needs of travellers to Tuscany who want to get a real taste of this wonderful Italian region.

Let us guide you as you discover and savour the flavours and parfumes of Tuscany. On our tours you will visit and see some of the most fascinating places. You will be accompanied by professional drivers in comfortable and fully equipped cars.

• Because our touring experience started in 1991 and we are established this company since 1997.
• Because we are constantly appraised for our high quality services.
• Because we endeavour to find every possible way to add value to dealing with us.
• Because we enjoy anticipating our clients needs, handlings things before they become concerns or problems to them.
• Because we created an innovative style to privately tour Tuscany and Italy.
• Because we only have top quality personnel both at office level and at the wheel.
• Because we only use Mercedes-Benz vehicles averaging less than 2 years of age.
• Because we have implemented advanced organization and management technology to our business.
• Because we are a fully licensed, fully legal, fully insured company.
• Because we welcome credit cards and will not charge extra fees to accept them.
• Because we always provide special personal care to our clients, acting as Travel Consultant on a complimentary basis

The Association Under The Tuscan Sun (U.T.T.S) is composed of Tourist Guides certified by the Region of Tuscany, and has been operating in Florence as well as in cities of a2rt all over Tuscany for over ten years. Its offices are situated in Florence.

The association, with our members, most of them with a specific degree in history, art and foreign languages, guarantees a highly specialized and professional service, to make you enjoy your sightseeing tours in Italy.

Our members use a technical but chatty language, proportional to the participants’ degree of knowledge of the places they wish to visit in Tuscany. The main goal of our association is to convey its members’ typical feeling of friendship, in order to meet any requirement and make external relations really effective from any point of view.

The Under The Tuscan Sun (U.T.T.S) has its own booking centre, for tours of Tuscany, visits to temporary or permanent exhibitions, or to book unusual routes, visits to local markets, gastronomic & wine tastings.

Furthermore, the Association Under The Tuscan Sun (U.T.T.S) organizes special initiatives for congress tourism, third age travels, and tours for individuals with disabilities as well as school trips to Italy. In addition, the Association Under The Tuscan Sun (U.T.T.S) promotes cultural activities, conferences in history, art or science, and organizes training courses for agencies and universities.

UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN is established as a Chauffeur and Guide Service Company.

Our reputation is built on reliability, professionalism and quality of service that has brought us to become the official supplier for some of the most prestigious tour operators and travel agency networks in the world.

We are proud people, who are confident in their capabilities and express the willingness to cater to our clients the best possible care we think they deserve.

Competence, honesty and hard work are the rock base foundations of our business.

Since 1997 our immediate success made our initial enthusiasm grow into a burning desire to share with people our passion for our homeland.

It is our purpose to provide you with that expertise and knowledge which will let your clients experience Tuscany, Florence and Italy with such an insight that only someone in profound love with his own country can fully communicate.

That’s why we intentionally set this web site not to be a "Click Book and Pay for the Tour" of which the internet is full, since despite all the research a traveller can do, he will never get to have the same understanding we have of our area, we think that one of the most valuable aspects of our job is the analysis of the clients interests and goals for touring Italy and Tuscany and that only in communicating with him, we will really understand what’s needed and wanted. We don’t want to just "sell tours", we want to ensure "the right experience".

The UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN Tours makes transfers to and from the airports, railway stations, hotels etc…throughout Italy and Europe.

• Airports and Ports
• Railway stations
• Places on request
• Personal guidance COMPANY
• CONNECTIONS FROM / TO THE AIRPORT
• Catering (Fabrizio Vannini)
• CONNECTIONS TO / FROM STATION / FAIR / HOTEL
• TENURE car owned by CUSTOMER
• SERVICES ON THE OCCASION OF CEREMONIES
• SCHOOL TRIPS / EDUCATIONAL VISITS
• TRANSFERS TO / FROM STADIUM
• TRANSFERS FROM / TO THEATER
• TRANSFER OF SHORT RADIUS
• TRANSFERS
• Transport ELDERLY AND DISABLED
• Luggage Storage
• TRANSPORTATION VALUABLES
• Escort in Disco, concerts, theater
• Transport services artwork
• Transport Service disabled

Our chauffeurs are very experienced and familiar with the location of the primary companies and sights of Florence Area and Tuscany. For services booked as directed providing that the pick and and drop off are within the city limits of Florence, Bagno a Ripoli or Fiesole, we charge from the booked pick up time to the booked drop off time without accounting the time necessary to reach the pick up and drop off location.

The motivational incentives, Utts-incentives, are designed and organized events to build relationships, develop new business, retain customers and launch new products or services. Are proposed to support marketing strategies and communication company in improving interpersonal relationships.

The Utts-incentives are also programs for personal development and professional, from real or simulated situations, are designed to encourage the learning of important content, the development of specific skills or the consolidation of a working group through the implementation of a meaningful experience.

The wide choice of sporting and cultural activities to create events that provide direct or indirect involvement of the guests and provide the emotional response.

Apart from organizing activities, we are concerned to identify a suitable location, select the menu, arrange transport and all the necessary details to create a memorable experience for your guests.

Discover our solutions to your needs. Provide:

• VIP EVENTS
• MEETING STATEMENT
• CONFERENCES
• EXHIBITIONS
• EVENTS
• MEETINGS
• WORKSHOPS

Simplicity, elegant and security. We are committed to organising your event with expertise and "savoir faire".

In today’s world of high-tech communication options, what has remained constant is the need for quality face-to-face meetings that build business relationships.

In order to support you in a professional way we can provide the right venue for meetings from 10 to 500 people and with professional staff.

In addition we help you choose the ideal event and offer design and production support for special entertainments.

Congresses and Meetings:

• Hotel Accommodation Service
• Hospitality Personnel
• Logistic Solutions

Social Programmes:

• Theme Parties & Dinners
• Special Venue (castles, private villas..)

Welcome in Florence! We created this agency together with some persons that, like me, have traveled frequently and have developed the personal shopper service as an exigency and as experience as well. We are young entrepreneurs, we travel very often as you and we’d like to reach the maximum in the very brief period of time usually available when we stop in cities, because our main problem is time. Usually traveling was an exigency of work, we have learned to turn it into an occasion of joy and pleasure; we usually wanted to buy freely what we wanted without the stress of time and following our exigencies. That’ s possible now with us! we have a great ability in gaining time. We know all the secrets inside our city because we are curious and because our wish to improve our knowledge in the Italian fashion, in the handworks and in shopping that derives from art and culture and from centuries of history and tradition often hided in very narrow streets; shopping is also a result of the modern city, open to the culture and to the international fashion. We are glad to offer you this service with quality and profession, because we believe that we can be a big help to you, being the first to criticize ourselves and very exigent when we buy something. Call us and you will find a friend to talk to and solve all your problems.

Who is the personal shopper? The personal shopper is your personal guide inside the big and fascinating world of shopping in Florence & Outlets. Buying something is not only an exigency, but it is also a personal pleasure. When we go shopping we satisfy ourselves and we take care of ourselves, following our desires, those immediately available, under hands. It happens very often that we find ourselves inside a jungle in which it is very difficult to get out; we fight against time, different choices and thousand of other difficulties that turn our moments of relax in terrible runs, full of tension, looking for shops, articles and ideas. The personal shopper helps you, guides you and gives you advice on what to buy, where and how; he also makes your time precious because he helps you to buy what you effectively need; he offers you a precious company and an important comparison, especially when the object to buy is of high value and for this reason it need an impartial opinion.

TAX FREE ADVICE
For foreign buyers living outside the European Community, it is possible to go shopping in the biggest shops in Rome obtaining a tax refund when you leave. In practice this will result in a discount of 20 percent that the tourist can obtain at the moment he goes at the boarding gate in the airport. Our advisers will inform you about the shops that have this facility, giving you the choice to have this advantage.

 

How about arranging a trip to Tuscany for a full immersion in art, history and Italian?

One to one or group lessons combined with special tours, tastings of local products, workshops and more!

You can choose where to stay and I will come to you for private Italian class or you can join a group (two weeks) and do activities such as travelling around Umbria, doing oil and wine tastings, ceramics workshops, enjoying Italian food meanwhile listening to opera music.

If you want to do something very new and special you could also join our theatre workshop (intermediate and advanced students only). It will be a wonderful way for improving your communicative skills and your pronunciation!

Contact me for getting more information!

 

Welcome to Florence, the capital of Renaissance;

it is a monumental city with a wide cultural offer: museums, parks, art galleries, ... Famous for its vivid nightlife, combines modern theatres with pubs, sharing the streets with old style bars with the reminiscences and charm of old Italian style.

The hospitality and warm character of its people will make it easy for you to make new friends. We are waiting for you to share this marvelous experience.

 

Travel on horseback leads to a deep understanding of our land and people. Don’t miss the opportunity to be a horseman for a day! Enjoy the open air of the Tuscan countryside. No experience in riding is necessary. Riding on horseback is ideal for rides through the Tuscan woods and hills Let our guide take you on a search for beautiful little churches, deserted monasteries and castle ruins. The trails are often the same ones ancient pilgrims covered in the Middle Ages along the Via Francigena.

THE SERVICE INCLUDES:

• Trip in air conditioned and all comfort equipped means of transport.
• Horse and professional guide
• Helmet
• Tours through ancient and natural areas


DETAILS:
• Days: every day (two hours ride - 6 hours tour)
• Departure time from Florence, Siena and San Gimignano: 9.30 a.m / 5:30 p.m. from your accommodation
• Departure time from Florence: 9:00 a.m. from Museo dell'Opera del Duomo
• Minimum participants: 2
• Price: 120 euro per person

UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN TOURS is more than a simple car service: we offer to our customers a qualified security service for every event, dinners, meetings, etc..

A service already chosen by famous showbiz stars as well as executives from Italian and foreign companies.
We offer a trained personnel, qualified to deliver security services, radio connected and with years of experience, to bring you a car service plus bodyguard into a unique service for competitiveness and flexibility.

Where presence is everything, our personnel will take care of your safety. We can also offer a surveillance service for buildings, private entries. Contact us and explain what you need to receive a customized plan with estimated cost, in less than 48 hours.