Shore Excursions from Livorno, La Spezia and More...

You only have 1 DAY TO VISIT FLORENCE & Tuscany!! MAKE SURE YOU GET THE BEST OUT OF IT!! Don't make the mistake of taking the cruise bus and beeing taken around with a group of 50 people...

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Our BEST SELLERS are:

• VISIT PISA leaning Tower (HD Half Day)
  
  
• VISIT PISA leaning Tower & Lucca (FD Full day)
  
  
• VISIT FLORENCE with photo Stop in Pisa leaning Tower (FD Full day)
  visit the centre of Florence with a history guided tour, meet the artisan in the oltrarno district and enjoy a special lunch at a traditional trattoria..
  
  
• Visit the fabulous Cinque Terre (FD Full day)
  
  
• San Gimignano & Chianti tour with wine tasting (FD Full day)
  Visit beautiful Siena, and stop over in the Chianti area to visit a castle where you will take a full tour of the vineyards, cellars and also tasting of the local wines..
  
  
• Siena & Chianti tour with wine tasting (FD Full day)
  Visit beautiful Siena, and stop over in the Chianti area to visit a castle where you will take a full tour of the vineyards, cellars and also tasting of the local wines..

Most requested excursion

• From Livorno port Florence and Pisa or Florence and Chianti
• From Civitavecchia Port The best of Rome
• From Naples Port Pompei, Sorrento & Positano
• From La Spezia Port Pisa & Lucca
• From La Spezia Port Cinque Terre
• From Genova Port 5 Terre

Transfers for cruiser to and from Civitavecchia Port

• Rome Airport (FCO) to Civitavecchia Port
• Civitavecchia Port to Rome Airport (FCO)
• Rome city center to Civitavecchia Port
• Civitavecchia Port to Rome city center
• La Spezia and Portofino to/from Florence
• Savona to Florence/Pisa

Tours from Livorno, La Spezia, Civitavecchia, Naples

Tours from Livorno, La Spezia, Civitavecchia, Naples, Venice, Palermo, Messina

• Are you going on a Mediterranean cruise?
• Are there going to be 1000, 2000 participants + staff on your ship?
• The excursions your ship company offers are usually for a bus load of 40/45 people and pricey!

We offer you a much better tour for good value. Please read below:

• Your personal English speaking driver (driver guide)
• Latest and clean air-conditioned vehicles (mercedes)
• It will just be you and your family and friends
• Your private and licensed tour guide (English language or any other on request)
• You will be able to stop when you ask for and won’t have to spend hours in restaurants or shops
• You will be with professionals who know the area and speak your language
• Museums will be booked in advance and you will not wait in long lines

PLEASE CONTACT US AT info@underthetuscansun.it
or fill the form on the web site www.underthetuscansun.it
and let us know:

• How many people are in your party
• Which shore excursion you are interested in
• The date of excursion
• If you have any special requirement.

We will come back to you with otpions and quotations.

These are some of the options:

Shore Tours from Livorno (Tuscany):

• Excursion from Livorno (Leghorn) to Pisa & Florence (Tuscany Region)
• Excursion from Livorno (Leghorn) to Florence (Tuscany Region)
• Excursion from Livorno (Leghorn) to Pisa & Lucca (Tuscany Region)
• Excursion from Livorno (Leghorn) to Cinque Terre (Liguria Region)
• Excursion from Livorno (Leghorn) to Chianti wine area and San Gimignano (Tuscany Region)
• Excursion from Livorno (Leghorn) to Volterra the etruscan & alabaster town (Tuscany Region)

Shore Tour from La Spezia (Liguria Region):

• Excursion from La Spezia to Pisa & Florence (Tuscany Region)
• Excursion from La Spezia to Florence (Tuscany Region)
• Excursion from La Spezia to Pisa & Lucca (Tuscany Region)
• Excursion from La Spezia to Portofino, Rapallo & Santa Margherita Ligure (Liguria Region)

Shore Tours from Civitavecchia (Lazio Region):

• Excursion to Rome & Vatican City and St. Peter’s basilica with English speaking driver (Lazio Region)
• Excursion to Rome & Vatican City and St. Peter’s basilica with English speaking driver and your private tour guide (Lazio Region)
• Excursion to Etruscan site Cerveteri and Bracciano Lake
• Excursion to Lake Vico, Caprarola villa, art city Viterbo
• Etruscan town Tarquinia (Lazio Region) and medieval village Capalbio (Tuscany Region)

Shore Tours from Venice (Veneto Region)

• Meet-up with your private tour guide for a 3-hour walking tour of Venice
• Meet up with your tour guide: for 2-hour walking tour of Venice and 1-hour private taxi boat along Grand Canal
• Meet-up with your private tour guide for a 2-hour walking tour of Venice + 4-hour private taxi boat to Murano and Burano islands
• Excursion by private taxi boat to the lagoon islands of Torcello, Murano and Burano
• Driving tour to art city Padua

Shore Tours from Naples (Campania Region):

• City tour of Naples and visit of Pompeii archaeological site
• Excursion to Pompeii archaeological site and Sorrento
• Excursion to the Amalfi coast with stop in Positano
• Excursion to ancient Roman city Herculaneum and Volcano Vesuvius

Shore Tours from Palermo (Sicily Region):

• Excursion to Palermo, Monreale, Pellegrino Mountain and sea resort Mondello
• Excursion to Palermo, Cefalù, Monreale
• Excursion to Greek temple Segesta, medieval town Erice , salt marshes by Marsala

Shore Tours from Messina (Sicily Region):

• Excursion to Volcano Etna and sea resort Taormina
• Excursion to Catania, Riviera dei Ciclopi, sea resort Taormina
• Excursion to Siracusa and sea resort Taormina

CRUISE SERVICES:

Our comprehensive organization offers highly customized services dedicated to the passengers of cruise companies we represent. This is done through interactive synergy within all our departments.

Turnaround
* Our personnel are available 24 hours a day and it operates in close cooperation with the team on board, taking care of the passengers during the embarkation and disembarkation procedures.
* Our staff is trained to react promptly to any changing conditions or in the unlikelyevent of an emergency, providing the most up-to-date information to the passengers.
* Being certified by the airport and port authority, our team ensures speed and precision in carrying out the turnaround operations.
* Escorts for pre and post-cruise services to accompany passengers to hotels and airports.

Meet & Greet
* A meet & greet service for individual passengers and groups during embarkation and disembarkation procedures in cooperation with the port authority.
* Personal assistance for transfers at airports, piers and hotels.
* Assistance at the check-in and at the lost luggage office in the unlikely case of luggage loss or damage.
* Pre-assignment of seats according to the rooming list given by the operator.

Shore Excursions
* Licensed tour guides for unforgettable historical and artistic tours in the principal Italian cities: Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Siena, Venice, Rome, , Milan.
* Carefully selected hotels to ensure the clients a pleasant stay.
* Hospitality desks at the hotels to support the clients in organizing tailor-made tours such as wine orgastronomic tours, cultural, historical, night and water tours of Venice.
* Incoming and outgoing travel services for groups.
* Event management and catering services.


FLORENCE AND PISA
Leave Livorno at 8.00am. Arrive in Florence approx. 9.00am. If you have requested any ticket reservations from us to see Michelangelo’s David statue (located in the Accademia Gallery) this will be your 1st destination. After seeing the museum, you will visit the most loved Church of the Florentines:- SANTA CROCE CATHEDRAL, where inside you will admire the tombs of the great Florentines such as DANTE, MICHELANGELO, ROSSINI, MACHIAVELLI, GALILEO GALILEI. Etc.

And still inside the cathedral you can also visit the oldest leather factory in the world (yes you have read correctly; it’s actually part of the cathedral!). This unique place is the only one of it’s kind in the Catholic world where the Vatican State does not object to having a store in a Church! In fact the Franciscan Friars in the 1200’s were the ones who started the treatment of leather in Tuscany. Naturally here you will have the chance to buy the most genuine and traditional Florentine leather such as bags, wallets, leather jackets etc. Depending on how busy it is, you may also have the possibility to see the demonstration of how the leather is decorated with gold leaf prints. After visiting these destinations, it will be around lunch time. On request we can reserve a table for you at some of our selected restaurants, where you will spend approx. 30 euro per person (depending on which wine you order, some bottles in the restaurant can be very expensive and of course in this case 30 euro will not be enough). Remember that in Italy while you are in a restaurant no-one is in a rush! And therefore it may take longer to eat and as you know time flies when you are having fun! After lunch you will visit the famous PONTE VECCHIO (OLD BRIDGE), PALAZZO PITTI (THE FORMER MEDICI RESIDENCE), and the DUOMO (THE LARGEST CATHEDRAL IN FLORENCE). You will pass by in front of these monuments as entering may take too much time. Remember that to visit inside the Duomo it is not possible to make advance reservations. If you are interested to visit inside you will have to wait in line, sometimes up to 1 hour! Then we will proceed to a fantastic viewpoint where you can see all of Florence from above, at the MICHELANGELO SQUARE. At approx. 3.30pm you will leave Florence to go to Pisa, where you will arrive at 4.30pm in the famous square of miracles, where all of the most beautiful monuments of Pisa are located. (THE LEANING TOWER, THE CATHEDRAL AND THE BAPTISTRY). At approx 5.15pm you will leave Pisa for Livorno, where you will arrive in front of your ship at approx 6.00pm.

FLORENCE AND CHIANTI
The 1st part of this tour to Florence is identical to itinerary n°1, up until visiting the Santa Croce Cathedral. After seeing the church, instead of eating lunch in Florence you will taken to the beautiful Chianti countryside, where you will visit first the small hamlet of MONTEFIORALLE, a lovely little town with less than 100 inhabitants perched on top of a hill overlooking Greve. In this ancient town you will see the former residence of the famous explorer AMERIGO VESPUCCI, who gave the name to AMERICA. After visiting this village, we will proceed to Greve, the capital town of Chianti, where you will visit the beautiful square and have the chance to do some shopping for traditional handcfafted items. Then we will proceed to local winery where we can taste some of the famous CHIANTI CLASSICO wine, along with other local products such as BALSAMIC VINEGAR, VIN SANTO (DESSERT WINE), GRAPPA (DISTILLED ALCOHOL) AND EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL. Here you can also have a guided tour of the wine cellar and of the balsamic vinegar production area. On request it is possible to eat lunch at this winery in their beautiful trattoria, weather permitting on their wonderful pergola terrace, overlooking the vineyards of chianti. In the case of bad weather, there are 2 spacious rooms inside the 17th century building. Here you can eat fresh pasta, perhaps with a wild boar sauce or ravioli with walnut sauce or even tagliatelle with porcini mushroom sauce. For second course they offer a wide selection of typical meats eg steak, beef, lamb, chicken, wild boar, veal etc. Then for dessert you cannot miss the famous Bruna’s apple pie (Bruna is the chef and also the mother of the winemaker and owner of the winery) with vanilla ice cream and a few drops of their balsamic vinegar (the real one aged 30 years!). Depending on which wine you choose the price for a complete meal will be approx 35 euro per person. After lunch we will continue along the chianti wine trail (CHIANTIGIANA) to arrive at the famous Sienese fortress town called CASTELLINA IN CHIANTI. Here you can walk through the village and pass through the medieval passage used by the soldiers from Siena during the fighting with Florence in the 14th century. Here you will have time for a gelato if you still have room in your stomach! Then at 4pm we will leave to go back to the ship where we will arrive at approx 6pm. PLEASE NOTE THAT ON MONDAYS ALL MUSEUMS AND WINERIES ARE CLOSED FOR WEEKLY DAY OFF. Of course restaurants are open, along with churches and cathedrals and so lunch can still be arranged in another location.