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Tour Length: 10 hours (time flexible).
Departure Point: At disembark of your cruise ship in Livorno port (welcome sign with your name)
Departure Time: Morning - you can request whatever start time you like (we suggest tou between 8.00-09.00).
Inclusions: Deluxe Mercedes car (1-3 people) or Deluxe Mercedes Viano (4-7 people) with professional English speaking driver
Gelato stop at Antica Gelateria.
Exclusions: gratuities (optional),
admission fees to church and museums
meals and beverage.
Special instructions: Comfortable walking shoes recommended. The vehicle will escort you for the entire tour. Our tours are flexible.
Price include English speaking driver-guide for all tour long.
Places at Castello di Verrazzano are limited.
We accept reservation only after check wine tasting availibility.
If Saturday or Sunday the winery will be Villa VignaMaggio, same area, same quality.
Note: More than 7 persons: rates available on request.
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Chianti wine area, Greve and San Gimignano - Private Shore Excursion from Livorno
Chianti Wine Area - Wine Tasting
Most of you have surely heard more than once the word "Chianti" but until you have visited it you have absolutely no idea what means... A trip to Chianti area represent a unique and unforgettable experience for everyone involved. Spending a day between fabulous vineyards and olive groves will let you understand why this wine is so famous all over the world! We will present you the most appreciated tour about wine tasting but remember that our secret is a personalized service, we give you a suggestion only, let us know your desire...
Greve in Chianti
Approximatly 45 minutes of highway and then the "Wine Road" begins, crossing the fabulous Chianti area until Greve in Chianti, the most important village of this area. Here the monument to Giovanni da Verrazzano, the explorer that discovered the largest part of teh East Coast of America, Piazza Matteotti with its porticoes, the San Francesco convent and a lot of shops and wine-cellars and butchers where the most famous people of Hollywood order beef, salami and ham, the best all over the world! After Greve the top of the tour, the magnificent castle of Verrazzano, where they are waiting for you! Take a look at: www.verrazzano.com
Visit a Chianti Castle
Here you can choose to have the "simple wine tasting", a visit to the castle, to the gardens, the centuries-old ageing cellars and the wild boars that breed naturally in the surrounding woods. Then the local guide will show you the way as the wine is made and, most important will let you taste the various products of the farm, together different wines, each one to accompany different meats. The "complete wine tasting" instead offer you, after the visit of the Castle as explained above, a complete lunch based on all products of the farm each one accompany with the wine that is the most indicated to drink together... Something that you will never forget!
San Gimignano
Only one hour and half to reach the medieval village of San Gimignano, passing through the most wonderful Tuscan countryside. The rolling slopes are covered with vineyards and silvery green olive grows, like a picture. Only this spectacle would be more than enough to enjoy this tour! Fortified walls and watchtowers show power and prosperity in the Middle Ages. Only thirteen of the town's original 76 towers remain. Enjoy your time to stroll the narrow cobbled streets taking San Gimignano's sights, Piazza della Cisterna, the Collegiata in Piazza del Duomo, a Romanesque cathedral known.
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