Top Tuscany Hiking Tours

Experience the UNESCO-listed Cinque Terre in one day with a guided tour through the five idyllic fishing villages of old-world Italy. Following the walking trails along the cliffs of the national park, you will see glorious views of this unspoiled stretch of the Italian Riviera. Check out the highlights and learn about the area as you complete a 3.4-mile (5.5-km) route with your guide. If you choose the tour option without hiking, the train will be used instead to move between villages.

Become a pilgrim of sorts and take a scenic hike on the historic Via Francigena, an old pilgrimage route that stretched from Canterbury in England to Rome. The rural route takes you through villages, vineyards, and some of the most scenic countryside in Tuscany. Best of all, once you get to the medieval village of Monteriggioni you're rewarded with a wine tasting. At the end, head back to Siena via train.

Explore the stunning landscape of the Tuscan hills on a 5.5-hour hiking tour from Florence. Led by an expert guide, journey through the Chianti’s medieval towns, vineyards, and olive groves on a 5-mile (8-km) hike, soaking up the rich history of each area as you go. Afterward, head to a local winery to learn about the production of wine and olive oil before sitting down to a traditional Tuscan lunch. Your tour will conclude back in Florence.

Avoid the long lines at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence with this skip-the-line ticket and guided tour. Led by an expert art guide, you’ll head straight inside upon your arrival and discover the masterpieces of this expansive museum. See da Vinci’s ‘Annunciation’, Botticelli’s ‘Birth of Venus,’ and Michelangelo’s ‘Doni Tondo’ as your guide discusses their history and varying interpretations. Visit the rooftop terrace for a picturesque city view before concluding your tour.

Avoid the long wait on your visit to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence with this skip-the-line ticket. Explore the expansive museum at your own pace with access to 1,500 works of art. See famous Renaissance paintings such as Michelangelo’s "Doni Tondo" and Botticelli’s "Birth of Venus." This priority ticket ensures that you can spend your precious time experiencing great art instead of waiting in line.

Planning your visit to Florence is not easy, especially when you have limited time and there is so much to see and do. Let us show you the best the city has to offer, stress-free! Save precious holiday time and make the most out of your experience inside this superb Florence art gallery. We provide a hassle-free visit to this incredible museum. Forget about trying to figure out how to reserve, purchase, and pick up tickets. With our simple online booking avoid long lines and confusion. Join us at our easy-to-find meeting point and get problem-free access to one an incredible art collection.

See the world-class collection of one of Europe’s oldest art museums on a 90-minute guided tour of the Ufizzi Gallery in Florence. Skip the long lines with priority access, and head straight for highlights of the massive collection with a knowledgeable guide. Using an audio headset, learn the stories behind masterpieces by Renaissance greats including Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Leonardo da Vinci.

Step inside one of Italy’s most famous art museums on this guided tour of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Avoid the crowds with early access and skip-the-line entrance, then learn more about the museum’s highlights with the help of an art historian guide. Prepare to be impressed as you spot works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Caravaggio, and view iconic paintings like Titian's ‘Venus of Urbino’ and Botticelli's ‘Primavera’. Best of all: your ticket is still valid after the tour ends, so you can continue exploring for as long as you want.

FIRST time in Florence? Don’t you know where to start? Join our free tour! We’ll show you the main HIGHTLIGHTS of this beautiful city and make you travel into the RENAISSANCE times and the intrigues of one of the most powerful and influent families of history: the MEDICI. All in a funny and easy-going way. We’ll also give you all the tips (what to visit, to taste ...) you need to take the most of the city and ENJOY it to the fullest! “Ok ok, that seems very cool... but who are you??” If you’re wondering this, it means that you’re so curious... and we love it! We’re a group of local friends and also official tour guides of Florence, although we’d rather introduce ourselves as STORYTELLERS! That’s why we chose “Tour-TALE” as our name. We love to tell stories to the people and make them travel throughout the past as it was a tale. We love traveling too and we’ve also been tourists, so we try to give you the kind of visit we’d like to find: clear and with a good balance between information, curiosities and funny anecdotes. With no stress, just relaxing and enjoying your holidays, while learning curiosities that you can explain when you go back home! Our aim is that you to finish our tour with a smile and give you the best memory possible of your trip. Are you ready? As the human brain starts getting tired after a while (if you don’t, then you’re a superhuman and we admire you so much), we’ve set the length of this tour in 2 hours. That’s enough to cover the main attractions of this city.

Experience the very best of Florence in a single, memorable day. See Michelangelo’s iconic ‘David’ sculpture up-close at the Accademia Gallery, and learn the secrets of Brunelleschi’s magnificent Duomo. Explore the ‘living museum’ of the medieval city on a walking tour of its most important piazzas and outdoor monuments, and finish with a journey through the Renaissance at the world-famous Ufizzi Gallery. Save time with skip-the-line access to the most popular attractions, and enjoy a small-group atmosphere of no more than 20 people.

Climbing in the water, swimming, walking, sailing but above all exploring in adventure ... This is WATER TREKKING in Tuscany! Mix of emotions in a fantastic environment. Valid activity for adventurous people. These excursions take place mainly in spring, summer and autumn in the Val di Lima area. The price of the excursion includes professional driving and third party liability and accident coverage. Bring a swimsuit and shirt to wear under your wetsuit. The fee includes all nautical material including shoes according to CE regulations, professional escort, transport to and from boarding / disembarking and third party liability and accident insurance. The times indicated include: briefings, transfer times, activities and de-briefings and may vary according to the physical conditions of the participants. In case of rain, the excursions will take place regularly.

​FIRST time in Florence? Don’t you know where to start? Join our free tour! We’ll show you the main HIGHTLIGHTS of this beautiful city and make you travel into the RENAISSANCE times and the intrigues of one of the most powerful and influent families of history: the MEDICI. All in a funny and easy-going way. We’ll also give you all the tips (what to visit, to taste ...) you need to take the most of the city and ENJOY it to the fullest! “Ok ok, that seems very cool... but who are you??” If you’re wondering this, it means that you’re so curious... and we love it! We’re a group of local friends and also official tour guides of Florence, although we’d rather introduce ourselves as STORYTELLERS! That’s why we chose “Tour-TALE” as our name. We love to tell stories to the people and make them travel throughout the past as it was a tale. We love traveling too and we’ve also been tourists, so we try to give you the kind of visit we’d like to find: clear and with a good balance between information, curiosities and funny anecdotes. With no stress, just relaxing and enjoying your holidays, while learning curiosities that you can explain when you go back home! Our aim is that you to finish our tour with a smile and give you the best memory possible of your trip. Are you ready? As the human brain starts getting tired after a while (if you don’t, then you’re a superhuman and we admire you so much), we’ve set the length of this tour in 2 hours. That’s enough to cover the main attractions of this city.

Our Polaguides will allow you to discover the most hidden places, but no less fascinating than Siena and instant photography will allow you to appreciate the beauty of the city from a unique and unrepeatable point of view. Each shot will capture your favorite moments in photos immediately ready to be touched, waved and attached in the guide-albums created to be personalized, to browse whenever you want. Transform your visit to Siena into unique memories to share with the whole family, young and old, and with friends.

Truffle hunting with truffle hunter and truffle dogs Tasting of typical products Dinner or lunch based on truffles

An authentic experience into the Tuscan countryside that combine active hiking with great food and wines. Enjoy a scenic active hike along the secret trails of the vineyards, in the Tuscan countryside, a little slice of heaven a few step out of Florence and into Mugello area. Visit a family-run organic farm and experience the Chianti Rufina wine and the extra-virgin olive oil. Nature lovers can get out and spend some hours hiking the Tuscan hills along silent country roads, through vineyard, olive groves and medieval villages, immersed in a land rich in history, where the Etruscan and Roman people lived in the past. Visit the agricultural estate, the cellar and and sit enjoying the Chianti Rufina wine tasting and the typical Tuscan light lunch.

Small-group tour for nature and wine lovers. We combine hiking, wine tasting and food tasting in a nice easy-day where everyone can enjoy beautiful landscapes, while drinking wines and tasting unique delicacies. You will have the chance to fully understand the unique wine region of Chianti Classico, crossing it by foot in an adventure of a life time. Spending the whole day sorrounded by vineyards and olive groves where you can actually touch it with your hands. You will enjoy a lovely family lunch and extra virgini olive oil as well. Trekking and wine tasting at its best.

Small-group experience, walking on ancient trails on the sorroundings of Florence. Easy and simple paths. You will be hiking and understanding the history of Florence and Fiesole while you are adimiring stunning views of Tuscany. You will be taking the footsteps of Leonardo Da Vinci where he made fly the first man. We will stop for a great Lunch before coming back to Florence. This experience gives you the chance to have a different perspective of the entire Tuscany and Florence. Magnificient locations to admire the Duomo and Tuscany all around. Discovering treasures hidden by the mountain of Monte Ceceri, the walk will take us right at the peak in a place called Leonardo da Vinci's square. Lunch with wine will be served in a Farm runs by an old florentine aristocrat family, before continuing to Fiesole where the minivan will take us back to Florence.

Take part in a uniquely Tuscan experience with a seasonal truffle hunt. Depart from Florence for the hills of Montefiesole, where you’ll join an expert guide and a truffle-hunting dog specially trained to sniff out the tubers prized for their delicate aroma and taste. Enjoy the bounty of the hunt with a delicious 3-course meal of truffle-accented dishes — even dessert.

A full-day excursion to discover one of the most charming places in Italy, an authentic earthly paradise suspended between land and sea, the Cinque Terre National Park. You will leave Florence very early in the morning, in a comfortable bus and pampered by the attention of your expert tour leader, which will be dedicated to you all day. Visit Manarola, Vernazza, Riomaggiore and Corniglia and follow your tour leader on a 3 hour hiking tour above the 5 Terre National Park: the trekking route will allow you to fully enjoy the beauty of nature that characterizes this fascinating region. You will have the sea on one side and on the other vineyards cultivated by locals. Once the hiking part is over, you will reach the other villages by train, and you will have free time to admire the pastel colored houses leaning one against the other on the tiny ports facing the crystal clear waters of the Ligurian Sea. A day full of beauty and nature that cannot be missed. Return to Florence in the evening

A wonderful walk along the Via Francigena to discover the most panoramic company "cru". We will talk about our reality and we will discover all the secrets that link native vines with a territory unique in the world. We will visit, if interested, the Parish Church of Cellole, one of the most beautiful and mystical Romanesque churches in the region. In the shade of an oak tree, with a breathtaking view of San Gimignano, we will taste 3 of our organic wines with Tuscan appetizers. Upon returning to the Company, visit our simple but professional wine cellar.

Monte Pisani is just few minutes away the city center of Lucca. It is a stunning place in nature so there will be many chances to stop and snap some photos. We will be surrounded by incredible views overlooking the town of Lucca one side and Pisa on the other, with the leaning tower in the distance (away from the crowd) and the sea as a background!

Spend a day on the vast private promontory south-east of the Island of Elba! Take part in an exclusive visit aboard a vehicle for over 1000 acres of estate included in the Tuscan Archipelago National Park. At the Grand Jeep Tour spend leisure time at Ristorante Tenuta Ripalte for lunch and pair the Tuscan Cuisine with the wines Cantina Tenuta delle Ripalte. With Petit Jeep Tour, include a visit to the modern design winery, designed by architect Tobia Scarpa, with wine tasting. Extend the tour with the afternoon at Remaiolo Beach!

Don’t worry about planning your own shore excursion: this small-group tour makes it easy to see the highlights of Florence and Pisa, all in one day. Upon disembarkation at the Livorno port, meet your guide and climb aboard your air-conditioned minivan. Admire the Tuscan scenery en route to Florence, where you’ll see the Duomo, visit the Ponte Vecchio, enjoy wine and salami at a local market, and more. Then, continue to Pisa to discover its famous Leaning Tower and other major attractions.

Professional local driving guides with the confort of air conditioned Mercedes sedan and van are providing a new approach to history, art, food and wine.