Well, it’s time to discover a different side of the region! All the classic highlights mentioned above are included, but there's much more to see!
I bet when you hear the word “Tuscany,” you imagine cypress-lined roads, medieval towns, Florentine
steak, Renaissance paintings, and foggy hills at sunrise.
You’ll explore mysterious paths among ancient Etruscan villages, admire frescoes in a family-run monastery where you’ll spend a night, and relax in thermal pools and cozy farms. Just get ready for a whole new load of unforgettable experiences!
When:
11-18 October
For whom:
Lovers of nature and thermal baths who enjoy walking for hours. Prior hiking experience is a plus!
Meeting point:
Florence, Italy
3200€
Not included:
Included:
CR insurance
Professional mountain guide services throughout the entire tour
All breakfasts, one picnic, and two dinners
All entrance fees for activities along the route
Seven nights in twin rooms in hotels, farmhouses, and a monastery
Transfer from the meeting point to the hiking start point in Pienza, and back to Orbetello (NOT Florence! From Orbetello you can go either to Rome or to Pisa and Florence.)
Anything not specified in the "Included" section
Personal travel insurance
Flights to and from Italy
Сost:
Trekking Tour day by day
What to expect:
At 9:00 we’ll leave Florence. As the minivan ventures into the Tuscan countryside, the landscape will change dramatically, and we’ll start fidgeting in our seats, getting more and more excited for the trekking tour.
Those winding cypress-lined alleys you usually see on postcards and in films, and hooray, we’ll get to walk down one!
Pienza, one of the most beautiful medieval towns in Italy, with its cobbled streets, colourful souvenir shops, chiming church bells, and gelato italiano melting in your hands.
A family-run hotel surrounded by a garden of citron trees, a swimming pool, and the cheerful pop of opening Prosecco
The Orcia Valley, with its iconic landscapes
What to expect:
A fantastic sunrise above the thermal baths: bubbling water in a pale ochre morning mist and a burning scarlet sky
Bagno Vignoni, a unique town with a thermal pool at its very centre
A tiring hike up and down the Tuscan hills for hours and hours - definitely the toughest day of the trekking tour
A picnic among the Tuscan hills with picturesque farms scattered all around
A late evening soak in the thermal pools of Bagno Filippi, all the more pleasant once you realise how many kilometres you've covered today!
What to expect:
The cosiest agriturismo with the friendliest owner I've ever met in Italy. There's no way you won’t love it!
And the homemade food is absolutely delicious!(Don't torture the cook for the recipes, you'd need to grow the ingredients first! :))
And the homemade food is absolutely delicious!(Don't torture the cook for the recipes, you'd need to grow the ingredients first! :))
Radicofani, a medieval borgo full of flowers and charm
An enigmatic pyramid in a private garden. What will you feel at the top?
What to expect:
Struggling your way through the bushes, feeling like a real explorer
Abbadia San Salvatore, another borgo filled with the scent of wood-burning fireplaces and wild boar ragù
Forests with leaves rustling under your feet
An old monastery where we will spend the night, and where the owner herself will introduce us to the
medieval frescoes, hidden passageways, monastic cells
medieval frescoes, hidden passageways, monastic cells
Dinner in the monastery refectory
What to expect:
In the morning we continue deeper into the region and find ourselves in a different Tuscan reality.
Narrow passageways carved directly through the tuff blocks
The mysteries of the Etruscan civilisation and their hilltop towns
... and Sorano itself, with its maze of narrow cobbled streets
The most stunning view over Sorano
Relax in the hotel swimming pool after another full day of hiking
What to expect:
Abandoned Etruscan settlements
The most picturesque of the remaining Etruscan towns - Pitigliano
New paths with enigmatic signs and inscriptions on the tuff walls
Sovana and its churches
Typical local food, just to make sure you know what Tuscan cuisine is by the end of the trekking tour
What to expect:
St Peter and St Paul’s Cathedral in Sovana, and a mermaid with two tails
The most significant Etruscan tombs
Travelling back in time and enjoying cypress alleys again
The last lunch in the middle of the Tuscan hills
An evening swim in the pool fed by the famous Saturnia thermal spring
The best hotel and spa resort in the region
A slow breakfast, and we are ready to leave.
Just don’t forget to take all your Tuscan joy and happiness with you!
You can choose either route depending on your return flight.
At Orbetello train station, the group usually splits: some go to Rome, others to Pisa.
There are almost no tourists at this hour, and we can immerse ourselves not only in the hot water, but also in the fairytale-like atmosphere of the place.
Early in the morning we wake up to see the sunrise at the Saturnia thermal pools.
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