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Walking tours in Tuscany

Walking tours in Tuscany

Welcome in Tuscany!
Welcome who love exercise keeping fit and healing their body and mind against an extraordinary backdrop.
Awaiting you, there  are more than six hundred kilometres of coastline, the  Apennine mountains, gently sloping hills and then rivers and green valleys, a context that can provide a backdrop to all activities, to any passion that you may want to carry out.
For those constantly in eternal motion, there are walks in cities of art like Siena, and cycling on the tracks scattered aout the spectacular countryside of the Crete. But also visits to castles and glimpse over ancient remains from the Lunigiana to the Chianti area.
Walking tours in Tuscany ….for your unforgettable holidays!

Cooking class in Tuscany

Olive trees

Cooking lessons and wine tour.
Private cooking class in Tuscany, guided tours in Chianti area and wine tasting assisted by “vacation consultant” in comfortable hotels in the heart of Tuscany. Also olive oil tasting combinated with lessons of traditional Tuscan cooking.

San Gimignano Torture Museum

Torture instrument

The writer Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, the tutelary deity of masochism went to a wedding in this museum.
In San Gimignano Torture  Museum are present torture instruments from all over Europe, some even of the sixteenth and seventeenth century or the nineteenth and twentieth century philological reconstructions of original antiques.
Machinery explain that the human mind and its perversion found systems designed to inflict torture. There are weapons, devices and instruments of torture and public humiliation, engravings, prints and paintings.

Torture Museum:
Via del Castello 1/3, San Gimignano – SIENA

Open all year – from 10 to 19 hours
Price: full € 10.00; reduced € 6,00; groups € 4.00

Web-site: www.museodellatortura.com

Versilia Wine Art Festival

Tuscan red wine
Tuscan red wine

The second year of this new wine show which runs in the main square and in the Chiostro Sant’Agostino.
More than 100 producers.
27 -29 march.
Etichette d’Autore as a part of this wine festival the Chiesa Sant’Agostino hosts a show of designer wine labels commissioned by major wineries from leading European artists.
16.00 – 19.00, 24-26 march and 10.00-19.30, 27 to 29 march.

Official web-site: www.wineartfestival.com