10-Day Villages of Tuscany - Small Group 2027
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Highlights
- Explore Rome, Orvieto, Pienza, Siena, Volterra, Grosseto and Pitigliano
- See Roman Forum, Piazza del Campo and Duomo, Roman Theater and the Palazzo dei Priori
- Visit the hilltop village of Orvieto, a local weekly market in Siena, the UNESCO-listed town of San Gimignano, walled city of Grosseto and colorful sculptures at Il Giardino dei Tarocchi
- Discover Rome, the town of Orvieto by funicular, winemaking traditions in Montepulciano, the importance of pecorino cheese in Pienza, Siena's historic districs and the timeless art of carving alabaster
- Rome: Take in your first views of Rome on an orientation through the Italian capital, where ancient sites, grand squares and monumental landmarks reveal the scale of the city. Along the way, see the Roman Forum, center of public life in ancient Rome, and the Trevi Fountain, one of Rome’s most famous Baroque landmarks.
- Ride the funicular up to Orvieto’s old town, set on volcanic rock above the Umbrian plain. With your Travel Director, explore a town shaped by its strategic position, where narrow streets and historic buildings reveal a very different side of Umbria.
- Montepulciano: Explore Montepulciano with your Travel Director before tasting Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, the DOCG red produced in the vineyards around the town. Made primarily from Sangiovese, known locally as Prugnolo Gentile, it is one of Tuscany’s best-known wines and a defining part of Montepulciano’s identity, served where the wine’s story begins.
- Montalcino: Pause in Montalcino to take in views over the Val d’Orcia, the UNESCO-listed landscape seen in Gladiator. From this hilltop position, look out across the cypress-lined roads, fields and villages that have made this one of Tuscany’s most recognized landscapes.
- Pienza: Explore Pienza with your Travel Director and get to know the town Pope Pius II reshaped as his ideal Renaissance city. Its orderly streets, stone buildings and compact historic center give it a very different feel from Tuscany’s medieval hill towns. While you’re here, taste the pecorino cheese that has long been associated with Pienza and the surrounding countryside.
- Siena: Visit the Mercato delle Merci, one of Tuscany’s biggest weekly markets, where locals come to shop for food, household goods and everyday essentials. Browse the stalls and look out for ricciarelli, the almond biscuits closely associated with the city.
- Siena: With your Local Specialist, see Siena through the shell-shaped Piazza del Campo, home of the Palio, and the black-and-white marble Duomo, one of the city’s great artistic landmarks. Then step inside a district museum linked to the Palio, where you’ll find banners, costumes and historic memorabilia connected to one of Siena’s historic districts.
- San Gimignano: Explore San Gimignano with your Travel Director, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for the towers that still rise above the town. It was an important stop for pilgrims traveling the Via Francigena and grew wealthy through trade and passing traffic. Today, its preserved medieval center and surviving towers make it one of Tuscany’s most recognizable hill towns.
- Volterra: See how local artisans work alabaster, one of Volterra’s best-known materials and a craft closely tied to the town. As you watch this soft white stone being shaped, you’ll get closer to a tradition that has been part of Volterra since Etruscan times and remains one of its defining local industries.
- Pitigliano: Get to know the Pitigliano’s Jewish history, which earned it the name Little Jerusalem. Built into tufa rock in southern Tuscany, the town became a place of refuge for Jews fleeing the Papal States in the 16th century. As you walk its streets, you’ll come across a story that sets Pitigliano apart from other Tuscan hilltop towns.
- Step into Il Giardino dei Tarocchi and discover a very different side of Tuscany through the large-scale sculptures of artist Niki de Saint Phalle. As you explore the garden, you’ll see color, mosaic and symbolism brought together in a setting that stands apart from the region’s medieval towns and hilltop villages.
- Siena: Head into the Tuscan countryside for dinner at a local agriturismo. Enjoy a wine tasting as you hear from the family about the history and culture of the region.
Dates & Prices
Price in USD (per person, based on double occupancy)
Itinerary
Rome, Italy
Rome, Italy
Orvieto, Italy
Montepulciano, Italy
Montepulciano, Italy
Montalcino, Italy
Pienza, Italy
Montepulciano, Italy
Montepulciano, Italy
Siena, Italy
Siena, Italy
Certaldo, Italy
San Gimignano, Italy
Siena, Italy
Siena, Italy
Volterra, Italy
Volterra, Italy
Grosseto, Italy
Grosseto, Italy
Il Giardino dei Tarocchi, Italy
Rome, Italy
Includes & Excludes
Price Includes
Additional Notes
- DAY 1: Complimentary arrival transfers from Leonardo Da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport (FCO) depart at 09:30, 12:30 and 15:00 on the first day of the tour. We recommend flights to arrive 2 hours prior to the last complimentary transfer time. Flights to arrive prior to 13:00.
- DAY 10: Complimentary transfer arrives at Leonardo Da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport (FCO) on the last day of the tour at 07:00 and 09:30. We recommend flights to depart 3 hours after the first transfer arrival time at the airport. Flights to depart after 10:00.
- CHARGEABLE TRANSFERS: Chargeable transfers available in Rome. Guests who have booked their extra hotel nights with Trafalgar, or whose flight times do not coincide with the shuttle coach timings may purchase a chargeable transfer. However, guests booking independent hotel nights will make their own transfer arrangements.
- MOTORCOACH NOTE: Smaller vehicles without onboard washrooms may be used, however, the Travel Director will arrange regular comfort stops during longer journeys to ensure guests' comfort.
- SMALL GROUP SERIES: This trip is featuring exclusively small-group departures, operating with a maximum of 18 guests for the entire series.
Policies
Touring: By air-conditioned / air-ventilated motor coaches. Please note that on some Regional European First Class Tours and London sightseeing, motor coaches without toilet facilities are used. In the Middle East and South America, air-conditioned / air-ventilated motor coaches (or minibuses) without toilet facilities are used. If due to circumstances beyond our control coaches are used otherwise than as advertised, a refund of $10 per person will be made.
- Over 45 days: $US200
- 45 - 22 days: 25%
- 21 - 8 days: 30%
- 7 - 1 days: 50%
- Departure day or later/no show: 100% The refund amount will be credited directly to your TakeTours wallet as credits for future use. Or the refund can also be forwarded directly to your credit card with a 6% handling fee.
Tour Prices:Are based on costs, charges, tariffs, rates, prices, taxes, levies and exchange rates as at time brochures went to print. Should these change, the price of your vacation may increase. No surcharges in respect of cost or currency fluctuations will be made once payment for the deposit of your land tour is received. This does not apply to fuel surcharges and any taxes, charges or levies imposed by any government or their agencies. In exchange for these guarantees, no refund will be made if costs are reduced. Please note that if the total tour price increases by more than 10%, passengers will have the right to cancel their tour within 7 days of notification of the surcharge without penalty.
Tour Cancellation: We reserves the right to cancel or re-schedule any tour departure in accordance with operating requirements or circumstances beyond its control. If cancellation is made any time prior to departure* of the tour, our only liability will be to refund to the passenger the amount it has received for the tour booking.
We are not responsible for any other travel arrangement affected due to our cancellations.
Travel Insurance: We recommend that all passengers purchase comprehensive travel insurance. Certain countries have a requirement for foreign visitors to have valid medical insurance on entry. We cannot be held responsible if a passenger is denied entry for being unable to provide details to the authorities of such insurance. We do not employ staff doctors or nurses. Should you need medical attention, it will be at local facilities, at your expense. We are not responsible for any costs incurred as a result of medical services, or for the quality of medical care or medical services you receive.
Complaints procedure: Should you have a complaint in respect of your vacation, you should inform your Tour Director/Representative immediately. If the matter cannot be resolved after the Tour Director's/Representative's best endeavors to do so during the holiday.
Responsibility
1. The Operators shall be responsible to the passenger for supplying the services and accommodations described on the website, except where such services cannot be supplied or the itinerary used is changed due to delays or other causes of whatever kind or nature beyond the control of the Operators. In such circumstances, the Operators will do their best to supply comparable services, accommodations and itineraries and there shall be no refund in this connection.
2. Where the passenger occupies a motorcoach seat fitted with a safety belt, neither the Operators nor their agents or co-operating organizations or service providers concerned will be liable for any injury, illness or death or for any loss or damages or claims whatsoever arising from any accident or incident, if the safety belt is not being worn at the time of such accident or incident.
3. Transportation companies, are not to be held responsible for any act, omission or event during the time passengers are not on transportation or conveyances. We rely on international convention which may apply to the services provided by us, our suppliers or agents with respect to any claim of any nature brought by you against us as a result of the provision of those services. International conventions which apply may include: Warsaw Convention 1929, (as amended by Hague Protocol and Montreal Protocol) in relation to air travel, or Montreal Convention; the Berne Convention for rail travel; Athens Convention 1974 for carriage by sea; the Geneva Convention for carriage by road and the Paris Convention 1962 for Hotels. We are to be regarded as having all benefit of these conventions on limiting our liability in relation to any claim for death, injury, loss, damage and delay to passengers and luggage. Enrollment in and payment for a tour shall constitute agreement and acceptance by the passenger of the terms and conditions set forth in this brochure which cannot be varied except in writing by an officer of the Company.
4. In the case of computer or human billing error we reserve the right to re-invoice passengers with correct billing.
5. We are not responsible for omissions, printing and/or typographical errors, in brochures, on Internet sites correspondence or invoices or in any other media where such information may be presented. We reserve the right to make corrections as required. The terms and conditions listed remain in effect until replaced. These terms and conditions replace all previous versions.
- The Operators shall be responsible to the passenger for supplying the services and accommodations described on the website, except where such services cannot be supplied or the itinerary used is changed due to delays or other causes of whatever kind or nature beyond the control of the Operators. In such circumstances, the Operators will do their best to supply comparable services, accommodations and itineraries and there shall be no refund in this connection.
- Where the passenger occupies a motorcoach seat fitted with a safety belt, neither the Operators nor their agents or co-operating organizations or service providers concerned will be liable for any injury, illness or death or for any loss or damages or claims whatsoever arising from any accident or incident, if the safety belt is not being worn at the time of such accident or incident.
- Transportation companies, are not to be held responsible for any act, omission or event during the time passengers are not on transportation or conveyances. We rely on international convention which may apply to the services provided by us, our suppliers or agents with respect to any claim of any nature brought by you against us as a result of the provision of those services. International conventions which apply may include: Warsaw Convention 1929, (as amended by Hague Protocol and Montreal Protocol) in relation to air travel, or Montreal Convention; the Berne Convention for rail travel; Athens Convention 1974 for carriage by sea; the Geneva Convention for carriage by road and the Paris Convention 1962 for Hotels. We are to be regarded as having all benefit of these conventions on limiting our liability in relation to any claim for death, injury, loss, damage and delay to passengers and luggage. Enrollment in and payment for a tour shall constitute agreement and acceptance by the passenger of the terms and conditions set forth in this brochure which cannot be varied except in writing by an officer of the Company.
- In the case of computer or human billing error we reserve the right to re-invoice passengers with correct billing.
- We are not responsible for omissions, printing and/or typographical errors, in brochures, on Internet sites correspondence or invoices or in any other media where such information may be presented. We reserve the right to make corrections as required. The terms and conditions listed remain in effect until replaced. These terms and conditions replace all previous versions.
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