Florence Foodies Tour
Experience & taste Florence like a local!
The 100% private Florence Foodie tour will be an euphoric feast for your palate!
You will learn, eat, taste, smell and drink what the locals have for the past 1000 years.
This morning tour will begin with a coffee (espresso) or cappuccino alongside a brioscia or sfoglia as 95% of Italians do every morning.
We’ll then proceed to the local Sant’Ambrogio neighborhood to get away from the hustle-and-bustle city center of Florence. We’ll visit the fruit & vegetable market, only open on weekday mornings followed by the Sant’Ambrogio market with butchers & fish vendors.
Here, we’ll open a bottle of Chianti Classico or Super Tuscan wine to help accompany us with 3 pecorino cheeses, 2 Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses, 1 truffle cheese, salami, finocchiona, prosciutto, olives, sun dried tomatoes, bread and schiacciata (what most call focaccia bread).
We’ll discuss the difference s among the following Tuscan red wines: Chianti, Chianti Classico, Brunello, Nobile, Bolgheri & Super Tuscan wines
The tour will conclude with a local lampredotto sandwich from one of the 5 local street food stands that carry a unique license and permit that allows them to do so.
- Tour length: 3 hours
- Meeting place: we’ll estableish this together
- Meeting time: 9:00am
- Max group size: this tour is only offered 100% private
- Food & drink: all food & drink is INCLUDED as per tour description above
- Dress code: no specific dress code required
COSTS
- This tour is only offered 100% private and includes all food & drink as per tour description
- Cost for 2 people is Euro 950
- Add an additional Euro 200 for each additional person in your party
Details
- Tour runs rain or shine
- There is no dress code requirement for this tour
- Although all necessary reservations are made, Tuscan Tour Guide will not accept any responsibility or issue any reimbursement for extensive waiting times that are completely out of our control, such as during “high season”, strikes, change of opening hours, special celebrations or festivities, political or religious figure appearance, Easter week closings and/or but not limited to extreme weather conditions
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Florence & David
My best selling tour for over 20 years!
The Florence & David tour lasts 3 hours and begins at the Academy of Fine Arts to see the most famous statue in the world: Michelangelo’s original David. The tour continues with a stroll across the Renaissance city of Florence covering the Duomo, Baptistry, Doors of Paradise, Brunelleschi’s dome, Piazza della Signoria, Palazzo Vecchio & Ponte Vecchio (all external).
Dots are connected and anecdotes are given throughout the 3 hours employing the Socratic Method so everyone stays involved and does not feel overwhelmed with the history shared.
- Tour length: 3 hours
- Meeting place: directly in front of the RESERVED door on Via Ricasoli 58
- Meeting time: 9:10am or 1:00pm
- Max group size: semi private 12 people total or 100% private upon request
- Tickets: all necessary skip the line tickets are INCLUDED
- Dress code: no specific dress code required
COSTS
- All costs below INCLUDE SKIP THE LINE tickets
- If you’d like this tour 100% private please add a flat fee of EURO €500, otherwise the tour can have a maximum of 12 people
- Cost for 2 people is Euro 600
- Add an additional Euro 200 for each additional person in your party
- Groups of 12 or more people must add the 100% private fee of Euro 500
Details
- Tour runs rain or shine
- There is no dress code requirement for this tour
- Although all necessary reservations in order to skip-the-line are made, Tuscan Tour Guide will not accept any responsibility or issue any reimbursement for extensive waiting times that are completely out of our control, such as during “high season”, strikes, change of opening hours, special celebrations or festivities, political or religious figure appearance, Easter week closings and/or but not limited to extreme weather conditions
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Grand Tour
The Grand Tour lasts 4 and a half hours and begins at the Academy of Fine Arts to see the most famous statue in the world: Michelangelo’s original David. The tour continues with a stroll across the Renaissance city of Florence covering the Duomo, Baptistry, Doors of Paradise, Brunelleschi’s dome, Piazza della Signoria, Palazzo Vecchio & Ponte Vecchio (all external).
The last 90 minutes of the tour will be in the Uffizi Gallery covering the world famous Renaissance paintings including Giotto’s Madonna & Child, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and La Primavera, Leonardo Da Vinci’s Baptism of Christ as well as Michelangelo’s Holy Family.
Dots are connected and anecdotes are given throughout tour employing the Socratic Method so everyone stays involved and does not feel overwhelmed with the history shared.
- Tour length: 4 and a half hours
- Meeting place: directly in front of the RESERVED door on Via Ricasoli 58
- Meeting time: 9:10am or 1:00pm
- Max group size: semi private 12 people total or 100% private upon request
- Tickets: all necessary skip the line tickets are INCLUDED for BOTH museums
- Dress code: no specific dress code required
COSTS
- All costs below INCLUDE SKIP THE LINE tickets
- If you’d like this tour 100% private please add a flat fee of EURO €500, otherwise the tour can have a maximum of 12 people
- Cost for 2 people is Euro 750
- Add an additional Euro 250 for each additional person in your party
- Groups of 12 or more people must add the 100% private fee of Euro 500
Details
- Tour runs rain or shine
- There is no dress code requirement for this tour
- Although all necessary reservations in order to skip-the-line are made, Tuscan Tour Guide will not accept any responsibility or issue any reimbursement for extensive waiting times that are completely out of our control, such as during “high season”, strikes, change of opening hours, special celebrations or festivities, political or religious figure appearance, Easter week closings and/or but not limited to extreme weather conditions
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Marvellous Mondays
This tour covers some of the best hidden treasures that unfortunately most travelers don’t see during their stay in Florence. All State-run museums are closed on Mondays which explains why this tour runs only on Mondays however can be done any day of the week.
The tour begins in front of the Duomo Museum to see Michelangelo’s 2nd Pietà, Donatello’s Mary Magdalene & the original Doors of Paradise.
The tour continues inside the Baptistry to see where Dante got Baptised, the tomb of Anti-Pope John XXIII as well as the mosaics of a Roman domus.
If time permits we’ll visit the inside of the Duomo & its underground.
- Tour length: 3 hours
- Meeting place: directly in front of the center doors of the Church of San Lorenzo
- Meeting time: 9:10am or 1:00pm
- Max group size: semi private 12 people total or 100% private upon request
- Tickets: all necessary skip the line tickets are INCLUDED to the Duomo Museum
- Dress code: no knees or shoulders showing being we’ll be entering religiuos locations
COSTS
- All costs below INCLUDE SKIP THE LINE tickets
- If you’d like this tour 100% private please add a flat fee of EURO €500, otherwise the tour can have a maximum of 12 people
- Cost for 2 people is Euro 600
- Add an additional Euro 200 for each additional person in your party
- Groups of 12 or more people must add the 100% private fee of Euro 500
Details
- Tour runs rain or shine
- Dress code: no dress code
- Although all necessary reservations in order to skip-the-line are made, Tuscan Tour Guide will not accept any responsibility or issue any reimbursement for extensive waiting times that are completely out of our control, such as during “high season”, strikes, change of opening hours, special celebrations or festivities, political or religious figure appearance, Easter week closings and/or but not limited to extreme weather conditions
Arno Boat Tour
This special experience on a private boat called “Il Barchetto” being pushed by a “Renaiolo” is a unique way to see Florence from “below”. This rare opportunity to flow under the Ponte Vecchio and by the Salvatore Ferragamo world headquarters called Palazzo Spini-Feroni built in 1289 is an exceptional treat for anyone!
- Tour length: 45 minutes
- Meeting place: at the only statue in Piazza Mentana
- Meeting time: we’ll establish this together
- Max group size: 100% private only to your party
- Dress code: no flip flops please
COSTS
- This tour is only offered 100% private
- Cost for 2 people is Euro 550
- Add an additional Euro 100 for each additional person in your party
Details
- Tour runs rain or shine
- NO FLIP FLOPS are allowed on this tour
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Uffizi Gallery
The Uffizi Gallery tour focuses on the world famous paintings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, then Mannerism and end with Baroque. Starting with the late Middle Ages Giotto’s Madonna & Child, we’ll see and understand the way which painters progressed into the Low Renaissance with Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and La Primavera. We’ll dive into why and how the High Renaissance painters like Leonardo Da Vinci & Michelangelo were able to develop their individual style and end the tour with Caravaggio’s Baroque “on-the-edge” lifestyle revealed in his art.
Dots are connected, stories are told and anecdotes are given throughout the tour employing the Socratic Method so everyone stays involved and has an easier time digesting all the art-history shared.
- Tour length: 2 and a half hours
- Meeting place: at the only statue of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Uffizi courtyard
- Meeting time: 8:15am or 1:00pm
- Max group size: this tour is only offered privately
- Tickets: all necessary skip the line tickets are INCLUDED
COSTS
- This tour is only offered 100% private
- All costs below INCLUDE SKIP THE LINE tickets
- Cost for 2 people is Euro 950
- Add an additional Euro 250 for each additional person in your party
Details
- Tour runs rain or shine
- There is no dress code requirement for this tour
- Although all necessary reservations in order to skip-the-line are made, Tuscan Tour Guide will not accept any responsibility or issue any reimbursement for extensive waiting times that are completely out of our control, such as during “high season”, strikes, change of opening hours, special celebrations or festivities, political or religious figure appearance, Easter week closings and/or but not limited to extreme weather conditions
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Restaurants in no particular order:
- Trattoria 4 Leoni
- Francescovini
- Cinghiale Bianco
- Conquinarius
- La Casalinga
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Gluten free restaurants in no particular order:
- Ristorante Quinoa
- Hostaria il Desco
- Mister Pizza
- Sgrano
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