YOUR EXPERIENCE IN SIENA
Overlooking Piazza del Campo
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Gold-ground medieval painting
Experience life in a 14th-century Sienese art studio! Under the guidance of a local artist, you will learn the techniques and tools used in the Middle Ages to create an original painting, working with materials such as plaster, rabbit glue, Armenian clay, pure gold, and egg tempera. Led by a local artist.
Medieval Manuscript Calligraphy
Unlock the art of Gothic script in this exciting calligraphy workshop! Using authentic materials you’ll learn how to put quill to parchment and create your own manuscript while enjoying historical insight into the work of the medieval scribes. Suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
Discovering Sienese Ceramics
Explore creative techniques for making ceramics in a Sienese art studio. With the help of a local ceramist, learn how to model clay and create ceramics by hand, developing your own personal style crafting small, customized objects.
Painting En Plain Air
Experience how to create watercolor paintings en plein air from start to finish. You’ll learn tips and tricks for selecting scenes, and depict the beauty of the Tuscan landscape or Mediterrean plants and flowers. The activity is suitable also for kids with a special class of creative
painting for all ages and use of different pigments and natural materials.
Made In Italy crafting hat
Craft your fashion hat – An original experience to shape your own hat under the supervision of an expert artisan, decorating it according to your taste.
Create your elegant Fascinator – Have you ever dreamed of wearing a small headdress for a special event? You will create your fascinator together with the artisan using your imagination, hands, needle and thread!
Siena Walking Tour & Wine Tasting
A guided tour to experience the magical atmosphere of Siena: visit the historic center and its main monuments. Discover the origins, traditions and most significant places of Siena, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1995. At the end of the tour, enjoy a wine tasting of 3 glasses of well-renowned Tuscan wines.
Taste Siena – Food tour
Enjoy a guided tour to discover the typical flavors of the Sienese and Tuscan tradition. Together with the tour guide, you will admire the beauty of the historic center while stopping to taste local delicacies inside characteristic stores.
Hunt, Find, Taste: The Truffle Experience
Discover the unique world of Truffle in Tuscany: hunting it with the expert hands of a truffle hunter, finding it with the help of dogs and tasting it with all of your senses. At the end of the hunt you will enjoy a lunch, tasting local products: tartare and toasts with truffle sauces, tasting of pecorino cheese and cold cuts, Tuscan crostini, local wine.
Siena Walking Tour
Stroll around the medieval city of Siena and discover the beauty of our buildings, our traditions and culture through the eyes of a local. We will admire Siena from the most charming views and visit the two most important squares, Piazza del Campo where twice a year the Palio (horse race) is organized and the Cathedral square.
Discover Siena & aperitif overlooking Piazza del Campo
Visit the historic center and its main monuments. Discover the origins, traditions and most significant places of Siena, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1995. Walking through its alleys, streets and squares we will admire the beautiful Gothic Cathedral, and other famous buildings of the city center. At the end of the tour, enjoy a tasty aperitif (salty and sweet) in an exclusive location with a stunning beautiful view over the Piazza del Campo!
Palio Tour & meet the artist
The tour starts in Piazza del Campo where the tour guide will introduce you to the magical
atmosphere of the Palio horse race. It includes a visit to a Contrada museum, an opportunity to understand the real soul of Siena with its 17 neighborhoods, called Contrade. At the end, in our magical location overlooking Piazza del Campo you will meet the artist Alessandro Grazi who painted a Palio, a unique experience!
Artisans Tour
Stroll around the city to meet Sienese artisans, visit their workshops and be amazed by the wonderful artworks that they create following ancient techniques. Artists choose to work with different materials to create their artworks, for this reason you will meet marble, silver, bronze, ceramic, leather workers and painters.
Gothic Experience – Mysteries of Siena
Hidden waters, spirits, ghosts – and how to fight them! A walking tour designed around Siena’s most beloved legends, from Pia Tolomei to the first bellringer of the Torre del Mangia. Enjoy charming views while following the never-found river that flows under the city, discovering Siena’s mysterious side of history.
Urban Trekking
An urban tour among the lesser-known places, green areas and monuments of the historic center, discovering characters and stories hidden among the city streets. The itineraries are organized according to length and difficulty to suit both skilled and less experienced hikers.
Family Tour
Barbara Latini, tour guide and author of the children’s guidebook “Explore and discover Siena for children”, with the mascot BAL (from Balzana, the Sienese coat of arms) will accompany the whole family on a fun tour to explore the city. Walking through the streets of Siena, we will observe different monuments trying to discover many curiosities about the city of the Palio.
Fuji Instax Photo Tour
Led by a licensed tour guide, this tour is a unique and fun activity to involve the whole family in the interactive discovery of the most hidden but no less fascinating places in Siena! You will have fun with instant photography using a Fuji Instax camera while a guide will tell you stories and anecdotes about the city. This tour is suggested for families with kids and teenagers.
Family Treasure Hunt
A guided tour for the whole family, children will learn to have fun with a treasure hunt! You will discover the history of Siena, its legends, its myths and many nice anecdotes related to the city, the most significant monuments and the importance it had in the past. The walk will take you to the last stop where the youngest participants will find a treasure!
Palio Artists for a Day
The tradition of the Palio is very important in Siena and can be discovered in every corner of the streets. In the company of a tour guide, you will go on a discovery tour of all the Contrade symbols, visiting a Museum of one Contrada to see the prizes won, called “Palio”. Then it is time to become real artists! You will create your own “Palio”, an original painting on canvas to take away with you!
Sienese Nature Explorers
You will have the opportunity to visit the Natural History Museum – Accademia dei Fisiocritici where you will find a collection of many animals from all over the world and perfectly preserved! Then you will visit the Botanical Garden, an open-air museum where its treasures are centuries-old trees and different types of wonderful flowers!
Val d’Orcia Walking tour
During this tour we enjoy the beauty of one of the most famous Tuscan territories: the Val d’Orcia. It’s an ideal place to stop and experience the beauty of nature, architecture, food and wine. According to your request we can visit Pienza the ideal city of the Renaissance, Montepulciano and Montalcino famous all over the world for their red wines such as The Brunello and the Nobile, San Quirico d’Orcia, nestled in the swirling hills with its famous “cipressi” (cypresses) and Bagno Vignoni, whose center has developed around a large pool from which thermal waters flow.
Pienza: The Ideal City of The Renaissance
Pienza is considered the “Ideal City of the Renaissance”. It’s known as the city of Pope Pius II, Enea Silvio Piccolomini, who was born here in 1405. Once Pius became Pope, he wanted to transform his humble birthplace, Corsignano, into an urban-architectural treasure of the Renaissance age. During the tour we will visit the cathedral, the Palazzo Piccolomini and we admire some breathtaking views. Option: tasting of types of different Pecorino Cheese of Pienza and a bottle of wine Orcia Doc in an historical store.
Brunello Wine & Saffron Tour in Montalcino
A journey into the land of Brunello, among works of art and excellent food and wine products. Visit of Montalcino and its “Tempio del Brunello” Museum: an immersive experience to discover the King of wines supported by virtual reality viewers, interactive projections and emotional contents. Afterwards, visit a local saffron producer, an extraordinary family run business, immersed in nature surrounded by vineyards and taste their homemade products (honey with saffron on cheese, saffron beer, saffron cantucci, saffron tea).
San Gimignano Walking Tour
Discover with a local guide this little town full of medieval towers. Who lived in the towers and why were there so many. We will follow panoramic streets and see the most important squares. For those who wish we can go up to the fortress where we can admire the towers from above and find the Vernaccia museum, our local white wine. Possibility to visit the Collegiata (main church), which preserves very important frescoes all over the walls. Who wants to climb up the highest tower of San Gimignano?
Colle Val d’Elsa the “City of The Crystal”
During the tour we will discover the oldest part of the Town “Colle Alta”, with its churches,
narrow and vaulted paths, and towers, as the “casa-torre” of the famous architect Arnolfo di
Cambio. The tour will end with the visit to an artesanal factory where the crystal is produced and where we can meet a “maestro vetraio” who will show the different phases of the production of the crystal.
Trekking in the Sienese countryside
According to the clients requests, we will suggest the best itinerary led by a professional hiking guide. Itineraries can be customized in all the Province of Siena, such as in Val d’Orcia, Chianti, Val di Merse, or starting from your hotel if possible.