Trafalgar Italy tours include Hidden Treasures, Unique Insights and Be My Guest Dinners. You will feel like a traveler and not a tourist. Trafalgar tours shares the hidden places not mentioned in guidebooks, the local people you wouldn’t otherwise meet, and the traditions you may not have discovered by yourself. It’s the insider view from a friend, giving you authentic and enhanced experiences you won’t find anywhere else. Do these included features really add value to your trip? We say yes. It affords you the opportunity to see places and do things you would not be able to arrange on your own. We have listed some of these unique features below, so you be the judge.
Trafalgar Tours: Hidden Treasures in Italy
Unique Insight
- Follow in the footsteps of Michelangelo and da Vinci when visiting the Vatican Museums. Ascend the smooth and step-less spiral staircase designed by famous architect Donato Bramante in a part of the Vatican not open to the public.
- Stop in Vinci – the town near where Leaonardo da Vinci was born and visit a museum dedicated to the master.
- Enjoy an included visit to the beautiful gardens of Villa Taranto.
- Enjoy a walking tour of ‘secret Venice’ with your local guide including a visit to a local fish market and views of Marco Polo’s house.
- Meet a professional Italian Chef who will tell you about fresh produce and the basic principle of the local cuisine.
- Visit Giardino degli Aranci, a small park that has great views of the city. Walk to the nearby monastery and look through the keyhole of the front door and you can see 3 countries at once.
Be My Guest
- Visit an organic olive oil estate dating back to the 15th century in the Tuscan hills. The villa has been used as a location for many famous films and it is here you are welcome by the family and have a delicious dinner of local specialties.
- Visit an Agriturismo farmhouse in the heart of Tuscany for a delicious Italian meal. After a warm welcome by the family, walk through the olive groves and lemon trees and taste some of the locally produced wines and olive oils.
- Take a private boat trip for an exclusive dinner on an island in the idyllic Lake Maggiore. Your host will share stories of the history of the island and pirates hideaway. Then you will be served a delicious meal.
- You will be welcomed by the owners of a magnificent castle in the Tuscan hills and taken on tour of the castle and cellars once used as dungeons. Enjoy a memorable dinner in the Great Hall or Castle Gardens and taste some delicious Chitantis.
- Dinner and wine in a vineyard setting overlooking the Chitanti hills with a local family who also tends an olive grove.
- Enjoy dinner in a spectacular Sicilian winery at the foot of Mount Etna. Enjoy regional cuisine and savor the delicious wine which you will taste with an explanation from an expert sommelier.
Hidden Treasures
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- Enjoy complimentary Vernaccia wine and cheese while stopping for a unique photo opp where you hold out your hand and it looks like you are holding the entire city of San Gimignano in your hand.
- Experience gelato flavors found no where else in the world while visiting San Gimignano.
- Your guide surprises you with unexpected morning goodies such as baked Zeppole di San Giuseppe in Naples. This is a lighter version of a donut (baked or fried) that is filled with pastry cream and topped with macerated Amarena cherries.
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