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Pic-Nic in the Chianti Hills

Unmissable experience on an electric Vespa in the Chianti hills with a delicious Pic-Nic.

An electric Vespa experience among the Chianti hills not to be missed. An alternative itinerary in Chianti with a tasty picnic lunch to enjoy during your Chianti Tour. We will start our tour by passing through Impruneta, famous especially for its terracotta industry. Here we are in the open countryside and admire the city of Florence from above. The second stop is the Luiano farm; family-run, from generation to generation the experience and passion of a business that fills its customers with joy is passed on. At this stop you will find your basket full of treats for your journey. Then, you will move on to the third destination: Greve in Chianti; a beautiful medieval village located among the hills, it is one of the largest and most important towns in this area and is also famous for the excellent wine produced by the wineries located in the municipal area. The last stop will be Montefioralle, a small town just above Greve in Chianti. Among the stone alleys, overlooked by the characteristic houses that climb up to the village, you will discover a jewel of rare beauty and be enchanted by views you have never seen before.

The Pilgrims' Passage

A not-to-be-missed trip to Chianti

The first stop is Greve in Chianti, an Italian municipality that joins the two cities Florence and Siena. Here, we cross the Via Chiantigiana, where we find ourselves surrounded by beautiful scenery, and then reach Montefioralle one of the 308 most beautiful villages in Italy. Next, we head to Badia a Passignano where we find the Abbey of San Michele Arcangelo a monastery of the Vallombrosan Congregation. Finally, we head to the last stop, Clantenova, where we can enjoy a unique wine tasting.

CAF TOUR EXPLORING CHIANTI

Green spaces, cicadas singing, breeze that breaks down hair, sun and scents of broom, rosemary and sage this is the Tuscan countryside

EXPLORING CHIANTI Duration of the experience: 8 hours approx. Stop 1: Montefioralle Journey Time from Florence to Montefioralle: approx. 1h30 with stops and time to take pictures Recommended time in Montefioralle: 45 minutes Stop 2: Macina of San Cresci Journey Time from Montefioralle to Macina of San Cresci: approx. 10 minutes Recommended time in San Cresci: 20 minutes Stop 3: Greve in Chianti Journey Time from San Cresci to Greve in Chianti: approx. 10 minutes Recommended time in Greve in Chianti with lunch break included: 2 hours / 2h30 Stop 4: Impruneta Journey Time from Greve in Chianti to Impruneta: approx. 30 minutes Recommended in Impruneta: approx. 30 minutes Journey time from Impruneta to Firenze Borgo Ognissanti: 40 minutes Thanks to this Tour, you will immerse yourself in the suggestive and relaxing atmosphere of Chianti and experience a fantastic journey driving your iconic Vespa along the countryside roads, while admiring the long rows of vines, cypress and olives trees around you! Visit first Montefioralle, a jewel of rare beauty and far from the beaten paths and walk among its small stone alleys. Few kilometers away, take the time to arrive until the Macina of San Cresci, a magical place worth to visit where each year artists from all over the worlds share their artistic vision in a unique historical rural place. Your discovery of Chianti area will continue with the unmissable Greve in Chianti, one of the most charming and most important towns of the Chianti territory. In the city center, enjoy a pleasant lunch in a typical family run restaurant, before visiting its medieval streets and handicrafts shops admiring the landscapes around it. Take your road back to Florence, this time through another countryside panoramic way, changing point of view and panoramas. On your way, we suggest you a small stop to the village of Impruneta, whose jewel is the church, a major Marian shrine that has drawn so many pilgrims over the centuries: the Basilica di Santa Maria.

The Peasant's Way

From Florence to the countryside the old path of the sharecropping farmers of Chianti

Chianti is the land of Sharecroppers, farmers who cultivate the land and have with their work modified the landscape with terraces, vineyards, olive groves and beautiful farms that today are the Chianti landscape. Simple men, rich in traditions and who still open their homes to welcome visitors. At the Corte dei Goliardi you will find the Tuscan welcome with a glass of wine and a slice of bread and salami .... the famous farmer's breakfast. Genuine, organic wine, with the search for vines that will leave you with a strong hint of red fruits and an enveloping persistence, a visit that will make you understand how wine is born from the passion of those who produce it! The itinerary will also show you one of the most beautiful roads in the Chianti area passing through Impruneta, the city of Cotto and Peposo, continuing along Strada in Chianti, a transit area, a stopping point for farmers and travelers who reached Florence up to Greve, the great city and thriving center of Chianti.

CHIANTI TRADITION

The essence of the beauty of a unique land

Chianti is a land of strong traditions, where the hard work of man has made it unique and beautiful. The tour includes driving along the Chianti road admiring the hills with its long rows of vines. Visit one of the most beautiful and historical castles and explore the historic villages of Chianti. Chianti offers to those who visit a succession of unique landscapes, characterized by rolling green hills, large expanses of vineyards and olive groves, small villages, characteristic churches and stone farmhouses. The landscapes of Chianti are so beautiful and special that they are often photographed and reproduced in postcards and calendars distributed all over the world.

Discovering Florence with eletric scooter

The Tour to discover the Italian Manhattan

From Boccaccio's birthplace, passing through the green hills of Vernaccia until reaching the Manhattan of the Middle Ages

An itinerary to discover the most important villages of the Val d'Elsa that gave birth to important people such as Boccaccio in Certaldo, one of the founding fathers of the Italian language together with Dante Alighieri or Leonardo da Vinci. A land that for years was the route to the sea of Florence, as well as crossed by the famous Via Franchigena. Hardly anywhere else in Italy is history as topical as in Val d'Elsa. And not only for the architecture that remains intact in at least three conspicuous places: Certaldo, San Gimignano and Colle. In the Val d'Elsa, history is a living book, to leaf through its pages is to reason with the people, it is to become inebriated by the scents, saturated with the flavors, enchanted by the landscapes.

Prato and its history

City of wool trade, divided by the factions between Guelphs and Ghibellines, Republic in the shadow of the city of Florence that has found its strength in textile production.

Strolling through the historical center, you are struck by the Duomo or Cathedral of Santo Stefano: "I look out the window, and leaning a little to the side, I see the marble front of the Duomo, with white and green stripes, the Pergamo by Michelozzo and Donatello, hanging like a nest at the corner of the facade, and the beautiful bell tower that served as a model for Giotto's bell tower". This is how Curzio Malaparte describes with a splendid glance the Cathedral of Prato, succeeding in catching the most interesting elements: the façade, the alberese-serpentino dichromate, the external pulpit and the bell tower, and the wide use of that green marble of Prato, the typical stone of Monte Ferrato, used in the great Romanesque and Gothic buildings of the Middle Ages. Another work that reflects the historical splendor of Prato is the Emperor's Castle, the only Swabian architecture in Central and Northern Italy. The history of Prato is also very much linked to the Medici family and to Florence, Lorenzo the Magnificent had the Villa of Poggio a Caiano built in 1480, by the trusted architect Giuliano da Sangallo and it will become an example for the future in the construction of elegant country villas. The itinerary takes you to discover the major historical sites of a city always in evolution. Une autre œuvre qui reflète la splendeur historique de Prato est le château de l’empereur, la seule architecture souabe dans le centre et le nord de l’Italie. L’histoire de Prato est également très liée à la famille Médicis et à Florence, Lorenzo le Magnifique a fait construire la Villa de Poggio un Caiano en 1480, par l’architecte de confiance Giuliano da Sangallo et il deviendra un exemple pour l’avenir dans la construction d’élégantes villas de campagne. Así describe Curzio Malaparte con una espléndida mirada la Catedral de Prato, logrando captar los elementos más interesantes: la fachada, el dicromato alberese-serpentino, el púlpito externo y el campanario, y el amplio uso de ese mármol verde de Prato, la piedra típica del Monte Ferrato, utilizado en los grandes edificios románicos y góticos de la Edad Media.