Country Roads of Tuscany & Central Italy

Across nine days in Italy, you follow appetite as much as art. In Siena, you wander down narrow brick lanes into the shell-shaped Piazza del Campo, hearing cafe cups clink beneath the Torre del Mangia. You learn the careful craft of truffle-hunting in the Tuscan countryside, watch fresh pasta being made and sit down to a local lunch scented with olive oil and warm sauce. San Gimignano is where you taste artisan gelato beneath its medieval towers, the first cold spoonful. Florence follows with your Local Specialist leading you to Santa Maria del Fiore, where Brunelleschi’s terracotta dome rises above marble in green, pink and white.