Italy: Umbria & Assisi


Italy: Umbria & Assisi
Self-Guided Tour
In Italy’s “Green Heart,” sophisticated cuisine and natural beauty share the stage with medieval grandeur.
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Italy: Tuscany & Umbria
Guided-Full Tour
Farm-fresh cuisine. Renaissance cities. Quintessential countryside. No wonder these are Italy’s most iconic regions.
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Italy: The Dolomites
Guided-Full Tour
Cappuccino, apple strudel, and riveting landscapes—on this walking tour in the Dolomites, sweet temptations come with the territory.
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Italy: Pompeii, Capri & the Amalfi Coast
Guided-Flex Tour
Spectacular vistas and chic towns come with a twist of lemon on southern Italy’s prettiest peninsula.
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Italy: Sicily
Guided-Full Tour
Its history may be epic, but it’s the people that make Sicily the “soul of Italy.”
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Italy: Genoa & the Cinque Terre
Self-Guided Tour
Italy’s Mediterranean villages shine even brighter when walking is the only way to get there.
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Italy: The Amalfi Coast
Self-Guided Tour
This Amalfi Coast walking tour’s scenery is worthy of emperors and gods—but mere mortals can enjoy it too.
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Italy: Lake Como, Bellagio & Lake Maggiore
Guided-Flex Tour
Genteel gardens, candy-colored villas, and farm-fresh cuisine make life on the lake a breeze.
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Italy has been romancing visitors throughout its history—one that helped to alter the course of the entire world. Hearty, farm-grown Italian cuisine and nectarous red wine lie at the center of a cultural fabric that intertwines with some of the most stunning landscapes on earth, making for one of the most fulfilling and enduring hiking experiences in all of Europe.
Throughout your walking tour of Italy, you’ll be immersed in landscapes that evoke the heady days of Etruscan ingenuity, Roman genius, and Old World splendor. At its center, fabled Tuscany is a fertile patchwork of rolling green hills, where you can explore renowned vineyards and quaint local restaurants in country’s famed hill towns.
In the far north, the snow-capped peaks of the Apennines and Dolomites stand guard atop the nation like majestic sentries. Here, you’ll explore charming Alpine villages, lakeside resort towns and stunning vistas that have welcomed travelers for centuries, all a part of Italy’s remarkable kaleidoscope of natural beauty.

Country Highlights
- Walk the cliffside, pastel-colored villages of Cinque Terre.
- Follow scenic pathways through the forests and vineyards of Italy’s Lakes Region.
- Explore Tuscany’s medieval hill towns, and sample their full-bodied wines.
- Enjoy a feast of fresh Italian cuisine while taking in sweeping views of the legendary Amalfi Coast.
- Sample the pungent truffles and sweet Barolo wine of Piedmont.

Good, Clean and Fair
Explore the alpine foothills of Piedmont, home to the world’s “Slow Food” movement, Italy’s farm-to-table culinary revolution that promotes local artisan chefs, organic farmers, and traditional flavors. Pursue ingredients for your evening meal as the sun rises on an early morning truffle hunt across secret locales.

Don an Apron and Roll Up Your Sleeves
Prepare a meal in an authentic Italian kitchen, where age-old pasta recipes vary in preparation, appearance and flavor from one village to the next, offering you a fascinating insight into how regional identity is interlaced with the country’s cuisine.

An Everlasting Wonder
Only in Italy can one glimpse an entire century of artistic masterpieces under one roof. You can do so in a stroll through the Uffizi Gallery, adjacent to Tuscany’s Piazza della Signoria, where works from Botticelli, Giotto, Cimabue, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raffaello—a spellbinding collection of treasures dating from antiquity to the 20th century.
Expert Local Guides
Experience your destination like an insider with people who call it home.

Fiorella Casartelli
Fiorella Casartelli was born and raised in a village on the shores of Lake Como, returning to her native Italy after studying foreign languages and living for several years in England and Germany. Fiorella enjoys sharing her regional knowledge of the botany, art, history, and of course, food and wine of her home country with guests from around the world.

Ermes Riccobono
With degrees in Economic Development and International Cooperation as well as Democratic Governance and Human Rights, Ermes Riccobono has spent years working in social tourism and as a cultural mediator and brings a special cultural understanding to his guiding work. With an extensive knowledge of history, flora, and fauna, and as a native of Palermo, Ermes looks forward to sharing his local expertise alongside his co-guides.

Alessandro Gullo
Alessandro Gullo has Sicilian ancestry and was educated in the US as well as Italy. He is a certified guide of historic monuments who effortlessly combines his charming personality with a vast knowledge of the culture, art, history, food, and wine of Italy.

Keegan Alagna
With his American mother and Sicilian father, Keegan Alagna grew up in a bilingual home in the Umbrian countryside near Assisi. From his childhood on a working farm to post-graduate work in geology, he has always pursued his passion and curiosity for the outdoors, through teaching, guiding, and exploring. He brings his depth of knowledge of geology, nature, Italian history and culture to his walking tours and to his position as a key member on Italy’s premier outdoor group—the CAI, the Club Alpino Italiano.

Alessandro Pini
Alessandro Pini is a certified guide fluent in English and German, He makes his home in both Milan and his native Lake Como and is passionate about sharing his love of Italy with guests with a focus on art history, literature, and languages.
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