• 8 days (7 nights) Package to make the trip completely autonomous to discover northern Italy "From the Langhe to Chianti via the Cinque Terre"

• 8 days (7 nights) Package to make the trip completely autonomous to discover northern Italy "From the Langhe to Chianti via the Cinque Terre"

Day 1: ARRIVAL

• Arrive at hotel in Piedmont in Tigliole d’Asti area. On this day there are no planned activities. Free time to discover the city on your own.

Day 2: LE LANGHE WITH PIEDMONT WINE TASTING

• After breakfast, driving along the state road 231 in a southerly direction you will reach in Alba, the main center of the Langhe - town with an historic center of medieval structure, towers, and tower-houses with a suggestive nineteenth-century atmosphere. Continuing south you come across Grinzane Cavour. Tasting of Piedmontese wines at “La Cantina del Conte”. Here begins a route that winds along the ridges of the hills that make up "Le Langhe" (literally the thinned crest of a hill chain). Visit La Morra, a medieval town with a splendid viewpoint and Barolo, the production center of the renowned wine of the same name. Overnight stay in hotel.

Day 3: ASTI

• Breakfast Breakfast in hotel. You can dedicate the day to visiting the city of Asti and the Langa Astigiana. Asti, a medieval city characterized by truncated towers with the red color of the brick and the yellow of the tuff, shows its connection with the land and in particular with the production of wine. We recommend a visit to the Collegiate Church of San Secondo, the Baptistery of San Pietro and Palazzo Alfieri. In the afternoon, following the itinerary Isola d'Asti, Nizza Monferrato Canelli, Castiglione Tinella, Castagnole Lanze, Castiglione D'Asti, Asti you will enter the production land of Moscato d'Asti. Tasting in a typical cellar. In the evening, typical dinner in a local restaurant. Overnight stay.

Day 4: LERICI & GULF OF POETS

• Breakfast day After breakfast, departure by car to Liguria to hotel in Ameglia. Along the way, stop in the Gulf of Tigullio to visit Santa Margherita Ligure and boat excursion (optional) to Portofino. Arrival at the hotel in the evening. Overnight.

Day 5: RAPALLO & PORTOVENERE

• Breakfast. Whole day dedicated to visiting the Cinque Terre. Once you reach the La Spezia railway station, depart by train for Riomaggiore, where you will arrive in only 7 minutes, visit the village and then reach Manarola by train. The visit to the "Cinque Terre" continues by train with stops in Vernazza and Monterosso. Here you will have the opportunity to taste the D.O.C. white wine at a local wine shop. of the “Cinque Terre”. In the evening dinner in a typical restaurant. Overnight.

Day 6: SIENA & SAN GIMIGNANO

• After day After breakfast, departure and through the Chianti area you will reach Siena (206 km). After leaving the Florence-Livorno highway near San Miniato we will enter the Val d'Elsa, meeting the medieval towns of Castelfiorentino and Certaldo, until reaching San Gimignano, built on a hill overlooking the Val D'Elsa, in an area certainly inhabited in the Etruscan era, constitutes an exceptional testimony to medieval urban planning in Tuscany. We will then encounter Colle Val d'Elsa, an ancient and dynamic manufacturing center and Monteriggioni, a village in the gentle landscape of the Sienese hills, a rare example of excellently preserved medieval military architecture. Wine tasting at a local winery. Arrival in Siena, hotel accommodation. Visiting the Palazzo Pubblico and the Duomo, we recommend taking the most characteristic streets, Via di Città, Via Banchi di Sopra and Via Banchi di Sotto. Overnight stay at the Montaperti hotel in Asciano.

Day 7: FLORENCE

• After breakfast, departure for Florence (Km. 68). Itinerary of the greatest interest for the beauty and variety of the landscapes and for the centers, among the richest in character of history and art that it encounters; takes place in the large hilly region between Florence and Siena and which is also largely the famous Chianti wine area. Tasting at the San Iacopo winery in Greve in Chianti. Florence, city of art par excellence, the Duomo, the Baptistery, Palazzo della Signoria, the Ponte Vecchio offer a significant glimpse of the Italian Renaissance. Typical dinner in a local restaurant. Way back to the hotel. Overnight stay.

Day 8: DEPARTURE DAY

• Breakfast in the hotel. Check out at 10:00.  and end of our services. Grazie e arrivederci

• 3 overnights in a 3-star hotel in Asti area
• 2 overnights in a 4-star hotel in Ameglia area
• 2 overnights in a 4-star hotel in Siena area
• 2 wine tasting in Langhe area
• 1 wine tasting in Cinque Terre
• 1 wine tasting in Chianti area

• City taxes must to be paid on spot
• Porterages and personal expenses
• Optional excursions
• Entrance fees to monuments and archaeological sites
• Cinque Terre Card (1 day € 115 per person)
• Anything not expressly indicated in “the rate includes”

• On request possibility to have a Pre/post tour

• Asti area: Albergo Cà Vittoria or similar (*)
• Ameglia: Hotel La Locanda dell’Angelo or similar (*)
• Asciano area: Hotel Montaperti or similar (*)

(*) It could happen and in case of problems the hotels indicated may be replaced with others of the same category located in the same towns or up to 30 km distance where will be possible to realize the program. In case of hotels full booked we reserve to invert the tour and/or confirm the booking in a middle-class hotel with a reduction of 5 euro per person per day.  The name of the hotel will be sent to you 14 days before the arrival.

• Each customer will be able to choose independently whether to follow the suggested itinerary or, instead, to create one according to its needs. However, it is essential to follow the program concerning the cities where to overnight
• Norma Vacanze is entitled to change the itinerary of the excursion if it considers it appropriate or due to force majeure.
• Norma Vacanze is not responsible for accidents, delays, damage or loss of luggage or personal belongings, nor for damages caused by third parties or others like floods, storms, landslides, earthquakes, political unrest, epidemy, terrorists attacks, strike

The rate does not include:

• City tax to be paid on spot
• Lunches and dinners where not mentioned
• Tips and extras of a personal nature
• Porterage service
• Gasoline
• Motorway tolls
• Parkings
• Tickets for plane, ship, train or bus to reach airport
• Entrance to monuments and archaeological parks
• Anything not expressly indicated in "the rate includes"

Admission Fees

• In order to skip the queues in the museums or in the archeological parks we need to make the reservation in advance: Pre-bookings of entrance tickets are mandatory on the first day of the tour.
• Tickets are non-refundable

• Cancellations up to 15 days before departure with full refund.
• Cancellations from 14 to 8 days before departure, penalty of 30%
• Cancellations from 7 to 4 days before departure, penalty of 50%
• In case of cancellation within 3 days before departure, penalty of 100%
• There will be no refund for no shows or voluntary interruption of an already started trip