| One day private tour to Florence via Arezzo
and the Chianti countryside a 7- hour car and walking tour throught the artistic and natural beauties of Tuscany. Arezzo is pleasantly situated on a low hillside, and it looks over the narrow plain where the valleys of Valdarno, Casentino, and |
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Valdichiana converge. It is a lively agricultural provincial town,
with several notable churches and interesting museums. Arretium was
one of the more important of the 12 cities of the Etruscan
Confederation. It was originally the enemy and later the faithful
alley of Rome.It emerged as a free republic in the 10th century, and
it submitted to Florence in 1384. Among its eminent citizens were
Maecenas (died 8 BC), the friend of Augustus and the patron of Virgil
and Horace; Guido d’Arezzo (995 – 1050), the inventor of the musical
scale; Petrarch, the poet (1304 – 74); and Giorgio Vasari (1512 – 74),
the architect, painter, and art historian. In the Church of St.
Francis is the famous fresco cycle painted by Piero della Francesca.
After lunch in a typical restaurant, we will reach Florence via en
route in the hilly region of Chianti, where the world-famous red wine
called Chianti Classico is produced. The road traverses beautiful
countryside past vineyards and olive groves surrounding the typical,
elegant farmhouses known as case coloniche.
The tour includes car pick up from the hotel in Rome, transfers to
Arezzo, typical restaurant (meals not included in the price), Chianti
district, hotel in Florence.
Driving times: from Rome to Arezzo 2 hours and 15 minutes, to Florence
1 hour and 15 minutes.
The tour is for a party of max 4 people, or party of max 8 people; and
it includes private car transfers, fluent speaking English driver,
private guide in Arezzo (2 hour tour), and site tickets.
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