Saturday December 17 2011
Morning:
Introduction to Florence: Guided tour & Accademia Gallery
Start: h 10.30
Duration: 3 h
Pax: 10
Language: Italian/English
Wanna be Italiano Cooking Class & Central Market Tour
...with a professional chef.
Includes:
- visit to the Florence's central market
- use the ingredients you buy from the market
- to create a delicious Tuscan Meal.
Start: h 10.00
Duration: 4h
Pax: 10
Language: Italian
Sorvolo in elicottero di Firenze by Helicorporate
Dalle ore 10,30 alle ore 16. Rivolgersi a personale Helicorporate presso desk side events per stabilire i turni orari.
Orari soggetti a variazioni, dipendenti dalle condizioni meteo.
Afternoon:
NAVETTA GRATUITA DEDICATA PER BARBERINO OUTLET - MC ARTHR GLEN
Partenza: ore 14.00 da Lungarno della Zecca e Piazza dei Cavalleggeri (zona Biblioteca Nazionale)
Rientro: ore 18.00 da outlet
Partecipanti: 19 posti
Per prenotazioni, rivolgersi al desk Side Events
Vasari Corridor & Uffizi Gallery Tour
Start: h 14.30
Duration: 3h
Pax: 25
Language: Italian/English
Walk & talk
Start: h 15.00
Duration: 2,5h
Pax: 16
Language: Italian
Winetown
Sessione di degustazione dei grandi vini toscani
Location: Salone d'armi di Palazzo Vecchio
Inizio: h.17.30
Durata: 2,5h
Attività aperta al pubblico
Sunday, 18 December 2011
Morning:
Vasari Corridor & Uffizi Gallery Tour
Start: h 14.30
Duration: 3h
Pax: 25
Language: Italian
Sorvolo in elicottero di Firenze by Helicorporate
Dalle ore 10,30 alle ore 16. Rivolgersi a personale Helicorporate presso desk side events per stabilire i turni orari.
Orari soggetti a variazioni, dipendenti dalle condizioni meteo.
Per tutta la durata dell'evento: Corso di Cucina Cooking in Florence (
www.cookinginflorence.it)
Corsi di cucina per gli accompagnatori.
La disponibilità sarà dal giovedì 15 al 17 dicembre, con prenotazione telefonica (335 6469869) o via mail.
A tutti i partecipanti verrà regalato un grembiule e le dispense delle ricette, poi verrà servita una bottiglia di vino Chianti Classico Fattoria Santo Stefano durante il pasto delle pietanze cucinate.
I menù sono 3 (a scelta):
Menù 1 *
Tuscan black crostini,
Ribollita soup,
Prato biscuits
€95.00
Menù 2 *
Tuscan black crostini,
Pumpkin 's and leeks risotto,
Meatball at florentin way,
Panna cotta with pears
€110.00
Menù 3 *
Potatoes dumplings with sausage sauce,
Beef straccetti with mushrooms,
Crostata tart with figs and almonds jam
€100.00
Reservations must be made at the accreditation desk, where Florencetown's staff is at your disposal for the verification of available seats.
A pleasant walk in Florence is just what you need to be introduced to the city and its splendor and secular heritage!
This tour is born to be the smartest walking tour of the city center at the best price.
Hear tantalizing gossip of Michelangelo, discover what Leonardo had in mind to revolutionize the town, and more astounding events that shocked the Florentines.
Get the chance to have a taste of one of the most important and charming cities of the world heritage of the UNESCO. Walk through the amazing center of Florence and discover its unique secular heritage and breathtaking beauty with an expert and fun tour guide.
Our tour explores the historic and architectural evolution factors from the Roman foundation through medieval centuries and its Renaissance glorious period up to modern time Florence. Also stop for a surprise tasting.
Our guide will take you to some of the most important spots where the greatest minds and artists have stood and been inspired.
During this walk, you will see Piazza della Signoria with the town hall Palazzo Vecchio, the Duomo, the Baptistery with its 'Gates of Paradise', Giotto's independent bell tower, Brunelleschi's Dome, Santa Trinita and Orsanmichele Church, Pontevecchio Bridge and the secret Vasari Corridor, as well as famous shopping streets and the Oltrarno - the fourth and last district, the manual crafts neighbourhood.
Tour Highlights
- Enjoy a pleasant walk through Florence city center
- Hear about art and history by our professional guide
Enjoy this one single opportunity to walk along and visit the secret corridor of the Medici family and the Uffizi Gallery!
The EXCLUSIVE opportunity to visit the VASARI CORRIDOR, along the Medici Walk, together with an English speaking guide.
The Pontevecchio, the landmark of Florence, houses the best kept secret of Florence. It serves as a passageway dating back to 1564, when the Grand Duke of Florence, Cosimo I de' Medici ordered his favorite architect, Giorgio Vasari, to built a path that would allow him and the Royal family to move freely from their residence (Palazzo Pitti) to the government palace (palazzo della Signoria, other side of the river Arno).
Hidden between city houses and even passing through a church, the Vasari Corridor has evolved as one of the most astounding architectural masterpieces of the Renaissance.
The corridor is rarely open to the public, so take advantage of this unique opportunity to view Florence and its artistic pleasures on this exclusive walking tour.
Before this very exclusive opening of the unique Vasari Corridor, you will also have the chance to enjoy a 1 1/2 hour guided tour of the main rooms of the Uffizi Gallery, skipping the usual long lines as we will enter from a reserved side entrance.
When in Florence...do like the Medici used to do!
Tour Highlights
- Enjoy exclusive private viewing of the Vasari Corridor with a professional guide
- Prioritized entry without queuing at the Uffizi Gallery
- Guided walking tour of the main rooms inside the Uffizi Gallery
- Personalized small group and commentary (maximum 25 people)
Florence is perfect for biking and this bike tour takes you where the bus tours can't go, in pedestrian areas and little tiny streets. It will take you less time then any walking tours, showing you roads out of the usual tourist paths, too far to be reached by foot, too tiny for a bus!
In 2 hours you will visit all the major tourist attractions, under the experienced guidance of our entertaining and fun professional history guide.
You will ride through the narrow streets of the main center and the Oltrarno district, reaching the most amazing monuments of Florence and unknown spots from where to admire the city: Santa Maria Novella, the artisans district, Palazzo Pitti, San Frediano, Ponte Vecchio (the old bridge), the Uffizi square, Santa Croce, Piazza della Signoria, the medieval district, the Duomo, and Piazza della Repubblica...
Along this pleasant stroll in Florence, we will stop at several locations for history explanations and fun facts about the city.
Relax, enjoy the tour and even taste a hot chocolate in the Oltrarno district!
Our licensed guides will help you discover the most of the "cradle of the Renaissance" in the less time and in the funniest way.. simply perfect as an introduction as well as for veterans. Either way, we're sure you'll agree that biking is the best way to see the "cradle of the Renaissance".
Tour Highlights
- Enjoy a 2-hour guided sightseeing tour by bike
- A professional tour guide, will take you along an almost traffic-free path
- See all major sights such as the Duomo, Santa Maria Novella, Uffizi Gallery and Piazza della Signoria
- Bike across the bridges stretching across the Arno river and enjoy unique panoramas of Florence
- Taste a hot chocolate
- Ride on original vintage bikes, comfortable and well maintained
Meet our chef Giovanni and learn how to cook a nice Tuscan meal in the heart of Florence!
First step: grocery shopping at the central market! You will go shopping with the chef at the central market picking up the ingredients for your lunch. You will meet the butchers, the bakers, and the farmers selling vegetables from their gardens. You will learn how to distinguish the highest quality ingredients and taste local foods & wines!
After this fun experience you will reach our fascinating home-like professional location, just a few steps from the central market, and you will start putting your hands on the ingredients to create your own meal, driven by the expert guidance of our Chef Giovanni and his assistant Andrea.
Your meal will be made of bruschetta, fresh home-made pasta from scratch, and a main course, accompanied with a selection of Chianti wines.
Tour Highlights
- Learn to cook a Tuscan meal during this cooking class in Florence
- Visit the central market and learn how to shop Italian style
- Enjoy some tastings of typical products at the market
- Use the products you buy from the market to create a delicious Tuscan meal
- Once you have created your amazing meal, sit down with a glass of Chianti wine and taste your own creation
Florence's city center can be considered an open museum; nearly every street hosts a palace, church or private gallery preserved and frozen in time by the UNESCO World Heritage. Here, the spirit and charm of hundreds of years ago is kept truly precious.
Historic pastel colored buildings, fashionable people and a unique atmosphere manage to capture and maintain a antique and the contemporary vibe in perfect harmony and make Florence far more than just the capital of Tuscany. The undeniably historic and culturally rich city has it all. Its high-end quality shopping, sightseeing, romantic and special event opportunities can be enjoyed year-round. Our guides specialize in every aspect and activity in Florence and Tuscany, and attentively wait to share all the hidden corners and secrets of the city with you.
Whether it be your first visit to Florence, or your 10th, make it extra memorable with your own licensed guide from Florencetown.
The Accademia Gallery is particularly famous for its sculptures by Michelangelo: the Prisoners, St. Matthew and especially, the statue of David one of the most important attractions in Florence. The David was transferred here to a specially designed tribune, from Piazza della Signoria in 1873.
The holdings mainly comprise of religious paintings by major artists working in and around Florence between the mid-13th and the late 16th centuries. There is also a collection of sculptures in plaster by the 19th-century sculptors Lorenzo Bartolini and Luigi Pampaloni, besides a section of Russian icons.
Recently the Gallery has been further enriched by the important collection of old musical instruments from the Cherubini Conservatory.
Tour Highlights
- Enjoy a pleasant walk through Florence city center
- Hear about art and history by our professional guide
- Prioritized entry without queuing at the Accademia Gallery
