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Private Transfer from Rome to Sorrento with 2 hours for sightseeing

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✈️ Transfers

Italy

Private Transfer from Rome to Sorrento with 2 hours for sightseeing

A private car whisks you from Rome to Sorrento in five hours, with your English-speaking driver handling the wheel whilst you take in two stops along the way. You'll skip the hassle of trains or group coaches—just pick your Rome departure point, settle into an air-conditioned vehicle, and arrive refreshed at your Sorrento address. Your driver knows the region well and can suggest lunch breaks or detours if the mood takes you.

Baroque Lecce Private Tour: A Cultural Walking Experience

A two-hour private walking tour through Lecce's baroque quarter with a local guide who knows the streets well. You'll move between piazzas and past ornamental façades, touching on the city's layered past—from Roman ruins to 17th-century stonework. The route covers Porta Napoli's grand entrance, the Duomo's clustered ensemble, Teatro Romano's remnants, Sant'Oronzo's everyday bustle, and concludes at Santa Croce's elaborately carved front. Designed for steady pace and easy access; no climbing required.

Collect and taste the Saffron, the Abruzzese red gold

This six-hour experience on the Navelli Plateau takes you through the complete saffron cycle—from dawn harvesting to the final tasting. You'll pick crocus flowers in the field, learn how thirteenth-century trade routes brought this spice to Abruzzo, then move indoors to extract and roast the delicate stigmas over charcoal. Finish with a full meal showcasing L'Aquila saffron across courses, paired with regional wines and local specialities.

Dining Experience at a local's Home in Manduria with Show Cooking

Cook alongside a local home chef in Manduria for an intimate 2.5-hour dinner featuring four courses built from family recipes spanning generations. You'll watch techniques unfold in their kitchen, then sit down to starter, pasta, main with vegetables, and dessert, paired with regional wines and water. This is Cesarine's network—home cooks across Italy opening their kitchens to travellers seeking genuine connection over food, not performance.

Dining Experience at a local's Home in Lucignano with Show Cooking

Cook alongside a Lucignano local in their home kitchen, watching them prepare a four-course meal from family recipes before sitting down to eat together. This 2.5-hour evening brings you into genuine Italian domestic cooking—not a restaurant, but an actual cook's workspace—with regional wines and the kind of hospitality that comes from someone opening their own front door. Cesarine hosts these meals across Italy; this one anchors you in Varese traditions.

Dining Experience at a local's Home in Sant'Agnello with Show Cooking

Eat a four-course meal cooked live in someone's Sant'Agnello kitchen, watching techniques that have stayed in the same family for generations. Your host—part of Cesarine, Italy's network of home cooks—prepares starter, pasta, main, and dessert using recipes handed down by their relatives. Four hours of genuine Italian cooking and conversation, with regional wines and coffee included.

Evening Boat Tour with Dinner Experience

Depart Positano at sunset for a four-hour coastal cruise along the Amalfi shoreline. The evening unfolds with prosecco and nibbles anchored off the Li Galli islands, followed by your choice of two routes: either south to Nerano for dinner at a clifftop restaurant, or east to Amalfi's cathedral square. The boat carries everything needed for comfort—wifi, a galley, full facilities—leaving you free to watch the coastline turn golden without worrying about logistics.

Live a shepherd experience with typical lunch in Bitti

Spend seven hours working alongside a Sardinian shepherd in Bitti's heartland, rolling up your sleeves for genuine farm labour. You'll milk livestock, learn traditional cheese-making, handle cork, and move flocks across pasture—the real rhythms of pastoral life. A local aperitif and lunch round out the day, grounding you in island foodways and customs most visitors never encounter.

LAKE COMO Hike: Varenna/Bellano + Aperitif in Bellagio

A 7-hour guided trek along Lake Como's legendary Wayfarer's Path, linking the photogenic villages of Varenna and Bellano through forested ridges and olive groves, with a detour to explore the medieval ruins of Vezio Castle. You'll finish by boat into Bellagio for sunset aperitifs at a hilltop restaurant overlooking the water. Small groups keep the pace intimate and the conversation flowing.

COMO e-Bike Tour + Aperitif

Cycle through Como's centre and lakeside on an e-bike, pedalling past baroque façades and boutique-lined streets before heading north towards Cernobbio's Alpine backdrop. You'll coast through quieter neighbourhoods and pull up at a local café for an aperitivo—prosecco and cicchetti paired with lake views. Four hours total, groups capped at six, English-speaking guide included. A proper way to read a city without rushing.

Dining experience at a local's home in Pontassieve with cooking demo

Cook alongside a local home chef in Pontassieve, learning family recipes kept alive through generations. Over two and a half hours, you'll watch techniques unfold in their kitchen, then sit down to a four-course meal—antipasto through to dolce—with regional wines and coffee included. Run by Cesarine, Italy's established network of home cooks across 500+ cities, these dinners offer genuine connection rather than polished restaurant theatre.

Dining Experience at a local's Home in Laveno - Mombello with Show Cooking

Cook alongside a Varese home chef in Laveno-Mombello for an evening of hands-on cooking and dining. You'll prepare and eat a full four-course meal—antipasto through dessert—using family recipes guarded for generations, paired with local wines. Hosted by Cesarine, Italy's network of 600+ passionate home cooks, this is real Italian cooking as it happens in actual kitchens, not restaurant theatres.

Lunch or dinner and cooking demo at a local home in Chieti

Cook alongside a local home chef in Chieti for an afternoon or evening of genuine Italian family cooking. Over 2.5 hours, you'll watch your host prepare a dish from scratch, then sit down to a four-course meal built from recipes handed down through generations. The menu spans antipasto through dessert, paired with regional wines and coffee. This happens in an actual home, not a restaurant, with a Cesarina host—members of Italy's network of passionate home cooks who've been welcoming travellers for years.

Aguglia Goloritzè Via Lunga Multipitch

Scale the iconic limestone spire of Aguglia Goloritzè, a vertical needle rising dramatically from one of Sardinia's most striking coastal coves. This six-hour multipitch climb suits climbers with moderate fitness and prior experience. You'll work your way up the rock face using supplied equipment, choosing a route that matches your skill level. The climb demands sustained effort and focus, rewarding you with views across the Mediterranean from a summit few reach on foot.

Venice: Best of Venice Private Walking Tour

A 2-hour private guided walk through Venice's monumental core, centred on San Marco Square and its surrounding masterpieces. Your guide navigates you past the Basilica, Campanile, and Clock Tower, then into the Doge's Palace—a 15th-century Gothic marvel that once housed Venice's rulers. You'll absorb the architecture and backstories that shaped this lagoon city, moving at your own pace through its most recognisable landmarks.

Dining Experience at a local's Home in Gignod with Show Cooking

Cook and dine in a Gignod home with a local chef who'll walk you through preparing a four-course meal using recipes from their family archives. You'll watch the cooking unfold, then sit down to eat what's been made—starter, pasta, main with vegetables, and dessert—paired with regional wines, water, and coffee. This is hosted through Cesarine, a network of home cooks across Italy who invite travellers into their kitchens for an evening of genuine Italian cooking and conversation.

2h 30mfrom AUD $142

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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Rome Eco Tour in Golf Cart

Glide through Rome's quietest lanes in a silent electric golf cart over three hours, hitting major piazzas, fountains, and hilltop viewpoints without engine fumes or noise. Stop for street food in Trastevere, climb to Janiculum for sweeping city views, and time photo stops so the light catches the monuments perfectly. You'll access a leafy villa garden off-limits to regular traffic, with an itinerary that bends to your pace and curiosity.

Discover Brera: Hidden Stories & Aperitif

This two-hour walking tour winds through Milan's Brera neighbourhood, tracing its evolution from a red-light district frequented by artists and intellectuals to today's gallery-lined streets. You'll navigate narrow laneways and hear accounts of the area's colourful past, including stories of notable figures like Wanda who shaped the neighbourhood's history. The tour finishes with an aperitif, allowing you to process what you've learned whilst savouring the district's current character.

Lecco Bike Tour & Pizza Lunch

Pedal through Lecco's lakeside villages and historic streets on this three-hour cycling tour, stopping for an Italian breakfast pastry and wood-fired pizza lunch overlooking Lake Como. You'll roll past Malgrate's riverside paths, discover the working fishing hamlet of Pescarenico, and sample regional wine or beer whilst taking in Alpine peaks from your waterfront table. Small groups of up to six ensure a relaxed pace and genuine local insights from your English-speaking guide.

Lunch or dinner and cooking demo at a local home in Fasano

Cook alongside a Puglian home chef in Fasano, watching them finish a signature dish before sitting down to a four-course meal together. This 2.5-hour experience through Cesarine—a network of private home cooks across Italy—puts you at the family table instead of in a restaurant. You'll taste recipes from their own kitchen repertoire, paired with local wines, and get a genuine feel for how people actually eat in this corner of Italy.

Private Rome Golf Cart VIP Tour Food Tasting + 5 Wines & Pickup

Cruise Rome's centre in a private golf cart, hitting the [Colosseum](/places/colosseum), Pantheon, and Aventine Hill before landing in a 1st-century Roman cistern for wine and food pairing. A sommelier walks you through five Italian wines paired with local cheeses, cured meats, breads, and regional specialties. Hotel pickup included. Three to four hours total.

3 hours – 4 hoursfrom AUD $390

Pasta and Italian Recipes in the Countryside

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🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

Pasta and Italian Recipes in the Countryside

Learn to make pasta and classic Italian dishes at a working Tuscan villa, blending techniques from both Tuscany and Apulia. This three-and-a-half-hour session teaches you to shape fresh pasta by hand before sitting down to eat what you've made, paired with wine and soft drinks. You'll work in the villa's kitchen with all equipment provided, finishing with coffee and a proper meal in the countryside.

Exclusive Borghese Gallery PRIVATE tour

A 2 hour 15 minute private tour of Rome's Galleria Borghese, one of Europe's finest art collections. Built in the early 1600s for a papal nephew, the gallery houses masterworks by Caravaggio, Bernini and Raphael. Your guide unpacks the dramatic stories embedded in each piece—from Bernini's marble figures caught mid-motion to Canova's controversial portrait and Raphael's Deposition that a cardinal obsessed over acquiring. Skip-the-line access lets you move through the rooms without the usual crowds.

Unveiling Venice's Ghosts: A Walking Tour

Walk through Venice's shadowy backstreets and forgotten squares on this 90-minute guided tour of the city's darker past. Your local guide leads you into the Castello district and beyond, uncovering stories of murder, betrayal, and restless spirits that have haunted Venice for centuries. This isn't the postcard Venice—it's the one locals know, tucked away in narrow alleys and atmospheric piazzas where tragedy and intrigue still linger.

Verona Capitolium Time Machine on AR-Tour with Archaeologist

Step into Roman Verona with AR smartglasses that overlay two-thousand-year-old monuments onto today's streets. An archaeologist guides you through the ancient forum, public buildings and the Capitolium temple—the city's most sacred structure—revealing what stood before modern urban development. This 90-minute walking tour layers historical narration with virtual reconstructions, letting you see Verona's lost grandeur without leaving the present day.

Dining experience at a local's home in Menfi with cooking demo

Cook alongside a Menfi local in their home kitchen, then sit down to a four-course meal built from recipes kept alive through generations. You'll prepare dishes together, taste regional wines sourced from nearby producers, and eat the results—pasta, mains, sides, sweets—in the company of someone who knows this food intimately. Cesarine hosts these dinners across Italy; this one runs two and a half hours and includes everything to drink.

Exclusive Golf-Cart Tour Catacombs of Rome

Explore Rome's subterranean early Christian burial chambers and overlooked neighbourhoods by golf cart over two to three hours. This small-group tour limits numbers to six, keeping things intimate whilst a local guide reveals the stories behind the Catacombs and quiet corners most visitors miss. You'll navigate ancient passages and discover how ordinary Romans lived and worshipped beneath the city streets, moving beyond postcard sights into the layers that shaped the Eternal City.

2 hours – 3 hoursfrom AUD $331

Modern Italian dinner & wine pairing near the Vatican

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🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

Modern Italian dinner & wine pairing near the Vatican

Chef Debora hosts seasonal four-course dinners in her Vatican-adjacent home, pairing each dish with boutique Italian wines sourced from small producers. The menu shifts with market availability, drawing on recipes rooted in Tuscany, Lazio, and Sicily. You'll dine alongside up to eleven other guests in an intimate setting, swapping stories over two and a half hours. Dietary requirements are accommodated.

2h 30mfrom AUD $228

Around Tuscany: Carrara Marbles, Pisa & Lucca

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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Around Tuscany: Carrara Marbles, Pisa & Lucca

A sweeping 11-hour tour through marble country and Renaissance jewels. Start in Carrara's working quarries, where you'll watch blocks being extracted from the mountainside and lunch on a high terrace overlooking the white scars of the mines. Then head to Pisa to walk around the Leaning Tower and explore the cathedral's ornate interior, before wandering Lucca's medieval streets and climbing its towers. A private driver handles the legwork between stops.

11 hoursfrom AUD $558

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🛕 Culture & History

Italy

Private Tour Discovering Padova

A private guided tour through Padova unveils the city's layered history across two to four hours. You'll ride through centuries of urban development before exploring the pedestrian centre on foot—wandering past the Prato della Valle, the University of Padova (Europe's second-oldest), and the Basilica di Sant'Antonio. Two UNESCO-listed sites anchor the experience: the Giotto frescoes and the city's architectural heritage.

2 hours – 4 hoursfrom AUD $591

Orecchiette and tiramisu in the alleys of Barivecchia

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🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

Orecchiette and tiramisu in the alleys of Barivecchia

Learn to make orecchiette pasta and tiramisu from scratch in Bari's old town, working with hyperlocal ingredients in an intimate kitchen setting. This 2.5-hour hands-on session focuses on traditional Puglian techniques, with the chef sharing their approach to regional cooking. You'll sit down to eat what you've made. Dietary variations—vegetarian, dairy-free, gluten-free—are built in.

Taormina Food and Walking Tour Ancient Flavours of Sicily

This three-hour walking tour traces Taormina's culinary heritage through its streets and markets, pairing breakfast and brunch tastings with stories about Sicily's food history. A local guide shares the reasoning behind regional dishes and directs you to where locals eat well. You'll taste your way through the town's layered past—Greek, Arab, Norman influences all visible on the plate—while soaking in the energy of its piazzas and alleyways.

Dining Experience at a local's Home in Monza with Show Cooking

Cook alongside a Monza local in their home kitchen, watching techniques passed through generations unfold before you prepare a four-course meal together. This 2.5-hour private session with Cesarine—a network of home cooks across Italy—pulls recipes directly from family archives rather than restaurant menus. You'll eat what you've made, paired with regional wines, in the kind of casual Italian dining room where recipes actually live.

Lecce: walking and food tour

A three-hour walking tour through Lecce's baroque heart, combining architectural discovery with regional eating. You'll navigate two of the city's most ornate churches while sampling the food that locals actually eat: crispy puccia bread, almond-filled pasticciotti, and proper espresso. A guide grounded in the area shares the stories behind Lecce's distinctive building style and culinary traditions as you move through narrow streets and piazzas.

3 hoursfrom AUD $236

★ 5.0 (1)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Walking Tour of Rome: Rome by Night

Explore Rome's piazzas and fountains on foot after dark, when the city's monuments take on a different character. This 3-hour walking tour cuts through the centro storico with a knowledgeable local guide who unpacks the history and design behind Rome's most iconic public spaces. You'll move at a measured pace, stopping to absorb the architecture and stories that shaped the eternal city.

LUCCA the Puccini bike path and Massacciuccoli lake

Cycle through Tuscany's Serchio River Park and out to Lake Massacciuccoli on this three-hour guided e-bike route inspired by composer Giacomo Puccini's life. You'll pedal past wetlands teeming with birdlife—the Lipu Oasis holds over 300 avian species—and pause for local food tastings along the way. It's a blend of gentle cycling, natural landscape and cultural thread, suited to riders of mixed ability who want to cover ground without exhaustion.

3 hoursfrom AUD $250

Panoramic tour with Minori Amalfi Ravello golf cart and much more

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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Panoramic tour with Minori Amalfi Ravello golf cart and much more

Cruise the [Amalfi Coast](/places/amalfi-coast) in a golf cart over 90 minutes, threading through Minori, Atrani, and Amalfi before climbing to hilltop Ravello. An audio guide narrates the region's layered history—from Byzantine trade routes to Belle Époque villas—as you stop at lookouts where the coast drops dramatically to turquoise water below. The return journey retraces the same winding coastal road, giving you a second pass at angles you'll have missed the first time.

Bergamo Private Walking Tour

A 2.5-hour guided walk through Bergamo with a certified local guide revealing the city's layered past through its streets and structures. You'll navigate the medieval upper town and lower districts, learning how centuries of Venetian rule, Renaissance flourishes, and local life shaped what stands today. The guide shares stories beyond the guidebook—architectural details, neighbourhood histories, and lesser-known moments that explain why Bergamo feels lived-in rather than preserved.

Transfer from Menaggio-Tremezzo-Lenno to Malpensa Airport

Reliable private transfer whisks you from your Lake Como base—Menaggio, Tremezzo, or Lenno—to Malpensa Airport in roughly two hours. A driver greets you at your hotel or address with a nameplate, then delivers you in a climate-controlled sedan or minivan. Bottled water, WiFi, and all taxes are included; you arrive rested rather than stressed.

2 hoursfrom AUD $450

Private Walking Tour of Venice's Old Town with Gondola Ride

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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Private Walking Tour of Venice's Old Town with Gondola Ride

Navigate Venice's labyrinthine centre with a licensed guide, then drift along the Grand Canal by gondola. This 2.5 to 3.5-hour combination covers St. Mark's Basilica, the Doge's Palace, and Rialto Bridge on foot, followed by a 30-minute shared gondola ride with live narration. The extended option adds Chiesa di San Zaccaria. Your guide handles logistics; the gondolier steers you through the waterways.

3 hours – 4 hoursfrom AUD $389

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