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🛕 Culture & History

Italy

The Colonna Palace Walking Tour

Walk through five centuries of Roman power at Palazzo Colonna, where layered architectural styles reveal the palace's transformation from medieval stronghold to papal residence. Your Blue Badge guide navigates the sprawling wings and the family's art gallery, explaining how Pope Martin V shaped Renaissance Rome from these halls between 1420 and 1431. The two-hour tour unpacks the competing styles and historical pivots that left their mark on every ceiling and corridor.

VIP Riviera of Ulysses Private Tour DA Sperlonga to Gaeta

Sail the Tyrrhenian coast from Sperlonga to Gaeta on a 4.5-hour private boat excursion tracing mythological and historical landmarks. Navigate past Tiberius's grotto—scattered with Ulysses sculptures—and the 2,000-year-old Via Flacca, spotting Renaissance watchtowers and sea caves along the way. The journey culminates at Montagna Spaccata, a dramatic split mountain within the Ulisse Regional Park, accessible only with special permit. Swim and snorkel in clear waters, shower off aboard, and share fresh pizza mid-voyage.

4h 30mfrom AUD $1665

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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Bike Tour: The city in its heart

Pedal through Rome's layered history on this 3–4 hour guided cycle tour, departing from Trastevere or Largo Argentina. You'll navigate the city's ancient quarters and climb to strategic hilltop viewpoints that reveal how Rome's neighbourhoods connect across centuries. Choose between morning (10:00–14:00) or afternoon (15:00–19:00) slots. Your guide handles route decisions while you focus on the ride and the ruins rolling past.

3 hours – 4 hoursfrom AUD $117

Private Transfer from Amalfi Coast to Rome or vice versa

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✈️ Transfers

Italy

Private Transfer from Amalfi Coast to Rome or vice versa

A private driven route connecting the [Amalfi Coast](/places/amalfi-coast) and Rome, with an optional two-hour stop at Pompeii's archaeological ruins. Your English-speaking driver navigates the 5–7 hour journey in a climate-controlled vehicle, with flexibility to pause for lunch at a local trattoria serving regional specialities. Skip-the-line access at Pompeii can be arranged separately. Ideal for travellers seeking a leisurely transfer without coach-tour crowds.

5 hours – 7 hoursfrom AUD $510

Pompeii and Amalfi Coast Port Tour (Driver Only/Self Touring)

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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Pompeii and Amalfi Coast Port Tour (Driver Only/Self Touring)

Nine-hour private driver service covering two UNESCO sites in Campania. Your Mercedes chauffeur deposits you at Pompeii's archaeological park for self-guided exploration of the Roman ruins, then continues to Sorrento for seaside lunch before a wander through Positano's clifftop lanes. You set the pace and dwell where you choose—the driver waits with the vehicle throughout.

9 hoursfrom AUD $1998

Full-Day Private Positano & Amalfi Boat Tour from Sorrento

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🐠 Water Activities

Italy

Full-Day Private Positano & Amalfi Boat Tour from Sorrento

Hire a private boat from Sorrento to explore Positano and Amalfi, two jewels of the [Amalfi Coast](/places/amalfi-coast). This seven-hour voyage aboard a sleek 2025 trimarán accommodates up to six passengers and lets you set the pace. Your English-speaking skipper navigates hidden coves and dramatic cliffsides whilst you snorkel, swim, and feast on local flavours at waterfront restaurants. Drinks, snacks, and kit are provided—you just bring your appetite and sense of adventure.

Half-Day Irpinia Wine Tour from SALERNO

A four-hour private tour through Campania's Irpinia wine region departing from Salerno. Travel by air-conditioned vehicle with a knowledgeable driver who doubles as a food-and-wine guide, visiting working wineries to taste four quality wines alongside local produce. You'll see how soil and grape variety shape the final product, moving beyond tasting-room theory into the vineyards themselves.

Brunello Wine Tour Experience Small Group Only

Spend nine hours in Montalcino exploring how Brunello becomes one of Italy's most distinctive reds. This small-group tour visits family vineyards practicing biodynamic viticulture, revealing the soil and seasonal decisions that shape each vintage. You'll taste directly from producers rather than in a tasting room, walk through working cellars, and eat lunch amongst the vines. Designed for serious drinkers and curious newcomers alike.

Guided snorkeling in the Portofino Marine Protected Area

A 3.5-hour guided snorkel through Portofino's protected marine reserve, led by a qualified naturalist. You'll explore one of the Mediterranean's most biodiverse underwater zones, spotting the region's distinctive flora and fauna, then descend to the submerged Christ of the Abyss statue. The guide explains both the sculpture's backstory and the ecological significance of this reserved stretch of Italian coastline.

Lucca: Home Cooking Class & Meal with a Local by Cesarine

Join a Lucchese home cook for a three-hour hands-on class where you'll prepare three signature dishes from the region: an antipasto, fresh pasta made by hand, and a traditional dessert. Work alongside your host at her kitchen table, learning techniques passed down through generations, then sit down to eat everything you've made with local wines. Part of Le Cesarine's network of home cooks across Italy, these sessions trade polished studios for genuine kitchens and real stories.

Rome: Frascati Vineyard Bike Tour with Train Tickets

Pedal through the Castelli Romani wine region on an e-bike, starting with a short train ride from Rome to Frascati. You'll cycle past cardinal villas and Renaissance gardens, climb to Tusculum for sweeping views over the capital, then spend time in a working vineyard tasting local whites. The return train journey wraps up a six-hour blend of history, landscape and wine in one afternoon.

Sailing boat excursion in the Gulf of Orosei in Sardinia

Spend ten hours sailing the Gulf of Orosei, exploring Sardinia's most dramatic coastal caves and coves by boat. You'll anchor at Cala Goloritze, Cala Mariolu, the Piscine di Venere, and lesser-known grottoes, with chances to spot dolphins and snorkel in crystalline waters. The boat's crew—experienced divers—guide you through the best underwater spots, then hand over the helm so you can feel the Mediterranean breeze fill the sails.

10 hoursfrom AUD $283

★ 5.0 (10)

✈️ Transfers

Italy

Rome Luggage Delivery Service

Drop your bags and explore Rome hands-free. This luggage delivery service collects from your accommodation, airport, or cruise terminal and stores or delivers them anywhere across Italy on your schedule. Perfect for maximising your first and last days in the city, or lightening your load whilst travelling between Italian destinations. Flexible same-day or multi-day options let you move about without the weight.

30 min – 3 hoursfrom AUD $158

★ 5.0 (10)

🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

authentic Ligurian pesto lesson

Spend an hour in Liguria learning to pound authentic pesto in a marble mortar from someone who knows the craft. You'll explore what makes the region's pesto distinct—the basil varieties, the quality of pine nuts and cheese—then make your own batch using proper technique. By the end, you'll understand why homemade tastes nothing like the jarred version, and you'll have the skills to replicate it in your own kitchen. Finish with fresh focaccia and local white wine.

Private transfers from Naples to Pompeii Vesuvius Herculaneum

Private car service connecting Naples to Pompeii, Vesuvius, or Herculaneum in a Mercedes sedan with English-speaking driver. Journey takes 1–2 hours depending on destination. The outfit runs a tight operation with fleet vehicles, professional crew, and solid TripAdvisor credentials. You pick the site; they handle logistics. Optional stops in other towns can be arranged if you get in touch beforehand.

1 hour – 2 hoursfrom AUD $112

Autenthic ligurian Cooking Class Kochkurs

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🍜 Food & Cooking

Italy

Autenthic ligurian Cooking Class Kochkurs

Roll up your sleeves in a Ligurian home kitchen to master Italian fundamentals: hand-rolled pasta, mortar-ground pesto, pillowy focaccia, and layered tiramisu. This five-hour session pairs technique with storytelling, drawing on seasonal local produce and the instructor's family traditions. You'll cook alongside your host, ask questions freely, and eat what you've made. Classes run in English, Italian, or German, and the menu shifts based on your interests.

Unique E-Bike Experience in the Appian Way and the Catacombs

Combine electric biking with Roman archaeology on this four-hour guided tour. You'll start with a warm-up ride from Circus Maximus before tackling the Appian Way, Rome's most ancient thoroughfare, where you'll roll past crumbling ruins, aqueducts, and pastoral landscapes. The second half takes you underground into the Catacombs, where early Christian communities carved burial chambers into the bedrock. A guide narrates both the outdoor and subterranean sections, connecting the landscape to the stories it holds.

Exclusive Lake Como Boat Tour Iconic Villas, Wine & Photo Stops

Glide across Lake Como's glassy waters aboard a sleek Venetian water taxi steered by a local skipper who knows where the light hits best. This two-hour private boat traces the shoreline past grand villas—Del Balbianello, Carlotta, Melzi d'Eril, Monastero—and the celebrity-owned Villa Oleandra. Stop for a dip in the crystalline water, frame shots of terraced gardens and belle époque architecture, or simply sit back as the Alps rise behind charming lakeside villages. Tailored to your pace and whims.

2 hoursfrom AUD $1166

★ 5.0 (10)

🛕 Culture & History

Italy

Private tour of the Pompeii excavations

A qualified archaeologist guides you through Pompeii's preserved streets and buildings over just over two hours, unpacking how Romans actually lived before Vesuvius struck. You'll walk the excavated city at your own pace, stopping to examine homes, shops and public spaces while your guide answers specific questions about daily routines, architecture and the eruption itself. This isn't rushed; it's a chance to read the ruins properly.

Cooking class of Tagliatelle and Tiramisu in Altamura

Learn to shape and cook tagliatelle from scratch, then build a proper tiramisu in this two-hour Altamura kitchen session. You'll work with seasonal produce sourced from local Puglian suppliers and regional farmers' markets, finishing with lunch to taste what you've made. Classes run in Italian and English, welcoming cooks of all levels into a hands-on introduction to two Italian staples.

Venice: Pasta and Tiramisu Cooking Class

Roll up your sleeves in a Venice kitchen to shape fresh pasta and layer tiramisu from scratch, guided by a local cook who shares proper technique without the theatre. You'll use quality ingredients provided on the spot, then sit down to eat what you've made alongside flowing wine, limoncello, and espresso. Three hours gets you fed, slightly tipsy, and armed with skills you'll actually use at home. The Dorsoduro neighbourhood's cafés and galleries are steps away if you want to wander after.

3 hoursfrom AUD $158

★ 5.0 (10)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Sunset Taormina Fiat 500 vintage tour

Cruise Taormina's coastal roads in a restored Fiat 500 as the sun dips toward the Ionian Sea. Your English-speaking driver navigates two hours of handpicked viewpoints and quiet backstreets, stopping frequently so you can photograph the town's belle-époque architecture, Greek theatre vistas, and pastel villages clinging to cliffsides. Learn snippets of Sicilian history between shots. The car itself—compact, characterful, period-correct—becomes part of the experience.

Exclusive 2 - Hour Private Boat Tour in Polignano a Mare

Explore the dramatic sea caves and limestone cliffs of Polignano a Mare on a private two-hour boat tour along the Adriatic coast. Your modern vessel cuts through crystalline waters, revealing hidden grottoes and rock formations inaccessible from land. Stop to swim and snorkel in secluded coves whilst enjoying onboard amenities including refreshments, shower facilities, and WiFi. The boat accommodates all fitness levels, making this a relaxed yet engaging way to see one of Italy's most striking coastal stretches.

Cooking Class in Tuscany

Learn to prepare authentic Tuscan dishes on a working organic farm outside the tourist zone. This 3-hour class teaches you regional recipes that shift across Tuscany's provinces, built on locally-sourced ingredients and traditional techniques. You'll handle real ingredients, understand flavour combinations, and leave with recipes to recreate at home. Private transport, lunch, and drinks included.

3 hoursfrom AUD $416

★ 5.0 (10)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Amalfi Coast Full Day Tour

Spend a full day tracing the dramatic cliffsides and pastel-hued villages of southern Italy's most celebrated coast. This eight to nine-hour tour covers four signature stops along the Amalfi stretch, moving between whitewashed towns, steep gorges and Mediterranean vistas by air-conditioned coach. You'll navigate the winding coastal roads at a measured pace, stopping to explore charming piazzas and local neighbourhoods where the scenery shifts constantly.

8 hours – 9 hoursfrom AUD $516

Highlights of Cagliari Private Tour by Van

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🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Highlights of Cagliari Private Tour by Van

A four-hour private van tour departing from Cagliari's port, exploring the city's religious and architectural landmarks. You'll visit the Basilica of Our Lady of Bonaria, climb to Monte Urpinu for sweeping coastal views, pass Poetto Beach and its salt-flat flamingos, then explore the medieval Castello district and its Romanesque cathedral. Your guide navigates you through centuries of Sardinian history before returning you to the port or town centre.

4 hoursfrom AUD $167

Rome Golf Cart Tour with Professional Photographer

★ 5.0 (10)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Rome Golf Cart Tour with Professional Photographer

Zip around Rome's compact centro on a motorised golf cart, hitting major piazzas and hidden corners in two hours without the legwork. A professional photographer shadows your route, catching you grinning at fountains and ducking through narrow streets—you'll leave with a gallery of candid shots that actually feel like your trip, not a postcard stand.

Truffle Hunt & Bio Lunch in Assisi

Spend a morning hunting for truffles with an experienced forager and trained dog across Umbrian woodland, then return to a family winery for a four-course lunch featuring your morning's finds paired with organic wines. This three-hour experience combines the thrill of discovery with the pleasure of tasting what you've helped unearth, all set in the rolling countryside near Assisi.

Private Florence Market Tour and Pasta Making Class with Cinzia

Spend six hours in [Florence](/places/florence) learning to cook with Cinzia, a passionate home cook who treats food as an expression of care. Start by visiting her curated selection of neighbourhood food shops—from a heritage supermarket stocking rare ingredients to a family grocer for vegetables—picking up everything you'll need. Then move to her patio kitchen to master three regional pasta dishes using family recipes, beginning with a prepared antipasto and finishing with wine and what you've made.

6 hoursfrom AUD $320

From Syracuse: Ortigia Bike Tour - PRIVATE

★ 5.0 (10)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

From Syracuse: Ortigia Bike Tour - PRIVATE

Pedal through Ortigia, Syracuse's ancient island quarter, on a three-hour guided ride. Your multilingual guide navigates narrow streets and baroque plazas that layer Greek, Roman and Norman architecture into one compact landscape. You'll cover ground faster than walking, stopping to read the built history without the museum fatigue—past and present exist side by side here, and the bike lets you feel both.

Etna and Alcantara: the Breath of the Earth, the Power of Water

This 6–8 hour excursion combines Mount Etna's volcanic terrain with the Alcantara Gorges' canyon landscapes. Departing from Taormina or Giardini Naxos, you'll trek past extinct craters, navigate the Cave of Thieves, and traverse the Sartorius ridgeline before moving to the gorge's basalt-carved waterway. A local mountain refuge lunch break (not included) sits between the two sections. Designed for those drawn to raw Sicilian geology rather than polished heritage sites.

6 hours – 8 hoursfrom AUD $158

Half Day Herculaneum and Pompeii Tour from Positano

★ 5.0 (10)

🛕 Culture & History

Italy

Half Day Herculaneum and Pompeii Tour from Positano

Spend five hours exploring two of Italy's most remarkable Roman sites, both entombed by Vesuvius in AD 79. This half-day tour from Positano takes you to Herculaneum and Pompeii, where millennia-old streets, homes and artefacts remain largely as they were when volcanic ash sealed the cities. You'll walk through neighbourhoods frozen in time, seeing everyday objects and architecture that reveal how Romans actually lived. Entrance to both excavations and comfortable transport are included.

Paint and Wine Night in a Hidden Venetian Atelier

Spend two hours in a working Venetian studio painting whilst sipping Italian wine. You'll work alongside an artist who guides your brushwork, surrounded by candlelit corners and reclaimed furnishings that feel far from the tourist trail. Everyone leaves with a finished piece they've actually made, not a pre-drawn template. It's less about producing gallery-ready art and more about the conversation, the wine, and surprising yourself with what you can do.

Winery Tour and Tasting on Padua Hills

A one-hour cellar visit and tasting at a family-run winery near Padova, set within a restored stone farmhouse overlooking old vine plots near a medieval village. You'll taste four regional wines—sparkling, rosé, and reds from local grape varieties—paired with aged cheeses and house-made cured meats. Your host explains pressing, fermentation and sommelier techniques throughout.

Private 2-Hour Tour of the Medieval Castle over Lake Como

A private two-hour exploration of Castello Baradello, the medieval fortress that commands Lake Como's southern shore. Built by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa atop earlier defences, this strategic hilltop stronghold sits within a protected natural park overlooking Como city. You'll walk through rooms steeped in Northern Italian history, visit the Tower of Time Museum, and ascend to the castle's high tower for unobstructed views across the lake and surrounding landscape. Private access means you're free to linger on the terrace without the usual crowds.

Civitavecchia Market Tour with Private Cooking Class

Start your morning at Civitavecchia's historic market, where your host walks you through stalls stocked with regional produce and artisanal goods. You'll then cook a traditional Italian meal using what you've selected, learning techniques passed down through the family kitchen. The five-hour experience culminates in sitting down to eat your own creations alongside your host and their family, with Tuscan wine and espresso included.

Vegan Tuscan Cooking Class

Learn to cook plant-based Tuscan dishes using recipes rooted in the region's peasant heritage. Over three hours, you'll handmake two fresh pasta shapes with vegan sauces, prepare traditional vegetable starters, and finish with a plant-based dessert. The experience includes lunch and dinner, plus tastings of four organic wines, six extra virgin oils, and three aged balsamic vinegars sourced from local producers.

Pompeii’s Newest Discoveries: Guided Tour with Pickup from Naples

This three-hour guided tour picks you up in Naples and takes you to Pompeii's freshly uncovered sections alongside the site's iconic areas. Your local guide steers you through the Forum, restored bathhouses, and newly accessible homes like the House of the Vettii, plus active digs revealing everyday Roman life. Skip-the-line entry and return transport from Naples are included, letting you focus on what archaeologists have recently pulled from the ash.

3 hoursfrom AUD $167

Daytrip from Rome to Pompei and Sorrento

★ 5.0 (10)

🚌 Day Trips & Sightseeing

Italy

Daytrip from Rome to Pompei and Sorrento

A ten-hour loop south from Rome takes you through the volcanic archaeology of Pompeii and the clifftop charm of Sorrento. Your private driver collects you from your accommodation and handles the four-hour journey to the Bay of Naples, where you'll walk through streets and homes entombed by Vesuvius in 79 AD. After lunch, you'll shift gears entirely in Sorrento—a whitewashed village perched above turquoise water where you can wander lemon groves and scan the Amalfi coastline before the drive back north.

10 hoursfrom AUD $2232

★ 5.0 (10)

🏔 Adventure & Sports

Italy

underground escape room

Puzzle your way through a subterranean challenge set within Matera's ancient cave system. This one-hour escape room takes groups of 4–8 into the stone depths, where logic tests and mysteries await. Whether you're dodging summer heat or winter chill, it's a chance to pit your wits against intricate puzzles whilst exploring what lies beneath the city's famous tufa architecture.

1 hourfrom AUD $133

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