We are using Lucca as our home base for three days in Tuscany in April we will be renting a car.
One day trip to Cinque Terre via train at La Spezia.
We would like another day trip to go South towards Siena, Volterra,
San Gimignano and possibly Montalcino.
Can anyone recomend a wine tour also recomendations for awesome lunch and dinner along the way.
If you are driving, be aware DUI in Italy is 0.05% Typical in US is 0.08% to 0.10%
Enjoy your wine tours etc., responsibly.
hey ourangel
while in lucca look at luccatours.com with wanda
fattoriaaldotto.it is a winery in lucca.
gustowinetours.com
come&seeitaly.com has things to do and places to see near lucca.
extravirglucca.com or cucina-italiana.com are cooking classes in lucca
garzoni gardens and the butterfly house in the village of collodi, home to pinocchio
barga in garfagnana. visittuscany.com (search a day trip to barga)
lots to do in that area of tuscany and not enough time. enjoy
aloha
Montalcino is far from the other towns you are visiting that day.
Googling the area it looks like Montalcino is 2.5 hours by car from Lucca. If we drive there in the morning and then on the way back in the adternoon visit San G and posibly Volterra or suggestions of other small Tuscan villages along the way.
We spent a day in Siena. It wasn’t enough. We spent a day visiting San Gimignano and Volterra. We barely scratched the surface.
The 2.5 hours to Montalcino would be straight, a lot on uninspiring major highway. If you took the scenic route, even without stopping, plan on nearly doubling that time.
Rather than Montalcino,look at the hill town of Castellina in Chianti. It's about 1 1/2 hours from Lucca. Then about 40 minutes to San Gimignano which is 45-50 minutes to Volterra. Ending with a 1 1/2 hours back to Lucca.
Thank you I will look at that!
Any opinion on whether to take train or short flight from Rome to Pisa?
i have researched over an hour. It still seems like taking a 50min flight drom Rome to Pisa os faster than the 3+hour train ride. This is thne beginning of our trip we want to get going asap.
Does anyone have any suggestions.
Are you flying into Rome and then planning on going directly to Lucca? If you do this, you need to allow at least 3 hours between flights in case there are any delays.
So the train will probably get you there faster.
We have a direct flight to Rome that lands 805am then there is flight leqaving Rome to Pisa 950 to 1035am it seems to be the fastest way.
You won't even be thru immigration and passport control by then. Let alone switching terminals.
Consider booking a wine tour and tasting and a home made lunch at the Agritoisimo Marciano outside of Siena. An all organic old farm with great views and incredible food and wine. Also, a great place to stay! We went last year for 5 days and are now booked for 7 for our upcoming trip. 5 stars
We had a fabulous day in Tuscany, in and around the San Gimignano area.
Check out 'Fun in Tuscany' tours for the day vespa tour which was one of the highlights of our Italy trip.
