A Private Walking Tour of Perugia in Search of Artisans Traditions

When it comes to shopping for unique and traditional crafts, Perugia is a good place to be!
This City , whose artisanal traditions go back to Etruscan times, boasts a number of artisans' workshops, where highly-skilled craft-masters produce superb objects using ancient techniques.
The mediaeval city centre is an open-air gallery of art and architecture, but many of Perugia's most fascinating secrets stay hidden from the average visitor, such as the traditional workshops of artists and artisans!

We will discover the old medieval tradition of gothic stained glass creations carried on in the Studio Moretti Caselli where Maddalena still continues the family's production of stained glass, with five generations of glassmakers, we will then proceed to the textile studio Giuditta Brozzetti, located in a 13th century church, where Marta carries on a multigenerational labor of love that focuses on handmade textile produced on 18th century looms.

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The glass studio Moretti Caselli, detail of glass creations

The glass studio Moretti Caselli, detail of the workshop

The textile workshop Giuditta Brozzetti located in a former church dating to 13th century, San Francesco delle Donne

Marta's textile creations displayed in here workshop

The 18th century wood looms of the textile workshop Giuditta Brozzetti

Perugia's Artisans at work. A journey from Art to Craft

This tour is centered on Cortona, an ancient town which oldest evidence of human activity goes back to the IXth century BC.
Cortona has become increasingly popular with US tourists on account of a movie, a novel, and the Syrah wine production which meets the taste of many visitors from abroad. By taking the tour you wll see beautiful views, amazing architecture and see how a small hilltop village could be able to develop such wonderful sites.

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Discover an exciting town, a Tuscan art materpiece located on a charming hilltop....

Beautiful Cortona

The town was known to the Romans as Hispellum. The characteristic appearance of Spello derives primarily from the pink and white stone, used in its construction, which gives the town a warm roseate glow, especially in the evening.

This small gem of Spello is my favourite tiny town in Umbria. Everything is harmonious here and Pinturicchio is my beloved Umbrian painter. When you visit Cappella Bella or Beautiful Chapel, it leaves a lasting impression by reason of its extreme and unique sense of melancholic beauty of the characters in the stories Pinturicchio has crafted.

Spello is fabulous and that is the reason this place has been chosen for the wonderful flower festival in June.

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Explore this gem of a little Umbrian town

Private Tour of Spello

In the heart of the Umbrian Apennines, on the slope of Mount Subasio is the medieval town of Assisi, the birthplace of Saint Francis and Saint Clare.
Together they founded the franciscan movement, beloved all over the world for its hospitals and missions. At the time of its construction, in the first half of the thirteenth century, Saint Francis Basilica was the finest gothic church of the country. It's colourful fresco-paintings - works by Italian masters such as Giotto, Simone Martini and Lorenzetti, are in an astounding state of conservation.
After a half day walking tour in the old town visiting the major Basilicas, we stop for a brief lunch in a local trattoria.
Our journey continues to visit the hermitage, a tiny monastery built in the forest on Saint Francis' grotto at the time of San Bernardino, and finally to the little Porziuncola chapel in the valley, the cradle of the Minor Fryers, inside the huge Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels.

In the footsteps of Saint Francis

A Day in Assisi Tour

See Perugia: 'Sweet' Cultural Capital Of Umbria, Half Day Private Tour

Perugia is a cultural cake: layers of history on top of each other. In your 3 hour walking tour you will get a taste of its Etruscan, medieval and renaissance history. A tour for about 3 hours .

Enjoy the extraordinary life and culture of Perugia , the city where I chose to live

The tour will take you inside Città della Pieve, visiting some of the most interesting historic sites and scenic views present in the area.

Native home to Pietro Vannucci, aka Perugino, one of the most accomplished painters of the Renaissance

Città della Pieve

Discover Perugia with a local "Perugina". .
Perugia, "The Queen of the hill towns" has always been praised for its very striking views! And they certainly are a great attraction, but wandering the hills and the backstreets of Perugia's central rioni will give you the real feel of this fascinating city, which has elegance and edginess in equal measure.
Known for its 14th century University, one of the oldest of Europe, Perugia is one of Italy's most underrated destinations filled with traces of an ancient past, from the Etruscans times to Middle Ages and to Renaissance, complemented by a host of new bars, cafes and boutiques.
With one of the biggest historical centers of Italy, Perugia has an enchanting piazza with medieval buildings such as the Palazzo dei Priori, the Major Fountain, masterpiece of Giovanni and Nicola Pisano, and the gothic cathedral. . as well as an underground area which is not to be missed!

entrance for the privately owned Oratorio Dei Nobili;

A view of he main square of Perugia with the major Fountain and the Palazzo Dei Priori

A view of Perugia from the medieval aqueduct

The symbols of Perugia, the Griffin and the Lion

A view of the northern neighborood of Perugia

Explore Perugia, the Queen of Italian Hill Towns

Perugia Full Day Private Walking Tour

Half-Day Guided Tour to Beautiful Arezzo, Italy.

This tour is a basic walking tour through the city of Arezzo, a short 58 km drive or train ride from Firenze.

Famed Italian poet Carducci wrote that Arezzo by herself was sufficient to make the whole of Italy proud of her past glory. This city and its surrounding countryside have been in fact home to incredible personalities of the past such as Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, Guido Monaco, Petrarch, Piero della Francesca, Michelangelo, and Giorgio Vasari among others.

You will get a chance to visit the surviving house of a late-Renaissance intellectual and artist and visit one of the most meaningful paintings of art history.

Different points of interest may be mixed and matched to fit your own personal interest and time-table, keeping in mind that Arezzo has been growing vigorously in the past few years as a favorite spot for international visitors, a good alternative to overcrowded Firenze or Pisa.

Wine-tasting and aperitivo breaks if you so wish will make this tour particularly appealing.

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Fresco in the house of Giorgio Vasari, Arezzo.

A knight competing in the Saracino joust.

A lesser-known Tuscan jewel well worth the trip.

Perugia is the capital of Umbria and one of the local hill towns. It is a city full of charme and history. With me as a private guide you will walk along its city wall dating from the Etruscan age, get lost in the symbols carved by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano's into the Fontana Maggiore and find yourself fascinated by the many layers of the Rocca Paolina.

Perugia is a city full of charme and history and I'll take you experiencing every ancient gate, alley, piazza, palazzo and church trying to capture your imagination; I'll make every museum and gallery impressing you with their sense of history, culture and art. Perugia indeed is not just a stuffy old showcase of the ancient, it also has a young, vibrant and energetic feel. My favourite in Perugia festivals in Perugia are the annual fall Chocolate festival and the summer Umbria Jazz festival, lending the city to a chic and urbane atmosphere unmatched by other Italian cities. Come on and go to Perugia together!

Half day private walking tour

See The Perugia Highlights

This walking tour is a leisurely stroll through the history of Perugia from its faraway Etruscan origins to a highlight of Renaissance: Perugino's paintings in the National Art Gallery of Umbria.
Perugia is also gastronomy: an ice cream cone to taste the variety of hazelnut chocolate "bacio perugina" is a delicious must.

The acquaduct alleyway to the university of Perugia

The old capital of Umbria

Discovering Perugia on foot

Arezzo, Life is Beautiful! A walk around the town - Half day tour

I am a licensed tourist guide and right in Arezzo I took my license. I explored its beauty, deepened its artistic and historical works. Arezzo reserves many surprises, some of which have made a difference in human history. Do you want to know which ones? I expect you :)

Out of the crowd of the main touristic routes, you can relax walking the historic center, full of medieval buildings, and then hike up to the Medici Fortress and enjoy the view of the hills surrounding the town.
Arezzo it's a surprising town, guarding some important art masterpieces that had an important influence over the history of art, like the frescos of Leggenda della Vera Croce of Piero della Francesca, and Cimabue's Wood Christ.

We'll discover Arezzo together and then have an authentic Tuscany lunch, with products of the valleys nearby: typical goat cheese Pecorino, homemade prosciutto, salame and pici (homemade pasta).

Out from the main touristic routes, discover Arezzo, a jewel town for food, history and art

Discover the millenary history of Assisi from the golden Roman past of Assisi to the jewels of the Medieval architectures.
This tour will lead you to find out the unknown face of the little Umbrian town in search of unique masterpieces of art and the untouched traces left by the Romans.
Our walk through the old town will take you to uncover the traces of the old Roman amphitheater to the main square with its outstanding Roman Temple of Minerva, dating back to the 1st century b. c. and traces of the old forum area.
We will then continue through the Medieval alleys to the Basilica of St. Francis, built in 1228 to house the remains of the founder of the Franciscan order, enriched during the centuries by the masterpieces of medieval and renaissance masters, such as Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers.

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