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Full Day: Wine experience in San Gimignano, Siena & Monteriggioni
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- 11 hours 15 minutes
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
Overview
Enjoy a full-day tour into the heart of the beautiful Tuscan countryside. Visit the town of San Gimignano, the wine territory of Chianti, the medieval town of Siena, and the Monteriggioni fortress. If you choose the option with lunch, you'll have the chance to spend your lunchtime in Piazza del Campo, where every year the Palio Horse Race takes place.
- Full-day tour of the beautiful Tuscan countryside from Florence
- Wander the World Heritage-listed medieval town of San Gimignano
- Discover the history of Monteriggioni’s impressive fortress
- Savor a picnic lunch of Tuscan specialties
- Taste Chianti wines and olive oil at a local winery
- See Siena's famous cathedral and Piazza del Campo, home of the Palio de Siena horse race
What's Included
- Expert tour leader
- Guided Tour of Siena with local guide
- Free time in San Gimignano
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Gratuities
Meeting And Pickup
Meeting point
- Florence (Villa Costanza)50018 Scandicci, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy
Meet us at Villa Costanza, in front of 'The Florence Gate' Café. Reach the meeting point by T1 Leonardo tramway to Villa Costanza (get off at Villa Costanza stop which is the end of the line). The ride is 20 min from center and you can choose the nearest stop. Our staff will wear a green shirt.
Start time
08:45 AM
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.What To Expect
Historic Centre of San Gimignano
2 hours • Admission Ticket Free
Porta San Giovanni (Pass By)
Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta - Duomo di San Gimignano
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Palazzo Pubblico e Torre Grossa
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Piazza della Cisterna
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Walls of Monteriggioni
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Castello Monteriggioni
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Fortezza Medicea (Pass By)
Centro Storico di Siena
2 hours • Admission Ticket Free
Piazza Salimbeni
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Palazzo Tolomei (Pass By)
Via di Citta (Pass By)
Piazza del Campo
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Fonte Gaia (Pass By)
Palazzo Pubblico and Museo Civico
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Duomo di Siena
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Facciatone (Pass By)
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
- Entrance to the Siena Cathedral is not included, clients can enter at their own expenses and depending on Cathedral opening times. Please note that will not available on Sundays or Bank Holidays and during special event opening times can change
- Guided tour in Siena with local guide will be in English only
Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
- Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
- This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Traveler Tips
Tour starts early, so be ready the night before, but it's worth getting up for.
There is a lot of walking so I recommend bringing comfortable shoes.
All in all an absolutely wonderful day and highly recommended for families even with kids.
Reviews
4.5
736 reviews
Reviews by Viator travelers.
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Beautiful views touching the best Tuscany has to offer
Christie_F, Aug 2023
Wonderful day. Siena tour guide was pleasant. I would suggest skipping the pre fixed lunch, food was just ok and took too much time from the visit. Also Lorenzo winery was beautiful with stunning views but the tasting was just ok.
Response from Host, Aug 2023
Dear Customer,
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. Happy to know that you had a good experience and liked the tour. We will take note of your suggestion, thank you for that. Hope to see you again in our tours in the future, to show you our service improvements, hoping we will get a full star rate by making our customers happy.
Best regards,
My Tour in Italy team.
Very good day tour
Helen_E, Aug 2023
Some other reviews mentioned there was a lot of walking, but I didnt think it was too bad - it isnt always possible to be dropped at the door, and then you walk around the town anyway, so the walking is ok. We spent the right amount of time at each location. It would have been nice to be able to take a pic of Monteriggioni from the outside where it is possible to see all of the towers. The tour guide was excellent, running the tour in English and Spanish. A full day but the bus ride between locations, and the ice cream, gives you a chance to rest and recharge.
Response from Host, Aug 2023
Dear Customer,
Thank you for taking your time and sharing your feedback. We appreciate all the good words,and the explanation of your experience; very happy to know that our customers enjoy the tour. Hope to have you again in our upcoming tours in the future, in order to give you more experiences like this. Our customers are our priority and it is our pleasure to make them happy, and give them an exellent experience.
Best regards,
My Tour in Italy team.
No flexibility, high risk for covid
Leila_E, Aug 2023
The night before the trip, I started to feel sick, I called Viator to try to cancel this activity and get a refund. They kept repeating the 24 hour cancellation policy over and over again. They didn’t really care if a person with Covid goes to that activity and make 50 people sick. I did not get a refund and on top of that they offered to cancel the trip without a refund for us to be able probably to book others ! I had also booked another activity through Viator that I couldn’t go due to a storm and no ferry availability. Same thing repeating the 24 hour policy and no accommodation. It is very disappointing. I won’t use Viator for my tours again.
Disappointing Day Trip to Tuscany
Marie_A, Jul 2023
We enjoyed our time in Siena and Gimignano. The tour guide in Siena was knowledgeable. The Monteriggioni Castle was a waste of time. It was late in the afternoon when we arrived there and it was really hot. There was not much to see or do there at all. The wine tour was good. We saw the cellar, learned how to properly sample wine, and we sampled three out of seven their wines. Our tour guide was not good at all. She acted like a facilitator who just accompanied us from place to place. She did not make an effort to engage with the tour guests at all. She spent more time chatting with the bus driver and the lady she was training to be a tour guide. She expressed no passion in being a tour guide nor in the places we visited. She did the bare minimum and it felt like she was just going through the motions with no excitement at all. We finished our day feeling disappointed in this tour company.
Excellent lunch and bus narrative
Don_C, Jul 2023
Although this tour was cancelled, we were offered a “like” tour. All needed transfer communication was proper and supportive, to make this tour equivalent. The rendezvous point would have been clearer if you would have published the bus would be parked behind the T1 tram ending point and that there was a restaurant and rest rooms available, both being important for an early morning tour. The winery was an excellent highlight for this new tour, both tasting and lunch. Cutting people loose was inconceivable without knowing how to return to the rendezvous point. The tour guide in Siena disappointingly limited the converging historical forces to feuding families and horse racing. The bus air conditioning was inadequate.
Response from Host, Jul 2023
Dear Customer,
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We are sorry to hear that you were not as much satisfied from this trip. Sorry for the innconvience, but since this tour was cancelled, we wanted to give you another option to take part in " Siena, San Gimignano & Monteriggioni Wine Tour ". We do not publish where the bus is parked, as our customers have to meet up with the guide first at the meeting point and then , the guide wil lead them to the bus. Happy to hear that you have liked the winery and the lunch. Winery is the result of searching for the best place, for our customers, in order so they can have an enjoyable time there. As per the part that you have said we cutted people loose, that was just the free time that we give our customers to have to each destination, in order so they can have a self-guided tour there. After that the customers always meet up with the guide in the same meeting point as before. We are sorry for the air conditioning on the bus, but that day we had proble,s with that and that's why all this occured. We assure to our customers improving our service, in order so we can give them a better experience for the next time.
Thank you for your understanding.
Best regards,
My Tour in Italy team.
Fabulous trip, highly recommend. Well organised and some really great places to see and enjoy.
Vanessa_J, Jul 2023
This trip was one of the best things/most memorable we did, it was so enjoyable. We were only a small group of 8 which was lovely. Very well organised with the meeting point/arrival etc. Jonny, our driver was fairly new at the job but he was great and really friendly.
First stop at Monteriggioni was lovely, so picturesque and quaint. We had a chance to grab a coffee and wander.
Siena was gorgeous and our favourite stop. We had plenty of time to ourselves to explore, have some lunch and an aperol sprtitz or two, and we opted (of our own accord) to go up the main tower in the piazza for the most amazing views!! It was a challenge to get up there but was so worth it.
Onto the Chianti wine tasting after. Another picture postcard location. The tour was really informative and it was fab to see and learn all the various wine making stages. Wine was lovely and we bought a couple of bottles (under no pressure or obligation at all). Then our last stop was San Gimignano. Sadly it had started to rain, heavily, and we had to dash between shops to keep dry. But it was another beautiful part of Tuscany to see and explore. A shame it was so wet as we would have loved to explore more like we did in Siena, but we chose to not stay for too long here as it was hammering down. Some people on our minibus weren't happy we didn't stay longer but we had almost an hour there and the weather wasn't improving so we voted to give in and head back. There was no real benefit to staying as you couldn't even sit and relax with a coffee or ice-cream outdoors with the heavy rain. No one's fault at all.
But overall, a really great trip, with lots of photo opportunities to capture memories of a fabulous day!
Response from Host, Jul 2023
Dear customer,
Thank you for taking your time to share your feedback with us. We are glad to know that you are appreciating the time you had during the tour. and the guide's hardworking. Our customer's satisfaction is our goal and priority and we look forward to having you back on our tours everywhere in Italy so we can have the possibility to leave another good impression on you. We are sorry for the weather condition, as you said that was something we could not predict. Thank you for your understanding.
Best regards,
My Tour In Italy team.
Great Day Out
Robert_K, Jun 2023
The well informed and happy staff. "Manni" was a great help at all times for all questions. The tour was not drawn out and we had enough free time to look around.
A day in Tuscany.
Ken_R, Jun 2023
Extremely well organised and enjoyed it all. The tour leader was great as was the destinations. Wine tasting was great and seeing the sights was excellent.
Response from Host, Jun 2023
Dear customer,
Thank you for your feedback. We are very glad to hear that you enjoyed the tour. It's one of our priorities to make customers happy. As for the wine tasting, we always try the best in choosing the wineries, in order that our customers can have a good wine tasting. We see forward to looking you in another tour of ours.
Best regards,
My Tour in Italy team.
Great trip with too much crammed into a day
Maribel_R, Jun 2023
We loved Siena and enjoyed our guide’s superb description of the different communities in Siena. The stop at Monteriggione was too short to enjoy much (45 min.). The visit to San Gimignano was an on-your-own stop not involving our guide. Likewise was the stop at the winery. Our guide was excellent as far as it went but she really wasn’t called upon to do much more than herd cats, with the exception of Siena, where she was an excellent tour guide.
A dream come true!
Alessandra_K, Jun 2023
The countryside is beautiful, as well as the cities that we wisited. The guides provided good information and were very kind and helpful.
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