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Food & Wine tours
Gallo Nero tour
A black rooster day!
On Monday, when the main part of museum and shops are closed, we propose this pleasant and relaxing excursion that will make you discover the tuscan countryside and some of its more suggestive corners.
We have selected an itinerary presenting some cultural aspects, some naturals, and some others strictly “delightful”, keeping us out from the usual tourist destinations and preferring the genuineness of the legs to the importance of their names. We aren’t going to propose you famous villages and important hamlets, but once at home, you’ll feel to have touched the real dimension of the “slow” living.
The scenographic tuscan countryside between Florence and Siena is known as Chianti area, land of wines universally known, among which the most important is surely the Chianti Classico, easily recognizable by the label “Gallo Nero”. The Chiantishire is a real “collage” of green woods, silver olive trees and tidy rows of vines. Ancient castles built by nobles Florentine and Sienese families, characteristic architecture farmhouses, lonely Romanic parishes draw the sweet hills running.
First leg at Monteriggioni, that seen from afar, with its exciting medieval ruins, gives the impression that the time remained motionless inside and outside the walls.Monteriggioni for its peculiar town walls, was a storm-proof fortress that assured, since its foundation, and for over 300 years, the Sienes Republic’s freedom against the Florentine attacks. It fell by treacherous in 1554 because the garrison’s captain agreed secretly with the Florentines and delivered the fortress into the hands of the enemy without fighting, in exchange for his family’s safety.The people and the reality have changed, but still today who has chosen to live inside the Castle, has maintained the slow and rich sense of live, human and natural dimensioned, always in touch with the history.Visit of the armours museum and walk along the town walls.
Continuation to Vagliagli and stop at a farmhouse whose traces are dated around 1000 A.J. Today it’s a blooming farm whose main activity is still “making wine” just in the best Chianti Classico area . Guided tour of the estate and wine cellars illustrating the different process of the wine production. Then, a genuine lunch accompanied by local wines will be served on the suggestive threshing floor. In the afternoon stop at Greve in Chianti, small market-village, spare time for a walk in the famous square surrounded by porticos hosting different shops ( don’t miss a visit at the anc  ient “Macelleria Falorni” !)Return in Florence expected at 6.00 pm
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