Top Italy Chocolate Tours

Turin is known for its prestigious cuisine featuring delicacies from truffles to chocolate. Take a deep dive into the city’s food culture with this gourmet walking tour to visit restaurants, learn about traditional dishes, and enjoy tastings and lunch with a foodie guide. Sample specialties including grissini (breadsticks), agnolotti and tajerin pasta, vitello tonné (veal with tuna sauce) and steak tartare, chocolates, and bicerin (a chocolate-infused coffee drink).

Tuscany is known for its excellent vintages, but the world of Tuscan wine can be overwhelming for a novice. With this informal wine class, you’ll get your bearings and learn to recognize the most important and storied wines of Tuscany. Delve into the history of Tuscany’s wine production, discover the different wine-producing areas and grapes, and sample a number of reds and whites from the region.

Follow your guide through the streets of Milan in search of some of the city’s best pastries and desserts. Discover the patisserie culture that has been so prevalent since the 19th century and learn about the traditional desserts from the area. Sample baked goods such as the famous panettone, cannoncini, marron glace, pralines, and much more as you explore the city.

The city of Turin is known as the Italian capital of chocolate and this patisserie tour takes you to a few of the city’s best cafes and confectionaries. Learn how chocolate came to the Italian region hundreds of years ago and sample delicious confections such as gianduiotti, bicerin, marron glace, pinguino, and more. Become a chocolate expert after this tour and explore more of Turin’s confectionaries on your own.

Save time waiting in line for this popular attraction with skip-the-line tickets for to Rome's famous Borghese Gallery. With tickets in hand and your tour guide in the lead (optional), explore the gardens and see masterpieces by Raffaello, Canova, Caravaggio, and Bernini. Choose to explore independently or take the guided tour option.

Take a 2-hour, skip-the-line tour of the Borghese Gallery in Rome to make the most of your visit. As you listen to interesting commentary from a guide, you’ll be able to fully appreciate the paintings and sculptures by artists such as Caravaggio, Bernini, Titian and other Italian masters.

The opulent Villa Borghese isn’t just a popular Roman attraction: home to paintings and sculptures by Raphael, Bernini, and Caravaggio, it’s also one of the world’s most revered art galleries. While tickets frequently sell out in advance, this small-group tour’s skip-the-line privileges guarantee swift entry, as well as the opportunity to discover the Villa’s many masterpieces in an intimate setting limited to 15 participants.

Explore the Villa Borghese's meticulously curated collection during this small-group tour in Rome. Stroll through twenty rooms of the 17th-century palace with an art historian guide. See breathtaking works by masters like Caravaggio, Bernini and Raphael, including Bernini's 'Apollo and Persephone' and Caravaggio's 'St John the Baptist'. Admire the villa's marble architecture and ceiling frescoes as you listen to engaging commentary from your guide. This small-group tour is limited to 15 people or less.

Explore Milan's most significant historical landmarks, including skip-the-line access to da Vinci's 'The Last Supper', during this walking tour. With your local art historian guide, visit sites like Sforza Castle, the Scala Theater, Piazza dei Mercanti, and the Duomo. View 'The Last Supper', Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, without waiting in the general admission line. All entrance fees are included on this small-group walking tour.

The Borghese Gallery is home to one of the top art collections in Rome and the limited number of admission tickets available each day sells out quickly. Avoid disappointment with this pre-booked ticket that guarantees fast-track entrance at a specific time to marvel at masterpieces by Caravaggio, Titian, and Bernini. After admiring the collection inside the gallery, finish with a stroll through the surrounding Villa Borghese gardens.

Enjoy the personal attention of a private guide on this 3-hour tour of the Borghese Gallery. View masterpieces by Caravaggio, Raphael, Bernini and much more.

Discover the secrets of Florence's Duomo on a private tour with a certified guide. In addition to providing pick–up from the doorstep of your accommodation, your guide offers facts and stories often unheard of by visitors. Head inside the Baptistery to admire the beautiful Byzantine mosaics of the vault as well as the "Gate of Paradise." You also see the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral and the "Opera del Duomo."

Explore Florence’s Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral inside and out on this small-group tour that offers personalized attention at an affordable price. The crowds and scale of the Duomo complex can be overwhelming, but a guide shows you essential art inside the Duomo museum and beneath the the massive cupola itself, culminating with a climb up nearly 500 steps for panoramic views over Florence.

As you were a bohemien, we will start the tour with a chocolate experience. Try firstly Bicerin, the traditional hot cup receipe consumed in these '800 century cafès. We will move than to explore how local chocolatiers have worked cocoa for our happinness. Sampling a selection of traditional chocolates like Gianduiotto, Cremino and Cri Cri and moving to premium dark versions made with Criollo. Talking about the global sourcing issues and challanges. Turin has been developing as a community of citizens from all the regions of Italy, each one bringing over their own recipes and traditions. From the closest seaside of the city near Cinque Terre sample the Focaccia Ligure from a family shops and experience how great olive oil plays together with a fluffy and tasty bake. Turin and Piedmont are famous for its wines, from vineyards in the slopes of Alps. The 2 tastings of whites and icon red will be paired with ham and cheese.

Discover the sweet side of Turin with a food-focused walking tour. Taste several chocolate-based specialties of Torino including Bicerin (an espresso and chocolate drink), gelato, pastries, and chocolate bars. Follow your guide on a stroll through the heart of the city and learn about the history of chocolate making in this region of Italy.

On our Secret Food Tours: Milan, you’ll enjoy a vast variety of dishes and drinks deriving from the “Milanese” tradition. We’ll take you around the Navigli area and explain what’s so special about it. Through food it will be easy to show you how Milan is the most international Italian city: that makes it also the most interesting for people from other cities to move to, which means? It’s the only Italian city where you can try food from all over the country: Sicilian, Calabrese, Neapolitan, Pugliese! You’ll start with arancina from Sicily. An intriguing historical prelude will introduce you to the most typical dish in Milan, “Risotto”. We'll have the privilege to eat it and also to learn the secrets and the preparation modalities behind this magnificent plate.

If you've already indulged into plenty of Italian wine and pasta, get to know local chocolate with this tasting. A master chocolatier guides you through some of the best products in the shop, telling you everything about the ingredients and production. Your experience includes around 10 tastings in total.

Unveil the secrets of the delicacies of Turin and Piedmont among anecdotes, history and curiosities. You'll discover and taste the worldwide famous and typical Giandujotto chocolate and Zabaglione, a delicious drink of the past, passing through the curious legend of breadsticks and Cri-Cri chocolate. During the tour, you will also taste the classic Italian ice-cream and Vermouth or Bicerin, in a beautiful historical Cafe. This is the sweetest tour in town!

Step into the world of Venchi in the charming historic center of Venice with a captivating storytelling session, unraveling the brand's rich history and commitment to crafting exceptional chocolates. The second step invites you to immerse yourself in the enchanting story of the featured product, promising a unique and delectable journey. As you progress to the third step, savor a curated selection of 6 exquisite chocolates during a guided tasting session, allowing you to explore the nuanced flavors and craftsmanship behind each creation. Additionally, indulge your creative side in the fourth step by crafting your own personalized chocolate. Our expert staff will accompany you during this tasty journey. To sweeten the experience even more, you will receive a 20% offer on additional purchases, allowing you to take home gift boxes of beautifully crafted chocolates to share or savor at your leisure. Don't forget to take home a delicious cadeau of chocolates for your sweet snacks.

In the "Val di Nievole", Tuscany, in the center of the chocolate valley there is a laboratory that produces according to the "Bean-to-Bar" method, that is, processing everything, from the cocoa bean to the chocolate bar, in the usual place. This way of working chocolate has now become synonymous with high quality artisan chocolate. Tuscani Cioccolato is a direct importer of cocoa from Nicaragua, specifically from two regions of Nicaragua "La Dalia" and "Matiguas". Throughout the chocolate transformation process, from roasting to tempering, we make sure to extract the maximum aromas from our Nicaraguan cocoa to obtain the most complex taste and enhance the qualities of our two types of single-origin Trinitarian cocoa. We would be very happy to welcome you to our factory to see all the various stages of chocolate processing in order to bring the true taste of excellent artisan chocolate directly to your palate.

Enjoy a Florence culinary tour like no other—and visit locally beloved bakeries, coffee shops and more, which many other visitors miss—on this private tasting tour. Pick from several start times, meet your guide at a central start point, and come ready to indulge: You’ll make a variety of stops, from a traditional café where you’ll learn about the history of Italian coffee to gelaterias, chocolatiers, and other gourmet food businesses.

What better way to discover the Italian territory than with a tour involving taste and raw materials? Discovering local tastes and flavors, in the fascinating setting of Lake Como. Food and wine tours located in the main areas of Lake Como, with various stops in characteristic locations, where you can taste cheeses, cold cuts and traditional dishes, accompanied by good wine and beer. Let us take you on a three-stage adventure in search of the local flavors of Lake Como. Your tour will start with an individual visit of the beauties that surround the territory and the monuments that tell you the history of the area. At noon you will have a rich tasting of typical local products in a traditional bistrot or local wine shop of the place. Afterwards, you will have the opportunity to continue sightseeing and then pamper yourself with a sartorial aperitif while waiting for dinner at a craft brewery. With this tour, you will completely immerse yourself in the flavors of the area.

Crafting fine Italian chocolate since 1878, Venchi is a worldwide name today. Sink into the world of exceptional chocolate on this decadent small-group tasting experience in the heart of historic Florence. Hear about the brand’s history, enjoy a guided tasting session, then craft your own personalized chocolate. You’ll leave with a gift and enjoy a twenty percent discount on additional purchases.