Top Tuscany Wildlife Encounters

Explore the Tuscan countryside during a full-day tour from Florence with horseback riding. Your guide provides a gentle horse and riding gear, then leads you through the vineyards, olive groves, and rolling hills of the Chianti region. Afterward, visit the medieval town of San Gimignano, and enjoy a 3-course Tuscan lunch with wine tasting lesson. Option available to substitute a farm tour for the horseback ride if desired.

Experience the thrill of finding Italy’s most precious tuber with an experienced forager in the Tuscany countryside during this authentic truffle hunt outside San Miniato. Meet Francesca and her truffle dog and set out for a jaunt through the woods to find fresh truffles. Afterwards, relax at her family farmhouse over lunch featuring the truffles you’ve found together.

Take a deep dive into Tuscany’s traditional cuisine with this farmhouse cooking class. Connect with a local host and learn how to prepare a number of classic Tuscan dishes in her family kitchen, based on recipes passed down through the generations. Roll up your sleeves and make a selection of starters, first and second courses, and dessert, then sit down to a celebratory meal featuring the fruit of your labors.

Marvel at the beauty of the Chianti hills from above with this balloon ride that takes off from the heart of Tuscany. Meet your pilot near the village of San Casciano in Val di Pesa for boarding and float up to a height of 2,000 feet (609 meters) for bird’s-eye views over the vineyards, olive groves, woods, and villages. After landing, toast to your flight with a glass of Champagne.

Live the experience with birds of prey! In this activity you will get to know Brave, Harris' buzzard. You will be able to see it sailing in the sky and coming directly to you on the glove in a place surrounded by nature.

Discover the Tuscan countryside on this all-day horseback riding tour. Designed for experienced riders, you’ll explore the wild region of Maremma Toscana, crossing wooded areas and small rivers and traveling past medieval villages. The horses are reliable and sure-footed; there are several opportunities to trot and canter. A picnic lunch is included.

Escape the bustle of the city and immerse yourself in Tuscany's stunning countryside during this private half-day horseback ride and wine tasting in Chianti. Discover lesser-known locales among rolling hills and vineyards, topped off by a guided tour of a historic wine estate, and sampling of three Chianti wines.

Unique opportunity to discover the secrets of the Diaccia Botrona Regional Nature Reserve, with birdwatching activities in the heart of the Reserve, immersed in the flashes of fish, bird songs and beautiful colors, in the unspoiled nature of the last edge of the most authentic Tuscan Maremma.

The Apennines is a mountain range that stretches from the north to the south of Italy. It crosses through Mugello, enriching the town with its incredible mountainous landscape. The trekking path has been part of the area’s main road network since Etruscan times, located between central Italy and the Lombardy plain. The area was used primarily by the Etruscans to connect the towns of Fiesole and Felsina (Bologna). It was then populated by the Romans, and in the Medieval times was home to Tuscany’s noble Count Guidi, It remained inhabited by farming families until the 1960s. This excursion through the woods is therefore a journey between past and present. Signs of early human inhabitants are still evident in the form of old houses and established streets, but the now abandoned space is simply a reminder of the life that was.