Museums

Tuscany houses many musuems with masterpieces by the greatest artists of all time, from Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, to Botticelli, Giotto and Donatello. Depending on your interests in history, art or sculpture - Tuscany has it all, spanning across time, styles and periods. Below, a list of the top museums in Tuscany that you should not miss!

Galleria dell'Accademia - Via Ricasoli, 58-60
Open from 8:15 a.m. to 6:50 p.m. Tuesdays through Sunday
Closed on Mondays, January 1, May 1, and December 25
Entrance fee € 6,50 (€ 9,50 when temporary exhibitions are included)

Must see's:
 

Michelangelo's David and Prisoners

Botticelli's Madonna with Child and Madonna of the Sea.

The Galleria museum, as Florence's second most popular museum, also often has a long line. Despite the slightly higher cost of entrance (3 euros more), you could reserve your tickets by phone directly with the museum at +39.055.294883. You are given a reservation code and pay only once you show up to pick up your ticket. This is the cheapest way to get advance booking, as there is no middleman.

 Visit Lake Garda Italy

Chianti Classico excursion (full day)

- 9:00 a.m. Pick-up at your hotel/apartment - Breakfast along the way
- 10:30 a.m. Brief walking tour of Castellina in Chianti
- 11:30 a.m. Wine tour & tasting at Casa Emma, Chianti Classico (San Donato in Poggio)
- 1:00 p.m. Lunch (recommended place: La Locanda di Pietracupa, San Donato in Poggio)
- 3:00 p.m. Wine tour and tasting at Poggio al Bosco, Chianti (Tavarnelle Val di Pesa)
- 5:00 p.m. Tour at Giovannino Nieddu, local cheese-maker (San Pancrazio)
- 6:00 p.m. Chianti Classico driving tour on the way back
- 7:30 p.m. Drop-off at your place

A selected driver will be taking care of both pick up/drop off at your place.
Prices will be per person/day, and we'll send you details on request.
Minimum number of persons: 4 :: Maximum number of persons: 12.
A quote for a different minimum (2 or 3 persons) could be provided on request.


Send  an email to (degustibus@de-gustibus.it) for further info, and price details.

Palio di Siena

Every year on July 2 and August 16, the beautiful medieval city of Siena comes alive for one of the world's most breathtaking folk festivals, Il Palio. The event is known around the globe as a totally unique horse race, but it is much, much more. Preparations go on all year long in Siena, whose seventeen neighbourhoods invest every spare Euro and every waking moment in their efforts to win. The evening before the race it is estimated that 25,000 people eat outside, as each contrada (neighbourhood) stages a sumptuous banquet to “rehearse” their sure fire victory celebration.

Leaning Tower of Pisa

Of all the characteristic towers throughout the world "la Torre Pendente" (Leaning Tower) of Pisa, rouses in our mind a striking sense of astonishment owing to its exquisite beauty and peculiar static's. It has been erected beside the Cathedral, the Baptistery and Cemetery, pure jewels of the Pisan Romanic architecture on that marvellous square, rightly called "Plaza of the Miracles" (Piazza dei Miracoli).

The Tower of Pisa was built to show the rest of the world the wealth of the city of Pisa. The people of Pisa were very good sailors and they conquered many lands, including Jerusalem, Carthago, Ibiza, Mallorca, Africa, Belgium, Britania, Norway, Spain, Morocco, and other places. But they had only one real enemy, the people from Florence. And to show how well they were doing they started to build a really useless bell tower to go with the rest of the buildings near it - the Cathedral, Baptistery, and Cemetery.