Feel The Touch in ITALY
Highlights
Special Extra Excursions & Add Ons for Workshops, Laboratories and Handicraf Activities
Included
- Individual / FIT & Groups suggested Tour
- Accommodation at Ignas Tour’s Selected Hotels
- Transportation by Private Bus/Minibus/Car *
- Official Tour Guides during the City Tours *
- Entrance Tickets and Food & Wine Tastings **
* (according to the program – if mentioned)
from € 45
SUGGESTED TOURS & EXCURSIONS
| #1 – RENAISSANCE FRESCO | ITALY (Full Day Tour from FLORENCE) RENAISSANCE FRESCO PAINTING |
| Live an intense Art Experience just in the City Center of Florence. In the morning discover Florence in the Renaissance period by visiting the medieval Palace of Bargello, where inside it’s hidden the Museum of Bargello. Admire the breath taking structure of the place and sculptures of the great Donatello, Michelangelo, Brunelleschi and Ghiberti. After, 3-Course Typical lunch at a local restaurant to taste Florence culinary specialties. Later experience a one of a kind Renaissance fresco painting workshop. During the class you will discover the fundamentals of the portrait and its secrets, draw from models posing, create a sketchbook of the historic Florence, focus on the effect of light and shade in a still life, experience more unusual techniques, such as tromp-l’oeil or linoleumgraphy. You will get to keep it as a souvenir. Once finished back to your hotel. ✓ INCLUDED • Private Car, Minibus or Bus for full day excursion • Full Day Tour Escort (6h) • Entrance Fee– Palazzo e Museo del Bargello • 3-Course Typical Lunch at a local restaurant (drinks excluded) • Private Painting Workshop (4h) • Materials needed for the class • Souvenir of your experience | |
| #2 – CARNEVAL MASK & GONDOLA | ITALY (Full Day Tour from VENICE) HANDMADE VENETIAN MASK CREATION |
| Interested in visiting a different aspect of Venice? Join us in a full day tour to explore Venetian Culture at its finest. In the morning join a private painting workshop to create your own Venetian mask. Ink, gold leaf, feathers, tulle and macramé … the tradition of paper-mâché mask, symbol of Venetian handicraft since 1300, finds its highest expression in a colorful multitude that is striking for the variety of the forms and refinement finishes. During the workshop you will learn how to decorate a papier-mâché mask with the help of our decorators. You will get the mask as memories of Venice. After 3-Course Typical lunch at a local restaurant to taste Italian’s culinary specialties. Afterwards discover the magical world of gondolas by visiting a typical “Squero Veneziano” a shipyard where small sized boats such as gondolas, pupparini, sandoli, sciopòni and other boats typical of the Venetian lagoon tradition are created, built and repaired. After the visit, back to your hotel. ✓ INCLUDED • Private Car, Minibus or Bus for Full Day Excursion • Full Day Tour Escort (6h) • Private Painting Workshop (2h)-Available on Saturdays & Sundays • Materials needed for the class • Souvenir of your experience • 3-Course Typical Lunch at a local restaurant (drinks excluded) • Visit Venetian Squero | |
| #3 – VENETIAN GLASS JEWELS | ITALY (Full Day Tour from VENICE) GLASS JEWELRY WORKSHOP |
| Live an intense Workshop to create your own Venetian Jewel! You can choose among two possibilities: a 10-minutes-workshop where participants can create a pair of earrings or a key chain choosing from a wide variety of beads, or a 40-minutes-workshop where you can create your own bracelet. Every client will keep the object. After 3-Course Typical lunch at a local restaurant to taste Italian’s culinary specialties. In the afternoon hop on a boat to Murano, the island of glass. After a relaxing walk around this lovely little town, visit an exclusive glass workshop where you will assist an expert while modeling the glass into fascinating objects by blowing into them. Magic! Afterwards back to your hotel. ✓ INCLUDED • Private Car, Minibus or Bus for Full Day Excursion • 24h Transport Ticket in Venice • Full Day Tour Escort (6h) • Private Group Workshop (1h30) • Materials needed for the class • Souvenir of your experience • 3-Course Typical Lunch at a local restaurant (drinks excluded) • Glass Laboratory with demonstration | |
| #4 – GLADIATOR FOR A DAY | ITALY (Full Day Tour from ROME) ROMA GLADIATOR FOR A DAY |
Prepare to experience a real and special experience, one day as Roman Gladiator! In the morning visit the amazing “Gladiator Museum”, a journey through history from the VII century B.C. to the IV century A.D. brought to life through the accurate reconstruction of helmets and armor of the Roman legions and gladiators, showing over a millennium of history through the most representative weaponry of Roman army and its enemies. After 3-Course Typical lunch at a local restaurant. In the afternoon join a course to become a perfect Roman warrior. You will learn the techniques of attack and defense used during the gladiatorial fights. At the end you will get a certificate of Citizenship as a Roman Gladiator. Afterwards back to your hotel. ✓ INCLUDED • Private Car, Minibus or Bus for Full Day Excursion • Full Day Tour Escort (6h) • Entrance Fee– Historical Gladiator Museum • 3-Course Typical Lunch at a local restaurant (drinks excluded) • Private Gladiator Workshop (2h) • Certificate of Citizenship as a Roman Gladiator | |
| #5 – LACE CREATIONS | ITALY (Full Day Tour from VENICE) LACE MAKING IN BURANO |
| Start you day by hoping on a boat to Burano, one of Venice Islands. In the morning, ciscover the famous Lace Museum in Burano which is located at the historic palace of Podestà of Torcello,where you will find rare and precious pieces of the history and artistry of the Venetian and lagoon’s laces, from its origins to the present day are on display, in a picturesque setting decorated in the typical colors of the island. After this, 3-Course Typical lunch at a local restaurant to taste Italian’s culinary specialties. Later, prepare for a Lace workshop where you will get to know more about the tradition while experimenting in first person their working tecniques. Afterwards back to your hotel. ✓ INCLUDED • Private Car, Minibus or Bus for Full Day Excursion • 24h Transport Ticket in Venice • Full Day Tour Escort (6h) • Entrance Fee– Museo del Merletto Burano • 3-Course Typical Lunch at a local restaurant (drinks excluded) • Private Lace Workshop (2h) • Materials needed for the class • Souvenir of your experience | |
| #6 – TRUFFLE HUNT & WINE | ITALY (Full Day Tour from FLORENCE, SIENA & CHIANTI) TRUFFLE EXPERIENCE IN TUSCANY |
| Among woods and vineyards, in the famous Chianti area are hidden priceless treasures. Don’t miss the opportunity to search for the famous black or white truffle, like a real truffle hunter. You will learn everything about this centenary tradition. If you find a Black truffles, you can keep it as Souvenir! After this amazing experience, enjoy a truffle-based 3-Course Typical lunch at a local restaurant. Afterward visit the pitoresque town of Montepulciano, a medieval town of rare beauty highly recommended visiting in Tuscany. The city, full of elegant Renaissance palaces, ancient churches, charming squares and hidden corners, boasts vast panoramas all over the wonderful Val d’Orcia and Val di Chiana valleys that surround it. Enjoy a visit in one of the famous cantine while tasting Montepulciano Wine. Afterwards back to your hotel. ✓ INCLUDED • Private Car, Minibus or Bus for Full Day Excursion • Full Day Tour Escort (6h) • Half day Truffle Hunter and Expert • 3- course Truffle-based Lunch at a local restaurant (drinks excluded) • Visit & Wine Tasting (3 wines) | |
| #7 – WOODEN ART | ITALY (Full Day Tour from TRENTO, BOLZANO & DOLOMITES) WOOD CARVING IN THE DOLOMITES |
| Enjoy a full day excursion to the Dolomites UNESCO Natural Heritage and learn about the century old wood carving tradition of this area. We will cross the Sella range and experience a true and inspiring scenic drive through the Pordoi and Gardena Pass. Canazei, Corvara and Ortisei are the most famous alpine villages we will cross. Arrival In Ortisei, birthplace of Giorgio Moroder Godfather of disco music and visit of a wood carving factory and its wood themed park. The park is crafted with attention to the smallest detail, decorated according to the season. Wood connoisseurs will find a vast assortment of thousands of sculptures and other products, selected from a range of over 60,000 products which have been developed during the course of Dolfi’s factory 120-year history. Attend to a wood carving workshop and witness a wood carver in action. Wood carvings from Val Gardena are world famous and testimony of a century old tradition. Lunch in local restaurant with typical products. Following the tour return to your hotel. ✓ INCLUDED • Private Car, Minibus or Bus for Full Day Excursion • Full day Guide & Experts (6h) • Private Wood Carving & Paiting Workshop (2h) • 3-course Typical Lunch at a local restaurant (drinks excluded) | |
| #8 – SWEET WAFER | ITALY (Full Day Tour from TRENTO, BOLZANO & DOLOMITES) PASTRY WORKSHOP IN THE DOLOMITES |
| Start your full day excursion with first a visit to Lake Braies, one of the most famous movie sets and natural wonders of Italy part of the Dolomites UNESCO Heritage. Free time to take pictures of this amazing location, enjoy a walk around the lake following the marked path or rent a boat and enjoy short and panoramic sailing. Continue to San Candido and stop for lunch. After lunch cross the border with Austria and reach Heinfelds headquarter of the famous Wafer factory, Loacker. The company factory, lies in the middle of the mountains in East Tyrol, surrounded by fields, farms and forests. Upon arrival, first visit the museum where you will learn about these delicious cookies and their history. Then join a pastry workshop where, with instruction from experts, you can independently create your individual specialty to your personal taste. You can randomly combine Loacker’s cream fillings, spread them on freshly baked wafers, portion them and take them home in a specially prepared packaging. At the end of the tour, coffee break with cake at the Loacker cafeteria. Back to your hotel. ✓ INCLUDED • Private Car, Minibus or Bus for Full Day Excursion • Full Day Tour Escort (6h) • Private Wafer Workshop at Loacker 1h30) • 3-Course Typical Lunch at a local restaurant (drinks not included) | |
| #9 – FARMER FOR A DAY | ITALY (Full Day Tour from PERUGIA & ASSISI) SHEEP SHARING & GOAT MILKING |
| Did you ever dream about experience a real farmer life? Now you can have the chance to spend a full day in a beautiful farm in the area around Perugia. Upon arrived guided visit of the farm, of the animals and enjoy a lunch based on their home-made products. After lunch attend one of the special workshop prepared for you: Harvesting of olives; Goats milking; Sheep-shearing and wool spinning. Afterwards back to your hotel. ✓ INCLUDED • Private Car, Minibus or Bus for Full Day Excursion • Full Day Tour Escort (6h) • Private Workshop of your choice • 3-Course Typical Lunch at a local restaurant (drinks not included) | |
| #10 – HONEY & BREAD | ITALY (Full Day Tour from MILAN) BREAD MAKING AND BEE BREEDING |
| Full day excursion to a teaching farm in Trezzo dell’Adda. Guided tour of the agriturismo, followed by the first workshop where you will learn how to make bread from scratch. First you will grind corn into flour then work the dough and bake the bread. Stop for lunch prepared with the farm home made products. Attend to a second workshop where you will learn about bee’s breeding and the honey production of the farm. At the end of the activity return to your hotel. ✓ INCLUDED • Private Car, Minibus or Bus for Full Day Excursion • Full Day Tour Escort (6h) • Private Bread making & Bee breeding Workshop • 3-Course Typical Lunch at the farm (drinks included) | |
| #11 – MASTER OF FALCONRY | ITALY (Full Day Tour from MILAN) FALCONER FOR A DAY |
| Have you ever dream of being a Falconer? Just outside Milan, you will able to experience and learn this medieval skill! Visit of the Falconry Center, tour the compound together with a real falconer that will teach you tricks and give you a demonstration of falconry. You will also have the chance to interact personally with the regal birds. Lunch in a local restaurant. The excursion continue to visit Crespo Village d’Adda (Crespi Workers’ Village). Crespi is the name of a family of cotton manufacturers from Lombardy. This family realized an “ideal workers’ village” nearby their cotton mill factory, along the Adda river. The village is an entire town, built from nothing by the owner of the factory for his workers and their families. The workers were provided with homes, gardens, vegetable gardens and all necessary local services. The UNESCO Committee for the World Heritage entered Crespi d’Adda in the World Heritage List in 1995, as an “extraordinary example of the phenomenon of the worker’s villages, the most complete and best preserved of south Europe.” Discover the fascinating past of this unique place as well as the present of the Village where “time has stopped”. ✓ INCLUDED • Private Car, Minibus or Bus for Full Day Excursion • Full Day Tour Escort (6h) • Entrance Fee– Falconry Center • 3-Course Typical Lunch at a local restaurant (drinks included) | |
| #12 – OLIVE TRADITION | ITALY (Full Day Tour from BARI) OLIVE HARVEST WITH TASTING |
| Be ready for visit the famous Apulian olive groves! Not far from charming cities like Bari, Trani and the famous Castel del Monte, you will attend and participate in the olive harvest, observing the processing of milling with granite millstones, kneading, cold extraction, and finally packaging, after which each participant will get a customized bottle of Olive Oil made with your own hands. At the end you will taste the Apulian Bruschettas seasoned with freshly produced oil (taken directly from the separator). Finally enjoy a typical Apulian lunch. After lunch continue to the ancient town of Trani. The town extends along the port into a small peninsula where the Cathedral of S. Nicola Pellegrino stands in an amazing position directly beside the sea. Visit of the historical center and Cathedral. Return to your hotel. ✓ INCLUDED • Private Car, Minibus or Bus for Full Day Excursion • Full Day Tour Escort (6h) • Entrance Fee – Trani Cathedral • Private Olive Harvest Workshop • Visit Olive Mill & Olive Oil Tasting • 3-Course Typical Lunch at a local restaurant (drinks included) | |
| #13 – ALPACA | ITALY (Full Day Tour from TRENTO, BOLZANO & DOLOMITES) LAMA & ALPACA FARM VISIT |
| Llamas and alpacas are the most gentle and adorable animals in the world, did you ever get to know them and see them with your own eyes? This hike will immerse you in their world, in the greenery of the South Tyrolean mountains. The tour starts with a trek to the Lama and Alpaca breeding in the Renon area. An expert will reveal all the secrets of these magnificent animals, whose hair is used to make a fine wool. In this area we will enjoy an amazing lunch. In the afternoon we will enjoy the breathtaking panoramic view of the peaks of the Dolomites from the Renon Train that will bring us to the Renon Highland. We will visit this wonderful area accompanied by an expert who will show us the famous geological phenomenon of the Renon Pyramids. The pinnacles are formed by cones of morainic material on each of which rests a large boulder creating unique structures of earth consisting of morainic clay of fluvial-glacial origin, the remnant of the main glacier of the Isarco Valley and some local secondary glaciers. These geological formations have the peculiarity of being cohesive and compact in drought conditions, but as clayey, when exposed to rain they lose stability and crumble forming slopes of 10 – 15 meters. Return to the hotel. ✓ INCLUDED • Private Car, Minibus or Bus for Full Day Excursion • Full Day Tour Escort (6h) • Half Day Alpaca Trekking (3h) • 3-Course Typical Lunch at a local restaurant (drinks included) • Renon Train Tickets • Half Day Renon Pyramids Visit (3h) |
* The Tours & Ercursions are on request and rates are subject to the availability of the hotels at the time of booking.
Prices are subject to change if travel occur during trade shows, bank holidays or special events and supplements may be applied.
Included Features
- Individual / FIT & Groups suggested Tour
- Accommodation at Ignas Tour’s Selected Hotels
- Transportation by Private Bus/Minibus/Car *
- Official Tour Guides during the City Tours *
- Entrance Tickets and Food & Wine Tastings *
* (according to the program – if mentioned)
Not Included
- City Taxes – to be paid on spot
- Extra Tips
- Extra Expenses
- Everything not listed under “INCLUDED”
Prices
| TOURS | 40 pax | 30 pax | 20 pax | 10 pax | |
| #1 – REINASSANCE FRESCO | ITALY (Full Day Tour from FLORENCE) RENAISSANCE FRESCO PAINTING | + € 105,00 | + € 125,00 | € 2.200,00 | + € 215,00 |
| #2 – CARNEVAL MASK & GONDOLA | ITALY (Full Day Tour from VENICE) HANDMADE VENETIAN MASK CREATION | + € 75,00 | + € 90,00 | + € 105,00 | + € 180,00 |
| #3 – VENETIAN GLASS JEWEL | ITALY (Full Day Tour from VENICE) GLASS JEWELRY WORKSHOP | + € 90,00 | + € 105,00 | + € 120,00 | + € 17500 |
| #4 – GLADIATOR FOR A DAY | ITALY (Full Day Tour from ROME) ROMAN GLADIATOR FOR A DAY | + € 70,00 | + € 85,00 | + € 95,00 | + € 155,00 |
| #5 – LACE CREATIONS | ITALY (Full Day Tour from VENICE) LACE MAKING IN BURANO | + € 90,00 | + € 100,00 | + € 125,00 | + € 180,00 |
| #6 – TRUFFLE HUNT & WINE | ITALY (Full Day Tour from FLORENCE, SIENA & CHIANTI) TRUFFLE EXPERIENCE IN TUSCANY | + € 75,00 | + € 90,00 | + € 105,00 | + € 160,00 |
| #7 – WOODEN ART | ITALY (Full Day Tour from TRENTO,BOLZANO & DOLOMITES) WOOD CARVING IN THE DOLOMITES | + € 50,00 | + € 60,00 | + € 75,00 | + € 120,00 |
| #8 – SWEET WAFER | ITALY (Full Day Tour from TRENTO,BOLZANO & DOLOMITES) PASTRY WORKSHOP IN THE DOLOMITES | + € 65,00 | + € 75,00 | + € 90,00 | + € 130,00 |
| #9 – FARMER FOR A DAY | ITALY (Full Day Tour from PERUGIA & ASSISI) SHEEP SHEARING & GOAT MILKING | + € 85,00 | + € 95,00 | + € 105,00 | + € 154,00 |
| #10 – HONEY & BREAD | ITALY (Full Day Tour from MILAN) BREAD MAKING & BEE BREEDING | + € 75,00 | + € 85,00 | + € 95,00 | + € 130,00 |
| #11 – MASTER OF FALCONRY | ITALY (Full Day Tour from MILAN) FALCONER FOR A DAY | + € 75,00 | + € 85,00 | + € 105,00 | + €140,00 |
| #12 – OLIVE TRADITION | ITALY (Full Day Tour from BARI) OLIVE HARVEST WITH TASTING | + € 75,00 | + € 85,00 | + € 105,00 | + € 150,00 |
| #13 – ALPACA | ITALY (Full Day Tour from TRENTO,BOLZANO & DOLOMITES) LAMA & ALPACA FARM VISIT | + € 75,00 | + € 90,00 | + € 105,00 | + € 170,00 |
Rates are Commissionable to Travel Agencies & Tour Operators
Rates Per Person / Per Tour & Excursion Package
Free Of Charge 1/21 Paying Pax for Tour Leader
* also available “without Transportation” option