Experience
Tailor-made Itineraries
A journey is a combination of desires, interests and expectations. The journey is the research, discovery, rediscovery. It’s a desire to go, see, know the remote and unknown locations. The journey is a will to enjoy new cuisines, a will to deal with different cultures, to immerse yourselves in local traditions and beauty of unique landscapes. But the journey is, above all, an intimate and personal. That’s why… the objective is to find the formula that meets your needs the best, by offering real hand-crafted trips. The itineraries we design are based on years of experience and do not aim only to introduce you to new destinations, but also to meet all your slightest whim. Here you will find the best solutions in the choice of destinations, accommodation, transport and guides, who will accompany you in the discovery of the unique Italy.
Cooking Classes
Italy has twenty regions each with unique culinary customs and food. Pick the region, we’ll explore it and prepare some of its best dishes, accompanied by the region’s wines. Enjoy a gourmet exploration of Italy. Learn the Italian recipes with a cooking lesson in Capri, Sorrento, Tuscany, Chianti, Siena, Florence, Lucca, Venice.
The recipes reflect the traditions of each area and the local chefs use the best seasonal ingredients available at the market. With our Cooking Classes, discover the passion deeply rooted in the hearts of every Italian family: the pleasure of good eating.
Select your Cooking Class in our proposals and suggestions or do not hesitate to ask us for a tailor-made itinerary for your Cooking Class experience according to your personal wishes and dreams.
Food and Wine Tours
An exciting variety of culinary experience throughout Italy. A perfect combination of enogastronomical tours and cooking classes with sightseeing to ensure that you will fully experience the cities or towns you are visiting. At the end of your trip, you will have acquired a deeper knowledge not only of Italian culture and cuisine in general, but you will have also had a taste of the different regions of Italy and the culinary and cultural aspects that distinguish them.
We organize wine tastings, with experts or licensed sommeliers, and visits of top Italian wineries, with a private car and English speaking driver, in Tuscany (Chianti, Montalcino, Montepulciano), in Piedmont (Barolo, Barbaresco), and many other Italian regions.
Besides the wineries visits we offer gastronomical specialties tastings and trips to the characteristic dairies and producers of olive oil, and exiting truffle “hunting”!
Do not hesitate to ask us a customized itinerary to create a Food and Wine Tour designed just for you.
Excursions and Tours with a private guide
A wide selection of private tours and excursions with our best licensed guides in the top places and most important cities to visit in Italy.
We offer a variety of itineraries that can be customized in Venice, Verona, the Lakes region, Italian Riviera, the Cinque Terre, Florence, Siena, Lucca, Pisa, Rome, The Vatican City, Naples, Amalfi coast, the Isle of Capri.
For your excursions and tours we selected the best professional and experienced drivers in order to provide services according to the highest standards of excellence.
Ask us for a tailor-made itinerary for your private walking or driven tour according to your personal wishes and dreams.
Private shopping experience with personal consultant
Private shopping tours in Milan, Rome, Florence, Venice or Naples with personal shopper.
Italy is the world’s leading trendsetter and Milan is its fashion and shopping capital: elegant, sophisticated and stylish. Discover Milan’s most glamorous fashion boutiques on an exclusive guided tour with a personal shopping assistant. From the magnificent Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, one of the world’s oldest shopping malls, to the dazzling “Quadrilatero della Moda”.
Whether you are seeking designer dresses or casual chic, Rome has some of the best places to shop in Italy. The names of Italy’s finest designers sit alongside independent boutiques as shopping in Rome caters to every taste. There are numerous popular shopping arears in Rome, each has its own flavor and attractions: Via del Corso, Via dei Condotti and Spanish steps, Via del Babuino, and Prati area with Via Cola di Rienzo, is ideal for the lovers of the famous designers brands and luxury boutiques; in the district around Campo de’ Fiori and Piazza Navona you’ll find young, independent designer stores, so if you’re looking for something a bit more original, that’s where you want to go.
And finally – Castel Romano Outlet, a designer outlet village with about 90 stores, part of the McArthur Glen chain, around 15km south of Rome.
With The Arte of Travel you will have an opportunity of a Private visit with local expert, private car and professional driver to top fashion designers in clothing, handbags, shoes, and leather goods. A perfect shopping experience is also a unique silk factory visit.
We also selected the best contacts among Italy’s most prestigious jewelers and car dealers (Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini). You will be able to choose among the best and most exclusive jewels, watches and cars, masterpieces that will ensure glamour, design, high value and top quality elegance.
Besides that, you may choose a visit with your private guide to the local artisan, whether it be silversmiths, painting, leatherwork, mosaic work, bespoke clothing, or the array of food producers scattered in the countryside, there is much to tempt and explore.
Do not hesitate to ask us a tailor-made itinerary to create a Shopping Tour designed for you.
Exclusive pre and post cruise tours
Private shore excursions from the cruise port of Livorno, Venice, Civitavecchia, Naples.
The Arte of Travel pre and post cruise packages include transfers to or from the airport, your hotel and cruise ship terminal with a luxury limousine and a private driver. Our professional guides will accompany you during the tour and show you everything that makes the most beautiful Italian cities so unique and famous in the World.
From Livorno port: tours of the Tuscany towns as Florence, Lucca, Pisa, Siena, San Gimignano, Cinque Terre tour, private wine tasting tours.
From Civitavecchia port: tour of Rome (Vatican museums, Colosseum, Roman Forum, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps).
From Venice port: tour of Venice, including Gondola ride, Verona tour.
From Naples port: tours of Pompei, Amalfi Coast and Positano, isles of Capri and Ischia.
Select your private shore excursion tour in our proposals and suggestions or do not hesitate to ask us for a tailor-made itinerary for your private shore excursion tour according to your personal wishes and dreams.
Private photography tour
This tour is intended for photography lovers who want to walk the streets of Milan, Rome, Florence and Venice accompanied by professional photographers.
Photography course, individual and full-immersion. Photography lessons during a photo tour. A photography class while walking and photographing. A photography workshop during which you will learn to look, to move and take pictures as professional photographers. A private photography class as the most effective method to learn.
The options are really numerous.
Improve photographic technique and creativity side by side to a professional photographer who will be your teacher of photography and your guide to discover and photograph the surroundings with new eyes.
Arte classes
Drawing, painting, sculpture and mosaic classes, art workshops and seminars either in English or in Italian, in a peaceful and multicultural atmosphere.
Private painting lessons in Milan, Florence, Rome, Venice or in Umbria region, conducted by professional artists, open to those who are wishing to learn the methods of the greatest masters of the past to modern times, to acquire their own personal expression.
All of the courses are designed to make the art a pleasure in a totally relaxed environment and our tutors aim to motivate and encourage students to realize their potential, discover their own style and explore new genre.