Maremma Tours

Tremendous tours in Tuscany!

These Maremma tours won't just take you to special places in Tuscany, but around, over and under wild and wonderful places in Maremma in Tuscany!

They are Tuscany tours like no others: for those who don't want to follow a flag or an umbrella stuck in the air behind fifty other people!

 

The very best guided day and half day tours of Maremma

No Tuscany tour operators offer tours that are solely based in Maremma. Indeed you will be hard pressed to find many that even dip a toe or two into this land as part of a wider Tuscany tour. But that isn't surprising as, falling outside of the the main Pisa, Florence, Siena triangle tour circuit, Maremma is still one of Italy's best kept secrets, and so there is little demand.

For now that is.

And the very few that do only venture as far as the less than a handful of Maremma towns that have managed a mention or two in some guide books on Tuscany.

But there are lovely local tour guides. As well as guided cycling, mountain biking, horse riding, walking, trekking and, of course, winery tour operators here. Who already cater for the Italian, German, Swiss and Austrian visitors in the know about Maremma.

Professional environmental and cultural guides who were born and grew-up here, whose tours and routes will reveal to you the beauty of this land and a Tuscany you hadn't expected. And they speak English, even if you wouldn't know from their web sites!

Over the decade that I have lived here in Maremma I have gotten to know them personally and cannot recommend them more highly.

You will have a fantastic day out, no matter which guide or tour you choose.

 

See wondrous things and have the opportunity to really experience, rather than just see, everyday life in rural Tuscany. Including the simple things that leave you giggling.

 

Walk the narrow - sometimes so narrow you will have to squeeze through if you are wearing a rucksack - medieval alleyways and streets. Sit and savour a coffee in a piazza with your guide as she tells you about who walked across its stone slabs and held it siege for four years!

 

Visit the powerhouses of Maremma's old nobility and walk where once they would have held court, plotted and schemed for control of her metal rich hills, in now roofless hill top castles with views from their walls that will leave you speechless. Stand in one and spot the castled pinnacles of surrounding hills that were home your enemy one day and your alley the next.

Listen whilst eating your gelato to the tale of an incredible red-headed noble beauty who, despite the machinations of men in power all around her - including the Pope - managed to survive five arranged marriages, being declared a bigamist, and marry the man she loved whilst retaining rule over the whole of Maremma. Of how her love story went sour after her only son was murdered as a boy and how, when her daughter married she disappeared, in all probability because she wanted to.

Visit Maremma's coastal towns and when you are staring out to sea, hear the tales of Barbary Coast pirate raids that slaughtered and devastated them and took Maremma's women to the Ottoman slave markets.

Walk folded-double down into the dark of Etruscan treasure tombs and learn of the tomb raiders and the gold and jewels and chariots they found.

Take a private guided tour of Maremma's wineries that won't have you pit-stopping from one showroom to another, but instead have you walking down the rows of vines, around the cellars, and being welcomed as new friends into the farmhouse.

 

 

 

My top picks of the best Tuscany day trips in Maremma

be bedazzled for a day!

Tuscany sightseeing doesn't come much more wonderful than this. Travelling with your partner, or one your own. Choose one. Two. Or three day trips. For one incredible long weekend in Tuscany.

Bringing the whole family? Schedule in a day when you want someone else to take care of everything. To keep them enthralled, stimulated, and excited about what is around the next corner. All day long.

Pick-n-Mix for a fantastic full or half day guided tour that doesn't just take you to places on your bucket list. But tells you and shows you things that you wouldn't know about otherwise, or see on your own.

Drive yourself. Or choose to have transport arranged from the front door of your accommodation.

It's up to you.

 

Grosseto, Maremma's city of salt revealed

Walk atop stupendous five-pointed star Medici walls and stroll Italian-style around this most relaxed of all Tuscany cities, discovering it's tucked-away treasures as you shop along the way. Grosseto's, Maremma's ancient city of salt, will surprise and delight you at every corner.

Take a guided tour and see things that you will miss otherwise, even though they are right in front of you!

 

 

Tuscany excursions like no others!

Tuscany excursions with a touch of adventure! Nothing like any day trips in Tuscany you have found so far.

Day trips in Tuscany that will take you underground on your bottom, deep into a medieval silver mine. To beautiful beaches in a dune buggy. And more.

 

Down a medieval silver mine

This guided tour will have you on your bottom down a medieval silver mine, deep inside a wooded hillside home to boar and porcupines.

 

Be prepared to wear a hard hat and get a little bit muddy! Find out more.

 

 

Walk the galleries of a rediscovered mine with Maremma's speleologists

And this one will also take you subterranean with the potholers of the Spelogiolo Society of Massa Marittima into an only recently rediscovered old mine. Much easier going under foot than the first - and you won't get muddy in this one! It is great for children too. But you will need a pair of Wellington boots.

The Galleria Giulia mine.

 

 

3 Tuscany sightseeing tours on a dune buggy

Choose between two different day trips, chauffeur driven on a dune buggy, so you don't even need to worry about driving one! Or a half day tour.

They will take you over a geothermal hot rock landscape with hissing vaporous vents. To the ruins of stunning San Galgano Abbey and Arthur's legendary sword in the stone.

 

From a ruined medieval castle that will capture your imagination from its sheer drop location. To the centre of Siena and the city's stunning Piazza del Campo with wine tasting along the way.

 

And from a Renaissance jewel to Tuscany's wild and wonderful coast with breathtaking beaches.

Take a look and find out more.