Giovanni – Your Exclusive The Italian On Tour® host & Italian Food & Wine expert – Chantelle, and your fellow Italian adventurers. Our guests range in age from their 30s to being in their 70s. When you’re on tour with us, age is just a number because everyone is here to sit back, relax, and experience Italy like a local all while enjoying Italy’s amazing culinary and cultural delights.

Yes, because this means you already love Italy and you’ve probably already traveled to all of Italy’s major tourist sites, but are dying to experience Italy like a local. When you travel with us you’ll experience a new culture among locals who become friends (and know Italy like the back of their hand!). Your trip will be the perfect balance of vacationing and relaxing so you can indulge in La Dolce Vita.

Just 3 hours from Rome and a train ride away from Venice you can tag on those bucket-list items before or after your trip with us.

While you’re with us, forget worrying about the language, logistics, or having a bad meal – you’ll travel stress-free knowing we’ve taken the guesswork out of planning your trip. 

This itinerary has been carefully crafted to ensure you’ll enjoy the best of Italy’s hidden regions. To offer you the best experience possible this trip has limited to just a few dates per year. 

Smack dab in the middle of Ascoli Piceno’s historic centre is your homebase: Palazzo dei Mercanti. Locally owned and operated boutique 4-star hotel dripping in history. Once a convent, it has been beautifully restored with modern amenities so that you can enjoy extra R&R at the spa after a fulfilling day of visiting vineyards & villages.

Home to one of Italy’s most beautiful squares, you’ll be walking distance to boutique shops, restaurants, your perfect scoop of gelato, and streets lined with cafes that have something perfect for everyone’s taste buds.

Great! Our guests travel with us because they’re looking for an authentic experience, something that they simply cannot pull-off on their own. Think of this as the kind of trip planned by your local Italian BFFs who just happen to be Italian food & wine experts. 

You’ll be picked up from Rome’s Fiumicino Airport at 11:30 am. Flying into another airport in Italy? The Italian On Tour team will help you plan the best way to meet up with your tour.

Forget the headache of organizing an airport transfer. You’ll meet us at Rome’s Fiumicino airport, hop in your private air conditioned vehicle, sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride knowing you’ll be taken care of.

Every single city that our tours are based in are selected for their ease of travel and comfortability to be able to walk freely in the evenings and enjoy the amenities of the town you are staying in. Chantelle as an expat and female traveller enjoy walks in the city during the day and evenings. Plus to help you get your bearing for where everything is in town you get an orientation walk on your first night on tour!

Our trips are designed to share the authentic local dishes of the regions you travel with us to and this means dining on set tasting menus, in family homes and farm-to-table establishments that use seasonal ingredients and therefore often offer a very limited daily choice on their menus which is why not all food preferences can be accommodated.

To confirm if your select food preferences can be accommodated on this trip please write us directly at info@theitalianontour.com before booking.

Please note that prior to making your deposit for this trip it must be confirmed in writing via email that your specific food preferences can be accommodated or you risk cancellation of your trip.