Tours in the countryside near Rome

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Those interested in touring the countryside with me will come most typically from Rome, but also from other cities in Italy and I would like to try to make it easier for them to spend some time "off the beaten path". Essentially, when non continental tourists come to this country they visit Rome, Florence, Amalfi Coast and Venice and so they must arrive to Segni from one of these places (not Venice because it's far and there's Florence to visit in between), but certainly they'll come from one of these famous places. Countless times during the season I go to these places to bring people to; or to I meet them there and drive them to Rome and other destinations. I always make a stop, if there's time, in one or two little towns on the way to our destination. I take the people to visit wineries to taste the local wines or to a local trattoria for lunch ...or both!

People always enjoy the diversion and tell me they wished they had planned to spend time in the country. Planning ahead to spend some time in the country is the key to it. If you can plan to spend time in the country before starting your trip, I guarantee you'll be happy with your planning afterwards. During the season, everywhere a tourist goes, it will be a inevitably crowded place.

Gavignano - Hanging laundry to dry and talking to neighbours from the window.

	Any tourist finds out pretty soon, that he wasn't the only one who had the idea to visit that particular location. He goes from Florence to Rome or from Rome to Positano hoping that the next place will not be as crowded as the one he just came from, ...but unfailingly it will be! That's why, when I take people touring off the beaten path they end up saying they "wished they had planned to spend some time in the country!". I am proposing a relaxing, yet cultural, break between crowded places. A taste of real Italian life, I want to take people to see some authentic Italian life style before it disappears into globalization and masses of tourists. Lately, the countryside around the region of Florence, Tuscany, has become famous and visited by a lot of tourists. Those who plan to spend time in the Italian country, in fact pick the most famous locations. Of all the little Tuscan medieval towns, surely San Gimignano is the best known and deserves the fame, but lately this place has become too commercial, there isn't one corner that's not selling souvenirs and it's so crowded that sometimes it's difficult to walk around! Well there's hundreds of medieval towns like San Gimignano in Italy, please let me show them to you!