Signature experience — San Gimignano
Etruscan Volterra
Duration
Full day
Price
From €690
Mercedes
Dedicated vehicle & chauffeur
Leave San Gimignano and follow the SR68 west for 32 km, a ribbon of road skirting vernaccia vines and olive groves before climbing to breezy Volterra at 531 m. Once the Etruscan Velathri, it still guards the Porta all’Arco, a 1st‑century Roman theatre unearthed in 1951, and a living craft scene where alabaster is cut and polished along Via dei Sarti. The way back traces the balze, those clay scarps that have been nibbling the hill since medieval times, a landscape shaped as much by erosion as by men.
Your driver collects you at your hotel in San Gimignano with a late‑model Mercedes, the car at your disposal all day and the pace entirely yours. While they handle parking and timed entries, you explore the Guarnacci Museum (Etruscan cinerary urns and the elongated Ombra della Sera) and step into workshops to see alabaster worked on wire saws. Then it’s the panoramic balze road to a vernaccia estate for a tasting while you sit back, before an unhurried dusk return with your private chauffeur in Tuscany.
Your itinerary
- I
09:00 — Pick‑up at your San Gimignano hotel and depart via SR68 to Volterra.
- II
10:00–12:00 — See the Porta all’Arco, the Medici Fortress overlook, then the Roman theatre.
- III
12:15–13:15 — Guarnacci Museum: Etruscan rooms and the Ombra della Sera.
- IV
15:00 — Scenic balze drive and vernaccia estate tasting before returning (arrive around 17:00).
What’s included
- ✓ Dedicated chauffeur
- ✓ Mercedes E/V Class
- ✓ Hotel pick‑up
- ✓ Waiting time and drop‑off
Your chauffeur’s tip
June–September, book a timed Guarnacci ticket around 12:15 to miss the tour groups, then visit the alabaster workshops right after while shops reopen from the midday break.
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