Discovery a Completely Different Side to Tuscany!
HIGHLIGHTS: Maremma , Tuscany
Lisa is very pleased to announce the return of MAREMMA Magic!
Back by popular demand, MAREMMA Magic! is a spirited and eclectic eight-day itinerary with es a accommodations nested amongst gently rolling hills, just outside beautiful hill towns. The experience features , a morning luxuriating in terraces of natural thermal waters (pictured); a guided visit ancient Etruscan caves and tombs, and an encounter with i butteri Italy's legendary cowboys, guided visits to a kaleidoscopic sculpture garden and beautiful Medieval hill towns + the best wine tour of your life. And so much more!
Note: There is no horseback riding on this itinerary!
- The Exciting Return of ...
MAREMMA Magic! The Wild West of Tuscany
SEPT. 22-29, 2025
8-day luxury adventure.
Trip Price $5,195. Singles: $5,970.
We love Single Guests and they love us!
For more info: info@slowtravelwithLIsa.com
10-guest limit. Your deposit saves your spot.
Trip meet-up and departure point is Grosseto, Italy.
Maremma Magic! provides guests a wide range of experiences: a wondrous outdoor, interactive sculpture garden; an encounter with the Legendary Cowboys of Italy; Etruscan caves and ruins; gorgeous medieval hill towns; stunning natural terraced thermal spa waters; fabulous wine tours & tastings, and so much more!
Note: There is no horseback riding on this itinerary!
WHAT'S INCLUDED:
Trip meet-up and departure point is Grosseto, Italy.
In addition to breakfast each morning, 2 aperitivi, 3 lunches, 4 dinners, two wine tours + tastings.
FOUR NIGHTS in an agriturismo with pool surrounded in green and Tuscan vineyards.
THREE NIGHTS on a palatial Winery Resort, outside of Montemerano, named amongst the Top 10 Most Beautiful Hill Towns in Italy..
During our FOUR-NIGHT stay just outside Capalbio, Italy:
- Guided visit: Il Giardino dei Tarocchi, brainchild of a French American feminist artist Niki de Saint Phalle. This is something so wonderful that it cannot be described. Wonder, whimsy, and inspiration awaken your inner-child as you meander this expansive and garden of giant, mosaic sculptures made from ceramics, concrete, and mirrors. Walk through a setting of green trees as you learn the incredible story of the artist and her team of local maremmani, who dedicated 20 years to realize her kaleidoscopic vision.
- Guided walk: the enchanting walled hill town of Capalbio with a visit to the Torre Aldobrandeschi, composer Puccini's sanctuary + free time + tasting of local, artisan liqueurs
- The best organic wine tour & tasting that you will ever have.
- A morning visit to one of Tuscany's first bio-agriturismi with an encounter with i butteri the legendary cowboys of Italy. Become acquainted with their culture, history, plus the particular breeds of horse, cattle and dog. Followed by a cowboy's traditional lunch.
- Free time to explore the cowboy's seaside and umbrella pine forest.
- Toast adventures to come with a crisp glass of prosecco & Welcome Dinner
- Plus so much more
THREE NIGHTS on a family-owned wine resort just outside the gorgeous Medieval hill town of Montemerano, voted amongst the Top 10 Most Beautiful Villages in all of Italy.
Highlights include for these three days:
- Wine Tour & Tasting with pairings - with resident sommelier
- Luxuriate in Mother Nature's masterpiece, the Cascate dei Mulini in Saturnia (add-on activity)
- Guided visit to fascinating Pitigliano, a medieval hill town built upon magnificent cliffs of yellow tuff + free time to explore.
- Guided visit to Sovana's Etruscan ruins, site of renowned tomb Ildebranda
- Our time together culminates with a fabulous Arrivederci, Maremma! Dinner with live music.
Travel with us. Forge new friendships. Engage in Italian life- all with your personal language coach and interpreter by your side.
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
- Experience Italy like an insider, with your own personal interpreter
- 10-guest limit ensures relaxing travel and great conversation, personal attention and special access
- Travel with your own personal language interpreter, language coach & guide
- Opportunities to speak italiano with Lisa's friends
- Discover hidden cultural gems that even the locals aren't familiar with!
- Enjoy meeting the locals.
- Encounter with UNESCO-recognized culture of cowboys.
- Transportation + Driver for majority of the group’s activities
- All guided activities
- Welcome booklet outlining the daily activities and itinerary
Price does not include airfare or the nominal city tax (2-4 euro / person/ night)
WHY DID LISA CHOOSE MAREMMA?
- The Exciting Debut -
MAREMMA Magic! The Wild West of Tuscany
SEPT. 22-29, 2025
8-day luxury adventure.
Book now: info@SlowTravelwithLisa.com
10-guest limit. Your deposit saves your spot.
We love single travelers and they love traveling with us! are made very welcome.
Supplemental Fee may apply.
Maremma Magic! provides Lisa's fun-lovin' guests a wide range of experiences: wondrous sculptures parks, Italian cowboys, Etruscan caves, and lots of wine tasting.
Lisa first came to Maremma to experience the whimsy, wonder and color of a vast outdoor sculpture garden. The Giardino dei Tarocchi is the vision of French woman artist Niki de Saint-Phalle. For twenty years, Niki worked with her assistants sculpting twenty-two monstrous ceramic and mirrored mosaic figures that represent the Major Arcana of Tarot. Here, you are allowed to rediscover a childlike fancy as you frolic in, on, around and under these wondrous figures that occupy the fields above Etruscan ruins . This is one of the most delightful adventures you will ever experience.
The second reason Lisa came to Maremma was to encounter the legendary butteri cowboys of Tuscany's Southwest. These are the oldest cowboys in Western Civilization, tracing back to 6,000 B.C. In 1890, when Buffalo Bill Cody came over to Italy with his Wild West show, he learned of the legendary butteri cowboys and , while in Napoli, challenged them to Ia sfida (contest) to see who could break three wild colts. Buffalo Bill ordered a stop to the la sfida, seeing quickly that the Italian cowboys had superior techniques. Bill Cody never conceded, but the victory claimed by the butteri back then is still today a source of great pride.
Their wranglin' skills and Slow Food way of life have made the butteri a national treasure. Theirs is a true Slow Food culture. A culture that sadly is fading from the Tuscan landscape. We will spend a morning with them learning their history, habits and have a chance to ask our own questions of them. I butteri work with the rare Maremma breeds of animals: cattle, horses and working dogs, all dating back to 2,000 years ago.
And... the third reason, Lisa had to come to Maremma: Mother Nature's masterpiece: the Cascades of the Mill, more commonly known as Saturnia. This is yet another experience that defies written description, and must be experienced. The water is also enriched with sulfur and thermal plankton, which is believed to possibly aid skin, digestive and circulatory conditions like high blood pressure.
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