Guided tours to the San Miniato White Truffle Festival
PackagesOn Saturdays and Sundays 16th-17th November 2024, 23rd-24th November 2024 and 30th November 2024-1st December 2024
A great event for gourmets
Every year the Tuscan town San Miniato, located halfway between Pisa and Florence, celebrates the National Festival of the White Truffle, an event that attracts thousands of truffle lovers and foodies from all the world.
The protagonist of the festival is the extraordinarily perfumed and world renowned White Truffle of San Miniato, along with a large number of other local specialities like excellent wines, extra virgin olive oil, pecorino cheese, honey, hams, salamis and other cold cuts, chocolate, bread & focaccia, pickles, preserves, cakes and many other curiosities.
On the last three Saturdays and Sundays of November every year you can taste and buy fresh black and white truffle and browse through the stands discovering an unnumbered series of truffle-based products like truffle oil, pastes and sauces, truffle salt and other preserves.
Our private guided tour of the White Truffle festival of San Miniato
We organize private guided tours to the Festival in San Miniato, with tasting of truffle based products and a delicious truffle based lunch or dinner.
Our expert local food guide will meet you at the parking area of San Miniato Basso and together you will reach the old town by shuttle bus. Once in the historical town, you will slowly walk around the old center of San Miniato through many food stands in all the squares of the old town. Your guide will show you and describe a great variety of cold meats, pates, sauces, breads and focaccia, cheeses, extra virgin olive oil, several very peculiar specialties including different sweets, cakes and of course wines. Of course you will be able to try many of these delicious items directly at the stands.
The guided tour goes on in the area of the stands of local black and white truffles. You are going to meet the truffle hunters, and talk about their delicious truffle based products. You will have the chance to evaluate and buy fresh black and white truffles and other truffle based products, like truffle honey, truffle-based sauces and butter, truffle oil etc.. You’ll have also the chance to drink a few local wines at the wine tasting area.
In the end of the guided tour, your guide will accompany you to a local little restaurant where you will enjoy a memorable delicious lunch or dinner based on fresh truffles. The menu includes 2 dishes with the delicious black truffle and 1 glass of wine per person. All the rest is extra. Since white truffle rates change daily, if you want to have white truffles in one or both dishes instead of the black one, you can decide onsite and pay the difference directly to the restaurant according to the daily rates. It might quote between 10 and 20 euro per dish per person.
Our private guided tour of the festival takes 3 hours + time for lunch or dinner
The total rate for this activity varies according to the number of people in your party.
Check rates in the table below.
PRIVATE Guided tour to the White Truffle Festival in San Miniato– RATES 2024 – |
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|---|---|
NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN YOUR PARTY |
TOTAL RATE |
| 2 persons | € 390 |
| 3 persons | € 470 |
| 4 persons | € 550 |
| 5 persons | € 630 |
| 6 persons | € 710 |
| 7 persons | € 790 |
| Extra Adult | € 80 |
| Extra Teenager (12-17 yrs) – Menu w/ black truffle | € 75 |
| Extra Child (4-11 yrs) – Menu w/ black truffle | € 60 |
| Extra Teenager (12-17 yrs) – Menu WITHOUT black truffle | € 45 |
| Extra Child (4-11 yrs) – Menu WITHOUT black truffle | € 35 |
Rates include
- A guided tour of 3 hours through the National Festival of White Truffle in San Miniato
- Return ticket of the shuttle service – from the parking areas to the old town
- A full lunch or dinner in a restaurant in town with specialties with black truffle
- Tasting of several foods at the stands of the festival
- Tax
Rates do NOT include
- Transportation.This program and its rates do not include transportation to the meeting point and are set on a self-driving base. For further information see the box “transportation options”.
This tour takes place in town of San Miniato.
MEET-UP LOCATION:
Unless differently specified, the tour guide meets you at a meeting point in San Miniato Basso, by the obligatory parking areas.
DURATION:
This program takes 3 hours + time for your meal at a local restaurant. Time for transportation not included.
AVAILABILITY:
Available on Saturdays afternoons and Sundays 16th, 17th November 2024, 23rd, 24th November 2024, 30th November and 1st December 2024
LANGUAGE:
This tour is available in English, French, German, Russian, Spanish or Italian with no surcharge.
DIFFICULTY LEVEL:
Easy
CHILD FRIENDLY:
Ideal for children
CLOTHING:
No particular clothing required.
FOOD RESTRICTIONS:
The foods served during this tour might contain gluten, lactose, nuts and alcohol. If you have any food restriction, please inform our personnel during the enquiry process.
TRANSPORTATION:
This program and its rates do not include transportation and are set on a self-driving base. For further information see the box "transportation options".
The destinations reached for this package are in the town of San Miniato, an location that can be reached by private and public transport. It is possible to reach San Miniato by public bus service and by train. Yet, we highly recommend renting a car or a scooter in order to reach other locations in Tuscany.
As an alternative, we can offer a valued service by chauffeured car, van or minibus. Any cost of transportation is to be added to the rates displayed on the rate table of this page.
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