The off-the-beaten-path Tuscan hill town most visitors skip.
A private day trip to the lesser-visited town of Volterra and its Roman Amphitheatre and alabaster workshops, paired with San Gimignano's medieval center.
This private tour is tailored just for your group, exploring villages not all tourists visit — the Roman Amphitheatre and Rossi Alabastri Volterra workshop, plus the historic center of San Gimignano.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup included in Florence.
A real, well-preserved ancient Roman site.
See Volterra's centuries-old alabaster-carving tradition firsthand.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private day trip to the lesser-visited town of Volterra and its Roman Amphitheatre and alabaster workshops, paired with San Gimignano's medieval center. This private tour is tailored just for your group, exploring villages not all tourists visit — the Roman Amphitheatre and Rossi Alabastri Volterra workshop, plus the historic center of San Gimignano.
Volterra's alabaster tradition goes back to the Etruscans, who carved the soft, chalky stone into funerary urns decorated with scenes from daily life and Greek mythology as early as the 4th century BC. The craft nearly disappeared more than once, then grew into a real local industry: Volterra had just 8 alabaster workshops in the 18th century, and more than 60 by 1830. The Rossi Alabastri workshop you'll visit still carries that same centuries-old tradition forward by hand.
The town's Roman theater, dating from roughly the 1st century BC, is one of the most completely preserved Roman theaters anywhere in Tuscany — its curved seating area, or cavea, has survived largely intact, which is rare for a structure this old left out in the open for two thousand years.
San Gimignano, the second stop, couldn't look more different: a skyline still studded with stone towers, 14 of the original 72 built by competing noble families between the 11th and 14th centuries. Pairing it with Volterra means seeing one Tuscan hill town shaped by craftsmanship and another shaped by rivalry, on a route far less crowded than the Siena road most day trips take.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.