Join us for one of our three tours in 2010 !
The tour company that offers unique journeys in regional Italy for: travellers interested in the mystique of Italian culture, lovers of cuisine, wine, architecture, history, landscape and music. Travel off the beaten track, Italian style.
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Sunday Star Times - TRULLI, MADLY, DEEPLY
PUGLIA IS the new Tuscany. So much is conveyed by that sentence – the food will be tasty; you won’t meet Tony Blair; you won’t even meet anyone English; you definitely will not find yourself on eactly the same town-to-town perambulation as another English couple with the same guidebook.... read more
Authentic Italy Tours is a family business and based in Auckland, New Zealand and Rome, Italy. Your principal guides are architects and brothers in law John Anderson and Andrea Bassan.
Our specialist regional itineraries are designed to make accessible genuine and authentic Italian destinations and Italian culture in a similar way informed Italians enjoy sampling different regions within their country.
Attested by a high rate of return business, our clients benefit from our thorough knowledge and familiarity with the Italian regions we visit, years of preparation, thought and attention to detail put into making each day, meal and experience at least equal to, if not better than, the last.
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Appreciate and savour the essential nature of regional Italy
The Italian regions and destinations within them we have selected are the type of places discerning Italians would choose to escape the tourist hordes within their own country, while still enjoying the best that Italy has to offer.
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Apulia: Rural Trullo structure - Valle d' Itria |
Italy is a nation of enormous allure, yet one bewilderingly difficult to get to grips with. The sheer breadth of its culture and beauty can leave even the frequent visitor to Italy with the disconcerting impression of merely scratching the surface. Resolving this dilemma is the underlying idea of our regional tours in Italy.
Authentic Italy Tours itineraries mirror the way informed Italians explore and enjoy their country's amazing and diverse heritage. We deliberately seek out the less visited destinations and more obscure locations, which often yield the most memorable and satisfying experiences, just as stunning and beautiful and Italian but without the attendant disadvantages of their more famous tourist attraction counterparts. Like Italians, our guests move more slowly, limiting travel to one area in order to savour and absorb the essence of a place.
A comprehensive experience of regional Italian culture
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Italian regions are really countries within a country, each region having its own heritage developed over a period spanning millennia. Italian nationhood has done little to dilute their fundamental differences in character. Today each of Italy's twenty regions remains a distinct cultural entity set apart by historical events, language and dialect, custom, building, artistic style and physical characteristics from landscape, land form to geology.
The idea of regional identity is intrinsic to the way Italians identify themselves and each other. Ask any Italian and you will be told that regional identity far out ways nationality.
Unlike many other tour operations in Italy, which focus on the usual mass tour centres scattered across the country, Authentic Italy Tours offers a truely comprehensive travelling experience within the confines of an Italian region. This adds enormously to your travel experience in Italy in terms of satisfaction and value for money.
Authentic Italy Tours
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For any enquiries specific to a tour, please contact |
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John Anderson |
Andrea Bassan |
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Tel: +64-9-361 1113 Postal Address |
Tel: +39-06-807 9060 |