We had a wonderful day! Our tour guide was great as was our driver.Beautiful city of Cortona was the setting of the movie Under the Tuscan Sun!

What an amazing experience. Gabrielle was host extraordinare as we toured Cortona and Assisi.Blessed with terrific weather, our adventure into the Tuscan countryside was all we had hoped it to be.

This tour tries to do too much in a day. The guide had a weird way of repeating himself constantly and yet never actually said much of value. Special guide in asissi was great!

Good tour. Florence traffic was terrible and took away a lot of time. Not much time left for Cortona, but Assisi was really the highlight. Guide for Assisi was very good, but tour did not give enough time to the Giotto frescoes. Tour guide was terrific (Julia?)

Fantastic trip with great bunch of folks from many different places. Thorough and uplifting.

The tour guide on this tour was below par. She spoke english, Spanish and Italian all in the one sentence and was very very difficult to understand. Two other person besides myself had trouble keeping up with her walking speed, my husband spoke to her about this could she just slow down a bit but she took no notice therefore several things we couldn't see because of this walking speed. Most of the people on this trip were not young and she needs to accomodate everyone. I wouldn't recommend this company.

Loved visiting both towns. Would love to live in Cortona. Need to be in decent physical shape to walk up the hill into the town of Cortona. Once there, it is a true Italian village. Shops for food, wine, essentials, gifts, etc. Cafes and restaurants. Not very touristy. Where you can experience the culture and it's people. Loved it. Assisi was another great little town. Lots of tourists. The Basilica is beautiful. A must see. Our guide was great. Spoke a few languages. Very good English. Was very knowledgeable about the area and it's history. Great trip for the money.

Definitely needed more free time to explore each town. The guide at Assisi was a disappointment.

A very long day, with an unnecessary and unnecessarily long mid-morning stop at a cute but unspectacular lakefront village.
We had no time to stop in the village for quick shopping or looking, and the line to get in and out of the controlled area was way too long to contemplate going back after seeing Assisi. a pending papal visit was probably responsible for at least some of the delay.
Assisi was lovely, but a you're not allowed to take pics inside, and b our guide wasn't permitted to accompany us on that part of the tour - I think we lost quite a lot as a result.
Cortona was lovely - despite the afternoon rain - and less crowded. Overall, I preferred not to Assisi.
It was after dark by the time we returned to Florence.

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