12 Day Wonderful Italy Around the MotoGP - Premium Guided Motorcycle Tour in Italy

Overview

The tour includes a unique experience of visiting the Ferrari museum in Maranello, a town fully soaked with the soul and spirit of the mythical brand, and an amazing motorcycle museum near Misano. Also, there will be a sort of laic pilgrimage in the hometowns of Valentino and late Marco with the possibility to buy some gadgets in their original stores and have a coffee with their friends at their favorite bars. On this tour, you will have an opportunity to attend an important racing event on the rest day - the Italy MotoGP on the Mugello track in May / June or the San Marino MotoGP on the Misano track in September. This is a well-balanced tour between a great riding on the enthralling winding Apennine roads and a fascinating touristic itinerary dotted with enchanting places worth the visit with a juicy cherry on the cake - a special attention for the Italian world of motors and motorcycl

Highlights

• Starts and ends in Rome
• Visit San Gimignano Florence
• Visit the town of Tavullia and Coriano
• Ride to the enchanting wine countryside of Val d'Orcia
• Reach the Cattolica on the Adriatic via the Apennine mountains
• Reach the wine capital of Montepulciano
• Head to the Ferrari hometown
• 11 nights' accommodation

Itinerary

1. Day 1: Meeting in Rome (Roma)

   You muster in the afternoon in your hotel in Rome and go together to pick up the rental bikes. You all meet up before dinner for a short but important briefing, the time to explain a few simple rules for organizing and synchronizing things, thus ensuring that everyone has a safe holiday that is unforgettable for all the right reasons. Then, you’ll break the ice and start forging some group spirit over a classic Italian pre-dinner aperitif. Stay overnight at a 4-star hotel in Rome. - Meals: dinner

2. Day 2: Rome to Val d’Orcia, 220 kilometers / 137 miles

   You start your tour heading to Tuscany with a beautiful stretch along Lake Bracciano and visit a beautiful dying city before arriving in the enchanting wine countryside of Val d’Orcia, one of UNESCO World Heritage sites and its delightful villages, and reach one of the most enchanting ever, the wine capital of Montepulciano, for your night stopover. You have lunch in a typical Tuscan trattoria whereas you can choose your own restaurant for dinner. Stay overnight at a 4-star hotel in Val d’Orcia. - Meals: breakfast and lunch

3. Day 3: Val d’Orcia to Volterra, 140 kilometers / 87 miles

   Today’s tour is entirely set in the amazing Val d’Orcia and Val d’Elsa in Tuscany. Enjoy an enchanting route amid hills and vineyards with lots of most interesting places to see such as the amazing city of Siena where you’ll make a long stop during lunchtime in order to let you visit its magnificent cathedral and renaissance palaces. Many medieval villages are also yours to see, exactly as you expect in this extraordinary postcard scenery. The splendid, medieval town of Volterra is your final destination. Stay overnight at a 4-star hotel in Volterra. - Meals: breakfast and dinner

4. Day 4: Volterra to Florence, 140 kilometers / 87 miles

   Today is a marvelous day tour amid the enchanting scenery of vineyards and medieval burgs that are the symbol of par excellence of Tuscany. Gliding through the verdant, gently rolling Tuscan Val d’Orcia and Chianti (shire) countryside, you go and visit two world-famous pearls, both UNESCO World Heritage sites, the enthralling little town of San Gimignano before reaching Florence (Firenze) where you’ll spend two nights. Stay overnight at a 4-star hotel in Florence. - Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner

5. Day 5: Florence, 0 - 240 kilometers / 0 - 149 miles

   - May / June: today is the Italy MotoGP day on the Mugello track and all those who want so will have the adrenaline possibility to attend this fantastic event. In alternative, you can have a day off in Florence for visits and shopping. - September: a great ride on the Tuscan-Emilian Apennine mountains awaits today together with the visit of two very suggestive, spiritual places hidden in the green of these centenarian forests. They are a monastery where Saint Francis has spent many years of his life and a hermitage, both permeated with a stilling peaceful atmosphere that will fill up your spir

6. Day 6: Florence to Lucca, 140 kilometers / 87 miles

   Two further UNESCO World Heritage sites are on your program today. First stop today is Leonardo’s birth town, Vinci, then Pisa with its magnificent Renaissance testimonies. After an accurate visit of Piazza dei Miracoli and the famous Leaning Tower, you skip back into the Middle-Ages in another magnificent town, Lucca. Stay overnight at a 4-star hotel in Lucca. - Meals: breakfast and dinner

7. Day 7: Lucca to Modena, 185 kilometers / 115 miles

   It’s time for a change of scene, a day dedicated to Italy’s best as regards motors. You cross the Apennines on a pass which is beloved most by bikers and drop in Emilia-Romagna region heading for the Ferrari hometown, Maranello, before gaining to Modena, one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Choices of possible (optional) activities in Maranello are visiting a factory and museum or a tour on a rumbling Ferrari. After the rumbling of powerful engines, some lyric music and the unique voice of Luciano Pavarotti will delight your ears in his museum-house, and / or what about ravishing your taste

8. Day 8: Modena to Cattolica, 260 kilometers / 162 miles

   Straight ways are being totally banned. You reach the sea resort Cattolica on the Adriatic via the Apennine mountains, treating you to lots of great bends amid verdant forests. You will stay at a comfortable 3-star hotel for the next 2 nights for it is soaked with adrenaline, the right place to meet famous (Italian) people in the environment of motorcycle racing. - Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner

9. Day 9: Cattolica, 0 - 180 kilometers / 112 miles

   - May / June: a light program in Romagna awaits after yesterday’s heavy duty, taking into two of the most interesting medieval castles of the Malatesta family: the fort that imprisoned the Count of Cagliostro (a famous alchemist, born Giuseppe Balsamo, whose story has been dramatized in several adventure movies) and the little-fortified town of Gradara, the setting for the classic love story between Paolo and Francesca immortalized in Canto 5 of Dante’s Inferno, part of the great poet’s epic Divine Comedy. The great happy ending of the day is visiting the most interesting motorcycle museum in

10. Day 10: Cattolica to Spoleto, 230 kilometers / 143 miles

    You start your way back to Rome along a route sprinkled with architectural jewels. You cross Marche where you’ll visit the fine town of Urbino, one of UNESCO World Heritage sites, before entering Umbria where you’ll stop in 3 beautiful and unique places of Assisi, Gubbio, and your final destination, Spoleto. In a word, a feast for the eyes the whole day! You’ll have a typical Umbrian lunch in a nice trattoria on the way while you are free to dine where you fancy in the amazing Spoleto. Stay overnight at a 4-star hotel in Spoleto. - Meals: breakfast and lunch

11. Day 11: Spoleto to Rome, 200 kilometers / 124 miles

    More of magnificent Umbrian sites are yours to see during your last day in the saddle. You return to Latium and the capital city. For one last UNESCO World Heritage treat, you visit the beautiful Renaissance Villa d’Este before wending your way back to the hotel in Rome where your odyssey began and taking the hire bikes back. Enjoy a lavish lunch in the capital that provides a fitting end to your adventure together. Stay overnight at a 4-star hotel in Rome. - Meals: breakfast and dinner

12. Day 12: Farewell in Rome

    You say your goodbyes after breakfast, leaving you free to go home or explore further the magic of Italy on your own. There are plenty of opportunities to continue your trip that Italy on Motorbike can help you plan. - Meals: breakfast

Ride Details

Terrain

asphalt

Bike

personal or rental bike

Mileage

1750 kilometers / 1090 miles

Daily rides

140 - 260 kilometers / 87 - 161.5 miles

Riding gear

not included, please bring your own riding gear

Meals

11 breakfasts, 4 lunches, and 7 dinners

Accommodation

Your accommodation will be in an en-suite room with buffet breakfast in hand-picked, classy, and charming first-class hotels (4 stars) that will satisfy even the most demanding guests, for it is emphasized to all the aspects that go into making a luxury holiday. Wherever possible, Italy on Motorbike will choose high-rated hotels with top facilities and excellent food in historic and scenic settings, often in exquisitely beautiful villages offering inviting backdrops for a romantic dinner or evening walk.

Food

You will enjoy 11 buffet breakfasts at your hotels, 4 lunches at typical restaurants, and 7 dinners at hotels or external restaurants at walking distance. All meals are chosen à la carte by the customer, no fixed menu.

Getting There

Two are the guiding themes of this tour: motors, from the most famous brand of dream supercars to powerful racing bikes, and the Apennine mountains as the main location, that you’ll tackle from various angulations. The Apennine mountains are the chain that crosses the central Italy lengthwise. Not as high as the Alps, though the highest peak (called Gran Sasso, 2,912 meters above sea level, in reg

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