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The Original and Best Walking Tours


TripAdvisor Traveller Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #9 of 227 attractions in Florence
Traveller Description:
The Original and Best: We are the first company in Italy to offer high quality guided tours with professional specially trained guides. Our experts...... more » The Original and Best: We are the first company in Italy to offer high quality guided tours with professional specially trained guides. Our experts make history come alive and give entertaining and informative tours. We continue the tradition with high quality services at a great price. About Our Guides: All our tour guides are highly qualified enthusiastic experts. Our tour guides and historians have a sense of humor and can speak excellent English; ensuring a wonderful tour for you. « less
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Attraction type: Tour
Address: Via Sassetti 1 50123 Florence
Italy
Tel: 39 055 2645033
Fax: 39 055 272 8680

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22 Nov 2009

Our guide was very knowledgeable, interesting and enthuasiastic. Her brief history of Michelangelo's life and the description of the unfinished sculptures made the experience of seeing the David all the richer. Excellent tour - just the perfect amount of background and detail. more

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5 of 5 stars
Louisiana
21 Nov 2009

These guys are the best. It may be a little more information than you wanted, but you will leave with an interesting, informative and enjoyable experience in your pocket. more

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5 of 5 stars
Minneapolis
19 Nov 2009

A big big thanks to the wonderful staff at Artviva for making our stay so enjoyable. The genuine warmth and good service set them well above our other experiences in the big european cities we visited. Our guides Sylvia and Paula were fantastic, energetic and knowledgeable.We loved our walking tour with Paul as well. They all made it lots of... more

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4 of 5 stars
Birmingham, AL
10 Nov 2009

Paola gave an exceptional tour. I would highly recommend the 3 Hr Original Florence Walk Tour to anyone. It gives a great foundation when first arriving at the city. Also, it was a great way to meet people and share the experience. more

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5 of 5 stars
Santa Barbara, CA
9 Nov 2009

We did the Tuscan Bike Tour with Artviva: The Original and Best Walking Tours after several other companies didn't respond or bailed out on us. We were so glad we did. The bike tour was thoroughly enjoyable. Stefan was a great guide. He provided insight and great information. The villa was beautiful. The wine and olive oil were great. We... more

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5 of 5 stars
Northern California
5 Nov 2009

Both the Original Florence Walk and Uffizi tours were outstanding. They gave us a much better appreciation of the history of Florence, and allowed us to more fully enjoy all of the amazing landmarks and art in the city. Our guides were terrific, and they definitely brought the subjects to life. Even though they’ve probably given these tours dozens of... more

4 Nov 2009

My wife and I enjoyed the Uffizi tour very much. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable on the artwork there and gave a fascinating tour. I would certainly take another tour in the future with ArtViva. more

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5 of 5 stars
Chicago
31 Oct 2009

We took 5 tours with this company during our stay in Italy. We started with their Tuscany Wine tour and based on how me we enjoyed that we signed up for the Florence Walk, Uffzi Galleri, David Tour, The Original Rome Walk, and Masterpieces of the Vatican. The guides were without exception knowledgeable and passionate about their subject matter. This... more

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5 of 5 stars
buffalo, ny
30 Oct 2009

My wife and I took three of the Artviva Florence tours in three days, the Ufizzi, the morning walking tour and the evening walking tour and tasting. Our first guide at the Ufizzi was Heather and we decided to come back the next day for the walking tour. Again we had Heather as our guide. We like both of them... more

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5 of 5 stars
Chicago, IL
29 Oct 2009

Stefan was absolutely wonderful on the Best of Tuscany tour! Best tour and guide we had in Italy...by far! I wish I could have had him with us for our whole trip to Italy. He was very knowledgeable and made the tours fun, really enjoyable and worth every Euro! My favorite part was going to the winery/farm. The meal we... more

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Via Sassetti 1, 50123 Florence, Italy
Tel: 39 055 2645033 Fax: 39 055 272 8680