Top Assisi Nature and Wildlife Tours

Discover Assisi’s rich history on a private, 3-hour walking tour. Stroll through the charming squares and narrow streets of old town, and learn about the city’s multilayered past as you view ancient Roman ruins and medieval buildings. Pay homage to Assisi’s famous patron saint at the Basilica of St Francis, which boasts one of Italy’s finest collections of church art. Stop as often as you like and enjoy the personalized attention of a private guide. 

See the highlights of Assisi on a 3-hour walking tour with a knowledgeable local guide. Visit the stunning UNESCO World Heritage-listed Basilica di San Francesco (Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi), the Duomo di San Rufino, the Basilica di Santa Chiara (St Claire) and the lovely main square, Piazza del Comune. Enjoy clear views of the massive 14th-century fort, Rocca Maggiore, which sits on top of the hill. As you walk with your guide, hear about the history and cultural treasures of Assisi.

Discover the secrets of authentic Italian cuisine with this 4-hour home cooking experience in Assisi. Visit a typical Umbrian home; get hands-on as you cook up an array of appetizers, pastas, and meat dishes; then tuck into your delicious homemade creations, accompanied local wine and dessert.

On this behind-the-scenes tour of the family-run Tili winery in Assisi, you won’t just have the chance to enjoy multiple glasses of organic, locally made wine. You’ll also go for a tour of the vineyard and facilities, will learn the ins and outs of the winemaking process, and will even enjoy a light meal, featuring bruschetta, cheese and salami with homemade preserves, and other traditional nibbles.

The Marmore Falls, with a total height of 165m divided into 3 sections, is the highest in Europe. It is formed by the river Black, an environment extraordinarily rich in cultural, historical and naturalistic heritage. The botanical guide will provide you with notions about the nature and curious flora that will fascinate even children. Free time to walk through the falls, relax at one of the many lookouts, refresh yourself at the snack bars, buy some souvenirs and take lots of pictures .

Discover St. FranciS Wood, a magical spot of 64 hectares of nature, between woodland and cultivated fields, walls of pink stone, clearings and olive groves. You will find an ancient monatsery, a Romanesque church , a mill active until the early 1900s, the remains of a hospital that assisted pilgrims in the past and an ancient fourteenth-century tower. Admire the “Third Paradise”, a piece of land art by renowned artist Pistoletto, which takes the form of 121 olive trees arranged in a double row to form three large, tangential circles and featuring a 12-metre-high pole to symbolise the union between heaven and earth. Enjoy a tasty picnic lunch in a dedicated area and savor Umbrian food such as torta al testo, a kind of griddle bread made throughout Umbria served cut into pieces and stuffed with cold cuts or cheeses. We want to be ambassadors of the food excellence typical of Umbrian tradition, scrupulously selecting the local producers to tell their history and to store their flavors .

Thanks to this tour it will be possible to visit the places of worship in a land of peace at the pace of a trot. The tour includes the visit of: -the Tugurio, the place where St. Francis created his Franciscan order -the leper colony, where the Saint together with Santa Chiara treated the lepers - the Porziuncola, where St. Francis asked for forgiveness

Assisi  - 3/4 hours - Walking through olive trees and river. An intact piece of the Umbrian Countryside a place of harmony and silence at the foot of the great Basilica of St Francis of Assisi; a walk through this landscape becomes an inner journey - one that inspired Michelangelo Pistoletto to create a stunning work of land art. This is a woodland under Fai protection. Through a gateway in the wall surrounding the square of the Basilica Superiore in Assisi you enter in a narrow path that leads to a wide  valley floor, at the foot of the city centre.  This is no  ordinary excursion; rather, it is an ongoing, peaceful discovery, a new form of pilgrimage into history and into the sacred, through 64 hectares of nature, amid wooded tracts, cultivated fileds, walls of pink stone, clearings and olive groves - a 64 hectare plot that years of neglect had reduced to a dumping ground, but which FAI has now salvaged in its entierity.

The uniqueness of a tour is the knowledge of the territory of the guide and the love that the guide himself has for his land and his beauties, proud and eager to be able to share it with others.

The tour takes place in the countryside between Assisi and Cannara, places where St. Francis preached to the birds. You will be able to see where the oak actually stood, which is now replaced by a stone. Continuing the journey, we will come to enjoy a good aperitif or a tasting.

- We begin our day visiting the Marmore Falls, the highest in Europe. It pours into the valley formed by the river Nera, an environment extraordinarily rich in cultural, historical and naturalistic heritage. You will have some free time to walk through the paths of the falls, relax at one of the many lookouts, refresh yourself at the snack bar, buy some souvenirs and take lots of pictures and selfies to always treasure the extraordinary beauty of this place. - Then we explore Orvieto, an ancient city of Etruscan origin that dominates the valley of the river Paglia from the top of the tuff cliff on which it stands. A beautiful place to visit with a unique history dating back to million years ago. We take a stroll around Orvieto old town, and visit the majestic Cattedrale of Santa Maria Assunta.

Thanks to this tour you can go back in time and visit our land in complete relaxation and tranquility. The itinerary will include a visit by carriage of the Hovel and the Leprosarium. Everything will be enriched by a very good and tasty picnic immersed in a vineyard under a pergola located on the slopes of the Basilica of San Francesco.

Experience a private truffle hunt with a guide and trained dogs. Take an adventure through the Umbrian countryside, searching the region’s celebrated “Black Diamonds.” Explore the beautiful forests near Assisi with an informative host-hunter, who will teach you how to use these precious fungi. Then, enjoy a Tili Winery tour and a four-course meal of traditional dishes seasoned with the truffles unearthed on your hunt and paired with organic wines.

UMBRIA NATURE & SPORT GUIDED TOUR: 7 nights, glorious nature and adventurous excursions: river rafting, hot air balloning, kayaking, horseback riding, atv adventure, trekking...and traditional cuisine!