Best of Umbria & Marche Tour
- Mike
- Nov 8
- 4 min read
This is a tour we've wanted to offer for ages because we spent years visiting Umbria and le Marche searching for a country home and now it's our local area, having moved from Lucca to a Marche village in the Sibillini foothills with Umbria on one side of us and Marche on the other.
10 Day Tour 2026:Â Â Â (Scroll down for itinerary)
Price per person US $6,770 based on double occupancy, fully inclusive of all transport, hotels and meals. This price is based on 6 people using 3 hotel rooms.
Smaller Group Pricing if requesting a tour for less than 6 people can be discussed with us by email.
2026 Dates:Â Â
September 3-12 We have two places left for this tour to reach 6 people in total
Contact us if you have other dates in mind for next year so we can plan one of these tours around you.
Support:Â Â Transportation will be provided throughout the tour in a Mercedes van with a professional driver. Pick-up and drop off in Rome at the airport or at your hotel. Elena and Mike will accompany the group every day of the tour and will be available throughout to provide assistance as required.
Hotels:Â Â We have selected the best hotels in each of the three locations. All are very comfortable and all guest rooms of course have private bathrooms and modern facilities.
Terms & Conditions:Â Â Â Will be sent on request to interested persons.
Contact:Â Â Â For further information, clarifications or to express interest in booking one of the 2026 tours please contact us at Mike@mykindofitaly.comÂ
10 Day Tour Itinerary
DAY 1: Pick-up from Rome airport and transfer to a boutique hotel near Todi in Umbria in time for lunch and an afternoon guided walk around town. Todi will be our base for the first 3 nights.
DAY 2: We'll spend a full day in Orvieto, our joint favorite town in all of central Italy together with Ascoli Piceno, which we will visit on Day 8. As well as the obvious beauty of this Umbrian town and its magnificent cathedral above ground, you will also see the 2,500 years of Orvieto history on a walking tour underground.
DAY 3: Assisi will be our first destination in the morning followed by lunch in Spello (above right photo) and a wine tasting near Montefalco. Before completing the clockwise loop back to Todi for dinner we'll stop for cocktails in Spoleto (above left photo).
DAY 4: Today we complete the Umbrian leg of this tour with a visit to Gubbio and then we cross over into northern le Marche to Urbino, the town that Federico da Montefeltro built at the height of the Renaissance. It languished neglected for centuries until restored to its former glory in the last 65 years.
This evening we'll check into our hotel for the next 3 nights in Sirolo, a charming village situated on the most scenic section of the entire Marche coastline, nestled against the Monte Conero promontory.
DAYS 5 & 6: After a hectic day yesterday the next two days will be much more relaxing with very little traveling time. We'll enjoy Sirolo in the morning sun over the Adriatic and its views of the Conero and make a short trip to the fascinating town of Treia, with its medieval walls and historic Piazza della Repubblica at its center, as well as to the large caverns of the Grotte di Frassasi with their impressive natural rock formations.
Close to Sirolo is also the heart of the Verdicchio white wine country, within which the Cupramontana area has some of the most attractive countryside in Italy. We'll organize a winery visit here or, if the preference is for red wine, we can stay in the Sirolo area and enjoy a lunch at one of the many wineries within the Conero DOCG zone that produce excellent Montepulciano and Sangiovese blends.
DAY 7: For the final 3 nights of the tour we'll transfer to a winery estate near Offida in southern Marche with stops along the way to see the coastal towns of Torre di Palme and Grottammare and lunch in the atmospheric hilltop town of Ripatransone at the Enoteca of the Colli Ripani Cantina.
DAYS 8 & 9: These two days will also be very relaxing with very little time in the van so we can enjoy the peaceful countryside around our winery accommodation. As well as Offida itself, Ascoli Piceno will be the main attraction and also there will be time to visit Civitella del Tronto just across the border in Abruzzo. Both locations are no more than 3o mins away from our base.
DAY 10: transfer back to Rome.