A Team of Local Professional Guides
We are all Italian local fun professional guides, with great passion and competence in our work. Having a local guide means not only having a reference point for any information or need but above all making you experience the territory by deepening history, traditions and curiosities.
The human relationship is irreplaceable, made up of exchanging stories between you and us.
Gianni
Owner, trip organizer and guide at Walk About Italy
(with a degree in geology)
I am 56 years old. Geology is my background (Ph.D.) but to me life is about more than an academic degree. Music and walking are my passions. I have been a certified guide for nature walks since 1999.
After working many years as a guide and also in the back stage of the travel industry for foreign walking tour companies, I earned my Tour Organizer business license, valid in Italy and the rest of the world. Let me organize your vacation to Tuscany and other parts of Italy.
Tours he guides: All tours. Mostly hopping on and off from all the tours to make sure that people are drinking enough wine 🙂
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Sara
Sara - A true passion for life
(with a degree in ethnology)
Sara is a fully licensed guide, both for nature trails and for the city of Siena. Sara was born in a small village in Chianti area. When I first met her few years ago I was struck by her great personality, enthusiasm and kindness. Her background is in Anthropology.
Tours she guides: Iconic Tuscany, Italian Alps & Dolomites
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Lorenzo
ravelling is my life
(with a degree in creative writing)
Lorenzo has been guiding tours since 1999. He then earned his master degree in foreign languages and literature.He is fondly in love with Tuscany. However he also enjoys exploring the rest of the world and that’s what he does in his spare time, together with studying, reading and writing.
He just accomplished his first historical novel and he is now pursuing a master degree in Cultural Anthropology. His favourite Tuscan food? Ribollita soup.
Tours he guides: Tuscany + Amalfi + Sicily + Cinque Terre
Rudy
Photographing Tuscany
(with a degree in yoga teaching)
Rudy was born in Colle Val d’Elsa, a town between Siena and Florence. He began working as a cycling guide and then as a professional nature guide. He is a Yoga teacher and passionate about natural medicine. He studied kinesiology, shiatsu, craniosacral therapy and has completed a master’s degree in osteopathy.
Now he is studying photojournalism and nature photography because he wants to combine four great passions: photography, travel, people, animals.
Tours he guides: Tuscany, Amalfi, Italian Alps and Dolomites, Italian Lakes+ Cinque Terre
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Roberto
Climbing is my passion
(with a degree in biology)
Roberto was born and raised in a small village on Amiata mountain, 50 miles south of Siena. Although his background is in biology he is very keen on traditions and history of Tuscany.
His passion is climbing. He is a climbing instructor and rescuer. Do not worry! He is happy to walk with you on flat terrain.
Roberto is definitely a people-person. He took several courses at “The Academy of Experiential Education” about “group dynamics”.
Tours he guides: Tuscany, Umbria & Undiscovered Tuscany, Italian Alps & the Dolomites, Italian Lakes
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Matteo
Living la bella vita in Amalfi coast
Matteo was born and raised in a small village in the Amalfi coast.
He grew up in a family that takes food in big consideration. Infact along the Amalfi trip we visit and enjoy the restaurant of her cousin Raffaella, in a beautiful setting, exactly where Matteo was born and lived.
Matteo is an avis walker. He is part of a volounteering organization that takes care of the maintenance of the trails of this beautiful place. His hobby is playing soccer. How about kicking the ball with him??
Tours he guides: Amalfi coast.
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Chiara
Farming vegetables, olives, chickens, ducks and pigs
(with a degree in natural sciences)
Chiara was born in Volterra, a charming Etruscan town nearby Pisa. After graduating in Natural Sciences in 2001 she has become a nature hiking guide, accompanying guests in Tuscany and pleasing them with lovely pic-nics. In 2015 she decided to start her own farm with a vegetable garden, olive trees, aromatic plants, chickens, ducks and pigs.
Now she is a tour leader and a farmer. She will take you around with dirty hands for a good reason.
Tours she guides: Tuscany.
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Daniele
Making pecorino sheep cheese an art
(with a degree in natural sciences)
As a passionate birdwatcher, he always keep an eye on the sky during his walks, sharing the pleasure of exploration and the discovery of new places.
Tours he guides: Tuscany, Cinque Terre
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Ermes
I was born to travel the world
(with a degree in International Relations and Human Rights)
Native of Palermo, with degrees in International Relations and Human Rights, Ermes has spent years working in social tourism and as a cultural mediator.
Ermes has been travelling the world and now with an extensive knowledge of history, flora, and fauna, looks forward to sharing his expertise.
Tours he guides: Sicily
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Laura
On a mission to guide with art in my eyes and justice in my heart (with a degree in Cultural Heritage)
Italian-French Art Historian and licensed Tour Leader, based in Palermo after 10 years in Paris, Brighton, and London as a picture editor.
PhD in Cultural Heritage Studies (2021) on 19th-century foreign photography of Sicily’s monuments and archaeology.
Active in the anti-racket movement and a cultural mediator for anti-mafia tours—connecting Sicily’s timeless beauty with its present-day social reality.
Tours she guides: Sicily
Erica
Here to guide with calm energy — trained in donkey-assisted therapy
Erica was born in San Gimignano from Italian dad and Scottish mum.
Her background is as Sales Executive in an export company but after 10 years she decided to leave the office, change her life and make a job out of her passions: walking, nature, art, living outdoor and meeting new people and cultures.
Now Erica is a licensed hiking and city guide and her aim is to let you love Tuscany as much as she does!
Tours she guides: Tuscany, Amalfi, Italian Lakes+ Cinque Terre
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Federico
botany and entomology are my passions
(with a degree in foreign language)
Native of Le Marche, Federico will capture your attention hunting for herbs that you can eat!
Music and foreign languages were the protagonists of his university studies, but for passion he has always devoted himself to animals, plants and landscape. You can see all his passion in the description of the small villages of Le Marche where he belongs to.
Tours he guides: Umbria & Undiscovered Tuscany