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What to do

Multifarious are the activities you will have the possibility to practise to
enliven your stay in Pistoia’s province, within the whole Tuscany,
stretching out from the plain to the hills up to the mountains and down to
the seaside, too:

• Thematic cultural visits to museums, historic palaces, archaeologic sights, botanical gardens and natural reserves
  
• Visits to antique markets in several Tuscan cities
  
• Adventurous Tours for the youngest in the adventure parks
• Hiking and mountain-bike excursions of more or less exacting level along the CAI paths and MBK tracks extending on the Montalbano hills, on the Tuscan-Emilian Appenine as well as the Apuane Alps, on request even guided by authorized environmental guides
• Horse riding on the Pistoia hills
• Moments of wellbeing and relax among hydromassages by thermal water and aesthetic treatments of every kind
• Rafting, kayaking, hydrospeeding as well as canoeing descents down the river’s stream such as Lima, Serchio and Magra
• Minicruises along the Thyrrhenian shore line, sailing excursions with skipper, besides to the possibility of diving as well as doing many other water sports
• Underground tours discovering tunnels, passages and streams under Pistoia (activity that is going to start)
• Possibility of paragliding
• Possibility of Hot-air ballooning
• Alpine ski, cross-country skiing and snowboarding throughout an area of over 50 km for a total amount of 30 tracks including the blue, black and red ones in one of the most outstanding winter resort, that is Abetone
• For the lovers of fashion shopping tours to the greatest outlets in Tuscany, exposing the most exclusive and prestigious brands: ’The Mall’ and ’Mc Arthur Glen Outlet Barberino’ in the surrounding of Florence and ’Valdichiana Outlet Village’ next to Arezzo
• Handicraft tours of local artisan workshops, so as to discover old activities of craftsmanship in extinction such as pottery’s production, restoring antique frames as well as antique furniture, carving of wooden items, graving works in bronze and brass, cutting and engraving glassware, binding books, making leather goods, making custom-made shoes, restoring tapestries and textiles, making sofas, armchairs and draperies
• Wine-tasting tours in local farms, wine shops as well as castle’s cellars so as to taste both the extra-virgin olive oil and the wine of Chianti and Montalbano hills
• Learning how to cook the typical dishes of the traditional Tuscan cuisine by some farms
• Gastronomic Tours for shopping the most traditional and typical products in order to taste the genuine flavours of Tuscan specialities.
• Moreover, whoever wishes to choose Tuscany as the seat of one’s wedding, in the greatest and most elegant Tuscan villas, will be able to trust in the willingness and expertise, acquired throughout years of experience, of a noted local catering enterprise Mara Borchi. In that case we will be pleased to arrange for your accommodation by our relais as well as any other types of accommodation you prefer, according to your needs.