Private Tour: Gourmet Walking Tour of Bologna - Pasta, Mortadella and Chocolate
- Location:Bologna, Italy
- Duration:2 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
- TOUR Code:2734BLQGOUR
16 reviews of Private Tour: Gourmet Walking Tour of Bologna - Pasta, Mortadella and Chocolate
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Our guide was very knowledgeable and went into great detail on the city, monuments, statues, churches, time periods and everything we asked about he answered. I can't say enough about our guide!!! We intend to visit the city again and spend more time there. I would recommend this tour to anyone visiting Bolonga, it is very interesting!!! Beautiful city.
Monique our guide was exceedingly informative and knowedgeable! The lunch at the end of the tour was wonderful..as was the wine. We left loving Bologna
Gloria met us at Neptune's Fountain and took us for a predominantly historic tour of Bologna which is what we had asked for. This, of course included food and we ended having a delicious gourmet tasting. She was friendly and informative and obviously loved her town. We do too and would visit again if we were in Italy.
Patricia, 64, from Melbourne, Australia
Our guide, Mr Alberto, was fabulous and so knowledgeable. We arrived when it had just snowed and he took us on our local walk via the many porticos in Bologna. The library and university were so interesting and the local restaurant for lunch were great.
We are very pleased with our tour in Bologna. Our guide, Massimo, is more than highly qualified to explain the history and architecture of the city as well as give detailed information about the foods peculiar to the region. It was a delightful tour!
A little hard to find but worth it. Excellent room and friendly staff.
This was one of the best tours we have ever taken. The guide was very "tuned in" to what we wanted to do, but also interjected wonderful facts and took us to places that we may not have chosen on our own. We were impressed enough to make sure our guide was with us the next day for the car tour.
Our guide was a wonderful woman and was so knowledgeable and accommodating. We had a wonderful time with her and would recommend this tour to all.
Very good. Really liked tour guide. Very informative and nice. Excellent lunch. Combination of both history of Bologna and history of food.
Except visting one chocolate shop, our tour was about historical places in the city. In fact, we found it more interesting to know more about Bologna history than pasta and mortadella.
It was great!
Our guide began the day by guiding us through the city sites for the first hour. Afterwards, we cut off a side street from the Basicillica and found the market and deli area of town. The tour wraps up at a historic deli where we dined on a large plate of meats & cheeses from the area. The aged Balsamic Vinegar was incredible and the wine was also nice. If you are seeking more about pasta, or chocolate, then maybe you will want to indicate this to your guide. This wasn't part of our tour, although it was still great fun.
Our guide was fantastic. She made Bologna come alive. Bologna, what a great place to explore.
Our guide Francesca was very focused on giving us the history of the city. If you read the tour description there were suppose to be visits to chocolate factory and bakery shops etc. We didn't go to any of them. Between history and food - this tour was 90% history, and 10% food. It was helpful to learn about the history for sure, but this tour package should not be named "Gourmet Walking Tour"; it should rather be called the History Walking Tour.
I booked the trip, hoping to be given a behind the scenes tour of how the food side of Bologna operated. I was very disappointed, as what we were given was a walk into various shops . The guide tried her best, but there appears to be very little to see that cannot be seen UNACCOMPANIED. It was certainly not worth paying over £150. The tasting of meats was very nice , but overall this was a disappointment. Nothing about the manufacture of any product- if the problem was caused by the tour being on a Sunday, I think that should have been forewarned and a change of day advised. If you are a foodie, I could not recommend the tour, though the guide would be excellent for a history or other tour. cal
