Padua Tours

Immerse yourself in Italian culture with an intimate cooking class in the heart of Padua. In addition to hands-on practice in the art of preparing fresh pasta and regional dessert, your chef guide ensures you leave with recipes and techniques to impress your friends back home. You're not done yet: After class, sit down to dig in to the fruits of the day’s labor.

Explore Padua on a bike with a local expert guide. Taste local food paired with fine wine and discover the main attractions of this beautiful city Though under an hour from Venice, Padua seems a world away with its medieval marketplaces, Fascist-era facades, and hip student population. As a medieval city-state and home to Italy’s second-oldest university, Padua challenged both Venice and Verona for regional hegemony. A series of extraordinary fresco cycles recalls this golden age – including in Giotto’s blockbuster Cappella Degli Scrovegni, Menabuoi’s heavenly gathering in the baptistry and Titian’s St Anthony in the Scaletta del Santo. Experience the best of Padua on a spectacular guided bike tour. From one ride to another you will taste the best finger food and wine of the region. This tour will give you a real feel of the city as you cycle through scenic-historical bike paths with your local guide. Your guide will show you, Padua, as you’ve never seen it before… As a local!

We rent  normal bikes for your bike tours and holidays in Veneto Region, the inland of Venice.  We offer assistance and bike taxi with our bike trailer and minibus between the main airports and railway stations. For example Venice, Treviso, Bologna, Padua, Verona, Vicenza, Bolzano, Belluno and so on. Please feel free to contact us for information and quotes.

Top-of-the-range bicycles, latest models always with repair kits, water bottles. Helmet included in the price The bikes are always overhauled and the parts / tires changed in case of wear.

Travel from Venice to Padua, a neighboring city in the Veneto region. With a local guide, explore the highlights of this charming city, which is filled with piazzas, monuments, gardens, and students. Learn about its past and rich cultural heritage as a hotspot for European artists and writers. You’ll also visit the Pedrocchi Café, which was a hub for the Italian literary crowd.

E-MTB MTB ebikes. Emtb front Conway, 75Nm CX performance line Bosch engine, 500w Bosch battery, 29 wheels, size S, M; 4 power levels including E-MTB for various gradients without having to change the driving mode. Prices: € 25 half day, € 30 full day, € 199 one week.

This 4-hour private tour together with an expert local guide allows you to discover this wonderful historical city in the best way possible. Meet your local guide in Prato della Valle, one of the biggest Squares of the City and immerse yourself in the art and culture of the City of the Saint. You will have the privilege to admire the famous Sant Antonio Basilica, a religious symbol of the city where are the remains of the Saint that welcomes tourists every year on pilgrimage, especially on June 13, the day dedicated to the Saint and you can choose to visit from inside the incomparable Scrovegni Chapel which contains masterpieces by Giotto. In the historical center you will cross important commercial squares such as Piazza delle Erbe and Piazza della Frutta where you will admire Palazzo della Ragione, ancient seat of the city's courts. Then on, one of the oldest Italian universities which hosts a famous Botanical Garden up to the very famous and ancient Caffe Pedrocchi.

Venice is famous for its canals, but the surrounding Euganean Hills are also home to a historic waterway network. Explore the canals of the Veneto region with this tour that sets off from the inland port of Battaglia Terme via traditional wooden “caorlina” boat. Take in the elegant palazzi lining the canals as you are rowed by four gondoliers and end with a guided tour of the Renaissance-era Catajo Castle.

Discover the Villas, Castles and most beautiful corners of the Euganean Hills. An easy bike ride along the Euganean Hills Bike Route (E2) to discover the most important monuments of the Euganean Hills: Castle Catajo, the town of Battaglia Terme and the Garden of Valsanzibio. Itinerary: completely flat. Length: 35 km in 4 hours. Difficulty: easy. Departure/return: Abano Terme.

Take a break from the crowds and hustle of Venice for the day and explore a landscape of vineyards, villages, and medieval castles on a private cultural food tour. Visit a dairy farm and vineyard in the morning, then, in the afternoon, visit an olive oil mill and ham and sausage factory.

Take in the historic beauty of the Veneto region during this 6-hour excursion from Padua. See imposing Medieval city walls, regal Palladian villas, and ancient Roman roads. Visit a cheese factory to learn how 'Grana Padano' cheese is made.

Your day in Padua is just winding down, the sun's about to set... It's time for an Aperitivo. This glamorous Italian tradition is loved all over the world, and this is your chance to learn how to prepare it for yourself, the perfect souvenir.  Preparing the perfect aperitivo is an art; you will learn how to prepare a selection of five elegant nibbles to pair with with a refreshing glass of fizz, ideal for sharing with friends in the early evening. Your aperitivo will be a bite-size representation of its local culture, using typical regional ingredients and local wines, such as a sparkling prosecco or a light red. This experience is held by Cesarine: Italy’s oldest network of 1000+ home cooks all over the country in more than 500 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

One of the hallmarks of Italy’s cuisine is the use of seasonal, local ingredients. Learn how to create dishes like an Italian with the guidance of a “Cesarina”, or home cook. Choose a few basic ingredients together at the Padua market and then create two Italian dishes using your selections during a hands-on cooking class at your host’s home. End with sampling what you’ve prepared, along with local red and white wines.

With this tour to Arquà Petrarca we’ll discover the second most beautiful medieval villages in venetian region. Francesco Petrarca, one of the most famous Italian poets, made Arquà Petrarca his home. In this marvellous medieval village, we’ll visit Petrarch’s house and we’ll be amazed by the beauty and sinuosity of the Euganean Hills. We can say his house is a pearl surrounded by this pretty medieval village, where the time seems to have stopped. We’ll discover it with, first, a visit in a well-known olive oil mill, where the oil producer will explain us his every day work and the process of production of olive oil. In the end, we’ll finish this visit with a guided tasting of olive oil of the Euganean Hills. We continue our experiential tour with the visit of the little enterprise of a producer of venetian delights: here we’ll have a tasting of liqueurs, marmalades and Brodo di Giuggiole accompanied by the wise tale of the owner and producer.

Explore Padua without the hassle of planning on a tour of the city’s highlights, from Piazza dei Frutti to Giotto’s frescoes. In addition to navigating, your guide offers little-known facts and anecdotes about the area’s history and culture. All entrance fees are included and a range of departure times is available for your convenience.

Spend the day exploring the Brenta Riviera onboard the Burchiello on this cruise that travels from Padua to Venice. Along the way, stop for guided tours of the Villa Pisani, Villa Widmann or Villa Barchessa Valmarana, and Villa Foscari. Make a lunch stop at the famous Il Burchiello restaurant in Oriago. Listen to a guide's enlightening commentary in four languages as you travel.

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We will talk about the environment, the centuries-old relationship between man, the sea and the city, industrial progress, environmental protection, defense of the territory, but also of intense exploitation and modification of the territory. We will be able to savor the smells and flavors of the lagoon from a particular and more genuine point of view, a little less crowded and more human-friendly.

We believe in sustainability and fair trade that's why our revenue is directed towards the local community. WHAT ARE YOU PAYING WHEN YOU BOOK THIS EXPERIENCE: - 60% to support the local initiatives which you will visit during the experience. - 15% for the typical local Aperitivo. - 25% to TerrArcella Experience to help us to continue showing the hidden Padua to the world. By booking this experience with us, you are supporting our project and more than a simple tourist, you will leave a positive footprint in the city you are visiting.

Wine tasting in a local cellar of the Euganean hills of volcanic origin, in the southern part of Padua, in the inland of Venice. The experience includes the private transfer by minivan from Montegrotto Terme to the cellar in the hills and the tasting of 3 wines (white, red and spumante). The wine producer will explain you the history of his winery on the panoramic terrace and will accompany you to visit his cellar.

Sample a variety of Italian craft beers during a guided tasting at a pizzeria in the historic center of Ponso. Learn about the flavors of different Gjulia beers, all produced in Friuli. Taste four different brews including an amber, black, Weizen, and blonde alongside famous Veneto ham. Hear stories about production techniques and experiments in brewing.

Italy has a vast and varied culinary heritage, and our local hosts are proud to share its hidden secrets. Share your passion for Italian gastronomy with other lovely guests, immerse yourself in the vibrant local market and enjoy an authentic hands-on cooking class. You'll visit the local market with your Cesarina host, who will teach you all about how to select the best ingredients with the seasons. Then, you'll return to their home, warm up with an Italian Aperitivo and enjoy the class. You'll learn how to make one iconic Pasta type, typical of the city you are visiting, and the famous Tiramisu. After the class, you will enjoy everything you've prepared with local wines. This experience is the perfect choice if you want to encounter the real Italian regional gastronomy through genuine connections, food, and friendship.

Padua’s most traditional dishes use seasonal, local ingredients that can be found at the city’s market. Learn about this market-to-table culinary tradition by browsing the stands with a local “Cesarina”, or home cook. Afterwards, enjoy a cooking demonstration featuring beloved family recipes in her kitchen and end your experience with a family-style lunch or dinner of classic Paduan cuisine, including wine and espresso.

The Riviera del Brenta, a well-known waterway between Padua and Venice, is an interesting panoramic area from historical, natural, artistic and cultural point of view. It is a natural extension of the Venice Grand Canal and is flanked by picturesque Venetian villages and surrounded by an agricultural landscape. The Riviera del Brenta has fascinated many important personalities at all times: Casanova, Galileo Galilei, Byron, Montesquieu and D'Annunzio have visited it, Canaletto, Cimaroli and Tiepolo have painted it and it has been praised in the masterpieces of Goldoni and Goethe . The French and Russian royal families, the Habsburgs, the Savoy and even Napoleon stayed here and the Venetian nobility chose it as the setting for their Venetian villas. Here the Venetians built magnificent residences, enclosed by monumental gardens, frescoed and designed by the most important artists of the time such as Palladio, Tiziano and Tintoretto.