Top Umbria Outdoor Activities

Go for a sunrise hot air balloon ride over some of Italy’s most beautiful scenery, and complement your journey with a delicious breakfast and wine tasting, on this one-of-a-kind outing. Meet in the early morning and take to the skies in the company of an experienced pilot; you’ll enjoy a special perspective on Assisi, Perugia, and the lovely Umbrian countryside. Upon landing, you’ll transfer to the Cantina Dionigi winery, where you can enjoy traditional local nibbles and wines.

Book an e-bike tour that includes visits to three Orvieto wineries for a day of wine tasting and gentle exercise. On a route selected by your guide, you’ll soak up the scenery without the struggle thanks to the bike’s electric motor, and stop along the way to sample regional wine, cheese, and cured meat - all produced locally or on site. Numbers are capped at 10 people for a small-group tour.

Experience a private truffle hunt with a guide and trained dogs. Take an adventure through the Umbrian countryside, searching the region’s celebrated “Black Diamonds.” Explore the beautiful forests near Assisi with an informative host-hunter, who will teach you how to use these precious fungi. Then, enjoy a Tili Winery tour and a four-course meal of traditional dishes seasoned with the truffles unearthed on your hunt and paired with organic wines.

Hop on an e-bike for a tour that combines Orvieto history and culture with tastings of local wine and food. You’ll pedal with ease behind a local guide, and follow a route that takes in sights of Orvieto Cathedral and the Church of San Giovenale. Stop to visit the Orvieto Underground with a prebooked ticket, soak up views from Rocca Albornoziana, and spend time in an ancient wine cellar, too.

It is an unic and extraordinary way to see Orvieto in evening time, riding our e-bikes when lights and the evening breeze give the City an unforgotteble atmosphere. Ending our experience seat in front of Cathedral tasting fantastic genuine local products will be an exclusive "souvenir" .

Visit the cliff-top village of Civita on a small-group e-bike tour from Orvieto, and see the surrounding countryside and castles without breaking a sweat. Providing the extra oomph you might need on the hills, the e-bike offers a fun and energy-saving way to explore. With a guide, you’ll pedal to a lookout point to park, then cross the bridge by foot to explore the village and sample local food and wine.

- This morning we’ll lead to Assisi, the old town and the Franciscan places: Basilica di San Francesco, Chiesa di Santa Chiara, Piazza del Comune, Cattedrale di San Rufino. - The extra virgin olive oil, known as green gold, probably is the most representative product among the delights of Umbrian gastronomy, made of simple, genuine and savory food. We’ll visit a renowned oil mill where we could learn about the production process of olive oil, from cultivation, to harvesting, pressing and use of the product. - The Cascata delle Marmore, is the highest in Europe. It pours into the valley formed by the river Nera, an environment extraordinarily rich in cultural, historical and naturalistic heritage. The botanical guides of the park will take you along the ring of the nymph and the meeting of the waters paths, telling you the legend about the origin of the Marmore Falls and providing notions about the most characteristic and curious flora that will fascinate even children.

Travel through the green fields and vineyards of Umbria on a trekking bike, without the inhibition of glassed-in tour bus windows. You can focus on the scenery as your guide leads the way through Bevagna and listen to commentary on the area's medieval history. Visit an organic winery for a tasting and settle down for a provided picnic lunch in a scenic spot.

Enjoy a private walking tour through the city's characteristic medieval streets. Our guide will take you inside the famous Duomo and in the streets that have made this town in the heart of Italy famous. Orvieto is located on a volcanic rock 100 meters above the beautiful valley of the Paglia river. The city is known for its magnificent 14th-century cathedral century, one of the most important in Europe architecturally.

Rafting is certainly one of the most fun and exciting activities to live in Umbria. Aboard an unsinkable raft, we launch ourselves into an adventurous descent on the streams, pushed by water currents, through places of great naturalistic interest otherwise inaccessible: rock walls, waterfalls, woods and large meadows. All the equipment is provided and there are dressing rooms and hot showers available at the end of the descent. Back from the adventure, we will have a delicious Umbrian lunch at a typical restaurant with drinks included!

Escape the crowds in Assisi and head to the scenic hillsides for a wine tasting overlooking the Umbria Valley. Connect with a local winemaking family and take a stroll through the estate’s vineyards and olive trees to enjoy the views. Then relax over an al fresco wine tasting featuring five different organic wines served with a selection of bruschette, extra-virgin olive oil, local cheeses and cold cuts, and “tozzetti” cookies.

The truffle hunter will accompany you along the most secret paths of the mountains in search of the truffles they hide! A total immersion in nature with the lagotto dog, trained to smell this precious mushroom.

Pleasant experience to enrich your time at Lake Trasimeno, the largest of Central Italy, beautiful body of water, surrounded by natural landscapes of great beauty, ancient villages and historic houses. In just 30/40 minutes of kayaking, you can reach the shores of Isola Polvese, and dock your canoe to enjoy a scenic walk or get refreshed by swimming in the beautiful waters of the lake. All the equipment is provided, including an impermiable cover for your phone. Back from the excursion, we will enjoy a delicious lunch with menu based on specialties from the lake at a local restaurant with drinks included.

Leave Orvieto behind for a day, and head into the beautiful Umbrian countryside, on this intimate tour. Begin the day with a traditional breakfast, and meet your guide: an expert truffle-hunter. Following your meal, venture into the nearby forest with your guide and a trained dog, and learn the art of truffle-hunting first-hand. Enjoy snacks as you explore, and see if you have any luck in unearthing the prized fungi.

Truffle in Umbria is a fundamental element of good cooking. Combined with many dishes, it is an element that enriches the typical cuisine of the territory. The lands of our region are rich in this precious food, and living this experience of truffle hunting in Umbria will make your day fantastic, in contact with nature and with a reality of the Umbrian territory.

This is an oasis of greenery and unspoiled nature, where the Tiber opens up forming the Corbara lake. Getting around by bike is in perfect harmony with the environment, the vegetation has remained intact for centuries. The territory is covered by holm oak, oak and chestnut groves, another area is junipers that tangle with climbing plants, typical of the Mediterranean scrub. In the hilly areas, vineyards and olive groves have typical vegetation: typical wines such as Trebbiano, Grechetto, Malvasia are excellences of the territory. Even hops, a plant now rare in other environments, testifies to the integrity of the area here. The upstream part is rich in centuries-old woods, with a luxuriant and important flora. On the hills there are wild boar, fallow deer and roe deer. Numerous species of birds nest along the shores of Lake Corbara and Alviano, including coots, kingfisher, peregrine falcon, gray heron and buzzard.

Experience the gorgeous countryside of Umbria on a full-day bike tour that features a lunch stop at an agriturismo farm. Pedal past vineyards, olive orchards, and picturesque villages with an engaging guide who shares live commentary about this region of Italy. Take a well-deserved break for a multi-course lunch at an agriturismo farm, with the option to swim in their pool in warm weather.

Simple and affordable excursions for everyone, both for families and children, and for adults. In a splendid natural context, between woods and meadows of the Sibillini Mountains. Contact with animals and the possibility of having an experience together enriches the experience with beauty and emotions.

The tour starts from our company and continues on foot for a visit to our beehives in the field. A passage to the millenary olive tree of Macciano is a must even if we are talking about honey ... Upon returning to the company we will illustrate the process of honey production and extraction and then finally ... the tasting of our honey.

Enjoy a relaxing carriage ride through the vineyards, and taste some of Umbria's best organic wines.

Thanks to this tour you can go back in time and visit our land in complete relaxation and tranquility. The itinerary will include a visit by carriage of the Hovel and the Leprosarium. Everything will be enriched by a very good and tasty picnic immersed in a vineyard under a pergola located on the slopes of the Basilica of San Francesco.

With us you can immerse yourself in the ancient history of this land, from the Etruscan civilization to the Middle Ages until the Renaissance, visiting sites and places where you can breathe a mixture of legend and truth. Here, where people still love and preserve the ancient traditions, in the handicraft, in the cultivation of the products of the earth, it is possible to get excited simply listening to the silence of these villages and gazing at panoramas of rolling hills on which Torri, Castelli and Rocche stand out. In these places warriors and condottieri have written pages of history, cultures met and clashed, each time helping to enrich a civilization born 3,000 years ago. The foods in these places are the testimony of an enogastronomic variety in which the contaminations have brought to the excellences of which today we can enjoy

In the frenetic world we live in, where we always look ahhead to the future, once you come to Valnerina will feel like a jump back in time. Here, you will be able to discover how the mountains were crossed in the past and how a simple water course eroded the earth forming a deep gorge, known even in pre-Roman times. Among the tunnels dug into the rock, in absolute darkness, we will talk about a technological jewel of the '900, a flagship of central Italy that in the '70s was dismantled. Between friends and chit chats, we will analyze the rocks surrounding us and finally we will go up in altitude to see the Valnerina from above and, if we are lucky, we will also witness an excellent sunset. Get prepared and take with you: - active wear attire - sport shoes - backpack - energy bar or alternative snacks as you prefer - water - sun glasses

We visit the only farm in Umbria specialized in breeding and processing of buffalo milk. The characteristics of the Umbrian pastures combined with the centenary experience in the transformation of the milk produced in the company, give a unique taste and flavour to the most renowned dairy product of our country: the mozzarella! Surrounded by the green Umbrian hills, in direct contact with the animals, we discover the secrets of the processing of buffalo milk - between ancient techniques, handed down from father to son, and modern technologies - up to the finished product: mozzarella, ricotta, scamorza, caciotta and many other delicacies. At the end a delicious tasting. Certificate of completion included!!