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Italy rewards those who travel slowly. For senior travellers who have spent a lifetime earning their discernment, a private guided journey through Italy offers something rare: the freedom to savour each destination at a pace that suits you, with every logistical detail handled invisibly by people who know the country intimately.

Few Mediterranean islands reward unhurried exploration quite like Sicily. From the Hellenic grandeur of Agrigento to the volcanic theatre of Etna, a well-designed private tour reveals layers of civilisation, cuisine, and coastline that mass tourism rarely reaches.

Capri has been the object of intelligent desire for two thousand years. The limestone cliffs, the emerald water, the piazzetta at six in the evening: none of it disappoints. The question is only how to experience it with the access and the privacy that the island, at its best, actually offers.

Matera is one of the oldest continuously inhabited urban settlements in the world, and one of the most extraordinary places in Italy. The wine produced on the volcanic slopes an hour to the north is one of the most powerful red wines in the peninsula. Together, they form a southern Italian itinerary with no equivalent.

Fifteen million people visit Venice each year. We take our guests before most of them arrive, into spaces most of them never find, and out by private boat to islands the day-trippers cannot reach before the afternoon light is gone.

Florence contains more great art per square metre than any other city on earth. We take our guests there before most other visitors arrive, with the kind of guidance that transforms what you are looking at into what you will carry for the rest of your life.

The region that invented the concept of cucina ricca invites a particular kind of travel: early mornings, working kitchens, the people who know. Parma is not a city that needs to explain itself to anyone who has tasted its products properly. We arrange the conditions for that tasting.

Eastern Tuscany is quieter than the wine routes to the west and the art cities to the north. Arezzo contains one of the supreme achievements of Italian fresco painting. Cortona is one of the oldest cities on the peninsula. Together, they reward the traveller who has moved beyond the obvious programme.