Private Tours The Italian Riviera

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The unique climate, culture, cuisine, and stunning coastline of the Italian Riviera create an atmosphere famously conducive to sparking joy, delight, and inspiration for travellers who have been coming here for centuries. For this reason, Alma Italia includes an Italian Riviera tour in our list of classic Italy tours. On Alma Italia’s Liguria tours, you wil...
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Overview

Trip type
Private Guided
Lodging level
Luxury - 5 star
Physical level
Easy
Trip pace
Full schedule

Highlights

    • Lake Como on our way to the Riviera we will stop by Italy’s celebrity lake hangout.
    • Cinque Terre It's no secret these five castal villages connected by a walking track is a must see destination.
    • Lerici ‘The gulf of Poets’, an impossibly pretty bay that inspired the likes of Byon and Shelley who both lived there.
    • Portofino is the glamorous harbor beloved by movie stars and celebrities with good reason.
    • Sanremo The Riviera classic resort town and musical capital of Italy.
    • Menton and Nice We’ll finish our tour by peaking over the French border to experience life on the French Riviera.

What's this trip about?

    The unique climate, culture, cuisine, and stunning coastline of the Italian Riviera create an atmosphere famously conducive to sparking joy, delight, and inspiration for travellers who have been coming here for centuries. For this reason, Alma Italia includes an Italian Riviera tour in our list of classic Italy tours. On Alma Italia’s Liguria tours, you will relax by the crystalline turquoise water of the Mediterranean Sea splashing against secluded coves and sandy beaches. Take strolls through the charming villages of the Cinque Terre and up through the vineyards, olive orchards, and citrus groves growing high on the terraces above the sea below. Fishing boats await to take you for sunset drinks in the balmy evening summer breeze. Ancient castles and elegant churches will inspire adventure and spiritual moments in medieval towns dotted along this Italy coastal tour that travels along the Riviera coast all the way up to France. As a bonus adventure, we can even arrange to take a sneak peak over the French border to experience the added joys of the French Riviera! There are so many highlights on Italian Riviera tours that it is impossible to fit them all into a two week itinerary but below is some inspiration for what your Italian Riviera trip could look like. Like all our Italy tours, Alma Italia’s Liguria tours are completely tailored for your family or group of friends. This is absolutely one of our most requested guided tours of Italy and it is so much more than just an Italy beach holiday.

Details

Itinerary focusClassic Highlights
Group sizePrivate - your group only
Age rangeNo age restrictions
Flights and transportAll internal ground transport included
Start CityMilan
End CityNice

Travel Themes

  • Hiking & Walking
  • Nature & Wildlife

Destinations

  • Europe
  • Italy

Attractions

  • Cinque Terre
  • Lake Como
  • Milan
  • Nice

Activities

  • Adventure & Adrenaline
  • Culture
  • Historic sightseeing
  • History
  • Mountaineering
  • Nature
  • Relaxing Retreat
  • Ruins & Archaeology
  • Swimming
  • Wine Tasting

Trip includes

    • Accommodation
    • Transportation
    • Local Guides and guided tours as described
    • Breakfast plus one other meal (lunch or dinner)
    • Alma Italia agent assistance

Itinerary

Travel Map

Day 1: Arrival Milan

Your Italian Riviera trip will begin in Milan. As with all our Italy tours, you’ll be warmly welcomed with a smile and a wave by both your private driver and Alma Italia tour host. Trips to Italy can be complicated but with Alma Italia private guided tours of Italy, y...

Day 2: Lake Como day trip

This is of course an Italian Riviera tour  but it would be remiss to come all the way to Milan and not take a side trip to experience the splendour and beauty of Lake Como, only 45 mins drive from Milan. It will immediately become obvious why Lake Como has become a hi...

Day 3: Sestri Levante

It’s finally time to make the journey to the Italian Riviera coastline to begin our Liguria tour, a dream region that can offer the best Italy vacations. We will make our first base in Sestri Levante, at a charming authentic Italian style boutique hotel where we will ...

Day 4: Cinque Terre

For many of our guests our famous Cinque Terre tours are the biggest pull to the Italian Riviera. There is no doubt that the area is now so popular that a private guided tour of the Cinque Terre makes all the difference ensuring you experience the best of the Cinque T...

Day 5: Lerici

Lerici and her pretty sister village of San Terenzo , are the charming fishing villages at the heart of a bay which has become known as the ‘Gulf of Poets’. Lesser known internationally than the Cinque Terre, Lerici is much loved by Italian locals and It will be immed...

Day 6: Levanto and Bonassola

Surfs up today at Levanto, Italy’s best surfing village, just a few kms up the coast from the Cinque Terre. Another charming beachside village, Levanto has a very different vibe as it attracts the surf crowd. After a morning wander around the town enjoying the classic...

Day 7: Portofino, Camogli, and San Fruttuoso

After breakfast, your private guide will pick you up at the hotel to start one of the most classic days on Italian Riviera tours around the Portofino peninsula. You will fall in love with the picturesque village of Camogli with its row of tall and colorful houses line...

Day 8: Genova to Alassio

Today we will say goodbye to Sestri Levante as your private driver and Alma Italia guide take you further up the coast to our next home at Alassio.

We will stop on the way for a guided walking tour of Genova, a fascinating port city, and birthplace of Cristophe...

Day 9: Alassio and Laigueglia

The town of Alassio has the longest sandy beach in this area of our Italian Riviera tour and reaches nearly two miles. Iconic beach umbrellas and deck chairs speckle the sand as the acquamarine water gently laps at the beach underneath the toes of beachgoers. Elegant ...

Day 10: Noli and the beach resorts of the Italian Rivieria

The beachside village of Noli, a little further up the coast from Alassio is one of our ‘hidden gems’ from our Alma Italia ‘little black book’ of Italy and you won’t find too many non`Italian visitors here. Most Italian Riviera tours may never make it here but it is o...

Day 11: Sanremo

Today we will visit Sanremo, the traditional capital of the Italian Riviera. Sanremo welcomes visitors with glitz, glamour, and gorgeous scenery. Villas ascend the mountain sides that overlook the Mediterranean Sea. Locals refer to the Sanremo as the City of Flowers d...

Day 12: Menton and the French Riveria

Arrividerci Italia, Bonjour France!

Your private driver and tour host will take you over the close by border today into France. We’ll stop first in Menton, the first French resort town where you will stay for the last two nights in a charming french boutique ho...

Day 13: Nice and St Jean Cap Ferrat

On our last day we will enjoy touring this corner of the French Cote D’azur. We will have a foodie tour of Nice’s fabulous fresh food market in the morning and in the afternoon stroll along her beach front promenade that stretches for miles along the coast towards Can...

Day 14: Depart Nice airport

Departure from Nice airport. After your last breakfast of this trip to Italy, it’s time to head back to the airport. It’s time to say Arrivederci Italia, or perhaps, only `Ciao for now`. You`ll be plotting your next Alma Italia Italy tour all the way on the flight home.

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Last Updated: 4/19/2024

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We tailor beautiful Italian travel experiences for friends and families to be refreshed in the soul of Italy.All Alma Italia private guided tours of  Italy are tailored to meet your needs. Also Alma Italia Travel is one of Italy’s leading M.I.C.E destination management consultants. We bring our passion, knowledge and decades of experience to create tailor-made incentives, events, conferences, meetings, product launches and luxury travel experiences.

Alma Italia Travel is the bespoke travel company from Alma Italia Design, a group of Italian architects and interior designers.

Everything we do from booking your tour to saying arrivederci at the end of a beautiful time together is guided by our founding principles and values.

1) Family. At the heart of Italian life is the family. We will take care of you like our own family in Italy. Every travel detail is taken care of so you can share experiences, relax and connect with your own family and friends care free in the magical atmosphere of the soul of Italy.

2) Authenticity, Integrity and Sustainability. We work with the best family run businesses in Italy with integrity to give your family the most authentic experience of Italy you can possibly have. We don’t work with chains or big corporates to ensure our trips create a sustainable benefit to the local Italian economy.

3) Soul. Restore your soul in the soul of Italy. We want our tours to be full of adventure, and discovery but also rest. Our goal is that you leave Italy inspired and rejuvenated body, mind and soul.

ALMA ITALIA was founded with a passion to create a better way to travel Italy. Far from the mass tourism experience, and deeper than the generic ‘5-star luxury’ chain hotels. Alma [meaning soul in Italian dialect] offers an experience at the heart of Italian life—full of beauty, style, and authentic charm.

A love for all things Italy and her culture, fuels service that delights in the details, and unique experiences tailored to interest.

With a lifetime’s worth of local secrets, hidden gems and special friendships formed over two generations of organising Italy tours and trips to our homeland of Italy, you will benefit from Alma Italia’s ‘little black book’ of stylish places and exclusive contacts to unlock an authentic experience of Italy. Alma Italia ensures that our customised, bespoke and personalised Italy tours are truly the trips to Italy of your dreams.

Today Alma Italia, still owned and led by the Mazza family, renowned in Italy for their work in interior design, fashion and art has an international team based in the heart of Italy.  Our team is dedicated to ensuring your Italy tour is a stylish, carefree, joyful and relaxing time to reconnect with family and friends. If you are looking for Italy tours that are exclusive, safe in the privacy of your own group and enable you to experience the very best of Italy, then Alma Italia can craft the trip to Italy to fulfil your dreams.

Now led by the next generation, Alma Italia remains at heart a family business, dedicated to working with other Italian family businesses with your family in mind.

Planning unique custom trips, Connecting travelers to locals and authentic experiences, Unique local knowledge and expertise about your destinations

We tailor beautiful Italian travel experiences for friends and families to be refreshed in the soul of Italy.

Alma Italia tailors beautiful and authentic Italian travel experiences for friends and families to be refreshed in the heart of Italy

All Alma Italia private guided tours of  Italy are tailored to meet your needs.

Alma Italia Travel carefully repsect any regulation required by the local government

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Meals Included

Breakfast plus one other meal (lunch or dinner)

Age Requirements
No age restrictions
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