sports & activity holidays
Why not include a sporty or active experience during your stay or holiday in Italy.
Below we highlight a small selection of proposals to give you a feel for what is on offer across the Italian regions. They range from mountain biking and golf to scuba diving, sailing and much more for climbers and walkers.
Tourist balloon flights over Piemonte from Alba
4 hour balloon flights over the beautiful rolling wine hills of Alba every day of the year weather permitting with Fly in Balloon. Your morning includes breakfast with typical food products and a post flight toast with local wine.
Grand tour style: art and nature along the river
Ca' Maffio is offering to his guests the possibility of combining their stay with a boating holidays on the River Sile to appreciate the environment of the nature park and the art of the venetian villas in the province of Treviso
Tuscanwings leisure flights over Tuscany
If you have ever wanted to fly over Tuscany or the classic Tuscan countryside in a light aircraft, then these leisure flights out of Arezzo by Tuscanwings will be just for you. Accommodation can be organised.
Classic sports car touring in north Italy
Sprintage specialises in self drive classic car tours and hire in north east Italy, especially the Italian lakes and Verona, but also into Trentino as well as Brescia in Lombardia, home of the famous Mille Miglia race.
Four wheel Jeep trekking in Sardinia
This jeep safari from Alghero in north Sardinia is proposed by local travel agency Motus in Sardinia. The air conditioned 4x4 will take you on a nature and history tour to parts of the island rarely visited.
Southern Visions Travel - south Italy tours
Based in the province of Bari in Puglia, Southern Visions Travel is an incoming company specialising in bike, sailing and culturally active fun vacations across south Italy. Both guided and self guided tours can be arranged.
Motorbike excursions in south Tuscany
The Hotel Le Macinaie located on Monte Amiata in south Tuscany near the Orcia Valley is your base for a series of routes across Tuscany from the famous wine zones around Siena to the sea towards the Maremma and Elba.
Assisi by balloon and quad bike in Umbria
Balloon flights and quad bike riding a just a couple of the alternative pursuits to enjoy in the usually tranquil Umbria countryside. These activities are organised by the accommodation partners of Luoghi Speciali near Assisi.
Tenuta La Romana - elegant wine estate near Asti
Discover the wine hills of Asti in Piemonte, and keep fit, with mountain bike riding, trekking on foot or by horseback all courtesy of a stay at the luxury Agriturismo Tenuta La Romana. Golf courses also located nearby.
Hotel Villa Le Rondini - Florence 
This 4 star Florence villa overlooking the renaissance city specialises in personalised mountain bike itineraries for its guests in the Mugello hills. Golf and tickets for motor racing events can also be arranged.
Road and mountain tours through Sardinia
Dolcevita Bike Tours is based in Pula and the company organises a series of cycle adventures for leisurely amateurs to serious weekenders from the coastal roads of the island to the rocky mountainous interior .
Trekking weekend on Mount Vesuvius near Naples
'As well as classic visits to Vesuvius, Naples based incoming tour operator RIO can put together personalized tours and arrange business travel, transfers, luxury coach hire, shopping assistance and local guides.
Sailing holidays along the Sardinian coast
Sardinia has 2000 km of coastline and Sardinian travel specialists, Motus in Sardinia, has put the following week long vacation sailing package for anyone seeking to explore the beautiful north coast. from Gallura..
Residence Kriss for Liguria coast trekking and diving
Anyone renting one of the family apartments of Residence Kriss can request sailing, windsurfing and PADI diving courses as well as with trekking in the Ligurian hills between Portofino and the Cinque Terre.
Winter holiday in San Sicario, north west Alps, Turin
The San Sicario Resort offers family apartment accommodation, a restaurant serving local Alpine dishes and all you need for a winter or active sports holiday in the Olympic mountains of Piemonte west of Turin.
Short winter ski breaks in Abruzzo
Consider Le Galelle bed and breakfast and apartments, province of Pescara, as your base for a short downhill or cross country ski break on the slopes of the Majella & Roccaraso or Campo Felice, Rivisondoli and Ovindoli..
Fattoria di Stibbio, San Miniato near Pisa
Located in its own grounds by the Voghera Valley, guests of the Renaissance villa Fattoria di Stibbio can enjoy mountain bike tours, horse riding & lessons, as well as golf facilities at the Fontevivo Club.
Horse riding and mountain biking near Spoleto
The new elegant resort Il Baio Relais & Natural Spa located near Spoleto will get you fit and keep you relaxed and eating well during a vacation stay in Umbria. Also a meeting venue and restaurant serving typical Umbrian food and wine.
Altra Umbria & food & fitness packages
Combine a day's sailing, horse riding and kayaking with a 3 day cooking course in central Umbria. The sporting activities are offered by Altra Umbria in association with Happy Cooking. A nutritionist will focus on the best food for active people.
Lake Garda Golf - Relais Corte Paradiso
The Golf Club Paradiso del Garda of the Relais Corte Paradiso near Peschiera del Garda is a modern complex designed by Jim Fazio, the renowned American architect. The course is 18 hole championship standard.
Umbria Golf and leisure breaks
Play the three best golf clubs in Umbria all located near near Perugia. The golf holiday package is offered by the best hotels in Gubbio all forming part of the Mencarelli Group, renowned central Italy caterers. .
Hotel dei Mellini - Rome Golf Package
4 star Hotel dei Mellini near the Vatican City is proposing a 3 night golf stay package for business guests or anyone seeking to stay that little longer in the Eternal City. Choose from six different courses.
Painting holidays near Lake Bracciano
The Lazio countryside has featured in many films and the pretty Villa Clementina offers a painting vacation near Lake Bracciano north of Rome. You will be accompanied by resident artist and villa owner Dimitri.
Painting holidays in north Sardinia
This 7 day painting holiday is by Sardinian travel specialists, Motus in Sardinia. Includes breathtaking locations, medieval villages, fishing ports, coastal towns and more in acrylics, watercolours and 'carboncino' chalk.
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