Amber Road Tours is one of the very few Italy-based, US tour agencies. Our intimate knowledge of Italy is an advantage that our tour guests have enjoyed for more than seven years. All of our itineraries are personally designed by us, based on our experience of living and working in a country that offers an extraordinary wealth of history, culture, art, architecture and natural beauty, not to mention incredible food and wines. We only do tours in Italy as we believe it best to see a foreign country with native organizers and guides.
Sonya Conti, originally from Northern Italy, is a graduate of the Università degli Studi di Milano in Fine Arts. Before joining Jonathan at Amber Road she worked for many years as a translator for travel magazines and book publishers. Jonathan Bassett, an alumnus of Florida State University, organized and led tours from the USA prior to moving to Italy in 1995. He taught English in Italian middle and high schools for several years, working as a tour escort for a large company during the summers. Finding the large group tour experience inadequate for seeing and experiencing the Italy that he knew and loved he created Amber Road Tours.
Jonathan and Sonya live in a twelfth century house in a medieval hilltop village outside of Spoleto in Umbria.
Amber Road Tours, Inc is a U.S. company registered in the state of Florida, a member of the American Society of Travel Agents and the Better Business Bureau of Northwest Florida. |
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Our Tour Leaders
Luca Renzini is a native of Umbria. He is a graduate of the University of Florence in languages, has lived in France and the U.S. and has worked on tours all over Europe. In his off-season free time he is a referee for the Italian soccer league. He has been with Amber Road Tours since 2005.
Tours: Tuscany/Umbria, Amalfi/Apulia |
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The lovely and charming Mariaelena Ciacci is a native of Tuscany. She lives in San Quirico d’Orcia (near Pienza) in the beautiful Orcia Valley. She has been working as a tour escort for ten years and is also a licensed local guide for Florence and south Tuscany. She began working with Amber Road Tours in 2005.
Tours: Tuscany/Umbria, Sicily, WIT |
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Mario Isaia, a graduate of the Milan Institute of Tourism, has worked as a tour manager on coach and bicycle tours for the last six years. Man of a thousand stories, he has been entertaining Amber Road Tours guests since 2006. In the off–season he and his famous Elvis suitcase visit World Heritage Sites around the planet.
Tours: Tuscany/Umbria, Tuscany/Liguria, WIT |
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