Reviews for Our Local Guides

Gianluca Giangrasso was a wonderful guide. Knowledgeable, accommodating, and above all else, pleasant. We had a wonderful day learning about these ancient places and enjoyed a delicious meal at a local restaurant in Segesta. Highly recommend taking the time to see this part of Sicily.

We had a wonderful private walking tour with Paolo in Bari. From the very beginning, he made us feel welcome and immediately brought the city to life with his knowledge, warmth, and humor. Paolo shared so many fascinating stories about Bari’s history, traditions, and daily life, blending historical context with local insights you’d never find in a guidebook. What we especially loved was how personal the experience felt. Paolo tailored the tour to our interests, answered all of our questions, and even pointed out hidden gems we would have easily walked past on our own. His passion was contagious, and by the end we felt not just like visitors, but like friends who had been shown around by a local who truly cares. If you’re visiting Bari and want to go beyond the surface to really understand the culture, history, and soul of the city, we can’t recommend a tour with Paolo highly enough.

We had a wonderful tour of Pompei with Roberto. It was great to learn so much of this history from Roberto’s archaeological background. Roberto pointed out so many things that we would not have known had we toured on our own. At the end of our short tour Roberto then made recommendations on the map of all the other places in Pompei we should see. This was helpful to prioritize the remaining hours of our visit. I highly recommend a private tour with Roberto!

We loved our tour of Lecce with Silvia! We learned a lot about the history & culture of Lecce and felt like we’d made a new friend. Thank you for a lovely intro to Puglia!

On time Nice and polite drivers

Our tour contained some interesting history of the town and access to some sights we would otherwise not have seen. Our guide was friendly and knowledgeable, however, was distracted by a family issue and spent a lot of her time checking her phone and attempting to make calls - which made the information provided feel disjointed. We felt our guide was not fully engaged with us and the tour. Repeated comments regarding the negative impact of tourism on locals and the area were excessive- this energy would perhaps have been better directed to enhancing the tour experience.

Giorgio organized a fantastic tour of Segesta, Erice and the Trapani salt pans for my family. We departed from Palermo. Along the route to Segesta, Giorgio pointed out various areas of interest including different types of agricultural land, old rail lines, and the various towns we passed through. Once in Segesta, we went up to the acropolis and Greek Theater. The view was breathtaking, and Georgio pointed out different landmarks visible from the mountaintop. We explored several of the excavated building sites and the theater before moving down the hill to the reconstructed temple itself. From Segesta we headed to Erice, where we took in various vistas, notable buildings, and sampled delicious local food. We also saw a bit of the Easter Passion procession through town, which was a definite highlight. We went on to view the salt pans outside of Trapani before heading to Montelepre, our final destination. Our tour with Giorgio was a highlight of our trip to Sicily! We appreciated that he was so accomodating in personalizing the tour to meet our needs.

Paolo was a delight and gave 4 of us an amazing tour and very interesting insight of Matera and its history in an extremely relaxing and fun way. We would love to come back and have Paolo show and tell more about Puglia Absolutely love it and thanks Paolo

Prompt, Professional, and Helpful. Vehicle was very Comfortable. I would avoid any discussion on politics.

Paolo was extremely knowledgeable on all topics we discussed. I highly recommend him whenever you may be in the area. You won’t find a better guide. .