M.Touch Travel sightseeing tours, dinner cruises, cooking courses, wine tastings and experiences for groups and individuals all over Italy.

Let us surprise and delight you with our private car or walking tours so you can discover secret places off the beaten path and authentic places where locals like to hang out.

The M.Touch Difference is hands-on, hassle free travel with the goal to make your holiday an experience to remember whatever your budget.

Welcome to Italy!

• A stunning range of half and full day tours and excursions to both the most popular site and places off the beaten path.

• A crackerjack team of courteous, knowledgeable and reliable English speaking guides.

• Airport transfers by private car or coaches.

•Excellent service and reliability for simple transfers or multi day driving excursions.

In terms of value we think we are one of the best incoming agencies in Rome because of the high level of service and care we give each client. In this respect we follow an American approach to Customer Service.

Our tours and transfers have been so successfully made that we have developed our own range of unique experiences which we offer to travel agents and tour operators.

Thanks larry for organizing the wine promenade. We had a great time and tried out our very dodgy french!! It was good to see some great old cafes and get an insight into the french wine psyche. We'll be back in Rome next summer and look forward to using your web site again.

This is what we aim for Larry. Good job... Thank you - US travel agent

Italy was home to many well-known and influential European cultures, including the Etruscans, Greeks, and the Romans. Its capital Rome has been a historically important world city, especially as the core of ancient Rome and the Roman Catholic Church.

For more than 3,000 years Italy experienced migrations and invasions from Germanic, Celtic, Frankish, Lombard, Byzantine Greek, Saracen and Norman peoples during the Middle Ages, followed by the Italian Renaissance period, in which the Italian Wars took place and various city-states were noted for their cultural achievements.

The history of Rome, like that of all other ancient peoples, is made up largely of traditions. According to the Roman legends, after the fall of Troy, it is said that the, Aeneas, fled from the ruins with his father Anchises, and his son, Ascanius. He landed on the shores of Italy and was assured by omens that Latium was to be the seat of a great empire. He founded the city of Lavinium, and after his death his son Ascanius transferred the seat of the kingdom to Alba Longa. Here his descendants ruled for three hundred years. The throne was then usurped by prince Amulius.

To secure himself against any possible rivals, he forced his brother’s daughter, Rhea Silvia, to take the vows of a vestal virgin. Instead, she became the mother of twin children, Romulus and Remus; their father was Mars, the god of war. Amulius caused the children to be thrown into the Tiber; but they remained under the guardianship of the gods.

Drifting ashore at the foot of the Palatine hill, they were nursed by a she-wolf, and were brought up at the home of a neighboring shepherd. And when they had grown to manhood, they founded 753BC the city of Rome on the Palatine, where they had been providentially rescued. In a quarrel between the two brothers, Remus was killed, and Romulus became the king of the new city. After his death he was worshiped under the name of Quirinus.

A Sabine named Numa Pompilius was elected as the second king of Rome. Numa is represented in the legends as the founder of the Roman religion and said to have divided the year into twelve months.

Today, Rome still offers visitors insights into ancient mysteries. Even Dan Brown is in Rome shooting Athe movie Angels and Demons. Read the NY Times article.then take the tour.

Florence is the capital city of the region of Tuscany, Italy. From 1865 to 1870 the city was also the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. Florence lies on the Arno River and has a population of around 400,000 people, plus a suburban population in excess of 200,000 persons. The greater area has some 956,000 people. A center of medieval European trade and finance, the city is often considered the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance and was long ruled by the Medici family. Florence is also famous for its magnificent art and architecture. It is said that, of the 1,000 most important European artists of the second millennium, 350 lived or worked in Florence. In fact, the city has also been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.

The historic Centre of Florence was declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO in 1982.

Venice has the nickname, "Queen of the Adriatic" and "City of Water".

The city stretches across numerous small islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater lagoon stretches along the shoreline between the mouths of the Po (south) and the Piave (north) Rivers.

The population estimate of 272,000 inhabitants includes the population of the whole Comune of Venezia; the historic city of Venice (Centro storico) inhabitants are around 62,000, while approximately 176,000 people live in Terraferma (literally firm land, it means the extra-lagoon areas), mostly in the large frazione of Mestre and 31,000 live in other islands of the lagoon.

The Venetian Republic was a major sea power and a staging area for the Crusades, as well as a very important centre of commerce.

The original inhabitants of Sicily, long absorbed into the population, were tribes known to Greek writers as the Elymians, the Sicani and the Siculi or Sicels. Of these, the last were clearly the latest to arrive on this land and were related to other Italic peoples of southern Italy.
Sicily was colonized by Phoenicians and Punic settlers from Carthage and by Greeks, starting in the 8th Century BCE. The most important colony was established at Syracuse in 734 BC.

Umbria, the "green heart of Italy", is a land where nature, art and culture combine in the most harmonious way to offer you an unforgettable experience. In this region the relationship between man and nature is still very strong, and intense spirituality lives side by side with secular pride. Its landscape is characterized by hilltop towns surrounded by rich vegetation, where the visitor can admire traces of different civilizations and ages: Umbrian, Etruscan and Roman, followed by the extraordinary period of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Traveling across Umbria is an emotion, a journey full of surprises continuously suspended between the signs of a well-preserved past and a vocation for the future that is entirely new. Umbria has much to offer visitors: archaeology, art and culture, food and wine, handicraft, mysticism, nature and park, waters and spas.