An exclusive food and wine tour on Lake Maggiore

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What You’ll Experience
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7 hours
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2 - 6 guests
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English, French, Spanish, Italian, German
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Discover the culinary excellence of Lake Maggiore with an exclusive tour. Taste local cheeses and enjoy wine flights, journeying from historic Stresa to charming Gattinara with expert guidance.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

The surroundings of lake Maggiore are the homeland of some of the most prestigious Italian gastronomic specialties: varieties of cheese like the "Bettelmatt" are the natural match for elegant yet full-bodied wines like Nebbiolo, the king of Piemontese vines. This exclusive tour will lead you to discover some of these mouth-watering treasures: starting form Stresa, where you'll have an espresso or a cappuccino, together with a sweet specialty in a historical tea room. The following stage will be a cheese seasoning cellar, where you'll have a tasting matched by some varieties of wine. Finally, you'll reach Gattinara, a charming small town which has given its name to a fine red wine based on Nebbiolo grapes: the Gattinara DOCG. A guided tasting of this nectar will be held in an historical local winery.

What You Get

Private transportation
Breakfast
Exclusive tasting of typical pastries, served with espresso or cappuccino
Qualified private guide
Lunch
Dinner
Gratuities

Good To Know

  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

What You’ll Experience

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Stresa

This small town, standing on the Western coast of Lake Maggiore in the so-called Borromea Gulf, is one of the most visited touristic sites of entire Piemonte. Its territory includes three of the four Borromean Islands: Isola Bella, Isola Madre and Isola Superiora, also named Isola dei Pescatori. The first recorded file about the town is dated 998, but even in the Roman age, the way leading from Milan to the Sempione pass ran by this site.
1 hourAdmission Ticket Free
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Piazza Giacomo Matteotti, 7

Stresa is well-know for its sweet called "Margheritine", soft biscuits created in 1857 in the pastry shop of Pietro Antonio Bolongaro. The shop still exists in Stresa today, with its art-nouveau style pieces of forniture. It overlooks Lake Maggiore. here you will enjoy an expresso or a cappuccino together with these delicious biscuits dedicated to princess Margherita di Savoia, who would become the future Italian Queen Margherita
30 minutesAdmission Ticket Free
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Gattinara

This small town was founded in 1242 by the Municipality of Vercelli as a brand new settlement, a so called "Borgo Franco": that is to say, free from feudal bonds. Since the Napoleonic age, Gattinara has gone through a progressive economic growth, especially linked to the industrial sector. The city is also well known for the production of a prestigious DOCG red wine (Controlled and guaranteed origin).
2 hoursAdmission Ticket Free
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Via Milano, 140

When great-grandfather Luigi Guffanti, in 1876, began to season Gorgonzola cheese, his brilliant intuition was to purchase an abandoned silver mine in Valganna, in the Varese province. n the mine, with its temperature and humidity constant year-round, the cheese matured so well that Luigi quickly cornered the markets: his sons, Carlo and Mario, at the beginning of the 1900′s, exported as far as Argentina and California, lands of Piedmont and Lombard emigration. Maximum attention to the handcrafted quality of the cheeses and passionate care taken in the refinement process mark the proud Guffanti Fiori family tradition handed, down for five generations. Experience gained by processing the Gorgonzola has gradually been transferred to the Tomas of the Ossola Alpine pastures, the Reggiano Parmesan, all the cheeses, Italian, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese.
2 hoursAdmission Ticket Free

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

Piazza Marconi 16, Piazza Marconi, Stresa Provincia del Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Piemonte, Italy, IT, 28838

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End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

All bookings are final. Once the host confirms the experience, cancellations by the guest will incur a 100% charge.

from  $2,360.71 
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Please note: The price varies based on group size. The time is in Central European Time.
All bookings are final. Cancellations by the guest will incur a 100% charge.
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Earliest available date: July 16, 2025
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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
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