Follow the scents of food through the city, take breaks for selfies, and get lost in the hidden streets of Bologna’s old town. Enjoy a food tasting tour at your own pace, following the route on a map and using vouchers to collect your samples.

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Duration 1 day: Check availability to see starting times.
Host or greeter: English, Italian, Spanish
Wheelchair accessible
Private group

Highlights

Visit the beautiful center of Bologna
Enjoy tasting typical food in complete freedom
Discover curiosities about Bolognese food
Taste the famous local tortellini

Full description

Discover the secrets of the city’s cuisine with a food tasting tour of Bologna. With a map and a set of vouchers for local food samples, taste your way through the city at your own pace. Enjoy a self-guided food tour, wander the narrow streets of the old town, take breaks for photos, and explore the points of interest suggested by the map. Collect tastings of local and traditional food along the way. Try handmade chocolates, delicious ice cream, and the famous Tigellone with typical ragù sauce, while adults will also receive a glass of wine, a coffee, and a parmesan sample. Each voucher says what it includes and where to use it, and you can scan the QR code to follow the path on google maps.

Includes

Map with suggestions
Takeaway tortellini voucher
Ice cream voucher
Homemade chocolate voucher
Crescentina with mortadella voucher
Taste of typical cured meats voucher
Parmesan tasting voucher (adults only)
Glass of wine voucher (adults only)
Coffee voucher (adults only)

Hotel pickup and drop-off

Covid-19 precautions

Safety measures in place

All areas that customers touch are frequently cleaned

Meeting point

Please arrive 10 minutes before the activity starts.

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What to bring

Comfortable shoes

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This tour will take place rain or shine.

Customer reviews

Overall rating

4.6 /5

based on 37 reviews

Review summary

Guide
4.8/5
Value for money
4.8/5

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Overall a nice activity. We visited some places already before getting the vouchers, some are basic cafes or ice cream shops, wouldn’t rate it as something super exciting. But the parmeggano and balsamico tasting was great and definitely something we wouldn’t have done without the vouchers. Getting the vouchers and meeting the guides was very easy.

August 8, 2022

Highly recommended if it's your first time in Bologna. We got a nice explanation what the vouchers mean. Then we got a map of Bologna with a route drawn in. The vouchers and the shops where you could taste something were all easy to find with a QR code and Google Maps. Kudos for the implementation.

June 13, 2022

It would have been excellent but some of the options were closed either on the day or for "the season". It's also not very easy to locate some of them but I would do it again because it was fun trying different food in smaller portions. I probably had some of the best gelato ever... And the mortadella "cone" will stick with me for a while. Crazy!

June 7, 2022

Bologna: Self-Guided Food Tasting Tour with Vouchers

Bologna: Self-Guided Food Tasting Tour with Vouchers

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