Verona: Food tour in Dante’s footsteps - small group｜Italy

This is a journey through local culture, historic tastes, and the everyday rituals that still define Verona today. Step into the Verona Dante Alighieri experienced during his years of exile and discover the city through its most authentic flavours on a curated small-group food and wine walk.

Not a typical food tour, but a deeper way to experience Dante’s world through taste, in the very places where real Veronese life still unfolds. You’ll explore the historic centre while stepping into carefully selected shops, artisan workshops, and family-run businesses that are part of the city’s daily rhythm.

You’ll begin like a true Italian: with a coffee and a traditional pastry, a simple gesture that reveals a lot about local culture. From there, the experience unfolds through a series of tastings connected to the land, the seasons, and the food traditions that shaped Verona in Dante’s time.

Along the way, you’ll discover freshly baked goods, regional specialties, and flavors rooted in the Lessinia area, where mountain ingredients and rural traditions have influenced local cuisine for centuries. Many of these tastes are rarely included in standard food tours, offering a more genuine and unexpected perspective.

As you walk through streets once crossed by Dante Alighieri, stories of exile, power, trade, and daily life emerge naturally through food, echoing themes found in the Divina Commedia, where everyday experiences become powerful symbols. Each stop is designed not just for tasting, but for understanding how food reflects identity, status, and culture, both in the past and today. Through storytelling, sensory experiences, and selected literary references, history comes alive without ever feeling like a lecture.

You’ll end the experience the way locals do: with a relaxed aperitivo, but with a playful historical twist. Two wines, two sides, one final choice.