Twenty years of walking the same three valleys
By Nomad Editorial·8 min read·January 2026
Alessandro has led the same walk above Panzano every spring since 2004. He can tell you which week the poppies come up.
Ninety-one guides work with us, and all of them live in the region they lead. It is a deliberate constraint, not a marketing line: a guide who lives somewhere books differently, and knows what to skip when the weather turns.
Paid through the winter
Guides are employed year-round rather than seasonally, which is why the same person tends to reappear on our itineraries decade after decade. It costs more. It is also the difference between a guide reciting facts and a guide who knows the family that owns the vineyard.