Italy Cooking Classes with Wine Tastings
Italy Art Excursions with Phaedra
Art Tours with Italian Cooking classes in Marche Italy & Fun!
Taste of Marche combines Italian cooking classes with Art Tours
in Marche Italy. Everyday an Italian cooking course, excursion to Marche Art Cities,
visit to local markets, picking aromatic herbs and vegetables from the kitchen garden, wine tasting and lectures.
You discover the many similarities between Marches culture and it's neighbouring regions Tuscany and Umbria,
with local characteristics that make this cultural inheritance absolutely unique.
Art Tour Italy Course Price: Currency Converter
- 1250,00 € per person per week
- Discount: 10% discount if your final booking comes within 10 days of your first contact. Special discount for groups. Discounts cannot be cumulated.
Dates: 24 - 31 May '08 ; 13 - 20 Sept '08
Tours Italy
Frescoes at Urbino
Highlights of the Italy Tour:
- Guided visits to Urbino, Ascoli Piceno, the exhibition 'Osvaldo Licini' in Ascoli Piceno,
Macerata, Tolentino, San Severino and the Abbey of Fiastra.
- A series of lively and informative background lectures on Italian Art History, the Italian Kitchen and Italian wines.
- Italian cooking classes and dinners based on regional recipes at the Caravanserraglio restaurant.
The cooking classes are held in English, by your Italian chef and host Ennio.
- Art tours with your host Phaedra de Zeeuw, graduated art historian.
- Accommodation at the beautiful Caravanserraglio
agriturismo with swimming pool, in comfortable self-catering apartments.
Italy Cooking Holiday
Italy Cooking Classes with Wine Tastings
Art Tour Course Includes:
- 1 week's accommodation with breakfasts at the Caravanserraglio agriturismo
- 4 full-day excursions with lunch (art towns, exhibitions, medieval
villages, monuments, open markets)
- 4 Italian cooking classes
- the ingredients for the hands-on cookery course
- all land travel in Italy included in the itinerary by private air-conditioned
8 person coach
- use of swimming pool
- 9 Meals & Wine at Caravanserraglio
- final cleaning
- weekly change of linen
- water, electricity and gas
What is not Included?
- Airfares
- Travel insurance
- Entry fees
- An optional excursion may be offered which is not included in the
tour price
- Personal transport costs, phone calls or tips
Detailed Itinerary - Taste of Marche
Provisional program of the 1 week holiday
This is a preliminary itinerary and will be altered
to accommodate seasonal activities or local festivals. However the essential
content of the itinerary will remain the same.
Day 1
- In the afternoon arrival at the Caravanserraglio agriturismo, aperitif
and introduction.
- 8.00 pm Welcome dinner at the Caravanserraglio restaurant.
Day 2
- Tranquil awakening at the peacefull agriturismo. The accommodation
with breakfast at the Caravanserraglio agriturismo is in an independent
apartment with kitchen. You'll find in the fridge milk, fresh bread,
butter, home made marmelate, coffee and tea, for your breakfasts.
- 10.00 am Excursion to the Basilica and convent of S. Nicola at Tolentino
and to the Abbey of Chiaravalle di Fiastra, surrounded by woods and
Roman remains. Romanesque and Gothic architecture; Early 14th Century
fresco's of Pietro da Rimini (school of Giotto)
- 1.00 pm Lunch at the Abbey of Fiastra.
- 8.00 pm Dinner at the Caravanserraglio restaurant.
Day 3
- 9.30 am Excursion to Ascoli Piceno, guided visit to the exhibition
"Osvaldo Licini", in the cities' Modern Art Museum. After a 5 minute
walk we reach the wonderful Piazza del Popolo where we will enjoy
a coffee or tea at Bar Meletti. This is one of Italies historical
bars, with an original Art Nouveau style interieur. We visit the Duomo
and the Fine Arts Museum to admire the paintings of Carlo Crivelli
and his pupils. This Venetian early Renaissance artist moved to Marche
and founded an important painting school in the Marche area and had
many followers.
- 1.00 pm Lunch at Ascoli Piceno
- >8.00 pm Dinner at the Caravanserraglio restaurant.
Day 4
- 10 .00 am Cooking course at the Caravanserraglio restaurant.
- 1.00 pm Lunch at the Caravanserraglio restaurant.
- Afternoon at leisure.
- 5.00 pm Cooking course at the Caravanserraglio restaurant.
- 8.00 pm Dinner at the Caravanserraglio restaurant.
Day 5
- 9.00 am Excursion to Macerata, capital of the province. Today there's
market in the historical part of the city.
- 1.00 pm Lunch at Macerata
- 3.00 pm We visit Palazzo Ricci, a villa with a beautiful collection
of modern art: De Chirico, Medardo Rosso, Manzł, Ivo Pannaggi, Trubbiani
and others.
- 8.00 pm Dinner at the Caravanserraglio restaurant.
Day 6
- 10 .00 am Cooking course at the Caravanserraglio restaurant.
- 1.00 pm Lunch at the Caravanserraglio restaurant.
- Afternoon at leisure.
- 5.00 pm Cooking course at the Caravanserraglio restaurant.
- 8.00 pm Dinner at the Caravanserraglio restaurant.
Day 7
- 9.30 am Excursion to the Renaissance city of Urbino. In the morning
we visit the Ducal Palace, with masterpieces of Titian, Raphael and
Piero della Francesca.
- Lunch at Urbino
- 3.30 pm Visit to the family house of the famous Renaissance painter
Raphael and to the Oratory of Saint John with late Gothic fresco's
of the Salimbeni brothers from San Severino.
- 8.00 pm Dinner at the Caravanserraglio restaurant.
Day 8
- After preparations farewell and departure...
