Cultural Holidays for Lovers of Italian Food & Wine
If good food, good wine and Italian Art and History are your passions,
if a gourmet vacation in Italy with guided visits is what you are looking
for, then Taste of Marche is the solution for you.
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 tastings and lectures.
You will 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.
At the end of the course you will be able to cook some simple and delicious
Italian dishes. Next to that you will have gained an overview of the cultural
heritage of Marche. And you will know a lot about the major
Marche wines through wine tastings, visits to producers and lively background
lectures.
Art Tour Italy Course Price: Currency Converter
- 1250,00 € per person per week
23 - 30 May '09 ; 26 Sept - 3 Oct' 09
excursion Urbino, Marche, Italy
cookery courses Italy with Italian Chef
visit to wine producer Marche Italy
Holiday Italy, visit to Tolentino
Highlights of the Italy Tour:
- Guided visits to Urbino, Ascoli Piceno, Macerata, Tolentino and the
Abbey of Fiastra.
- Excursions to local pottery studio, wine producers, markets and pecorino
cheese maker
- 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.
cooking with Italian chef in Italy
Holiday Italy, visit to Pecorino cheese maker
magical Marche, the best
kept secret of Italy
We open the doors of monuments
that normally remain closed
Making your own pasta, cookery class Italy
with wine tastings of award wining Marche wines
Italy small group tour
cookery lessons, Marche Italy
holiday courses
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
- 9 Meals & Wine at Caravanserraglio
- 4 lunches during the excursions
- 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
- 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 - Excursion to Tolentino and to the Abbey of Fiastra
- 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 - Excursion to Ascoli Piceno
- 9.30 am Excursion to Ascoli Piceno, with visit to local pottery
studio. At the wonderful square Piazza del Popolo we will
enjoy a coffee or tea at one of Italy's 150 historical bars: Bar
Meletti. It has a fascinating and original Art Nouveau style interieur.
We visit the Duomo and the Fine Arts Museum where we will be introduced
to the paintings of Carlo Crivelli and his followers. He is the
most important exponent of the Venetian influence in Marche during
the 15th Century.
- 1.00 pm Lunch at Ascoli Piceno
- 8.00 pm Dinner at the Caravanserraglio restaurant.
Day 4 -Cooking course and excursion
- 10 .00 am Cooking course at the Caravanserraglio restaurant with
excursion to market and pecorino cheese maker.
- 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 - Excursion to Macerata
- 9.00 am Excursion to Macerata, capital of the province. Today
there is the shoe market in the historical part of the city.
- 1.00 pm Lunch at Macerata
- 3.00 pm We visit Palazzo Ricci, a villa right in the centre of
the city. It will open it's doors especially for us to the wonderful
collection of 19th and 20th Century Italian art (modern art). Art
pieces of De Chirico, Medardo Rosso, Manzł, Ivo Pannaggi and Trubbiani
- 8.00 pm Dinner at the Caravanserraglio restaurant.
Day 6 - Cooking course and excursion
- 10 .00 am Cooking course at the Caravanserraglio restaurant and
excursion to local wine producers.
- 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 - Excursion to Urbino
- 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...
