Cookery Holiday Courses in Italy
Wines and Cookery Holidays in Italy
Italy art tours to hidden art treasures
discover the beauty of Marche Italy!
Taste of Marche Art Tours and Cooking Courses in Italy
Be Inspired by the Beauty of Italian Art and Architecture, enjoy lovely Italian meals and wines in this 1-week Cultural Holidays for Lovers of Italian Food, wines and Art.
Taste of Marche combines Italian cooking classes with Art Tours in Marche
Italy. Enjoy daily Italy activities: tours to Art towns, Italian cooking courses,
visit to local markets, wine tastings and lively lectures on Italian culture and....relaxing in the swimming pool
or in the sun with a nice glass of Italian wine!
Dutch Art historian Phaedra de Zeeuw MA leads you to Art Cities, monuments,
churches, museums and to magnificent frescoes and inspiring convents and abbeys.
She opens doors to impressive Art collections that usually remain closed to the public.
Art and gastronomy go hand in hand during the Taste of Marche Italy holiday course.
It is designed to let people be inspired by all the beauty that Italy has to offer!
We make wonderful tours to stunning places that Phaedra has selected during years of research in the heart of Italy.
On one side it gives you the occasion to discover this (for many) unknown area and
on the other it deepens your knowledge about Italian (art) history. In an informal and friendly environment and most of all to enjoy!
This course is open for beginners and also for the experienced art lovers and cooks.
The cooking classes are held in English, at the Caravanserraglio
restaurant, by your Italian chef and host Ennio Barbieri.
At the end of the course you will be able to cook some simple and delicious
Italian dishes and surprise your friends and beloved ones when your are back home.
You will have a great overview of Italian Art and learned some new tools to enjoy art even more!
And you will know more about the major Marche wines
through wine tastings, visits to producers and lively background lectures.
This is a unique experience and will introduce you in a relaxed way to the art, food,
wine and life of one of Italy's most beautiful regions.
Italian Food, Wines & Art Tours Italy Course Price: Currency Converter
1250,00 € per person per week
Tast wonderful Italian wines and visit Italian wine cellars in Marche, Italy
Italian cooking lessons and delicious meals at the Caravanserraglio restaurant
Stunning Italian Renaissance Art in beautiful Italian hilltowns
fascinating guided day trips with professional guide to impressive locations
Highlights of the Italy Cookery Tour:
- Guided visits to Urbino, Assisi, Loreto, Macerata, and beautiful convents and abbey in Tolentino and Abbadia di Fiastra.
- Excursions to wine producers, markets and pecorino cheese maker
- A series of lively and informative background lectures on Italian Art History and Traditions, 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 Barbieri.
- Art tours with your host Phaedra De Zeeuw, graduated art historian, experienced tutor and wonderful guide for introducing you into the Italian tratitions.
- Accommodation at the beautiful Caravanserraglio Countryhouse in the Marche, Italy with swimming pool, in comfortable self-catering apartments.
Delicious Italian meals during the Holiday
Urbino Art tour
Lovely Italian wines
Art tours in the heart of Italy in small groups
Visits guided by Art Historian Phaedra to wonderful Italy Art towns....
...she opens doors to collections that usually remain closed to the public
Italian Cooking Courses with Tours 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. This is a sample menu and can be altered according to the availability of the ingredients, since we want to guarantee fresh local produce of the season. However the essential content of the menu and 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, Introduction to the course program by your hosts.
- During each cooking class we prepair a full menu with aperitif, antipasti, first and second course, vegetables and dessert. After each lesson the prepaired menu is served to the participants in the restaurant.
- Each member of the course receives at the beginning of the holiday a detailed program of the week with the description of the recipes. At the end of the Cooking Holiday participants get a cd with the complete description of the recipes and the pictures made during the cooking courses.
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 Assisi
- 9.30 am Excursion to Asissi where we visit the basilica of Saint Francis, one of Italy's most important Gothic Monuments with fresco's of Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti-brothers. Wandering about the streets of Assisi makes you feel like a pilgrim....a pilgrim of art.
- 1.00 pm Lunch at Assisi
- 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 Loreto and 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 Loreto, and the imponent basilica which houses the small house of Mary, the Santa Casa.
- 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...