Cooking holidays for lover of Italy and italian food
take cooking classes and cooking Christmas tours
from 8 december 2010 to 6 january 2011
Christmas Cooking holidays: classes and Tours in Italy
As the region of Umbria (central Italy, near Tuscany) is a sacred land, Christmas is a very touching and particular period. There are many decorated trees, markets, exhibitions and holy celebrations all over the region.
Religious traditions merges with folklore and every cities greets this Christmas time with light, colour and historic celebrations.
In the Christmas holidays the cooking in central Italy is very rich of traditional recipes like "cappelletti", "parmigiana" and Christmas sweets, traditionally made at home, like "torciglione" and "torcolo".
You can reserve the program in each day of the weeks.
It includes:
4 breakfasts,*3 cooking lessons of approximately 4 hours;**
3 lunches,
4 nights accommodations in the apartments of the farm,
2 half day excursions (with car and car driver).
* in your apartment you will find coffee, milk, biscuits, jams, butter and sugar.
**in this classes the recipes come from the Christmas tradition of central Italy
The excursions will occur in a Volkswagen Minivan with eight seats and air conditioned. The driver is a licensed tour guide who will provide you with information and suggestions during your excursions.
4-DAYS CHRISTMAS COOKING: Day by day itinerary
Day 1
Arrival at the country farm "La volpe e l'uva" (Central Italy, Umbria, near Tuscany) . Check-in your apartment at 4:00pm. Dinner reservations can be made at a restaurant of your choiceDay 2
Hands-on cooking lesson starts around 10:00 am.You will prepare a four course lunch. For lunch you will eat your creations in your apartment accompanied by our wines. In the afternoon you will visit the historic centre of Perugia (by taxi) and the several Christmas markets and Presepi.
You can have dinner in a restaurant of the historic centre.
Day 3
Hands-on cooking lesson starts around 10:00 am.
You will prepare a four course lunch. For lunch you will eat your creations in your apartment accompanied by our wines. The excursion take place from 15.00.
You will visit the mystical city of Assisi, a beautiful medieval town based on Mount Subasio, overlooking a peaceful Umbrian landscape. Assisi is essentially known for the fact that it’s the place of birth of St. Francis in and that of Santa Chiara.
You will visit the city and the famous churches like the St. Francis Church filled with spectacular frescoes by Giotto, and also the Eremo delle Carceri (a peacefully isolated church and monastery in the wooded slopes just outside Assisi's walls, this was the first monastic home of St. Francis' and his followers) and the St. Damiano church (A church and monastery outside the city walls is where the crucifix spoke to St. Francis, prompting him to repair it and begin his ministry. Later, St. Clare died here). You can decide to have dinner in a restaurant of Assisi or come back in the country farm.
Day 4
Hands-on cooking lesson starts around 10:00 am.
You will prepare a four course lunch. For lunch you will eat your creations in your apartment accompanied by our wines.
The excursion take place from 15.00.
You will vist Gubbio. Laying on the slopes of Monte Ingino, it is one of the most ancient towns of Umbria, extremely well preserved during centuries and rich of monuments testifying its glorious past.
Here in the Christmas time you can see the Christmas tree which every year in the evening on 7 December, Immaculate Conception eve, lights along the slopes of Monte Ingino.
It is the biggest tree in the world, by now a real symbol of Gubbio.
It rises from the last stone houses of Gubbio up to the basilica of S. Ubaldo, the patron saint of the town, close to the place where, till 10 January, shines the star of Bethlehem which completes the tree.
Day 5
Departure.Rates 2009 / 2010 : Christmas Cooking package
Type of accomodation /price in euro per person
2 people in 1 Bilo-apartment: 650.003 people in 1 Bilo-apartment: 500.00
4 people in 1 Bilo-apartment 400.00
4-day Christmas Cooking Package with only 1 half day excursions (you can choose Gubbio or Assisi)
In this case the rate includes:3 cooking lessons of approximately 4 hours;3 lunches;1 half day excursion;4 nights accommodations in the apartments of the farm
Type of accomodation /price in eruo per person
2 people in 1 Bilo-apartment: 550.003 people in 1 Bilo-apartment: 420.00
4 people in 1 Bilo-apartment: 350.00
4-day Christmas Cooking Package without half day excursions
In this case the rate includes: 3 cooking lessons of approximately 4 hours;3 lunches;4 nights accommodations in the apartments of the farm.Type of accomodation /price in euro per person
2 people in 1 Bilo-apartment: 450.003 people in 1 Bilo-apartment: 320.00
4 people in 1 Bilo-apartment: 300.00
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