Taste of Marche combines Italian cooking classes with Art Tours In Marche, if you have a passion for cooking and Art in Italy. Everyday a cooking course, excursion to Art Cities, visit to local markets to buy the ingredients, or picking aromatic herbs and vegetables from the kitchen garden. Cooking classes and dinners based on regional recipes at the Caravanserraglio restaurant. All land travel in Italy included in the itinerary by private air-conditioned 8 person coach.
Taste of Marche ...Art & Cooking Vacations in Le Marche
24 May-31 May 2008-13 Sept-20 Sept 2008
1250,00 € pp/week
Special 10% Discount for bookings before 15 March 2008, and for groups
Taste of Marche
Art Tours with Italian Cooking classes in Marche Italy & Fun
Art Tour Course Price: Currency Converter
- 1250,00 € pp/week
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 to places other than those specifically mentioned in the itinerary
- 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 Caldarola, guided visit to the exhibition "Simone De Magistris, a visionary painter between Lotto and El Greco", in the Rooms of Paradise. After a 5 minute walk we reach Castle Palotta (9th Century), that was transformed at the end of the sixteenth Century into Cardinal Evangelista Pallotta's summer villa, with frescos, stucco and antique furniture. At the small Renaissance City of San Severino we visit villa Palazzo Manuzzini with fresco's of the Salimbeni brothers (late 14th Century) contemporaries and followers of the great Early Renaissance painter Gentile di Fabriano. We also visit the crypt of the Romanesque church of S.Lorenzo with frescos of the Salimbeni.
- 1.00 pm Lunch at Caldarola
- 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, captial 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...
General description of Taste of Marche
The applied art classes are held in English at the Caravanserraglio agriturismo, by Lisa end Elisa, Ennio and Phaedra. The maximum number of people for each group is eight, to guarantee our guests a personal entertainment and a good service.
For information and reservations info@marche-turismo.com
