Discover Italy with this course, have a Taste of Marche, a full week divided between cooking classes, excursions and art history, an in-depth taste of Italian culture. 1250.00€ per week all included
Taste of Marche combines Italian cooking classes with Art Tours in Marche for Lovers of Italy and Italian Food
This is a unique experience and will introduce you in a relaxed way to the traditions, art, food, wine and life of one of Italy's most beautiful regions.
1250.00€ per person per week all included
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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!
We leads you to Art Cities, monuments,
churches, museums and to magnificent frescoes and inspiring convents and abbeys.
Whe 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 we have 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.
landscape from Camerino le Marche
Discovering le Marche
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.
1250,00 € per person per week all included
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the dates
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Highlights of the Taste of Marche, Italy Art & 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.
- Accommodation at the beautiful Caravanserraglio Countryhouse in the Marche, Italy with swimming pool, in comfortable self-catering apartments.
Accommodation with pool
Chiostro di San Nicola Tolentino
Taste of Marche, 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
- An optional excursion may be offered which is not included in the tour price
- Personal transport costs from and to the airport, phone calls or tips
- Entry fees to places other than those specifically mentioned in the itinerary
Wine tasting in le Marche
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Detailed Itinerary - Taste of Marche, Art & Cookery Course Italy
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...
General description of Taste of Marche, Art & Cooking Course Italy
The mentor of the Intenso Cooking Course is the Italian Chef Ennio Barbieri. The classes are held in English at the Caravanserraglio Countryhouse in the Marche, Italy. 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@terradarte.net
You don't need to be a Masterchef to join the class. During the day a professional chef will show you how to cook the programmed meal. You can participate by helping the chef, cooking under his guidance, or choose just to watch and take notes. It's up to you. Once everything is ready you'll sit at the table to taste all the dishes together with the chef. This is our interpretation of Italian Cooking Holidays with daily Cookery Courses in Italy! Terradarte is a specialist Italian holiday Cookery school - offering quality Italian cooking holidays and courses since 1999. Choose from a week long Italian cooking vacation in Marche, Puglia, Sicily or Tuscany where you can indulge in 7 days of glorious Italian food! We also have short break cooking holidays to the very popular regions of Ascoli Piceno and Tuscany. Come to cook in Italy, join hands on cookery lessons and wine tours with expert! Learn from professional Italian chef, shop local market then cook in 8 persons class. Having loads of fun during your Italian cookery holidays....and an unforgettable Italian cookery experience! Come and join Italian cooking courses in the Marche, in this region you can still find the real feeling of the Italian pleasure of life and Italian food. During your Italian cooking holidays you will enjoy guided tours with your fluently English speaking hosts. Come and discover Le Marche with Terradarte.net If you are planning a cooking holiday in Italy and good food, good wine and cooking are your passions than this is the Italian Holiday for you!Join a hands-on cooking course with your own personal Italian chef! Winery visits and tastings, hands-on cooking lessons, Accommodations rooms with private bathrooms. We takes care to use local fresh product from our organic kitchen garden and orchard, or from other local farms specialising in cheeses, bread, vegetables, meat ecc. The beautiful position of the restaurant at the property of the Caravanserraglio Agriturismo, with ten hectares of land with olivegroves,vineyards, organic kitchen garden and orchard, make the cooking courses a delightful experience full of new discoveries! Ciao and see you in Le Marche!