* GASTRONOMIC EXCURSIONS: 

Tasting experience 1: Meet in ORVIETO at 9am.
First a visit to the cathedral, a spectacular building started in 1290 and considered one of the Italian jewels of art. Followed by a pleasant walk in the historical centre to a typical wine cellar, where you will enjoy some of the typical high quality products including salami (pork and wild boar!) and pecorino cheeses (sheep cheese), all accompanied by good local wines, including the famous “Orvieto Classico” D.O.C. The owner will be proud to show you his tiny underground ageing cellar all created in the tufa stone. In the early afternoon you will visit a traditional olive mill, where the host will offer you warm “bruschetta” and teach you the secrets of making a quality extra virgin olive oil. 5pm finish. Cost for 6 people is 60.50 euros each

Tasting experience 2: IN THE VAL D’ORCIA.
Meet in Pienza, stopping in a typical shop to taste the famous “Pecorino” cheeses, with different periods of ageing and a little tasting to recognize the differences. Walk to another charming town of the Valley and visit its special hidden treasures! Discover a traditional olive mill “frantoio”, owned by the same family from many generations. Hosted by Roberto, the owner and an expert in extra virgin olive oil, he will show you the olive mill and introduce you to the fascinating world of producing extra virgin olive oil in this region followed by oil tasting, revealing a lot of secrets to enable you to purchase good extra virgin olive oil in the future. Roberto’s family also produce good quality wines on site, including a D.O.C. aged red wine and a visit to the cellar with wine tasting is to be experienced. They also have a very good production of special jams and grappa.
In the afternoon visit to the unique hamlet of Bagno Vignoni until 5pm. Cost for 6 people is 57.00 euros each

Tasting experience 3: TOUR of SARTEANO AND MONTEPULCIANO
Arrival in Sarteano at 10am starting in a little bakery where they make fresh bread every morning, begin by tasting a typical local bread and “ciaccia”, an excellent kind of white pizza made with oil, with cheeses or with raisins. After a relaxing walk in the town we will arrive at a XV century nobles palace in which the owners mother still partially resides. Fulvio, the owner, will show you the wine cellar on the ground floor and on the patio you will have the opportunity to sample delicious local products accompanied by their wines and a good extra virgin olive oil that the family produce. In the early afternoon we will proceed to Montepulciano and visit one of the most beautiful towns in the area with important works of art, as the Cathedral and the Renaissance Temple of S. Biagio. Here you  visit an historic vaulted wine cellar, in the centre of the town, where you can taste the world famous red wine “Nobile di Montepulciano”. The tour ends at 5.00 p.m. Cost for 6 people is 60.50 euros each

*TUTORIALS: 

TRADITIONAL ITALIAN COOKING CLASS AT ANNA’S FAMILY FARM
10,00 am arrive at the family wine/farm where Anna, the owner, will welcome you. Here her friend, a local cook, will teach you how to prepare some traditional local recipes. The lesson will last around 3 hours followed by lunch, when you will taste what you prepared! The dishes will be matched with the different wines, both white and red, that Anna and her family produce with an immense care and passion. 
The cooking lesson includes the preparation of:
1) A STARTER
2) A FIRST COURSE
3) A SAUCE FOR PASTA
4) A SECOND COURSE
5) A SPECIAL SALAD
6) A DESSERT
The cost for this cooking lesson (including the lunch and the visit to the family wine cellar) is 95,00 euro per person with a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 10 participants.

PASTA MAKING demonstration  and  private lunch at Anna’s  wine farm
TOUR 4: 10am meet in Panicale, taking in the spectacular view of Lake Trasimeno. Walk through the town, with your escort, to visit the beautiful theatre “C. Caporali”, built in the XVII century, admire the magnificent frescoes of the “Martirio di S. Sebastiano” (1505), one of the most important works of a genius of the Renaissance, Pietro Vannucci, also called “il Perugino”, and other interesting pieces.
Then you will be introduced to Anna, trained sommelier and the owner of a typical small farmhouse of the area. She will show you her vineyard, wine cellar while explaining the process of making good wine that she and her family produce, with a wine tasting to follow. Before lunch Anna will give a demonstration of pasta making, it is not as easy as the experts make it look, followed by a traditional lunch served by your hostess, enjoying the authentic atmosphere in which guests can truly relax, taste great local recipes accompanied by her good wine. This lunch consists of 5 courses but a lighter meal can be offered if you prefer, please state at the time of booking. Around 3.30 p.m. Visit to a special olive mill, surrounded by a fairy tale landscape where Daniele will introduce himself and will explain the techniques for extra-virgin olive oil production until 5pm. Cost for 6 people is 101.00 euros each

* TOWN TOURS

Tour 5: CITTA DELLA PIEVE: Minimum of 10 persons 
10.00 a.m. Visit the Villa “La Scarzuola”, please note there is a 10 euro entrance fee to this venue. This is a unique place in the middle of the forest, in which a XIV century Franciscan Monastery blends perfectly with an extravagant project of “Ideal city”, of a famous contemporary Milanese architect. A relative of the original architect, Buzzi, still resides in the villa and is proud to show and explain the project of the “Ideal city” to visitors and is only open on a dry day as this is an exterior tour. 1,00 p.m. Light lunch in a typical Italian “Trattoria” open exclusively for you, with a wide choice of local products.  3.30 p.m.  Walking with your tour escort through the town admiring different jewels of art including the great masterpiece: the “Adorazione dei Magi”, a fresco by Pietro Vannucci also named “Il Perugino”, one of the greatest artist of the Renaissance and teacher of Raphael. Tour ends at 5pm. Cost for 10 people is 52.80 euros each

Tour 6: PERUGIA & hidden treasures 10.30 a.m.
Arrival in the historical centre of Perugia and walk with your tour escort looking at the main treasures of art the city has to offer and between 1pm and 3pm a chance to browse in the “Il Corso”, a street renowned for its quality shopping and enjoy a leisurely lunch (not included in tour prices). At 3pm rejoin your guide who will introduce Mrs. Clara who has upholds the ancient tradition of weaving with her workshop inside a XIII Franciscan church, including a loom dating back to 17th century which is still in use. Or if preferred a visit to a private stained glass workshop which still uses Byzantine techniques, upheld for over 200 years by the same family, to produce beautiful works of art for churches and private homes. 5pm end of tour. Cost for 6 people is 51 euros each.

Tour: 7: BEVAGNA. Return to the medieval era in Bevagna 
This tour can incorporate “hands on” instruction to make paper and candles in the traditional manor or learn to hand grind and mix colours the way the old masters used to. These experiences are especially tailored towards children of any age. The tour begins by exploring the medieval alleys and visiting the “botteghe” or “Gaite” workshops of 700-800 years ago. Each workshop has been restored and furnished, according to records, to recreate medieval working conditions.  The workshop “Master” is happy to show new “apprentices” the art of paper making, candle making or recreating natural paint colours in exactly the way the old masters used to do, for you to make you own work of art to bring home with you. A light lunch of local produce is in the tasting room at a traditional working olive mill accompanied by good local wine. Afterwards you will be guided through he working process of making good extra virgin olive oil using both the traditional and modern methods that the family use.
In the afternoon you can return to the workshops to learn another skill or explore the nearby town of Montefalco until 5pm when the tour ends.
Cost for 6 people with “hands on” instruction for 2 classes and entrance fee at Bevagna or 1 class and wine tasting at Montefalco of 100.00 euros each.

Tour 18: The Tuscan Maremma and its precious gems: Pitigliano, Sorano and Sovana with lunch at a family farm and see to make the Pecorino cheese, this is instruction for both adults and children.

10.30 am Visit Sorano is a beautiful little town where you can walk around or just have a coffee, overlooking a wild landscape with a huge Orsini Fortress dominating the town. You can visit its ramparts, take part in a subterranean walk and visit the museum within the castle. The whole south end of Sorano had been totally empty until recently, as the tufa rock had started giving way and the first houses had already fallen into the valley. Recently the rock has been stabilized and no danger exists for the town
12,00 a.m. Arrival at a typical family run farm where the owners will welcome you  and show you their farm with two donkeys, many ducks, pigs, goats, chickens, and two friendly dogs. The delicious home made lunch will be enjoyed outside on their relaxing garden or inside in case or rain or bad weather. Then it is possible for the guests to assist to the making of the local pecorino cheese.
2.30 p.m.  Choose to visit either Pitigliano or Sovana
The beautiful town of Pitigliano situated on a steep tufa rock, 313 metres above sea level. The area of Pitigliano has the typical Tuscan landscape with small farmhouses on soft hills is rarely and small creeks that have cut steep valleys into the landscape and there is a lot of woodland. Southern Tuscany was once one of the most important centres of the Etruscans. There are numerous cave tombs cut deep into the tufa that are today used as cellars and sheds.  Unfortunately there is little show of the Roman but under the town houses are cellars in use which have lots of little niches, in which 2000 years ago the urns of the dead used to stand. In mediaeval times, from the 9th century on, the Langobard family Aldobrandesci ruled the region of Pitigliano. After 1312 the Orsini family took over and from 1604 the Medici's. For many centuries there was a large and important Jewish community, that influenced the cultural life of the town together with the local population. Jewish Ghetto, with its Synagogue is still present in the historical centre of the town.
The charming hamlet of Sovana was once the most important lace in the area, till the seat of the bishop moved to Pitigliano. Later it was virtually inhabited for a long period. Today it's one of the most beautiful and peaceful of places to visit, with the Piazza del Pretorio being an architectural example and at the very end of the village is the Cathedral in Roman style. Go on to the birthplace of Hildebrand who in 1077, as pope Gregorio, VII let the German emperor, Henry IV come to Canossa and wait standing barefooted in the snow. Sovana is especially famous for its Roman-Etruscans necropolis, of which quite a lot can still be visited. The most impressive is the Tomba Ildebranda, one of the biggest Etruscan tomb constructions to date. 

Tour ends at 4.30 p.m. Cost for 6 persons 80 euros each.
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