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5 Day Intense Italian Cuisine Culinary Holiday in Tuscany, Province of Arezzo, Italy
Località Montoncello, 2/b, 52100 Arezzo AR, Italy
Tuscany Cooking Holidays
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Experience the delights of the traditional Tuscan lifestyle, while attending fun-filled cooking classes and enjoying relaxing excursions. You will learn to prepare all the essential components of an Italian meal, passion for reviving Tuscany historic recipes and giving them a contemporary twist, using local products of our production. You can dive (hands-on) in the regional culinary traditions and discover places where history and nature has taken its course, through guided tours and excursions!
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Fabrizio
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Highlights
- Wine tour
- Welcome appetizer and drinks
- Cooking classes with executive chef
- Meals with drinks (1 bottle of wine included on each meal)
- Return Arezzo train station transfers
- Excursions to historical site
- 4 nights accommodation
- Daily breakfast
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
4 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: Italian, Spanish
Group size: 2-6 participants
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
13:00
Check-out Time:
10:00
Facilities
- Hot tub / Jacuzzi
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Barbeque facilities
- Environmentally friendly
- Garden
- Meditation garden
- Special menu request
- Terrace
- Bicycle rental
- Free bicycle
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Parking lot
- Tour assistance
- Wireless internet
- Outdoor shower
Moonlight Homestay
Moonlight Homestay is located on a hill on the outskirts of the Lignano national park, surrounded by prestigious Chianti and olive grove production wineries with typical Tuscan Apennine landscape, just 2,5 km from the centre of the historic city of Arezzo, easily reachable by taxi, bus or bicycle.
It has 1 private apartment with 3 separate double bedrooms with en suite bathroom for maximum privacy. It is also equipped with eat-in kitchen with exit to a panoramic terrace, outdoor garden with tables, deckchairs and gazebo. Fully aircon room with smart TV.
The facilities at guests' disposal include a fenced park of 6 hectares, heated Jacuzzi pool, and relaxation area with loungers, sofa and solar outdoor shower. The villa has a refreshment point with a large professional kitchen, where all courses and catering services will be held.
Program
Become a MasterChef with the help of an executive chef!
Day 1: Arrival, cooking lesson
- Meet at the Arezzo train station at your scheduled time for free transfers.
- Upon arrival at the villa, enjoy a welcome aperitif snack buffet with Prosecco wine tasting, prepared for you.
- An introduction from chef Fabrizio and host Marina; a chance to get to know each other and talk about the itinerary.
- Enjoy your first cooking lesson with executive chef Fabrizio who will introduce the basic techniques of Italian cuisine and enjoy what you have prepared.
- Meal plan: lunch, dinner.
Day 2: Cooking lesson, free time
- Following breakfast, take your second cookery lesson where you can engage yourself in the art of Tuscan and Italian cuisine.
- Enjoy the results for lunch.
- Free afternoon to relax by the pool with a good glass of wine by the pool or walk in the magnificent scenery around the villa, through vineyards, olive groves and woodland.
- Return to the villa for dinner masterfully prepared by the chef.
- Meal plan: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Day 3: Excursion, cooking class
- Following breakfast, take a cultural tour in the historical city, Arezzo.
- Enjoy lunch at a local trattoria with drinks included.
- In the late afternoon you will prepare dinner in your third cooking lesson.
- Dinner will be served in the villa restaurant court.
- Meal plan: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Day 4: Cooking class, wine tour
- After breakfast, you'll enjoy your final cooking lesson and lunch together.
- In the afternoon you'll have a wine tour in a prestigious winery, famous for its Chianti superior and chardonnay white wine.
- Return to the villa for dinner with a delicious crispy pizza and calzone menu prepared for you by the chef.
- Meal plan: breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Day 5: A warm arrivederci
- After breakfast and some time to relax you'll be taken back to the Arezzo central train station for your departure.
- Meal plan: breakfast.
The program may change slightly based on seasonality and availability of the cellars. This can be customized and extended according to your requirement and experience. This is not suitable for wheelchairs.
Included excursions
- City escape guided tour
- Private visits to vineyards and wine tastings tour
Instructors
Fabrizio Merli
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Chef Fabrizio grew up in a family with strong Italian culinary traditions, foundations of the traditional Tuscan cuisine, and the Mediterranean diet. After a long experience in the UK as a chef, then he moved to various countries and worked with important chefs, who have taught him new techniques and exotic touches. While favoring the traditional cuisine, using methods of the past and highest quality ingredients, Fabrizio can delight with aromas giving them a contemporary twist.
Location
Your cooking holiday will take place on the outskirts of the historic city of Arezzo city; origins are lost in the very ancient past. As the settlement grew, it eventually became an important Etruscan city and was later part of Rome. Already in the 4th century, Arezzo had become a Bishopric. It was occupied by the Lombards at the end of the 6th century and was strongly conditioned by their influence.
In the Middle Ages, Arezzo was a free and powerful commune, often ruled by its bishops who were counts of the Holy Roman Empire. The city was frequently at war, with Siena certainly, but above all with Florence and, in 1384, it was finally subjugated to Florentine rule. From then onwards, with the exception of two widespread rebellions in 1502 and 1529-30, Arezzo's history runs parallel to the history of Florence and, later on, to the fortunes of Tuscany.
Today, the ancient center of the city retains all the fascination of its illustrious past. The principal buildings and monuments possess a wealth of Medieval and Renaissance art created by artists such as Cimabue, Michelangelo, Piero della Francesa, Andrea della Robbia, and Giorgio Vasari, etc. Arezzo was the birthplace of the great poet Petrarch, the inventor of the Italian language; and it became internationally famous as the backdrop to a widely acclaimed movie when some of the most beautiful corners of the city’s monumental center formed the setting for scenes in Roberto Benigni’s film "Life is Beautiful", three-time Oscar winner..
This is Arezzo, the modern, hard-working, artistic city rooted in the past but renewing itself in the architecture of the present and in exhibitions of contemporary art, whose citizens, with their ingenuity and creativity, still find expression in the aromas and tastes of an ancient culinary tradition, in handicrafts of renowned quality, in a genuine sense of hospitality to tourists, and in such jewelry-making expertise that Arezzo is known worldwide as the “city of gold”.
Arezzo is a gem set amidst the gentle Tuscan hills, the birthplace of so many illustrious personages that the distinguished poet Josue Carducci exclaimed that the territory of Arezzo alone is sufficient to give glory to Italy!
Distances
- Perugia airport 80 kilometers – 1,5 hours
- Florence Airport, Peretola (FLR), 80 kilometers - 1.5 hour
- Leonardo da Vinci - Fiumicino Airport (FCO), 250 kilometers - 2-3 hours
- Pisa International Airport (PSA), 150 kilometers - 2 hours
- San Francesco d'Assisi Airport (PEG), 80 kilometers - 1 hour 30 minutes
- Siena downtown, 60 kilometers
- Florence downtown , 60 kilometers
- Cortona, 30 kilometers
Food
When possible MangiarDivino will provide seasonal organic vegetable from is own gardens, organic Chianti wine and extra virgin olive oil of own production. The rest of the ingredients you will use during your holiday will be purchased from trusted suppliers to guarantee top quality and freshness. The key point of MangiarDivino's philosophy: good food need top ingredients.
Food options
Your culinary holidays can be customized according to your needs. Please inform us before your arrival: preferences, skill level, and food intolerance.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
- Alcoholic beverages
- Detox juices
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Gluten Free
- Organic
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
- Seafood
- Lactose Free
- Other dietary requirements on request
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
Things to do (optional)
These activities are available upon request, All holiday packages can be customized with other trips and excursions and cookery lesson at an additional cost.
- Chocolate tour
- Historical hamlet tours
- Medieval olive oil mil and olive oil tasting tours
- Special event guided tours (medieval tournaments and others - to be booked 3 months in advance)
- Val d’Orcia (Siena province) tour
Spa treatments
It is possible to organize physiotherapy massages directly in the villa to be booked in advance.
What's included
- Welcome appetizer and drinks
- All meal with drinks (1 bottle of wine for each meal included)
- Daily breakfast
- 1 wine tour
- 1 guided tour with lunch
- 4 cooking class at villa restaurant point
- 4 nights accommodation in private apartments
- Return Arezzo train station transfers
- 4-hour cooking classes with executive chefs
- All tax If if paid directly at the facility
What's not included
- Airfare ticket
- Museum entrance fee
- Personal expenses
- Train fare
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 30% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
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2018
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