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CHRISTMAS COOKING HOLIDAYS: 4 days Cooking Classes and Christmas Tours in Italy - from 18th to 22th December 2013

We offer a great Christmas idea !
We give you the opportunity to have a taste of the Christmas atmosphere in Italy joining in the Christmas special cooking holiday: 4 days from 18th December to 22th December 2013.
In Umbria, better than anywhere else in Italy, the food traditions in the Christmas time have been deeply respected and kept for centuries. During the celebration of Christmas Umbria becomes magic! Illuminated building and houses are sparkling. In each house, the family prepares home decorations, makes cookies and biscuits. Music and songs take part of the holly fest.

During our four Christmas cooking package, each morning, you will participate in a cooking class for learning the secrets of the italian christmas cuisine. There are a lot of traditional recipes that our teacher will share with you.
Cappelletti are probably the most traditional Christmas dish that we can eat in Umbria. In the video you can see the preparation of Cappelletti during our cooking class in 2011.

It only seems fitting that Umbria, where the first live nativity scene was organized by Saint Francis almost eight centuries ago, continues to have great affection for this Christmas tradition. All across the region, medieval villages come to life in the days surrounding Christmas as spectators watch the events surrounding Christ's birth played out by costumed actors in torchlit alleys and squares. We have chosen for your afternoon tours the nativity rapresentations in Corciano and in Assisi.
The third tour is to see the largest Christmas tree in the world in Gubbio. Gubbio's Albero di Natale is a dazzling neon feat that has been lighting up the hills of Umbria since 1981. In order to get the tree ready for its annual December 7 lighting, local volunteers work for three months stringing lights and electrical equipment up the slope of Mount Ingino, the mountain above Gubbio.

The Christmas Cooking Vacation Package includes:

  • 4 breakfasts,*
  • 3 cooking lessons of approximately 4 hours;**
  • 3 lunches,
  • 4 nights accommodations in the apartments of the farm,
  • 3 half day excursions (with minibus and driver), Professional guides in the tours of Corciano, Assisi and Gubbio.

    * 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

If you are a solo travellers check the period to do join to a Christmas vacation!

Christmas in Umbria Christmas cappelletti recipe Christmas in Perugia Christmas tree in Gubbio

DESCRIPTION OF THE CHRISTMAS COOKING HOLIDAYS: Day by Day Itinerary

Wednesday 18th December - ARRIVE

  • 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 choice

Thursday 19th December - COOKING CLASS AND TOUR IN CORCIANO

  • Hands-on cooking lesson starts around 10:00 am. You will prepare a four course lunch. For lunch you will eat your creations accompanied by our wines.
  • In the afternoon you will visit the cities of Corciano accompanied by a professional guide. Corciano is a classic central Italian medieval town. It sits on a hill, is surrounded by a city wall (two in fact) and is full of priceless works of art and architecture. 'Presepe a Corciano' takes place over the Christmas period. The streets of the whole town feature scenes from the Nativity with life size models of shepherds, children, animals etc. The event also coincides with the "Mercato dei sapori di qualità" where visitors can taste typical Umbrian food and wine products.

Friday 20th December - COOKING CLASS AND TOUR IN ASSISI

  • Hands-on cooking lesson starts around 10:00 am. You will prepare a four course lunch. For lunch you will eat your creations accompanied by our wines.
  • 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). Professional guide in the tour.

Saturday 21th December -COOKING CLASS AND TOUR IN GUBBIO - the biggest Christmas tree in the world!

  • Hands-on cooking lesson starts around 10:00 am. You will prepare a four course lunch. For lunch you will eat your creations accompanied by our wines.
  • You will visit Gubbio with a professional guide. Lying 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. Professional guide in the tour.

Sunday 22th December - DEPARTURE

  • Departure.

Rates 2013 : Christmas Cooking holidays from 18th to 22th December 2013

Type of accommodapeople cooking vacationstion /price in euro per person

2 people in 1 apartment apartment Umbria: 950.00
3 p. people cooking vacationsin 1 apartment Umbria: 800.00

Group 3-6 people travelling together/price per person euro

3 p. people in 2 apartment: 850.00
4 p. people in 2 apartment: 730.00
5 p. people in 3 apartment: 630.00
6 p. people in 3 apartment: 600.00

SPECIAL NEW YEAR 2013 / 2014 - COOKING HOLIDAYS AND TOURS

Join us to celebrate the NEW YEAR from 27th December 2013 to 1st January 2014 - The package includes: 5 night accommodations in the apartments of the farm, 3 cooking lessons; 3 lunches; 3 half day excursions ( Assisi and Gubbio and Orvieto)

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