5 Days: Accommodation, cooking classes and Tours from 30 May to 3 June 2024 – Spello Infiorata
Once a year in conjunction with the religious feast of Corpus Domini, the festival of L’Infiorata is celebrated in Spello, a medieval hill town in central Umbria with origins that pre-date the Romans. The feast is marked by laying extravagant floral carpets (Infiorata) over the streets. Floral artists create larger-than-life depictions of religious themes or re-creations of sacred art using only the petals and seeds, working all night on the eve of the Infiorata, when the Host is carried through the streets in a procession.
Details of the Corpus Domini Tour
Trip Length: 5 Days (4 nights)
Departure Dates: From 30 May to 3 June 2024
Destinations: Italy, Umbria (Perugia, Assisi, Spello and Montefalco)
Activities: Culinary, Cultural exploration
Day by Day Itinerary of the Tour
- Day 1– Arrive in Perugia
Arrival at the country farm “La volpe e l’uva” (Perugia, Central Italy, Umbria, near Tuscany). Check-in your apartment at 4:00pm.
- Day 2 – Cooking + Deruta ceramic and Wine Tour
Morning: Hands-on cooking class starts around 10:00 am. You will prepare a four course lunch that you will eat at the end of the class, accompanied by our wines.
Afternoon: You will visit a ceramic laboratory in Deruta where the majolicas are completely handmade. Their high quality products keeps the tradition alive and evokes the classic decorations of the various periods of Deruta. The production cycle is completely carried-out within the company and rigorously worked by hand in all its phases. Than you will have a wine tour in a Winemakers Company near Perugia. It is a vineyard under family management, which with special care from their very own vines, produces D.O.C. Colli Perugini and IGT dell’Umbria white, red and rosè wines.
- Day 3– Cooking + Assisi Tour
Morning: Hands-on cooking class starts around 10.00 am. You will prepare a four course lunch that you will eat at the end of the class, accompanied by our wines.
Afternoon: The excursion takes place from 15.00. 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).
- Day 4– Cooking + Cooking + Spello: L’infiorata!
Morning: You will visit Spello and its most important annual festivity, the Infiorata, with the streets outside the main church strewn with intricate decorations and images made using only fresh flower petals.
The entire organization culminates in on the morning when a procession led by the bishop walks over the floral carpet at around 10.30am.
Afternoon: Hands-on cooking lesson starts around 16,30pm. You will prepare a four course dinner that you will accompanied by our wines.
More about the COOKING CLASSES
Read what MEALS are included in the Cooking Program
More about your ACCOMMODATION in the farm
PRICES
The prices are for single travelers (single occupancy) and for groups from 2 to 8 people ( double occupancy). If your group is composed by more than 8 people send me your request and we will send you the best price!
It is also possible to bring along a non-participating partner who can spend the morning enjoying the surroundings, and could then join the group at lunchtime. Non-participating guests are welcome on the excursion and can use all the facilities at the farmhouse and join all the meals, just not the actual cooking classes.
Solo travelers
Participating guest, single occupancy 1400 euro
Group from 2 to 3 people Participating guest, double occupancy in 1 apartment ( 2 people) and in 2 apartments (3 people) 1200 euro
Group of 4 people Participating guest, double occupancy in 2 apartments 1100 euro
Group from 5 to 6 people Participating guest, double occupancy in 3 apartments 1000 euro
Group from 7 to 8 people Participating guest, double occupancy in 3 apartments 950 euro
Please write me to ask the rate for Non-participating guest
If you are a group of people and you want to have single occupancy ( 1 person in 1 apartments) the single supplement is 150 euro.
Inclusions:
- Accommodation in the apartment of the farmhouse
- 3 breakfasts (in your apartment you will find coffee, milk, biscuits, jams, butter and sugar)
- 3 cooking classes of approximately 4 hours,
- 3 Four course meal from the cooking lesson;
- Umbrian wines during meals, liquors for after dinner/lunch;
- Certificate of participation;
- Folder with all the recipes;
- Apron of Let’s cook in Umbria.
- 3 Tours as indicated in the itinerary.
Extra:
- the lunch on Sunday, after the visit of Infiorata in Spello.
