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Italy Cooking School Tour Prices Per Person     # of people in group  3-8 2       Euros:  €1180  1420       CDN (Approx):  $1535  $1560       US (Approx):  $1845  $1875       Single Supplement     Euros: €220         CDN (Approx): $286         US (Approx): $290

2013 Italy Cooking School Tour Dates Oct 3-6 Oct 10-13 Oct 17-20 Oct 24-27 November dates by request.

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Farm Cooking & Wine Long Weekend Tour in Tuscany with Truffles

Visit three farms and learn Italian cooking with excellent home cooks and an innovative restaurant chef and experience every day life. Explore classic Tuscan towns like San Gimignano famous for Vernaccia wine and Volterra well known for its fine Etruscan museum.

Read about the “Italians you will meet” on this Italy cooking school tour.

Italy Cooking School Tour Itinerary Includes:

• 3 nights accommodation with private bathroom
• daily breakfast
• 2 hands-on cooking classes
• all meals
• daily guided excursions
• visit to the truffle festival and market
• truffle hunting with a professional truffle digger and her dog
• special lunch with white truffle specialties
• round trip transfer to San Miniato and from Castelfiorentino train station
• taxes and service

Not Included:

• wine with meals
• transfer from Florence or Pisa airport to the inn at 20 Euros per person

3 Night Italy Cooking School Tour Itinerary

Thursday

Private transfer from Castelfiorentino train station on the railway line from Empoli and Siena.

Arrive from 5 pm onward with private transfer to a three star county inn in a stylishly restored 200 year old farm house that sits on a panoramic ridge with sweeping views.

Welcome dinner at home.

Friday

With your guide, explore Volterra, a fascinating 3000 year old hill town, famous for its Etruscan art and museum, alabaster as well as its Roman and Medieval history and art. Lunch in a typical restaurant in town.

Afternoon visit to an excellent winery for a tour and guided wine tasting of their best wines.

In the late afternoon, return to your farmhouse inn for a hands-on cooking school class with Chef Swan on historical and traditional Tuscan cuisine. Dine on your delicious creations like guinea fowl with figs or roast pork loin seasoned with sage, accented with a good bottle of Tuscan red wine.

Saturday

Morning hands-on cooking class by excellent home-cook Emanuela, based on traditional recipes and saffron specialties in her ancient home on the edge of San Gimignano. Lunch of your creations around her dining table.

Explore San Gimignano, famous for its medieval towers and white Vernaccia wine and lovely countryside. The beautifully preserved medieval centre has a variety of piazzas, churches with frescoes by Ghirlandaio (Michelangelo’s teacher) and Gozzoli, palaces and cafes where you sit back with a glass of Vernaccia and watch local life go by.

Dinner at your country inn. Another treat in store!

Sunday

Experience a morning truffle hunt with one of the few women truffle hunters in Tuscany and one of the best in Tuscany with her specially bred Lagotto Romagnolo dog, digging in the woods for these precious treasures. Enjoy a delicious lunch with white truffle dishes in a local restaurant.

Departure about 3:00 p.m. on.

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