Food Lovers' Adventure Tour
in the Green Heart of Italy: The Hill Towns of Umbria

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Tour at a Glance: Brief Description

Gastronomic Delights, Lovely Medieval Hill Towns

With your guide my colleague Marcello and Umbria B&B owners, Maria and Guelfo, you'll feel Italian for a week, like your local Italian friends are taking you to their favourite places and people---many where other tourists never go!

East of Tuscany lies Umbria, the green heart of Italy, its lush, peaceful, mountains, hills and valleys full of gastronomic delights: top quality olive oil, great red wines like Sangrantino, truffles, mushrooms, Norcia salamis, farro, lentils, grilled meat, game birds, chocolate, and honey.

You'll be enthralled by Umbria's hilltowns with medieval walls and palazzos, ancient stone streets and vast panoramas of mountains, forests, olive groves, grain fields, vineyards and rolling hills. You'll explore pink Assisi with its outstanding St. Francis cathedral and Giotto's frescoes and the famous Sagrantino wine town of Montefalco with Gozzoli's Renaissance era frescoes.

Norcia's lovely piazza

In Bevagna you'll admire the pretty Romanesque piazza, and a jewel like 19th century theatre, and
see a public basin where women still wash clothes by hand.

Trevi, the olive oil capital of Umbria, is dramatically perched up high with 200,000 olive trees covering the surrounding hills.

Norcia is famous all over Italy for its salami, ham and sausage shops steps away from its exquisite medieval piazza.

So many breathtaking Italian sights! So much wonderful food to eat!

Your Country House & Home in Umbria

Your home for the week is a very nice, well maintained, modern country house B & B, an "agriturismo", set in hills of olive groves overlooking Bevagna with spectacular views of the valley towards Assisi.

Owners Guelfo and Maria will soon feel like family! They're so hospitable and friendly--they'd do almost anything for you. Every morning in their homey, country style dining room with fireplace, they welcome you for a breakfast buffet that includes their jams and baking. They also produced wonderful olives and olive oil.

The 10 pleasant double rooms, each with private bathroom, have quality wood furniture and comfortable beds, and many have splendid valley views.

In the warm weather, you can sip a cool drink or glass of wine on the balconies and admire the views, or relax out in the garden. Accommodation pictures

Cook Lessons With Great Italian Restaurant Chefs & Home Cook

You'll cook hands-on with three Italian restaurant chefs and a home cook, and create wonderful dishes focusing on fresh local products. You'll savour plates like bruschette with Norcia salami or lentil sauce, a flan with farro grain and lentils, pasta with Norcia sausage, truffles and cream, roast lamb with arugola, trout with truffle cream and veal with Sagrantino wine and radicchio.

Cooking lesson with Chef Eros in Spoleto

Meet Local Gastronomic and Other Characters

You'll meet lots of local Italian gastronomic characters like:

• a truffle hunting and farming family in the mountains
• restaurant chefs, a salami producer, an olive oil producer and friendly folks at a great winery
• an art history professor who takes you on a walk and seems to have keys to every building

Lots of new friends offering you unique tasting experiences! People you would never meet otherwise in Italy!

Marcello Tori and Raffaella Raspadori, expert Italian food and wine tour operators in Emilia-Romagna,
regular visitors to Umbria and leaders of our Food Lovers' Adventure Tour developed this exceptional Umbria tour adventure with local friends. One ecstatic tour member from our Bologna Food Lovers' tour said she'd be thrilled to go on any tour Marcello and Raffaella organize.

You'll experience all the best Umbria, its cuisine and people can offer you and feel you're travelling with old friends.

Cooking Tour Itinerary 4 nights
Cooking Tour Itinerary 6 nights

2008 Cooking Tour Dates:

4 Night Tour Dates	6 Night Tour Dates
Oct 5-9 Dates by request	Oct 5-11 Dates by request

2008 Cooking Tour Prices:

Prices are in Euros and are subject to currency exchange fluctuation.

4 night program
1725 Euros (approx $2535 US; $2553 CAD) per person double occupancy, for 2-10 people.
Single supplement: please ask

Includes:

• 4 nights accommodation with private bath
• 2 Italian cooking lessons
• all meals
• all excursions in itinerary
• local wine with meals
• very attentive guide/tour director
• private transport throughout
• transfers to/from Foligno, Italy.

6 night program
2475 Euros (approx $3635 US; $3665 CAD) per person double occupancy, land only.
Single supplement: 100 Euros

Includes:

• 6 nights accommodation with private bath
• 3 Italian cooking lessons
• all meals
• all excursions in itinerary
• local wine with meals
• very attentive guide/tour director
• private transport throughout
• transfers to/from Foligno, Italy

Cooking Tour Itinerary 4 nights
Cooking Tour Itinerary 6 nights

Why Travel in Italy With Us?
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To Reserve: Contact Margaret Cowan at margaret@italycookingschools.com or call 1-800-557-0370
or 604-681-4074or fax 604-681-4909 (Pacific time).

One stop shopping for your whole Italy vacation

Our travel agent colleagues at Aquarius Travel Inc. are experts on Italy, and can assist you with any arrangements you require to make your Italy vacation a memorable experience.

Ask her about villa, apartment or B & B accommodation throughout Italy--3000 in Tuscany alone! She can also arrange your car rentals, sightseeing tours, Italian language classes, and airfare. It's one stop shopping with an Italy expert, so it's easy for you!

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