Best bits
- Learning traditional recipes and eating delicious Tuscan cuisine
- Cycling through Tuscan countryside and stone-walled hill towns
- Visiting Renaissance Pienza and medieval Montepulciano.
Description
Experience life the local way and you’ll experience a Tuscany that most tourists miss. This trip offers plenty of opportunity to get your hands dirty in the kitchen as you’ll learn to shop for, prepare and enjoy this picturesque region’s culinary and viticultural delights. Peruse the local markets and delis in search of the finest organic fare, sample wines in the very vineyards that spawned them, and work off all that deliciousness with active walks and bike rides across some of the world’s most beautiful scenery. Just start forwarding your mail here now.
What’s included
- Cooking class of local organic produce, winetasting with local meats and cheeses, cycling trip in Tuscan countryside including visit to Pienza, local hiking trails, visit to Montalcino and abbey of Sant'Antimo, 5 home-cooked dinners at our Agriturismo.
- 6 Breakfasts, 5 Dinners (Allow EUR120-170 for meals not included.)
- Small locally-owned farm house/agriturismo (6 nts)
- Local bus/train, walking, cycling
- Tour leader throughout
- Small group experience; Max 12, Avg 8
Tour Fact File
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Age
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Minimum 12 |
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Arrival
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Rome (FCO)
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G/EIST