NEW YEAR EVE IN ITALY: 4 days Cooking Vacation from 28th December 2012 to 1st January

Have a fun New Year's Eve with our special package including 4 night accommodation, 2 cooking classes, 2 lunches from cooking classes and 3 half-day excursions that will give you a taste of the italian atmpsphere of this magic time of the year!
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Jan. 31, 2013 - PRLog -- DAY BY DAY ITINERARY OF THE TOUR

Friday 28th December - Arrive in Perugia
Arrival at the country farm "La volpe e l'uva (http://www.cookinumbria.it/farm.html)" (Perugia, Central Italy, Umbria, near Tuscany). Check-in your apartment at 4:00pm.

Saturday 29th December - Assisi
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.
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). Professional guide in the excursion.

Sunday 30th December - Gubbio
Hands-on cooking lesson starts around 10.00  am.You will prepare a four course lunch. For lunch you will eat your creations in your apartment accompanied by our wines. The excursion takes place from 15.00.
You will visit Gubbio. 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 excursion.

Monday 31th December - Deruta ceramic and wine Tour
The tour take place from 9.00. You will visit a ceramic laboratory in Deruta where the majolicas are completely handmade. Their high quality producs 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
In the evening I will reserve for you a restaurant in the city centre where you will have the dinner of the new year eve and you will see all the exhibitions for the new year

Tuesday 1st January: Departure.

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