Italy - Cooking Vacations, Gourmet Adventures, Guided Wine Tours and Italian Cooking Classes

Our program of visits and excursions provide all the participants and their partners the chance to discover the cultural aspects of the city and to taste the typical products of the surrounding territory. With our Cooking Classes and Culinary Tours, you will experience a totally different and unforgettable holiday.

Tuscan Gathering: Extraordinary Cooking and Wine Culinary Vacations in Tuscany at IL Rifugio ~ Vacation in a Renaissance Painting and Learn to Cook like an Italian.

Discover this amazing and underestimated region in Italy called Abruzzo. It has so much to offer: food, wine, olive oil, hospitality, traditions, history, artisan products, arts and crafts and so on. We squeeze as much as we can into your culinary vacation, without sacrificing comfort and entertainment.

Cooking classes, guided tours and hiking in Abruzzo are the adventures we offer for discovering the genuine tastes and extraordinary beauty of this region. We prepare meals together, sharing the Italian cooking style in a full-immersion style experience. For those who love the mountains, we arrange overnight hiking excursions.

Cooking At The Villa is a full immersion tour into the culture and atmosphere of Verona. Cooking classes at a nearby facility with a professional chef, wine tastings, a visit to an olive mill, and a tour of Parma are just a few of the experiences that await you.

During this 11-day vacation, discover Italia at its delicious best! Begin in Rome with guided sightseeing, a Roman dinner party, and a hands-on Italian cooking lesson. Next, travel through the beautiful Apennines to Tuscany, with a stop in Pienza to sample its famed pecorino cheese, and in the…

A Gastronomic Tour with Angelo Prosperi-Porta - award-winning chef and co-owner of Cooper’s Cove Guesthouse on the Sooke waterfront on Vancouver Island, BC. Angelo terms his teaching style ‘interactive’ and will lead participants through a week long cooking course that will also include cultural and wine excursions in Italy.

Our culinary workshops reveal the simple elegance of Tuscan cooking. Enjoy an intimate setting of a 17th-century Tuscan farmhouse ten minutes from the Etruscan hilltop town of Cortona. We offer a One-Day Class, a Three-Day Culinary Experience...and our Week-Long Culinary Vacation. Please see our website for details.

Our Tuscany and Ligurian coast programs are based in the town of Pescia in the Province of Pistoia, 20 minutes from Lucca in the east, and 45 minutes from Florence in the west. Pescia is an ancient Roman town comprised of true locals famous for their oil and wine.

Our cooking vacations at the Tenuta Castel Venezze will allow you to immerse yourself in the culture and lifestyle of Veneto and learn to cook authentic Italian dishes in an informal and friendly environment. Classes are small enough to accommodate cooks of all levels, and are ideal for small groups.