“Let your private chef guide you through Tuscany”
7 Day Cooking Vacation with Your Personal Chef to Discover Food, Art and Culture in Italy
Verghereto, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Cooking Vacation in Italy
With your own personal chef as your guide, visit and cook in the splendid mountainous region of the Apennines, on the border with Tuscany, Emilia Romagna, and Marche. Here, away from the typical tourist routes, you will discover a fascinating, cozy, and very romantic area, unveiling its treasures at every corner: the Sanctuary of La Verna, founded by St. Francis of Assisi, Borgo San Sepolcro, home of the painter Piero Della Francesca, Sant'Agata Feltria, Pennabilli, Monte Fumaiolo are just some of the dozens of welcoming towns and villages where art mixes with food, natural beauty, and tradition creating an intimate charm for those who visit.
Meet the instructors
Stefano
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Highlights
- Local wine tastings
- Private cooking classes
- Visits to local food producers
- Your choice of walking tours of Bologna or Florence
- Snacks, lunches, and dinners with your personal chef
- Transfer from Bologna or Florence
- 6 nights accommodations
- Local transportation
Styles
7 days with instruction
Group size: 2-6 participants
Airport transfer included:
Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
13:00
This private culinary vacation includes 6-night accommodation in the 19th-century chef's mountain retreat located on Mount Fumaiolo. The house has three floors and is fully furnished with authentic ancient furniture. There's also a big garden bordered with the Tiber River.
Program
Day 1
You will be picked up either in Bologna or Florence with a brief market visit before heading out to the Apennine mountains. There you will check into the 19th-century mountain stone house and cook your dinner together with the chef.
Day 2 to day 6
Enjoy breakfast in the house. Then the chef will pick you up and take you on your day's journey. Will it be a cooking class? How about a picnic in the woods? Or perhaps you might like to visit the ancient villages in Tuscany and Montefeltro. You’ll decide what you want to do and where you want to go. In the afternoon you will return for your cooking class and dinner with the chef at his retreat.
Day 7
After breakfast, you will check out, and if time allows you'll head to Ravenna where you will visit the Basilica of San Vitale and its Byzantine mosaics. You will then have lunch in an ancient osteria in the Ravenna city center and go back to Bologna. Or if Florence is your departure point, you'll head into the city for a brief walking tour before parting ways.
Included excursions
Tours
Visit the splendid mountainous region of the Apennines
- Dining in Stefano's favorite restaurants and picnicking in the woods
- Shopping at the Middle Market in Bologna or Florence
- Visiting local farmers, wine cellars and markets
- cook in a Balsamic Vinegar winery
- picnic near a waterfall
Other included excursions
On the border with Tuscany and Marche, away from the typical tourist routes, you will discover a fascinating, cozy and very romantic area, unveiling its treasures at every corner.
- Visit the Sanctuary of La Verna (Tuscany)
- Visit Borgo San Sepolcro (Tuscany)
- Visit Monterchi (Tuscany)
- Sant'Agata Feltria, Pennabilli, Monte Fumaiolo are just some of the dozens of welcoming towns and villages where art mixes with food, natural beauty and tradition, creating an intimate charm for those who visit.
Instructors
Stefano Corvucci
A passion for food runs through the veins of CIBO’s owner and chef, Stefano Corvucci and it is his infectious commitment to putting the food first – its texture, taste, aroma and seasonality – and not just the end result, that pervades his state-of-the-art cookery school. Stefano’s journey towards founding Bologna’s best-equipped cookery school facility, CIBO, in 2012, has been an unusual one. Stefano studied Law at the University of Bologna, but that was never his destiny. After graduation he started his chef career opening his first restaurant, then 3 more till his cooking school was born.
Location
This culinary vacation will take you from Bologna or Florence to the splendid mountainous region of the Apennines, on the border between milia Romagna, Tuscany, and Marche. Stay in the chef's mountain retreat on Mt. Fumaiolo where the Tiber River is born.
Explore quaint little mountain top villages in Montefeltro, Tuscany, and Umbria and meet with local food and wine producers. See the amazing art of notable Renaissance artists like Piero Della Francesca, Cimabue, and Giotto (Assisi).
Return in the afternoon and learn how to make authentic Italian food in a 19th-century kitchen. Make handmade pasta, roasts, sauces, and more. Enjoy dinner paired with local wines.
Food
Every morning you'll decide the menu for the day and purchase fresh seasonal ingredients at the local stores.
You'll make handmade pasta from scratch with the authentic long rolling pin, together with the local sauces such as Bolognese, sausages, and seasonal vegetables.
You'll discover and learn the authentic recipes from the 19th century Pellegrino Artusi cookbook.
The following meals are included:
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
- Alcoholic beverages
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
What's included
- 6 nights accommodation in an ancient house on Mount Fumaiolo
- Private chef and guide
- Local wine tastings
- Daily cooking classes
- Visits to local food producers, art, and cultural sites with the chef
- Snacks and complete lunches and dinners every day
- Transfer from Bologna or Florence
- All private transportation during the trip
What's not included
- Airfares
How to get there
Recommended Airports
BLQ
Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
100 km
Transfer included
Airport: Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
Airport transfer included: Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
No additional charges. You can request this in the next step.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 30% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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