“Experience real life in Tuscany!”
6 Days Vegetarian & Vegan Cooking Holidays in Italy
Villa Le 3 Rose, Localita Libbia 22G, Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy
Vegetarian Cooking Holidays
Immerse yourself in a Tuscan cooking experience. Enjoy the unique and rare opportunity to live and experience the real life in Tuscany while you learn to cook vegetarian and vegan dishes with your chef. Italian food is simple but tasty and the recipes you will prepare are ones you can bring home and recreate in your own kitchen, with ingredients that can be found mostly everywhere. Use the ingredients of the season simply and cooked just right to bring out every flavor. Roll up your sleeves and learn hands-on as you revive traditional Tuscan recipes giving them a contemporary twist.
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Fabrizio
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Highlights
- 3 cooking classes
- Customizable organic menu
- Classes suitable for all levels of expertise
- Excursion of the most picturesque locations in Arezzo
- Wine tour and excursion of the historical village
- Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- 5 nights accommodation
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Styles
5 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: Italian
Group size: Maximum of 8 participants
Accommodation
Facilities
- Spa
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Barbeque facilities
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Luggage room / storage
- Meditation garden
- Multilingual staff
- Restaurant
- Special menu request
- Terrace
- Bicycle rental
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Ironing / ironing board
- Laundry
- Wireless internet
- Outdoor shower
Villa Le 3 Rose Farmhouse
A quiet and cozy atmosphere on a typical green Tuscany, Chianti area, nestled in the rolling hills surrounding the ancient city of Arezzo. The holiday villa, Le 3 Rose Farmhouse, offers four comfortable private apartments, with full furniture. A lovely peaceful location with panoramic views over the city of Arezzo, where "on your leisure" you can relax at the scenic swimming pool with an excellent glass of Chianti wine they produce, or enjoy excursions in beautiful surroundings of the villa, with its rolling hills worked meticulously with olive trees and vineyards, produce an excellent Chianti wine.
Program
At MangiarDivino, they believe there is a cook inside everyone. Chef in Tuscany MangiarDivino cooking lessons and classes are the perfect way to immerse yourself in the passion of Italian and Tuscan cooking, having fun discovering the regional culture in the kitchen. Chef Fabrizio believes that to learn and immerse yourself in Italian and typically Tuscan cuisine is to put your hand on, with the support of charming professional chef who will follow you step by step explaining the richness and quality of local products that Tuscany produces.
Day 1 - Arrival, cooking class
- Meeting at the Arezzo train station or at the villa
- Enjoy typical welcome garden aperitif buffet with Prosecco wine tasting
- Introduction given by the chef Fabrizio and host of the villa owner, to know each-other and talk about the program of your cooking vacation
- Tonight, a delicious organic dinner prepared for you by the chef, served in the villa restaurant
Day 2 - Cooking class, free afternoon
- Following breakfast, first cookery lesson with the chef, enjoying the results for lunch
- Free afternoon
- Tonight, back to the villa for a traditional dinner prepared for you by the chef, Fabrizio
Day 3 - Cultural tour
- Following breakfast, cultural tour in the most picturesque locations in Arezzo area
- Lunch included at typical local restaurant (one drink included)
- Return to the villa for real crispy pizza / calzone menu prepared by the chef
Day 4 - Free morning, cooking class
- After breakfast, you will have free time to relax by the pool or take a stroll in the magnificent surroundings of the villa
- Light lunch served for you in the villa
- In the afternoon, you will prepare a delicious dinner all together in your second cookery lesson
Day 5 - Cooking class, wine tasting
- After breakfast, enjoy your final cooking lesson and lunch together
- In the afternoon, wine tasting and enjoy a day sightseeing to Etruscan village (Cortona)
- Dinner at typical local restaurant with one drink included
Day 6 - Departure
- Breakfast
- Spend some time to relax
- You will be taken back to the Arezzo central train station
Instructors
Fabrizio Merli
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Chef Fabrizio grew up in a family with strong Italian culinary traditions, foundations of the traditional Tuscan cuisine, and the Mediterranean diet. After a long experience in the UK as a chef, then he moved to various countries and worked with important chefs, who have taught him new techniques and exotic touches. While favoring the traditional cuisine, using methods of the past and highest quality ingredients, Fabrizio can delight with aromas giving them a contemporary twist.
Location
The holiday will take place in Arezzo Tuscany, Italy. A quiet and cozy atmosphere on a typical green Tuscany countryside, only 8 kilometers away from city center of Arezzo, rich city in history and local food products, quintessence of culinary traditions.
Food
Maximum guarantee on the organic products that will be used during your vacation, most of MangiarDivino's production. You will learn to prepare all the essential of an Italian meal with the passion for reviving Tuscany historic recipes while giving them a contemporary twist appetizers, bread, pizza, soups, homemade pasta accompanied by sauces, meats, vegetables, and finish with delicious desserts. You will be using vegetables in season from MangiarDivino's own farm or from local markets. All the others ingredients used will be purchased in the morning before the course, from trusted suppliers, to guarantee top quality and freshness.
During your stay, you will have the chance to taste wines Chianti IGT, Vin Santo dessert wine, and extra virgin olive oil from MangiarDivino's production farm, totally organic, with the quality of the past. All of MangiarDivino's products can be purchased with suitable packaging for transportation. Also available, are confitures and organic products such as truffles, porcini mushroom sauce, and other culinary delights from a local producer, strictly sealed for oversea transport.
Their cooking lessons are relaxed, fun, and hands-on. They take place in the fully-equipped restaurant kitchen of the villa, with everyone working in a group with the chef. As MangiarDivino takes small groups, up to 8 participants, everyone can really get involved. Chef Fabrizio with his skills and experience, will bring you all the passion for cooking and Tuscan tradition while creating recipes using fresh, seasonal ingredients. Italian food is simple but tasty, with ingredients that can be found mostly everywhere. Your chef, Fabrizio, will go into some depth regarding the history and science nutrition of each dishes, so even expert guests will come away having learned quite a lot.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Organic
- Other dietary requirements on request
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
Things to do (optional)
- Biking tour
- Cheese tour
- City escape tours
- Golf course
- Horse riding
- Medieval hamlets tour
- Medieval tournaments tour
- Relaxing in garden or swimming
- Trekking and hiking tour
- Vespa tour
What's included
- 2 half-day excursions
- 3 cookery lessons
- 5 nights accommodation private apartment
- All meals
- All taxes
- Drinks
- Transfer to from train station
- Welcome Prosecco wine tasting with Tuscan appetizer
What's not included
- Additional tours
- Airfare
- Personal expenses
- Train fare
- Transfer to from airport (extra price available on request)
How to get there
Driving directions to Le 3 Rose Farmhouse
- Take A1 motorway until the exit to Arezzo
- Follow the signs to Casentino (Bibbiena) until the new roundabout, Ceciliano
- Go on to Antria
- At the first intersection, take the direction towards Tregozzano
- You will see the signs for Le 3 Rose Agriturismo after 1 kilometer
Arrival by airplane
The closest airports to the location are Florence Airport, Peretola (FLR) and San Franceso d'Assisi Airport (PEG). MangiarDivino can pick you up from the train station. The pick-up is not included in the price.
Arrival by train
Arrive at Arezzo railway station. MangiarDivino will pick you up from the train station. The pick-up is included in the price.
GPS
N 4330'36.6 - E 1154'08.7
Distances
- Arezzo, 8 kilometers
- Cortona, 30 kilometers
- Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ), 150 kilometers - 2 hours
- Florence Airport, Peretola (FLR), 80 kilometers - 1 hour
- Leonardo da Vinci - Fiumicino Airport (FCO), 250 kilometers - 2 hours 30 minutes
- Pisa International Airport (PSA), 150 kilometers - 2 hours
- Railway station, 10 kilometers
- Rome, 200 kilometers
- San Franceso d'Assisi Airport (PEG), 80 kilometers - 1 hour 30 minutes
- Siena, 60 kilometers
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 on arrival.
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2025
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