Easter 2012 Package in Italy: 4 days cooking classes and tours

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 20, 2010 -- The package includes:
4 breakfasts,
2 cooking lessons of approximately 4 hours;
2 lunches from cooking classes;
1 lunch in a restaurant in Assisi
4 nights accommodations in the apartments of the farm,
2 half day excursions (with car and car driver).

Day by day itinerary

Thursday 5th April
Arrival at the country farm "La volpe e l'uva" (Central Italy, Umbria, near Tuscany) . Check-in your apartment at 4:00pm. Dinner reservations can be made at a restaurant of your choice

Friday 6th April

Hands-on cooking lesson starts around 10:00 am.
You will prepare a four course lunch with recipes typical of the Easter eve. For lunch you will eat your creations accompanied by our wines. Easter is a very special time here in Umbria and the Processione del Cristo Morto on Good Friday night is a stupendous event in Gubbio. On Good Friday,weoffer you a special tour in Gubbio which concludes with the hauntingly beautiful Processione del Cristo Morto at night through the medieval backstreets. Professional guide in the tour.

Saturday 7th April

In the morning you will visit Perugia with a professional guide. Perugia is only 4km far from the farm, very easy to reach by taxi.
Hands-on cooking class starts around 4,30 pm. You will prepare a four course dinner with typical Easter recipes, that you will eat at the end of the class, accompanied by our wines.

Sunday 8th April 2012- EASTER

You will spent your Easter day in 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 tour during the morning. You will have the Easter lunch in a restaurant of the city centre. Free afternoon in the city.

Monday 9th April
Departure.

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