Rome, Assisi & Beautiful Tuscany (includes 3 cooking classes): 8 Days / 7 Nights
This week of cooking, laughter and sightseeing has been crafted for those that want to get a sense of real Italian culture, while also taking in some of Italy's most popular destinations. In one of our classes this week we will learn to make a six-course dinner featuring homemade Gnocchi. We'll also learn to makefresh ricotta cheese and true Italian Country Wood-Fired Pizza. Our excursions this week take us thorugh beautiful ancient Rome & The Vatican, Todi, Deruta, St Francis' home town of Assisi, Wine Tasting in Montefalco, Etruscan Tombs of Tarquinia, Pitigliano, Montefiascone, the Faggeta Forest the stunning Villa Lante, and more.
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Wine & Cooking Under the Tuscan & Umbrian Sun (includes 3 cooking classes): 8 Days / 7 Nights
This Cooking, Culinary and Wine vacation is for those that want to really indulge in Italian wine and food. In our classes, we will learn some fantastic country Italian cooking, including oen class consisting of a six-course meal featuring homemade Gnocchi. Other classes will feature Limoncello, Biscotti, and true Italian Country Wood-Fired Pizza. Our excursions focus on Tuscany and Umbria wine and cheese country, where we will be wine tasting nearly every day and tour wineries in such places as Montalcino, Montepulciano and Montefalco. We'll visit Orvieto, which is famous for its Orvieto Classico white wine, Cortona, Assisi, Spoleto, and more. We'll visit a cheese factory, an olive mill, and even the amazing ceramics of Deruta.
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Tuscany, Bella Umbria & The Roads Less Traveled (includes 4 cooking classes): 8 Days / 7 Nights
This week is for those of you that want to spend a little more time cooking, and a little less time sightseeing. We'll have four classes this week: A five-course meal featuring lasagna made from scratch, and four course meal featuring fettuccine made from scratch, plus classes where we lear true Italian Country Wood-Fired Pizza, homemade Limoncello, and homemade Biscotti. Our excursions take us to the Chianti region of Tuscany for wine tasting and vineyard tours, a visit to an olive mill, a visit to a cheese factory, beautiful waterfalls and hilltowns of Umbria, Viterbo and the ancient Papal Palace, the dying city of Civita di Bagnoregio, beautiful Orvieto, the majestic Faggeta Forest and the stunning Villa Lante.
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The Ancient Etruscans & Italy's Breathtaking Nature (including 4 cooking classes): 8 Days / 7 Nights
On this tour when we are not cooking, we focus on nature and light hikes that take us to some of Italy's hidden Etruscan and Roman ruins, and some of its most breahtaking nature. We'll have four classes this week: A five-course meal featuring lasagna made from scratch, and four course meal featuring fettuccine made from scratch, plus classes where we lear true Italian Country Wood-Fired Pizza, homemade Limoncello, and homemade Biscotti. We'll have lot's of opportunity to walk it all off as we hike thorugh the ancient Etruscan necroplis' of Corviano, Norchia, Tarquinia and Vulci. We'll visit majestic forests once explored by Plini the Elder. We'll bathe in hot springs that were used by the ancient Romans, described in Dante's Inferno, and even painted by Michelangelo. We'll explore ancient Roman settlements, and if the conditions are just right, we'll even go on a hunt for Porcini mushrooms. This is the tour for those of you that want to leave the crowds behind and really discover the most incredible hidden treasures of Italy for an experience you will never forget.
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New! Cooking! Cooking! Cooking! (including 6 cooking classes): 8 Days / 7 Nights
This is the one for those of you that don't really want to see the sights. Instead you want to spend as much time cooking as possible. Every day during this week, with the exception of your arrival and departure days, we will be cooking. On days that we do lunch classes, we will offer a local sightseeing getaway in the afternoon and evening for those that feel like it. On days that we do a dinner class, we offer a morning local sightseeing getaway for those that feel like it.

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New! Major Sites of Lazio, Tuscany & Umbria (includes 2 cooking classes): 8 Days / 7 Nights
This is a week made for the first-timers that want to see the major sites of Italy, but want to do it in a way that they also get a great feel for the wonders of Italian culture along the way. In this week we visit Rome twice, spend a day in Florence, Assisi, and a day seeing some of the local treasures that are off the beaten path. This itinerary is a perfect blend of the major sites and the undiscovered Italy.

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New! The Catholic Pilgrimage: 8 Days / 7 Nights
This is a truly special itinerary that we treat differently than our other tours. While our other itineraries accomodate no more than 8 people, this one is made only for groups that are travelling together, and can accomodate groups as small as six, and as large as fifty people. This itinerary is a great way to get your church or Catholic group together for a magical trip. We will visit the holy sites of Rome, arrange an audience with the Pope, visit Assisi, and much more.

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Christmas in Italy: 12 Days / 11 Nights - Minimum Group of 6 people
This is a week made for the first-timers that want to see the major sites of Italy, but want to do it in a way that they also get a great feel for the wonders of Italian culture along the way. In this week we visit Rome twice, spend a day in Florence, Assisi, and a day seeing some of the local treasures that are off the beaten path. This itinerary is a perfect blend of the major sites and the undiscovered Italy.

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Rome, Florence, Assisi & Beautiful Tuscany : 8 Days / 7 Nights
This week of laughter and sightseeing has been crafted for those that want to get a sense of real Italian culture, while also taking in some of Italy's most popular destinations. Our excursions this week take us thorugh beautiful ancient Rome & The Vatican, Florence and its beautiful museums, Todi, Deruta, St Francis' home town of Assisi, Wine Tasting in Montefalco, Etruscan Tombs of Tarquinia, The Tivoli Gardens, the Faggeta Forest the stunning Villa Lante, and more.

Wine & Culinary Tour Under the Tuscan & Umbrian Sun : 8 Days / 7 Nights
This Culinary and Wine vacation is for those that want to really indulge in Italian wine and food. Our excursions focus on Tuscany and Umbria wine and cheese country, where we will be wine tasting nearly every day and tour wineries in such places as Montalcino, Montepulciano and Montefalco. We'll visit Orvieto, which is famous for its Orvieto Classico white wine, Cortona (setting for the movies 'Under the Tuscan Sun' and 'Life is Beautiful'), Assisi (The home of St. Francis), Spoleto, and more. We'll visit a cheese factory, an olive mill, and even the amazing ceramics of Deruta.

Tuscany, Bella Umbria & The Roads Less Traveled : 8 Days / 7 Nights
Our excursions take us to the Chianti region of Tuscany for wine tasting and vineyard tours, a visit to an olive mill, and a visit to a cheese factory. We'll tour the beautiful medieval city of Perugia and visit waterfalls and hilltowns of Umbria. You will experience the ancient Vatican in Viterbo and its Papal Palace, the dying city of Civita di Bagnoregio, beautiful Orvieto, the majestic Faggeta Forest and the stunning Villa Lante.

The Ancient Etruscans & Italy's Breathtaking Nature : 8 Days / 7 Nights
This nature and archeology tour with light hikes takes us to some of Italy's hidden Etruscan and Roman ruins, and some of its most breahtaking nature. We'll have lot's of opportunity to walk it all off as we hike thorugh the ancient Etruscan necroplis' of Corviano, Norchia, Tarquinia and Vulci. We'll visit majestic forests once explored by Plini the Elder. We'll bathe in hot springs that were used by the ancient Romans, described in Dante's Inferno, and even painted by Michelangelo. We'll explore ancient Roman settlements, and if the conditions are just right, we'll even go on a hunt for Porcini mushrooms. We'll visit the mystical gardens of The Park of Monsters in Bomarzo. This is the tour for those of you that want to leave the crowds behind and really discover the most incredible hidden treasures of Italy for an experience you will never forget.

Wine Harvest
Between mid September and early October we offer groups that participate in any of the tours listed above (or custom-designed tours) the opportunity to replace one or more day's itinerary with a day dedicated to the wine harvest. We will spend this day at a local vineyard, where you will grab a basket and join us for an hour or so in the vineyard to harvest the grapes. Once your basket is full, we'll proceed to the wine press where we will begin the process of making our own wine as we snack on local cheese and salame, and drink some mosto (the juice from the wine grapes) and wine from past harvests. We'll have dinner at the vineyard that night, and before you go home, you will bring back a couple bottles of the very wine you made this week.

Olive Harvest
Between late October and early December we offer groups that participate in any of the tours listed above (or custom-designed tours) the opportunity to replace one or more day's itinerary with a day dedicated to the olive harvest. We will spend this day at a olive mill, where you will grab a basket and join us for an hour or so in the orchard to harvest the olives. Once your basket is full, we'll proceed to the mill where we will begin the process of making our own olive oil as we snack on local cheese, salame, Bruschetta, and wine. Before you go home, you will bring back a couple bottles of the very olive oil you made this week.

Chestnut Harvest
Between late September and late October we offer groups that participate in any of the tours listed above (or custom-designed tours) the opportunity to replace one or more day's itinerary with a day dedicated to the chestnut harvest. We will rake a hike in the local chestnut forest with baskets gathering chestnuts as they fall from the trees. That evening, we will have dinner down at our Villa Eddarella, where we will roast our chestnuts over our 17th century fireplace, followed by dinner completely based on centuries-old chestnut recipies. For those participating in a cooking tour, this will be a special class for you! For those not interested in class, enjoy this wonderful meal.

Porcini Mushroom Hunting
Porcini mushrooms are so rare and valuable, in part, because they grow in very few areas, and only when the conditions are just right. Even when it is all perfect, finding them is very challenging, and requires an expert licensed Porcini Hunter. Soriano happens to be one of the few places that Porcini are found, and the months of September through December are when you have your best chance of finding them. If you are on any of our tours during that period, and the conditions look right for Porcini Hunting, we offer you the opportunity to replace a day's itinerary with a Porcini Hunt. We'll get up at the crack of dawn, and venture into the forest with the expert guide, who will show us the signs to look for as he teaches us about this mystical forest and the Porcini themselves. Each person will have a bag of their own to collect the mushrooms that morning. In the evening, we will take our treasure down to our Villa Eddarella, where we will create a dinner completely based on Porcini mushrooms. For those on a cooking tour, this will be a special class, and we will show you how to adapt the dishes top other mushrooms (or dried Porcini) back home. For those not interested in class, enjoy this rare and unique meal.

4th of July Special Week.
All of our tours are available for this week, but the itinerary will be rearranged for the afternoon and evening of the 4th of July, during which you will join our family and friends for a celebration with traditional Italian and American BBQ at our Villa Eddarella in the afternoon, and late into the night.

Jazz Festival - Special Weeks.
Between July 19, 2008 and August 3, 2008, Soriano will host for the second consecutive year, the Tuscia in Jazz Festival. The festival attracts many of the most prominent names in Jazz and Big Band, including Bobby Durham, Shawnn Monteiro, Buster Williams, Benny Golson and Jimmy Cobb, just to name a few. Soriano erects a massive stage in its main Piazza, hosting free concerts every night during this period. The town swells with musicians and visitors during this exciting event. During the festival, we will rearrange our itineraries for all of our tours, scaling our mornings down and scaling our evenings up so that we can enjoy all of the fantastic entertainment. Since we will be up very late each night, we let you sleep in each morning. Late mornings we will do excursions (or classes), then dinner, followed by a night of Jazz in the Piazza. After midnight, we attend the jam sessions in Soriano's cavernous Rotezzia pub.

Festival of Santa Rosa - Special Week.
The provincial capital of Viterbo hosts a huge festival in honor of its matron saint during the first few days of September each year. One of the main attractions is the 'Macchina di Santa Rosa' . We will rearrange our itinerary of any tour this week to accomodate this fantastic experience.

Chestnut Festival - Special Weeks.
During the first two weekends of October, Soriano nel Cimino hosts its annual Chestnut Festival. This festival features medieval parades, sword fight demonstrations, flag throwers, a Palio, and all the roasted chestnuts you can eat. We will rearrange the itinerary of any tour this week to accomodate this festival, so that you can experience its many exciting events. Additionally, we can mix in a day of Wine Harvest during the first week of October.

Christmas / New Years Tour : 12 days, 11 nights
Limited to just 8 people, you will experience the magic of a Country Italian Christmas and New year with our family on this incredibly intimate tour. In Italy, Christmas isn't commercial as it is in the States. You won't find red and green lights everywhere with lawns covered by plastic reindeer and giant snow globes. Instead, you will experience a holiday season that centered around family, religion, and yes... we are talking about Italy... Food. We'll bask in Italy's most endearing holiday traditions as we visit stunning full-scale recreations of ancient Bethlehem, tour Assisi, the home town of St. Francis, experience the dazzling lights of Christmas in Rome, marvel at the official Nativity Scene at the Vatican, tour the incredible museums of Florence and so much more. We will eat and eat and eat. You will become a part of our family as we invite you into our home for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day feasts. We will ring in the new year in Soriano's stunning 12th century castle as we watch thousands of fireworks at the stroke of midnight. This is the experience of a lifetime you are certain to never forget.
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Events, Reunions & Corporate Tours
Whether you are looking to plan a wedding in a medieval castle, putting together a family reunion, or trying to arrange a corporate retreat on a secluded Tuscan lake, contact us and let us know. For more information, click here

Youth Band and Orchestra Tours
We offer planning and logistics for youth bands and orchestras that are looking to plan a trip to Italy. We arrange tours, lodging, transportation, meals, and the bookings for the opportunity to perform in the beautiful piazzas of Italian towns, and at local festivals. Due to the complicated logistics involved in organizing these tours, please contact us as far in advance as possible with your needs.