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The wild and the mysticism. A journey where history and legend are lost in the myst of time!

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Precious medieval villages with an extraordinary past, excursion along the “Tratturo” (the old route of transhumance) and lunch with the shepherd, ancient monasteries and abbeys of Majella National Park, cheeses and typical products tasting of the famous italia “slow food presidia” and the world artistic masterpieces of Rome, Arezzo, Cortona and Siena.

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Services included:

- 4 overnights in historical house in L’Aquila area with B&B treatment
- 3 overnights in hotel or country house in Castiglione del Lago area with B&B treatment
- Transfers by coach
- 1 medieval dinner
- Visit of Stiffe Caves
- 1 tasting of typical products like the chees “Pecorino Canestrato”, one of the food belonging to the famous italian “Slow Food Presidia”
- 1 show cooking in historical location
- Guided tour among Maiella retreat churches FD
- 1 lunch in country house
- Guided tour of the village FD
- 1 lunch with the sheperheds
- Guided visit of Rome
- 1 typical lunch in Rome
- Guided visit of Perugia
- 1 cooking class at the house of chocolate
- Guided visit of Castiglione del Lago
- Guided visit of Arezzo and Cortona
- 1 cooking Class in Castiglione del Lago
- 1 food gift

Services not included:

- City tax (if expected)
- Extra, tips, entrance tickets for churches, museum etc… and anything else is not listed under “services included”

Typology of vacation:

Art and culture, Food and wine, Nature and landscapes, Religious tourism

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Programme

Day 1:

Arrival at the airport of Rome
Transfer to L’Aquila area
Accommodation in historical house or hotel
Medieval dinner
Back to the historical house
Overnight

Day 2: Stiffe caves, Castel del Monte

Breakfast
Departure for Stiffe Caves
Visit of the caves
Transfer to Castel del Monte
Free lunch
Visit of a farm house and tasting of typical products like the chees “Pecorino Canestrato”, one of the food belonging to the famous italian “Slow Food Presidia”
Transfer to a historical house and show coking
Back to the historical house
Overnight
Alternatively to visit of a farm house and tasting of typical products like the par-ticular cheese “Pecorino Canestrato”, one of the food belonging to the famous italian “Slow Food Presidia” :
Visit of a wine cellar and tasting of typical local wines

Day 3: Majella's church

Breakfast in hotel
Daily excursion among the ancient churches of Majella (St. Bartolomeo and St. Spirito, St. Liberatore and St. Onofrio)
Lunch in a farm house
Back to the historical house
Free dinner
Overnight

Day 4: Castel del Monte, Navelli, Calascio, Santo Stefano di sessanio

Breakfast
Departure for Castel Del Monte
Visit of the village
Departure for Navelli
Typical lunch with the sheperheds
Departure for St. Stefano di Sessanio
Visit of the village
Departure for Rocca Calascio
Back to the historical house
Free dinner
Overnight
Alternatively 1: full day of mini – transhumance with the sheperheds and lunch
Alternatively 2: visit of the “Tratturo” route, in Navelli Plain and visit of the trans-humance churches and lunch with shepherds

Day 5: Rome

Breakfast
Departure for Rome
Visit of the city (Colosseum, Via dei Fori Imperiali, Piazza Venezia, Via del Corso, Piazza del Popolo)
Lunch in a typical restaurant
Further of visit of the city (Piazza Navona, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, Ponte Vittorio, St. Peter, Vatican city)
Departure for Castiglione del Lago
Accommodation in hotel/farm house
Free dinner
Back to the hotel/farm house
Overnight

day 6: Perugia

Breakfast
Departure for Perugia
Visit of the city (piazza IV Novembre, Fontana Maggiore, Duomo, Pozzo Etrusco, Corso Vannucci, Palazzo dei Priori, Collegio del Cambio)
Free lunch
Cooking Class at Chocolate School
Back to Castiglione del Lago
Typical dinner
Back to the hotel/farm house
Overnight

Day 7: Arezzo, Cortona

Breakfast
Departure for Arezzo
Visit of the city (Basilica di San Francesco, piazza Grande, Duomo, San Domenico, Pieve)
Departure for Cortona
Visit of the city
Free lunch
Back to Castiglione del Lago
Visit of the village
Coking class in a typical farm house with local products and dinner
Back to hotel/farm house
Overnight

Day 8: End of services

Breakfast
Departure for the airport of Rome
End of services

Destinations

Rome

Perugia

Arezzo

Cortona

Castel del Monte

Capestrano

Navelli

Santo Stefano di Sessanio

Castiglione del Lago

Accommodation

Relais in Castiglione del Lago

Loc. Sanfatucchio, Castiglione del Lago (PG)

Holiday House in Castiglione del Lago

Badia S.Cristoforo (PG)

Country House in Castiglione del Lago area

Petrignano del lago (PG)

Historical Villa in L'Aquila area

Paganica (AQ)

Historical house in Castiglione del Lago

Castiglione del Lago (PG)

Experiences

Activities Included

Medieval dinner in historical house

The magical atmosphere of the ancient villages, a starry sky, beatiful and charming porches…during this unforgettable dinner, you’ll have the sensation to live in the medieval time. In a exclusive location you can taste the flavors of the past, a flavourful and rich feast of barons, counts, kings...

Visit of the magical caves of Stiffe

Stiffe Caves in Abruzzo are caves with a rare beauty and still rather unknown place to visit and see. But for sure you will be satisfied and go and visit them. The presence of the watercourse which in some periods of the year brought considerabl e reach is surely the most important feature of the...

Cheeses and typical products tasting in Castel del Monte

Pastoralism in one of the oldest arts of Abruzzo, closely connected to the land and to the traditions preserved from the past. This art influenced the production of food, in particular of the famous cheeses of this area. During the tasting you’ll discover some of typical products, among which the “...

Show cooking in a historical house

Our local experts will show you how to transform the excellences of the territory in delicious dishes! What are you waiting for?

Excursion among the ancient monastry of Majella National Park and lunch

In the silence of the rocks and the woods of the Maiella parks, in the past lived nameless hermits, whose was searching for the desert , a symbol of the natural life. Here they lived in solitude , deprivation and prayer . Here they left their ancient houses . Timeless places made of bare stone and...

Tasting lunch in restaurant in Castiglione del Lago

The typical dishes of local cuisine are very simple and closely related to the two aspects of the environment, the countryside and the lake. Castiglione del Lago has a strong tradition of fishing and there are many dishes prepared with the tasty fish of the Trasimeno, and with us you’ll discover...

Visit of Rome

Whether you are in Rome for 3 days, 3 weeks or 3 months, be prepared to step into the world's biggest open air museum. You can decide to follow the typical tourist paths or you can be luck or brave enough to go off the usual tracks. One way or the other, Rome will seduce you and it will hardly...

Visit of Perugia

Perugia is situated on a hill in the Tiber valley. It is a famous city rich in art history, monuments, cultural heritage, and is an essential economic center. The first known settlements date back to the 10th and 11th centuries a.c. The rapid development of this ancient city was favored due to its...

Cooking class at chocolate school

A unique place where all the greedy and fans can enjoy an unforgettable experience. A real school, open to all, to discover the secrets of chocolate, learn the tech-niques and, driven by the passion and creativity of our Masters of the School of chocolate, realize your hands with small works of art...

Visit of Castiglione del Lago

Closed inside its ancient walls which encompass, towards the lake, an impres-sive medieval fortresss, in 1500 Castiglione del Lago passed from being a military outpost and fishing village to the status of Renaissance State. This was due to the construction of a palace, later becoming the residence...

Visit of Arezzo

Arezzo, Etruscan city, birthplace of people like Guido Monaco, Giorgio Vasari, Francesco Petrarca or Leonardo Bruni, home to an important Antiques Fair and the Joust of the Saracen, today is largely linked to the work of Piero della Francesca. Our tour of Arezzo is divided into a historical-...

Guided tour of Cortona

Welcome to Cortona, a small town by Etruscan origin located in the south eastern Tuscany, exactly in the Chiana Valley, not too far from the borders of Umbria and Lake Trasimeno. Cortona ancient city of Etruscan origin, still preserves its ancient walls. It has over time hosting several...

Cooking class of typical umbrian dishes

Here's your chance to learn the fundamentals of the wonderful and authentic art of Italian cooking, all the ingredients that you will use every morning coming from an organic garden and local markets and then you will be working with fresh fruit and vegetables in season. The cooking class will be...

Optional Activities

Visit of Navelli

The village of Navelli unexpectedly appears lying on the hill, with its thousand windows looking down, watching quietly over the valley. Situated by an ancient sheep track that w as covered every autumn by flocks of sheep. Navelli was a village of shepherds and farmers that became rich through...

Visit of Castel del Monte

Hanging between the peaks of Gran Sasso and Tirino Valley, a miracle of stone takes its form right before our eyes: it is Castel del Monte, represented by a big bell tower. Here, the time of memory is sweeter then elsewhere and it materializes itself immediately after entering the village in...

Visit of Santo Stefano di Sessanio

The village of Santo Stefano di Sessanio is perhaps the most fascinating of all of man’s achievements in the entire Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e dei Monti della Laga. It is built entirely out of white limestone, which has become dulled with time. All the houses are covered with clay tiles,...

Visit of Calascio

Rocca Calascio is the highest fortress in the Apennines. Built of stone and masonry exclusively for military purposes and intended only to accommodate troops and never as residence for nobles, the fortress overlooks the Plain of Navelli at one of the highest points in the ancient Barony of...

Visit of Capestrano

It was built in 1284, when Carlo I donated the lands of Capestrano to Riccardo Acquaviva of St. Valentino. But the Piccolomini family was very important for this area. Nowadays in the castle still there the emble of the noble family. In the village was born St. John from Capestrano, defender of...

Hiking experience with donkey in the Capestrano valley

What’s better than an exciting excursion nestled in the nature, in the ancient path that in the far past were crossed by the donkeys? It’ s a unique experience that through the slow clip of donkey you will discover the wild breathtaking beauty of this valley!

Excursion in the Gran Sasso National Park

It retains suggestive historical and architectural treasures, testimoniances of the culture of the past. Rock carvings, Roman roads and bridges, churches and medieval castles, royal hunting lodges and paths and military buildings show a cultural heritage of ancient origin, but continually enriched...

Excursion along the "tratturo" old route of transhumance and visit of the church of route

Transhumance is the seasonal movement of people with their livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures. Inmontane regions (vertical transhumance), it implies movement between higher pastures in summer and lower valleys in winter. In the Navelli area we can find two examples of typical...

Guided tour of Corciano

The village, with its network of alleys and narrow staircases, with the color of Its stones, with legible signs of Its History, is a manufactured product of a harmoni-ous earth burns with life and faith. Of Particular Importance are the Municipal Palace, originally the residence of the dukes of...

Guided tour of Pienza

Pienza is a unique city with stunning architecture, great shopping and iconic attractions. Thanks to its Renaissance heritage, it has been attracting visitors with its obvious charm for well over 500 years. Whether your group is staying here for a few hours or a few days, we have put together a...

Visit of Siena

This tour is particularly recommended for those who wish to visit Siena for the first time and to those who want to rediscover the origins and the most significant places of a city that was one of the most important economic and cultural centers in the Italian Middle Ages. The historical center, a...

Golf experience in Trasimeno Lake

Last work of the creator of the famous Miura, Ferruccio Lamborghini, the Golf Club extends over 45 hectares of land, surrounded by beautiful forests and vineyards that are followed between Panicale and Lake Trasimeno. Born with the intention of spreading the practice of golf and recently revisited...

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