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Culture, Food and Learn Italian in Abruzzo

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  • Interact with local in markets and cooking classes
  • Learn some Italian in a unique and fun way
  • Be joined by a local expert guide throughout
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What you'll do

Overview

Enjoy learning about Italian culture, food and the language itself on this immersive tour in one of the most beautiful regions in Italy.

For anyone eager to live an immersive adventure in the Italian culture and traditions, where you really learn about food, region and people this is the tour for you.

Your host and local guide Fabrizio, together with his family, friends and the local Italian Language School in Lingua will organise amazing experiences that combine passion, beautiful places and locals to show you the best of the region’s off-the-beaten-track secrets. This is a fully escorted tour that will give you the insights to daily life, Italian language, food & wine, culture and production in Abruzzo.

Everyday you’ll have a couple of hours of fun Italian language class all in different locations, not in a school. You will be talking and learning about the experiences and visits that you’ll do that day or the following so that you could be fully able to interact. You will be able to practice with the local community during our guided tours and visits in Italian.

But don’t worry they will speak slowly and our teacher will help you with translation so you don’t need to be able to speak Italian before you come.

2025 Dates:
27 April – 3 May

*From price is based on 2 people sharing a room

 

Arrival

You’ll be picked up from Rome Fiumicino airport pick up at 12:30 pm and transfer to the ancient Roman town of Vasto on the Adriatic Coast after crossing beautiful Abruzzo mountains looking at amazing landscapes, hilltop villages and castles

Check in at the charming and family run property in the historical downtown, get to know your guide and learn more about your 7 day Italian holiday.

This evening you will enjoy a traditional dinner in a local restaurant.

Accommodation: Hotel del 7

Meals: Dinner

Italian Class in a Winery, Wine Tasting and Exploring Vasto

Start off each day of the tour with a traditional breakfast made of freshly baked bread, whole fruit country-style preserves, cake, pastries, coffee, tea cheeses and salami.

After breakfast, you will visit an award winning winery that lies between a marine park and the mountains in Vasto. We will have our first  Italian language class where we will talk about food, olive oil, and Italian wines. After this, you will have learnt how to ask for your favourite vinos in Italian.

Then we tour the vineyard and cellars with winemakers Emanuele and Nicola and enjoy some wine tasting and lunch with pairings from local cheeses and salami

In the afternoon you will explore Vasto historical center Loggia Amblingh, overlooking the  crescent-shaped coastline. As well as the old town with its medieval castle the cathedral and Piazza Rossetti, dedicated to a poet from the town.

In the evening enjoy exploring the town by yourself and finding a restaurant for dinner.

Accommodation: Hotel del 7

Meals: Breakfast and dinner

Visit a Market, Make Homemade Pasta and Visit an Oil Mill

Following breakfast, you visit Vasto’s colourful market to get seasonal products. Here you will have the possibility to practice a little bit of that Italian you learnt yesterday with help from your guide.

Next you will be driven to the beautiful countryside of Vasto where we’ll meet Fabrizio’s family to have an exclusive cooking class with them and learn how easy it is to make fresh pasta and we’ll be introduced to Abruzzo sauces

An example menu based on Fabrizio’s family recipes includes bread with meat sauce, Pasta alla chitarra with meat sauce, polpette (meatballs) and Tarallucci (typical biscuits from Abruzzo).

You’ll enjoy the sumptuous lunch you prepared in a family atmosphere.

After a short break to relax, you will visit an Olive Grove that has been farmed by Giovanni’s family (you can speak in Italian) for three generations to produce DOP olive oils. He will unfurl the secrets of what Homer described as “liquid gold” and we will finish with an olive oil tasting.

This evening enjoy dinner at your leisure in one of the various restaurants of Vasto.

Accommodation: Hotel del 7

Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Italian Language Class in a Seaside Natural Reserve, Trabocchi Coast and Lunch on a Trabucco

After breakfast you will explore the famous Trabocchi coastline, starting with a short and easy walking inside the Punta Aderci Nature Reserve, one of the 12 most beautiful Italian beaches for hikers according to the National Geographic, from where you can also admire snow-capped mountains at certain times of the year.

During the day, depending on the weather, we will take our Italian course (a couple of hours) right here, surrounded by nature, a relaxing atmosphere and the colours of the seaside. We will speak about Trabocchi, the seaside, the fish world, natural parks, and Mediterranean vegetation

You will visit (in Italian) a trabocco (the symbol of the area), mostly built with acacia wood and railway iron sleepers, depending on the weather, Rinaldo – our host- will show us how to fish from Trabocco, the secrets and history hidden behind Abruzzo’s unique fishing platforms that have been featured in the BBC TV show: Escape to the Continent His wife- Maria- will prepare fish from the Adriatic Sea for our exclusive lunch above the ocean.

Enjoy free time this afternoon either going to one of the beaches around, biking, taking part into some extra activities.

This evening enjoy dinner at your leisure in one of the various restaurants of Vasto.

Accommodation: Hotel del 7

Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Italian Class in a Farmhouse, Farm-to-Table Lunch and a Medieval Castle

After breakfast you will make our way to a farmhouse where Pina and Berardino will reveal the secrets of farming letting you immerse in an authentic slow food experience.

You will learn how to make a special bread called “pizza scima – stupid pizza”, a pizza without yeast.

After collecting some organic wine from their winery, you’ll have an aperitif including a taste of their production, cheeses, salami and extra virgin olive oil, next you’ll learn how to prepare ricotta cheese and finally you’ll collect the fresh vegetables from their garden that will be used for our farm-to-table lunch.

Enjoy a delicious traditional farm-to-table lunch.

Almost everything you’ll eat is produced in the farm (wheat to produce the organic flour to make different kinds of breads, cookies and fresh pasta together with eggs from their hens, organic extra virgin olive oil, wines, liquors, juices, jams, cheeses, many varieties of salami, meats and vegetables).

This afternoon immersed in the nature of the amazing scenery, you will then be driven inland to explore the enchanting Abruzzo’s castle in the sky in the charming village of Roccascalegna, ranked by Condé Naste Traveler as one of the 9 Most Beautiful Hilltop Towns in Italy.

After the big lunch at the farm, in the evening you may enjoy a dinner or aperitif on your own in one of the many restaurants and wine bars of Vasto.

Accommodation: Hotel del 7

Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Italian class in an art studio, art experience and Lunch

After breakfast we will drive to the little hilltop village of Lentella at Ettore’s “Fattoria d’Arte” (Art farm). Surrounded by an amazing landscape with a stunning view and you will have your last Italian language class about Italian art, flowers and plants.

Next you can enjoy creating your own postcard made with natural colours produced at the moment mixing leaves and flowers that you can pick at Ettore’s property

This afternoon enjoy an aperitif and a traditional lunch with Ettore and his wife Barbara before we say our goodbyes and head to town for some last minute shopping or some time to relax.

Accommodation: Hotel del 7

Meals: Breakfast and lunch

Departure

After breakfast we will leave at around 9am for Rome Fiumicino Airport which is about 3.5 hours driving from Vasto so we will be in time for the afternoon flight.

Meals: Breakfast

What's included

Included

  • 6 nights accommodation with daily breakfast
  • Transfers to and from Rome Fiumicino airport
  • Transport throughout the trip
  • 4 Italian lessons (2 hours per lesson) in different locations with a certified Italian language teacher + Italian language experiences during the tour activities
  • 6 meals (food, water, locally source wine) in selected restaurants, a farmhouse, a private home, a winery, an art farm and a trabocco fishing hut based on traditional regional dishes.
  • 2 hands-on authentic Abruzzo cooking classes
  • Art experience with a local artist
  • A farmhouse experience
  • All entry fees for excursions, tours and wine, olive oil and cheese tastings
  • Personalized cooking booklet and apron

Accommodation

Hotel dei 7 (or similar)

The property is a family owned hotel with only 19 rooms located within the historic centre and near the beach.

There is a bar on site to relax in the evenings.

Your local host

Fabrizio and friends

Fabrizio is your tour guide and host extraordinaire on his Italian gastronomy holidays. Native to the region of Abruzzo in central Italy, he is immensely proud of its history and heritage. Fabrizio’s passion for keeping everything local also means that guests on his holidays will be joining his family for cooking lessons, meeting local producers and using only locally sourced products.

This is not your typical cooking school or indeed cookery holiday. All cooking activities and gastronomic experiences take place in the local’s homes, on local farms, or in the hills on the lands of local suppliers and families. There is no “professional chef” on this holiday – you are learning from housewives, mothers, fat... Read All

Fabrizio is your tour guide and host extraordinaire on his Italian gastronomy holidays. Native to the region of Abruzzo in central Italy, he is immensely proud of its history and heritage. Fabrizio’s passion for keeping everything local also means that guests on his holidays will be joining his family for cooking lessons, meeting local producers and using only locally sourced products.

This is not your typical cooking school or indeed cookery holiday. All cooking activities and gastronomic experiences take place in the local’s homes, on local farms, or in the hills on the lands of local suppliers and families. There is no “professional chef” on this holiday – you are learning from housewives, mothers, fathers, brothers, farmers and fisherman, as well as wine makers, olive producers. Pretty much everyone in the community and what you’ll learn, see and experience are not taught it in schools but refined and passed down through the generations.

Fabrizio and friends image

Location

Set in the central region of Abruzzo, which boasts the Adriatic sea to the east and a lush mountainous landscape to the west, this unique Italian cooking holiday will prove to be a culinary adventure through your host Fabrizio’s home region. Based in his hometown of Vasto, a charming seafront town, you are perfectly placed to experience the tastes, culture and people of the area, where you will learn to cook in local kitchens or farms during the day, and have the nights to explore the city.

Nearest airports:
Roma Fiumicino Airport (around 3.5 hours away)

Return airport transfers:
Free airport transfers to and from Roma Fiumicino are included in the price.

FAQs

Is this your suitable for vegetarians?

Yes of course! You just need to let us know before you come so we can make the necessary arrangements.

Do I need to know Italian before I come?

No, you could have never spoken a work of Italian before and still love this tour. Your guide will be there to help with translation.

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