Southern Italy tours
Activities in Calitri, region of Campania
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 Antique Italian Pompeii Sculpture Course
Duration: 4 hours Price: Euro 65 per person
Description: Experience a unique opportunity to spend a day in the workshop of Vito Zabatto, a renown local sculptor, who will teach you the antique art of Italian Pompei-style sculpting, where vases and statues are fashioned out of strips of clay.
 Calitrian Ceramics Course
Duration: 4 hours Price: Euro 65 per person
Description: Spend a day in the workshop of a local ceramics artisan and discover the delights of traditional Irpinian ceramics.
 Southern Italy Wine Tasting
Duration: 3 - 4 hours. Depending on how interactive the group is. Price: 105 EUR per person
Description:Learn the mechanics of serving wine (glasses, bottles, corks, corkscrews and various paraphernalia). Subjects covered: how to taste the wine, principles of food and wine matching. Buying wine for your cellar (Wine Selection Techniques). Campania, Basilicata and Puglia Wines that may be sampled: Carpe Diem Aglianico del VUlture doc, Spumante Ellenico Aglianico del Vulture igt, Spumante Moscato igt, Synthesi Aglianico del Vulture doc, Bianco di Corte Fiano igt, Clivus Moscato Spumante igt, Barigliott igt, Antico Spumante igt.
 Exclusive Day In Benevento
Duration: All day
Description: Drive to Dugenta in an exclusive vintage car with private chauffeur (120 km/1.30 hours) to the Torre Gaia Wine Resort. Visit to the wine production estate and overview of the traditional wood wine barrel producing process. Wine tasting. Lunch at the Donna Giulia Ristorante (included Gourmet Meals are pre-organized). Includes vintage car, driver, trasnlator, lunch exclusive, wine tasting, visit to the vinyards and wine cellars.
Prices: With "le Bellissime" car: 325 EUR per person, minimum two people.
With "le Esclusive" car: 403 EUR per person, minimum two people.
With MP Laefer self-drive car: 325 EUR per person, minimum two people.See Vintage Cars
 A Night in Benevento
Day 1: Description: Drive to Dugenta in an exclusive vintage car with private chauffeur (120 km/1.30 hours) to the Torre Gaia Wine Resort for overnight stay. Visit to the wine production estate and overview of the traditional wood wine barrel producing process. Wine tasting. Lunch at the Donna Giulia Ristorante (included Gourmet Meals are pre-organized). Includes vintage car, driver, translator, lunch exclusive of wines and alcoholic beverages, wine tasting, visit to the vinyards and wine cellars.
Day 2: Wake-up in Torre Gaia Wine resort. Breakfast, relaxing morning at the estate, swim at the pool, check out at 12.00. Drive back to Calitri in vintage car with driver and translator.
Prices: With "le Bellissime" car: 520 EUR per person, minimum two people.
With "le Esclusive" car: 630.50 EUR per person, minimum two people.
With MP Laefer self-drive car: EUR 520 per person, minimum two peopleSee Vintage Cars
Note: Prices excludes wines and alcoholic beverages consumed during lunch, and excludes dinner. There are other excellent restaurants to choose from around the area.
Mount Vulture Vineyard Tour Duration: Half a day
Description: Visit to the vineyard with briefing on various type of wines grapes, climates and soil. Back in the cellar to learn the history of the wine and how the wine was made including learning about the wine making process.
Wineries/Vineyards: The Alovini Winery use the aglianico grapes from some of the best-tended vineyards anywhere in Italy. The volcanic soils around the stunning but extinct volcano "Mount Vulture" also contribute to the unique wine. Cabanico Basilicata igt, Al Volo Aglianico del Vulture doc. Feudi di San Gregorio Estate - Vigne di Mezzo - which has a cluster of vineyards near the villages of Barile, Rionero in Vulture and Rampolla, all sharing a south-east exposure on the Mount Vulture in the region of Basilicata. The grapes are Aglianico del Vulture. Efesto Aglianico del Vulture doc.
Price: 84.50 EUR per person
 Cooking Class Calitrian cuisine, Southern Italy
Duration: 4 hours - maximum 8 people
Description: Our cooking class is designed to offer food lovers a unique gastronomic experience exploring Calitrian and southern Italian cuisine, sampling local ingredients and learning the recipe secrets, with emphasis in Calitrian food preparation and wine paring. Whether you are a kitchen novice or an experienced cook, you will find our cooking classes to be fun and very useful in your every day life. A translator will participate in the course to translate the cooking explanations to ensure that the traditional recipe hasn't been modified by changes in culture and language. Recipes will vary depending on seasonal and fresh produce availability. Find out more information about Cooking classes
Price: Eat what you just created accompanied by the appropriate wine! 85 EUR per person *THIS COURSE CAN BE TAKEN AS CONSECUTIVE DAYS
 A Day at an Italian Farm
Duration: from 9:00am to 6:00pm Price: 28.60 EUR per person
Description: We offer guests the chance to spend an anforgetable day in the Italian countryside. A beautifully renovated old farmhouse located aproximately 8 km from Calitri - in a hilly part of central southern Italy in the ancient area of Alta Irpinia, is a farm of 180 hectares with a rich history. Here you will find natural beauty unlike anywhere else in southern Italy. Enjoy ample space to relax by the pool (including changing rooms, toilets, deckchair). Light lunch includes local cheese, ham, fresh salad, bread, mineral water and glass of local Fiano di Tufiello red wine per person. Additional beverages/food to be paid separately. About the farm: In the past the farm was devoted to sheep farming and cereal cultivation.Today their efforts are dedicated to organic farming and making their own products. In 2003/2004 it was added a cellar to produce wine from their own grapes, a mill to make flour from wheat, a laboratory to make organic pasta, a laboratory to bottle organic tomatoes and organic honey.
 Calitri Area Guided Tour
Duration: Half a day. Price: 65 EUR per person. Minimun two people
Description: Numerous areas of tourist interest can be reached from our accommodations given Calitri's central location. Explore the many areas of interest from a historical, archeological, ethnographic, religious and naturalistic point of view guided by a bilingual member of staff who is knowledable of the history of Calitri and surrounding areas. Sites to explore
 Taurasi Town Tour
Duration: Departure 9.30 a.m. from Calitri, return: 10 p.m. Price: 160 EUR per person. Minimun three people
Visit the historic town of Taurasi, the medieval castle, the ancient wine cellar, and the Baron's aristocratic palazzo where the Regional Wine Foundation is located. Lunch at the Antica Irpina Wine Estate with local specialities and wine tasting. Excursion to the Caggiano vinyards and olive tree plantation. Visit (time permitting) to the natural mineral water fountain of Fontana Lardo e Giardino and walk along the Calore river.
 Wine Tasting, Antique fountains and Antique Masserie Tour
Duration: three and a half hours. Morning or Afternoon. Price: 130 EUR per person, divided by the number of people in the minivan (maximum 8) Visit to the Fontana della Noce (the Fountain of the Walnut). Visit to the " La Guardia" wine estate with wine tasting of local wine. Visit by foot along a panoramic footpath to the Fontana dei Monaci (The Fountain of the Monks). Honey tasting at the local honey producer Azienda Agricole Cestone. Visit to the Fontana di Sant'Arcangelo (The Fountain of the Archangel), followed by Fontana Berrilli (The fountain of the Berrilli family) and the Fontana dei Provolacchi (The Fountain of the Cheesemakers) followed by a coffee break. Return to Calitri. Please wear comfortable shoes and clothing. The tour isn't available in the winter months.
 Lago delle Canne and the Provolacchi Fountain Tour
Duration: three and a half hours. Morning or Afternoon. Price: 130 EUR per person, divided by the number of people in the minivan (maximum 8)
Visit to the Lago delle Canne (the Canne Lake), followed by Fontana dei Provolacchi (The Fountain of the Cheesemakers). Coffee break. Please wear comfortable shoes and clothing. The tour isn't available in the winter months.
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