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Puglia Food & Wine Small group 6 Days / 5 nights


Exclusive escorted group to discover the essence of this wonderful region


Cooking in Apulia 5 Days / 4 nights


Self Drive


DAY 1: Arrival to Bari Palese airport .Pick up your car rental and go to the hotel. Check in and the rest of your day is at leisure. You will enjoy a nice view of the old town from the rooftop restaurant. Overnight at the hotel. DAY 2: Breakfast at the hotel. Day at leisure. In the morning you might want to take a walk through the winding streets of the old town where you can visit the Romanesque cathedral and the monastery of St. Benedict, and the castle, home to the masterpieces of Paolo Finoglio, 6th-century court painter. Overnight at the hotel. DAY 3: Breakfast at the hotel. Half Day Cooking Class at the Masseria San Pietro in Conversano. Have an unforgettable experience with a cooking lesson at an original Apulian Masseria, a private house where you will learn how to prepare some typical local dishes like focaccia with cherry tomatoes, orecchiette (home made pasta) with mashed beans, fried Altamura breadcrumbs, salad cake with roasted vegetables, homemade jam biscuits. Dinner will follow at the end of the lesson and it will include Apulian wine.Overnight at the hotel. DAY 4: Breakfast at the hotel. Day at leisure. You may go venture around the town on your last day.. Overnight at your hotel. DAY 5: Breakfast at the hotel. Got to the airport and drop off your car rental. End of services


Package includes: • 5 Day car rental. • 4 nights accommodations at the Hotel Corte Altavilla or similar. • Breakfast Daily. • Cooking class with dinner.


from $796


DAY 1: From Bari to Matera. Bread, wine and Imperial charm. Meeting with our wine and food expert at hotel Oriente and depart for Modugno. Stop at an olive oil mill to visit the press and learn everything about olives, territory and methods of production. Proceed for Unesco Site Castel del Monte, a fortress built in XIII century by Frederick II of Swaebia, Holy Roman Emperor. Stop In Gravina di Puglia for a lunch in a restaurant overlooking the gravine. After lunch, walking tour of the town and then continue to Matera and its Sassi, so unchanged through centuries that it was no effort for Mel Gibson to choose them as perfect set for his “Passion of Christ”. Accommodation at the Sextantio Hotel Diffuso and dinner in a cozy trattoria. DAY 2: Matera and Castellaneta. Ancient dwellings, film stars and home- made pasta Breakfast and walking tour of Matera. Departure for Castella- neta, a lovely town. At lunch the orecchiette – handmade pasta resembling little ears – preceded by a number of little tastings of local delicatessen. Arrive at the Masseria Le Fabriche in Maruggio where the owner will be delighted to show you around his vineyards and to introduce the worldwide known native grape variety. Dinner and overnight. DAY 3: Lecce and Cutrofiano. Stunning Baroque and human. Breakfast and departure for Lecce, renowned for the breath-taking Baroque churches and palazzi that enrich its centre. A visit to a papier-maché atelier will deepen our fondness of this place and our admiration for its craftsmen. In the midmorning cooking class followed by lunch.Food will be accompanied by a lively Pizzica dance. The afternoon will be spent in Cutrofiano, visiting an underground olive mill. Drive back to Le Fabriche, dinner and overnight. DAY 4: Grottaglie, Manduria and Martinafranca. Handicraft and Primitivo wine Breakfast and departure for Grottaglie, delightful little town the origins of which go back to the age when Greeks settled in Southern Italy, between VIII and V century BC. Walking tour will take you to one of the ateliers to admire the skills and the creativity of its owner, before departing for Manduria and its Primitivo Museum. Lunch and wine tasting. Pleasant walk in the center of Martinafranca for a quick taste of Martinafranca capicola, a cold cut made from pork neck and arrive to the Masseria Montenapoleone. Pizza class and discover the Pugliese version of the renowned Neapolitan dish, before having dinner on the premises. DAY 5: Ostuni and Cisternino. Heritage and glorious food Breakfast. Departure for the surroundings of Fasano and stop at a cheese factory for a mozzarella and burrata demonstration and tasting. Departure for Ostuni, also called the white city, in reason of its white washed houses. The next stop is the medieval hamlet of Cisternino with its street butchers.Thereafter depar- ture for Masseria Montenapoleone for a wine tasting among the luxuriant vi- neyards. In the evening, visit of the property with a special eye on their olive oil production. A farm style dinner will be the most suitable conclusion of a day. DAY 6: Locorotondo, Alberobello and Noci. Ancient tastes and new prospectives Breakfast. On your last day in Puglia you can stroll and sip a glass of wine along the streets of Locorotondo, before heading for Albero- bello and its trulli, ancient conical dwellings made with local stones set on top of another without the use of mortar. Lunch. Last stop is in Noci, a little town paved with chianche, white local limestone slabs, to pay a visit to A Mano vineyard and winery. Depart for Bari. End of the tour.


Departure Dates:April 4th; May 21st; September 24th; October 3rd.


Package Includes: 5 nights accommodation • Tours wine and food expert Tour Manager • Dri- ver and minicoach transportation • Daily American Breakfast • 5 evening meals, wine included • 5 lunch meals, wine included • 1 olive oil tastings at Olive oil plant • 1 olive oil tasting at Masseria • 5 wine tastings • 1 cooking class • 1 pizza making • 1 cheese tasting • Local guide in Lecce • Entrance fees at Castel del Monte, Gravina’s museum and Chiesa rupestre, Casa Grotta in Matera, Museo della Civiltà del vino.


Hotels: *Sextantio Albergo Diffuso, *Masseria Le Fabriche, *Masseria Montenapoleone.


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