Fish & Wine Lovers' Adventure in Le Marche
Highlight
Explore Le Marche famous for its wonderful array of seafood and great wines. Get to know a wide variety of local people through 3 cooking lessons, an olive oil tasting, a white truffle hunt, meals in country homes & walks in medieval hamlets.
Minimum Duration
4 days
Maximum Duration
6 days
Price Range
$1805 - $2585 (EUR)
Season
March - November
Starting Point / Finishing Point
Senigallia / Senigallia
Itinerary
Sunday (day one of four or six night program)
Arrive in Senigallia train station or Ancona airport. Private transport to your four star hotel renowned in Senigallia for its outstanding service, located 100 metres from the Adriatic and historic centre. rnrnWalk to the restaurant on the beach for our welcome dinner with full fish menu and many different mouthwatering courses.
Monday
Drive along the coast to visit Portonovo, a picturesque bay that sits at the bottom of a majestic forested mountainside and offers extraordinary views of the coastline and the sea.
Drive along the wild, green coast and through pretty hills with patchwork of gold or green fields, forests, orchards and wild flowers to a farmhouse, owned by a very nice young couple. Bread making lesson and baking bread with farro grain flour.
Lunch of bread you made, vegetables, salumi, pecorino cheese, cereals, lentils and red wine Rosso Conero, produced by the family.
After lunch, on the way back we stop in Ancona to see the harbour and the boats. Time to walk around the historic centre and old port serving Greece, Arabia and China. From the cathedral on top of the hill dominating the port, watch boats arriving. Return to the hotel.
Fish dinner in a restaurant in Senigallia centre.
Tuesday
Arrive 9:30/10:00 at Acqualagna in the hills northwest of Senigallia to visit Fabrizio, the truffle hunter. Truffle hunt walk in the forest near his home. Length of walk up to you. Lunch at home of truffle dishes like pasta with truffles, frittata with truffles. Visit a truffle products factory where they make truffle sauces, truffle infused oils etc to see how the products are made.
Return to the hotel. In the afternoon drive to Loretello, visit a winery that produces the famous Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi and the ancient Oil of San Vito, known since Roman times. The Verdicchio vineyards are beside the Loretello Castle dating from the year 1000.
Stop at a hamlet of six people for a special visit. Dinner at a typical trattoria in a town of 10-22 people (depending on who you talk to). Vino della casa---good house wine.
Wednesday
Leave for Corinaldo, a little jewel medieval town with all its walls intact and lovely country views, also jokingly called, "Place of the Crazy Ones"-your guide will tell you some stories there.
Drive to Mondavio. Visit a local winery for a wine tasting and where the owner, who produces special extravirgin olive oil, will teach us how to taste it. Light lunch at the winery.
Return to Senigallia.
Dinner at the country home of your hospitable hotel owner about 10 minutes from the hotel, but on a Nature Reserve, featuring roasted meats and grilled country style vegetables. Wines include Lacrima di Morro d'Alba and Rosso Piceno.
Thursday
For those on the 4 night program, departure after breakfast.
In the early morning we go down to the port to buy fresh fish off the boats. With your fresh fish, enjoy a cooking lesson at a local culinary school of Senigallia for an unforgettable cooking lesson with a professor and students followed by lunch at the school. (only for groups of 6-8 people, if the group is smaller, we will have the fish cooking lesson at a private home.) Lunch of your creations.
Afternoon free.
Dinner at a very nice pizzeria in Senigallia.
Friday
Visit the Paper Museum in Fabriano, famous among those who love quality paper. Medieval workshops function with workers going through all the steps in making fine paper from rags. Light lunch. Return to hotel.
Gala farewell dinner at Madonnina del Pescatore, a very famous restaurant on the seafront promenade in Senigallia which is in the most important guide books and on many "top restaurants in Italy" lists.
Saturday
Breakfast and departure.
Arrive in Senigallia train station or Ancona airport. Private transport to your four star hotel renowned in Senigallia for its outstanding service, located 100 metres from the Adriatic and historic centre. rnrnWalk to the restaurant on the beach for our welcome dinner with full fish menu and many different mouthwatering courses.
Monday
Drive along the coast to visit Portonovo, a picturesque bay that sits at the bottom of a majestic forested mountainside and offers extraordinary views of the coastline and the sea.
Drive along the wild, green coast and through pretty hills with patchwork of gold or green fields, forests, orchards and wild flowers to a farmhouse, owned by a very nice young couple. Bread making lesson and baking bread with farro grain flour.
Lunch of bread you made, vegetables, salumi, pecorino cheese, cereals, lentils and red wine Rosso Conero, produced by the family.
After lunch, on the way back we stop in Ancona to see the harbour and the boats. Time to walk around the historic centre and old port serving Greece, Arabia and China. From the cathedral on top of the hill dominating the port, watch boats arriving. Return to the hotel.
Fish dinner in a restaurant in Senigallia centre.
Tuesday
Arrive 9:30/10:00 at Acqualagna in the hills northwest of Senigallia to visit Fabrizio, the truffle hunter. Truffle hunt walk in the forest near his home. Length of walk up to you. Lunch at home of truffle dishes like pasta with truffles, frittata with truffles. Visit a truffle products factory where they make truffle sauces, truffle infused oils etc to see how the products are made.
Return to the hotel. In the afternoon drive to Loretello, visit a winery that produces the famous Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi and the ancient Oil of San Vito, known since Roman times. The Verdicchio vineyards are beside the Loretello Castle dating from the year 1000.
Stop at a hamlet of six people for a special visit. Dinner at a typical trattoria in a town of 10-22 people (depending on who you talk to). Vino della casa---good house wine.
Wednesday
Leave for Corinaldo, a little jewel medieval town with all its walls intact and lovely country views, also jokingly called, "Place of the Crazy Ones"-your guide will tell you some stories there.
Drive to Mondavio. Visit a local winery for a wine tasting and where the owner, who produces special extravirgin olive oil, will teach us how to taste it. Light lunch at the winery.
Return to Senigallia.
Dinner at the country home of your hospitable hotel owner about 10 minutes from the hotel, but on a Nature Reserve, featuring roasted meats and grilled country style vegetables. Wines include Lacrima di Morro d'Alba and Rosso Piceno.
Thursday
For those on the 4 night program, departure after breakfast.
In the early morning we go down to the port to buy fresh fish off the boats. With your fresh fish, enjoy a cooking lesson at a local culinary school of Senigallia for an unforgettable cooking lesson with a professor and students followed by lunch at the school. (only for groups of 6-8 people, if the group is smaller, we will have the fish cooking lesson at a private home.) Lunch of your creations.
Afternoon free.
Dinner at a very nice pizzeria in Senigallia.
Friday
Visit the Paper Museum in Fabriano, famous among those who love quality paper. Medieval workshops function with workers going through all the steps in making fine paper from rags. Light lunch. Return to hotel.
Gala farewell dinner at Madonnina del Pescatore, a very famous restaurant on the seafront promenade in Senigallia which is in the most important guide books and on many "top restaurants in Italy" lists.
Saturday
Breakfast and departure.
Inclusions
6 nights hotel accommodation with breakfast
2 cooking lessons
all meals with wine
tour director/guide
all excursions in itinerary
private transport from pick up to drop off.
2 cooking lessons
all meals with wine
tour director/guide
all excursions in itinerary
private transport from pick up to drop off.
Exclusions
airfare
Contact Phone
1-800-557-0370, 604-681-4074
Visit Website: www.italycookingschools.com
