Food

Using local ingredients, including from our own vegetable garden, you can learn to make fresh pasta from a local chef, and to prepare a tasty Italian meal from antipasto to dolce.   You can also learn to make pizza in our wood fired oven. Depending on the season, you can collect wild asparagus and edible mushrooms in the woods surrounding Gudiolo. 

All the recipes will be adaptable to ingredients you’ll find once back home. 

If you would rather enjoy the food without doing the work, a local chef will be happy to prepare a delicious dinner at home.  

Wine

Umbria's wine is as old as its civilization, and as distinguished.  Wine making here dates back to Etruscan times in the six century B.C.  The best region for wine in Umbria, by far, is Montefalco.  The beautiful hill town of Montefalco (45 minutes drive), with its vineyards of Sagrantino and Montefalco Rosso, is a paradise for wine lovers.

Less than an hour drive, Montepulciano produces Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, one of Tuscany's best red wines.

Art

Nearby towns throughout the region house art treasures by Piero della Francesca, Raphael, Luca Signorelli, Perugino, and other Renaissance masters.

A Piero della Francesca tour is particularly worthwhile.  Drive to Monterchi to see la Madonna del Parto, visit the Resurrection at the Museo Civico in Sansepolcro, and by all means go to Arezzo to see the Legend of the True Cross, one of the masterpieces of Renaissance painting, 
Assisi, the birthplace of St. Francis, should not be missed.  The magnificent basilica dedicated to St. Francis is decorated with frescoes by, among others, Giotto, Simone Martini, and Pietro Lorenzetti.