Please consider joining one of aWeekinUmbria’s favorite theme tours.
Or let me organize a customized adventure just for you.
Write info@aWeekinUmbria.com for more information on private or small group tours.
Let me plan a Culinary & Wine Tour whenever you’d like!
Join us for a spectacular week savoring the great tastes of Umbrian cuisine and wine. Featuring 3 cooking lessons with Maria Luisa Scolastra of Villa Roncalli.
Flavors of Umbria: This is your chance to fulfill that dream of learning from a master chef, indulging in exquisite Umbrian cuisine, and sampling our justifiably famous wines. Discover the flavors of Umbria at extraordinary restaurants, cantinas, local farms, and markets.
The heart of week-long adventure will be three six-hour (plus) lessons with the amazing Maria Luisa Scolastra in her kitchen at Villa Roncalli. Discover the art of Italian broths, soups, and sauces; master a variety of fresh pastas and gnocchi; learn how to build an Italian feast from antipasti to bread to primi to dolce, and so much more. Without a doubt the best food you’ll experience in Umbria. In addition delicious meals out will fill the week. Meet artisanal producers, visit an organic farm, go on a truffle hunt*, watch cheese being made*, see prosciutto and sausage preparation, tour spectacular hill towns, enjoy fantastic meals, wine tastings, and much more. More information>
Culinary tour package: $3000 per person
– including accommodations, lessons, all meals, transport to and from airport
* if seasonally available
Join us for an Olive Harvest & Culinary Tour
Join us for a spectacular fall week savoring the great tastes of Umbrian. Featuring 3 lessons with Maria Luisa Scolastra of Villa Roncalli. And you’ll get to experience the olive harvest from collecting the pressing. LOTS OF FUN!
Only available end of October or first week of November.
The heart of our 8-day adventure will be four-hour+ lessons with the amazing Maria Luisa Scolastra in her kitchen at Villa Roncalli. Meet artisanal producers, visit an organic farm, go on a truffle hunt*, watch cheese being made*, see prosciutto and sausage preparation, tour spectacular hill towns, enjoy fantastic meals, wine tastings, and much more. In addition, our tour will include a day in the orto collecting olives and enjoying an Umbrian cookout. Then we will go and see the entire process of pressing the oil, culminating in tasting the freshest oil you’ve ever imagined. More information >
Culinary tour package: $3000 per person
– including accommodations, lessons, all meals, transport to and from airport
Hunt your way through Umbria with Treasure Hunts from one end of the region to the other . . .
Fun for the whole family
Immerse yourself in the culture, art, and cuisine of Italy while searching for art in the museums, churches, and streets of Umbria.
aWeekinUmbria offers a spectacular 7-day tour package filled with specially designed art hunts, wonderful accommodations, glorious food and wine, and much more.
If you love treasure hunts, this is the tour for you. Here’s your chance to discover the great and small towns of Umbria in an art and architecture adventure. Choosing from 36 hunts, you will spend your days focusing on details in museums, churches, and on the streets. Hone your hunting instincts and discover the beauty of Umbria.
Explore fabled cities like Assisi, Perugia, Orvieto, and Spoleto; have fun treasure hunting, enjoy a truffle hunt, a wine tasting, a cooking lesson; and breathtaking views all along the way. And you’ll stay in the walled town of Bettona at the 17-century Palazzo Fiumi-LaPlaca, home of your American host.
7-day package: $2600 Airfare is not included
Full or half day tours are also available on request. Full-color Hunt booklet available for purchase.
Book Club tour:
Looking for two more people to join us for this spectacular literary adventure!
If you’ve seen the new TV production of The Name of the Rose starring John Turturro and Rupert Everett then you’ll definitely want to come to Umbria where much of it was filmed including the abbey we will visit. Copies of each of the three books we will read will be sent to you. Wander the streets of Orvieto to find yourself in the setting of The Lady in the Palazzo and discover the heroism of the characters of The Assisi Underground.
Tour package: $2500 per person
– including accommodations, day tours, all meals, transport to and from airport
From Lace to Brioche, each year a different theme . . .
Knitwear Designer and Instructor André de Castro returns to Umbria each year for a themed knitting tour. Through five 3-hour workshops students will explore, make samples, and start on a specially designed project.
And if all that knitting weren’t enough, there is also Umbria to experience. You’ll enjoy tours of our fabled hill towns, visits to cashmere and alpaca farms, a weaving demonstration on jacquard looms, visits to knitting and weaving factories, not to mention extraordinary Umbrian cuisine, a wine tasting, and much more.
Tour package: $2850 per person
– including accommodations, lessons, all meals, transport to and from airport
The spirit of Umbria comes alive
Tours are available to benefit your church. Ask me about planning a spiritual adventure for your group.
Discover the heart of Umbria and walk in the footsteps of Saint Francis. Enjoy a week-long adventure to the famous and intimate sites associated with Francis. Visit Assisi, where he was born; San Damiano, where he was instructed to “fix my church”; the Porzuncola, where he started his ministry and died; and La Verna where he received the stigmata. Attend a candlelight procession, mass at the Basilica of St Francis, and more.
