Stile Mediterraneo
Stile Mediterraneo culinary, wine and art school was a project born out of love and passion. Passion for my region, Puglia, its people, the beauty of its landscape, its food and wine, its history and culture. Stile Mediterraneo’s commitment is to offer you a tailor-made and deeply personal experience of Puglia’sflavours, sounds, colours and people. At Stile Mediterraneo, I and my team customize every single activity to provide a first class and authentic experience that gets you to the heart of Southern Italy. We pay attention to every single detail and personally escort you through each unique experience, facilitating your indulgencies.

Cook In Umbria
Spend a fabulous holiday, either a fun filled 4 days or a full week in the heart of Umbria, just north of Perugia close to Assisi, Spello, Gubbio, Todi and Orvieto. The farm is surrounded by rolling hills, vineyards, olive trees and Etruscan and Medieval history. Learn to cook authentic Italian dishes in an informal and friendly environment where you will learn the passion of the Italian kitchen and have fun doing it. A comprehensive hands-on cookery course given by a teacher who will teach you to make splendid Italian three course dinners covering all the basic Italian cooking techniques. Take day trips to taste extra virgin olive oils, pecorino cheese, Umbrian wines and to visit the some artistic cities in Umbria and Tuscany. For all the tours we will give you car and car driver expert in touristic services. Groups are kept small and vary between 2 and 6 participants.

Agriturismo Cascina Papaveri, 'The Poppy Farmhouse' Cookery & Pilates Vacations in Piedmont, Italy
Agriturismo Cascina Papaveri 'The Poppy Farmhouse' offers guests the possibility of taking both Pilates and Italian cooking courses in a unique double activity vacation. Guests can elect on a daily basis to take one, or both activities, or skip a session and just chill out and enjoy the great facilities.

Aolmaia Tuscany cooking class
Aolmaia Tuscany Society is a small group of Italians who organize cultural holidays for foreign tourists. We live in the heart of Tuscany, near San Miniato, within easy reach of Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Siena, San Gimignano and Volterra. We had designed tours and courses which are true experiences in touch with culture, traditions, life and the friendly people of Tuscany. We love our region, we know "the real things" and we like to share them with you within pleasing and unforgettable vacations. With all our heart and friendship.

About.com - Art and Painting Classes and Artisan and Craft Tours in Italy
Experience the arts and crafts of Italy or further your own artistic skills in Italy. Here you will find some special art classes and tours of artisan workshops in Italy.

Fresia Studios, Lago di Como, Italy
a week of classes, a lifetime of enjoyment

Art history courses in Florence
Our courses can be followed by anyone. No particular requirements nor enrollment in our Italian courses are requested to attend this program. All lessons can be taught in Italian, English, French or Spanish.

Art Holidays - Art Directory - ArtSender.com
ArtSender.com, an Art and Painting Holidays Listing

Art Holidays in Italy - Il Collegio Holidays
Our popular Art Holidays are led by David Westby, a professional artist and experienced and enthusiastic teacher who gives time to both group work and individual tuition. This year we have also invited a guest professional painter to conduct some of the courses. The holiday includes instruction and workshops, with people doing as much or as little painting and drawing as they wish.

Delicious Italy
Bite sized portions of information for the independent visitor to Italy



Art tracs specialises in art and painting holidays in Venice and Italy.
Art Tracs specialises in art and painting holidays in Venice and Italy. Art Tracs was established two years ago by John Perkins and provides informative painting and art holidays in the UK and Italy, specialising in Venice.

Artuscany - painting in Italy and cooking classes in Tuscany
Artuscany is a network of local, English speaking artists with their own workshops based in the area of Cortona and Castiglion Fiorentino all year round. Our focus is to promote courses to be experienced by most people with a passion for the Arts within a historical and cultural context. We offer professional services for those interested in a custom made holiday specialising in Art Breaks in combination with recreational activities. We also offer other locations in Italy such as Venice, Sicily, Lake Como and the Amalfi Coast.

BellaSardinia.com, Trip Planning, Italy, Art Workshops, Be ready to fall in love with the people, places, smells and atmosphere
BellaSardinia organise and run a range of painting holidays which are designed to provide a relaxed atmosphere, in beautiful locations throughout the island, where everything is organised to ensure that artists can have an enjoyable, satisfying and carefree time improving their painting skills whilst capturing the beauty of Sardinia on canvas.

Cookery holiday, painting, photography course, walking and cycling holidays in England, France, Spain, Italy and Europe
Marsbrookholidayideas.co.uk - Without exception all the companies listed are small, personal companies who work hard to ensure you have a satisfying and enjoyable holiday. Our aim is to provide you with enough information to make an informed decision and take that next step towards planning your holiday or long weekend, by communicating directly with the holiday provider - they know their business better than we ever could!

Cooking holidays in Italy, Le Marche, wine, food, regional, seasonal cooking courses. Gastronomy, culinary, gourmet eating,
Welcome to La Culinaria: Seasonal cookery and wine holidays for the culinarily adventurous in Le Marche, Italy

Cooking Holidays, Cooking Vacations, Culinary Tours Cookery holidays in Le Marche and Tuscany
Listed in Italy's top five cookery schools ~ Sunday Times. Food has a music of its own, the Taste-Italia course at the Villa San Michele was an unforgettable experience. We had so much fun. ~ Judith Chalmers, broadcaster and journalist

Cooking Tours, Culinary Tours, European Gourmet Tours from Active Gourmet Holidays
Active Gourmet Holidays. Varied Selection of Cooking Holidays

Country holidays in Umbria, Italy - Self-catering apartments, cookery and painting on an organic farm near Perugia
Near Perugia in Umbria, this country house offers self-catering holiday apartments in a tiny 13th century hamlet - comfortable holiday accommodation with excellent sports facilities, a pool and cookery and painting courses.

Italy Art Classes
Painting workshops in beautiful surroundings taught by Timothy Tyler

Gastronomic Adventures Sapori and Saperi
Hands-on holidays for food lovers

Holiday art courses and painting holidays in Italy, Florence, Anversa and Tuscany workshops
Art schools in Italy who offer painting holidays and vacations

Holiday art courses, painting holidays and art workshops in France Italy Spain Mexico Malta Scotland and England.
Taking a holiday art courses can be a great way of either learning a new skill or improving an existing one. The centres detailed at MarsbrookHolidayIdeas.co.uk tend to specialise in offering a range of painting holidays and art workshops - it could be watercolour painting, oil, acrylic, sculpture, drawing... a whole range.

Italain food, Italian cooking - Italy for a great cooking holiday - Italy with Relish
Italian food, Italian way of life . . . If you love Italy and you love Italian food there can be no better way to spend a week than on holiday in Italy. Italy With Relish specialise in culinary holidays so even if you come to one of our Bridge or painting vacations you will be guaranteed the best in authentic local fare.

Italian Artisan Workshop Classes - Gilding, painting, decoration, restoration - Florence, Italy
Jealously guarded secrets of Florentine artisans revealed!

Italian Cooking Schools & Food Tours - Cooking Schools in Italy, Food Tours in Italy
Listings of Italian Cooking Schools, Italian Culinary, Food & Wine Tours in Italy, Cooking Courses, Excursions

Italian Cooking Vacations - Cookery Courses in Italy
The original (and inimitable!) Cook Italy celebrates the richness and variety of Italian regional cuisines through hands-on cooking classes that are also about having a good time. In a warm relaxed atmosphere we prepare attractive, delicious dishes that are truly Italian, for instance Tuscany or Bologna traditional cuisine: very few ingredients at their superb seasonal peak, simply though skillfully prepared to enhance their excellence. We enjoy memorable Italian meals in a beautiful setting, with good wine and convivial company. This is at the heart of what a Cook Italy cooking vacation is all about.

Italian Gourmet Diane Seed's cookery School
Diane Seed, author of the best-selling "The Top One Hundred Pasta Sauces" and many other books on Italian cooking, has lived in Rome for over 28 years. She has a cooking school in her own home in the beautiful Doria Pamphili palace in the centre of Rome at Piazza Venezia.

Italian Home Food Cooking Holidays - Fontana del Papa - Rome - Italy
Welcome home...enjoy breathtaking surroundings, off the beaten track, in a friendly relaxed family atmosphere, with a small numbers of guests. Come into our home and into our kitchen, learn to cook Italian home food, taste Italian wines...

Italy Magazine - Holidays in Italy, Language Courses, Cookery and Wine Tours and much more... - Art & Painting
Italy Magazine - the number one magzine for lovers of all things Italian.

Journeywoman Classifieds - Learning Holidays
Listings that include cooking art an painting vacations in Italy from the premier travel resource for women.

La Cucina Caldesi – The Italian Cooking School in Central London
You do not have to go to Italy to get expert tuition in Italian Cooking !

La Torretta Bed and Breakfast - In the romantic medieval village of Casperia, near Rome, Italy
A range of activities are on offer: try a regional cooking class with a chef, to discover the local specialities of Sabina, wine tasting, olive oil tasting, or maybe a guided walk in the hills, or climbing with a qualified instructor. The picturesque Sabina area also makes a great destination for art classes.

Landscape Painting Workshop, En Plein Air Painting Course by Tjasa Demsar.
Intensive one week Landscape Painting Course, opened to 7 participants of all ages and levels from beginners to advanced

Art workshops in Tuscany - watercolor, oil painting and clay sculpture
Tuscany 2006 is an art and culture workshop adventure designed to bring you to your highest artistic vision. Offered are art workshops in watercolor painting, oil painting, clay sculpture. And this is not just a painting holiday; we also offer Tuscan cooking classes, Italian wine tasting and Italian language courses.

Love Sicily - Cookery School and Cooking Holidays in Sicily, Tailormade Holidays in Sicily, Mosaic Art Holidays
Explore Sicilian cuisine through our cookery holidays in Sicily. Experience Sicily through our tailormade holidays in South-East Sicily, designed according to your requirements and our knowledge of Sicily.

Motus in Sardinia - Tours, cooking, archaeology and nature
At Motus in Sardinia we specialize in culture and leisure, and design custom holidays for groups or individuals. Enjoy wine tasting and cooking classes, hiking, biking and archaeology, sailing through some of the clearest Mediterranean waters, boarding a vintage train for a joyride across the island accompanied by the unforgettable scent of the wild juniper, or simply discover the Sardinian handicraft heritage of jewelry, ceramic, knives, carpets and hand-woven textiles.

Painting course in Tuscany - painting holidays and vacations with Studio Paradiso, Italy
Tucked away between the spectacular Ligurian coast and the Appenines is the Lunigiana - a land of castles and forests, mountains with glistening peaks, mediaeval villages and fortified towns set high above twisting valley roads. This is Tuscany without the crowds, where life continues to follow the traditional patterns of the season.The green and pleasant Lunigianan landscape is an ideal location for a painting holiday - whether painting is your life or you are very much a beginner you will be inspired.

Painting Courses Vacations An experience of learning to paint in some of the World's most beautiful Locations
Paing Course Listing from MyHouseAndGarden.com

Painting courses, mosaic courses in Italy - Art courses at italian language school Porta d'Oriente
Lots of Art Courses. Classes are fun and students are encouraged to work with a sense of vibrant immediacy. Whether you are doing sculture, drawing or painting, the tutor will infuse you with inspiration to get your creative side really working!

Painting holidays in Tuscany, Italy - Studio Paradiso, the secret landscape of Tuscany
Relaxed art holidays in a little-known part of Tuscany tucked away between the mountains and the sea.

Painting Holidays with Bettina Schroeder - Italy, Sicily
A painting holiday with Bettina Schroeder will help you to make the most of your abilities and will help you to develop your own approach to brushwork, composition, colour - and so on.

Painting in Southern Italy, Landscape Painting Workshop by Tjasa Iris
Landscape Painting Workshops at "Masseria Salamina" Castle in PUGLIA, Southern Italy

Painting in Umbria - Painting Holidays in Italy - Welcome to Painting in Umbria
Painting in Umbria offer week-long painting holidays in two of Italy's most beautiful and unspoilt regions – Umbria and Lake Bolsena.

Painting Italia - Painting, drawing and sketching holidays in Italy Umbria, Basilicata and La Tuscia (Lazio and Southern Tusca
Painting, drawing and sketching holidays in Italy: Umbria, Basilicata and La Tuscia (Lazio and Southern Tuscany).The painting holidays whether studio-based at the 'palazzo', in Umbria, or the exploring and sketching holidays in Basilicata or La Tuscia, there will be the opportunity to develop your own painting and drawing styles and respond to the varied landscape and environment.Unique holiday experiences

Painting Workshops Tuscany
Welcome to Tuscany in the frame ! We have the pleasure of inviting you to join us on a wonderful painting workshop in a variety of stunning and inspirational locations, including Tuscany, Venice, Lake Como (Bellagio) and Sicily. Italy is famous for its unique blend of landscape and architecture, a land steeped in art history and so visually stunning, that artists seeking inspiration are attracted here from all over the world. Relax and explore your own creativity together with like-minded people in idyllic settings in the capable hands of Tuscany in the Frame.

Special interest holiday brochures
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Special interest holidays, cooking holidays, painting, photography holidays, horseriding and walking
Marsbrook Holiday Ideas

The Country House Montali - Vegetarian Hotel in Umbria
At the Country House Montali you can enjoy your stay, and you can also learn how to cook Italian style !. The cookery courses are held from 16,30 to 20,00 pm,and are about 3,5 hours work.A complete four course menù is served for dinner, changing everyday, and that will be taught to the people who attend the course.

Top Picks for Alternative Travel in Europe
Of all the destinations to "go alternative," Europe is it. Without too much effort, it’s easy to spend the entire summer making art, cooking, drinking wine, learning languages, volunteering and more! Whatever your passion, there’s an alternative for you in Europe!

Tuscany Cooking Class Learn more about our cooking classes-beginner, advanced
We offer a number of different itineraries to suit participants of all cooking levels, from the novice to the advanced. Whether your question is "I just want to know how to keep my spaghetti from sticking together" or "I want to know the proper time to grate the white truffles", Good Tastes of Tuscany has a course to suit your taste. We have created an intimate setting to provide the ultimate learning environment and our class sizes reflect this. All cooking classes are hands-on, use the freshest of ingredients and sample the olive oil and wine produced directly on the grounds of the Villa Pandolfini in abundance!