outside venice

Treviso tiramisu, coffee, cicchetti and gelato 

If you love coffee and are ready for an expert to instruct you in the art of making and drinking real cappuccino and espresso, then this is the perfect day for you!

What’s more, you’ll also learn all about delicious, creamy, coffee-soaked tiramisu.  This classic Italian dessert was invented in Treviso, 40 minutes north of Venice, so there is no better place to take this yummy food tour!

The next stop on the tour will be to discover the typical Venetian aperitivo.  Venetois the homeland of prosecco and salami and we have invented many fabulous ways to combine them.  Cicchetti are a type of food art, beautifully crafted snacks that we eat with a glass of prosecco or spritz on our way home after a hard day working or touring!

Not full yet? Our final stop will be for a homemade gelato, where you can choose from timeless classics like cioccolato or stracciatella or this season’s latest invention!

Ready to roll home? The tour will end back in Venice at Piazzale Roma, where, on request, a private boat can meet you for the transfer to your hotel.

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The most beautiful towns outside Venice

Are you interested in seeing what’s outside of Venice and its lagoon ?

This experience will take you to see the real Italy, far away from all the big crowds!

You will fall in love with the amazing town of Marostica totally surrounded by medieval walls and well-knownthanks to the human chess game that takes place here every year around September!

Bassano del Grappa is a delightful town with dramatic scenery over the Monte Grappa mountain and the famous Bassano’s bridge design by the world famous Andrea Palladio.

Asolo it’s a must a superb little medieval village consider one of the most beautiful in Italy, witha little castle on the top of the hill overlooking the entire valley.

A stop for a picture in Villa Barbaro Volpi, typical Palladian villa which is a classic!

Before heading back to Venice, you’ll make a stop at a local winery to taste the world-famous prosecco wine.  A great end to a great day!

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Cheese and Beer that’s all you need! 

You don’t need much to be happy! And when we are talking about food, everybody is happy with cheese or a nice and refreshing beer .. if you are not allergic!

First of all, you will enjoy a lovely visit of a cheese factory where you will taste some  cheeses that won many different prizes in Italy.

In Italy, microbreweries are growing very fast … our friends from America,the U.K. or Australia that are already expert about microbreweries! In this tour you will see the local beer production at two different breweries, one small and one bigger which is also an organic producer !

This is a fantastic experience to enjoy a day in the Venice countryside and learn about some of our local production!

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The prosecco addicts tour – I’m just in love with this wine 

The prosecco tour

In less than a day you’ll be prosecco wine lover, expert, you will end up to talk with your hands like the Italians and for sure you will be totally addicted to this bubbly ! This experience will take you right into the heart of the Prosecco Valley (now a UNESCO World Heritage Site), to see some of the oldest and the most technologically-advanced wineries that are producing this world famous wine ! Going from the territory of Asolo to Valdobbiadene you will enjoy some really interesting prosecco tasting accompanied by little appetizers! During the tour you will have a lovely scenic drive through the vineyards.

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Tour of the Dolomites 

Breath-taking views, scenic drive, lovely mountain villages, alpine lake and great peaks!

This will be a tour that will take you right into the heart of the Dolomites! If this is your first visit in the Italian Alps, it will be totally unforgettable!

After leaving Venice by road, you will stop first  in Pieve di Cadore, the birthplace of Titian one of the most important Venetian painters! Next, the fashionable Cortina d’Ampezzo, which is well-knownbecause since the Winter Olympics were held here in 1956.. After you will visit Lake Misurina with its  incredible view of the famous peaks “Tre come di Lavaredo”. The day will continue toward Auronzo right in the middle of the gigantic Alps.

If you have any special requests, let us know, we can always customize the tour according to your interests.

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Castle wine and cheese

This is going to be an easy half day tour ! Great combination of different experiences ! Tasting wine in the cellar of a castle this is really unique and it wont happen everyday of your life! You ll be tasting wine in a unique villa castle the only one in the entire veneto region, just before the genius of Andrea Palladio started to develop the amazing paladins villas, idea that has been copied by the architect of the White house in Washington D.C.! As we want to show you as much as we can and as we would like to give you a full taste experience a little visit in a local cheese factory it a must !

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Cheese making experience in the venice countryside

This will be a practical workshop with hands on in “caciotta” cheese!!! You will learn the different phases of the cheese production, the ingredients and the aging procedure ! At the end on the cheese bar you ll be having a cheese tasting analyzing all the perfumes, the smells and the colors of the best cheeses of the dairy farm that won different kind of prices.

The class will last some 3 hours and is for a minus of 4 people up to 8 people

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Cheese, wine and grappa

this sounds like the perfect day ! This is a great combination of experiences especially because we will be able to see some of the most interesting traditions of the Veneto region combined with interesting landscapes and lovely sceneries.

Your day will start with an amazing cheese tastings, in order to get familiar directly with the typical production of the area!

The tour will combine a scenic driver that will take you in the heart of the prosecco hills to admire mills,  abbeys and castle , a rural simple area in order to enjoy the beauties of mother nature !

Our tour will continue with the tasting of the most famous wine of the area the prosecco!!! But grappa is the other incredible product of the area ! And the distillery that you ll be visiting is 120 year old in a little village with 4 houses and almost totally abandoned !

A unique experience to appreciate the italian life and culture.

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Veneto food tour

Organic wine, cheese, buffalo mozzarella and beer

A full immersion in the best italian products ! You will taste and discover and smell the best parfumes of the italian terroir!

Everybody from all over the world are in love with italian food,  this will be the perfect experience to taste and learn about of the typical italina productions. This will be a kind of educational tour to show you what Italy, but in this case the Veneto region ( which is the name of the  region where Venice is )is famous for.

How will be your day ( all the experices can be customized):

• Meet in Venice Piazzale Roma or the designated place.
• In order to recognise your guide or driver, look for the sign with your name on it.
• Board your comfotable vehicle ( it can be a minivan up to 8 seats or a car both with private driver)
• drive up to the area of the city of Conegliano ( the beginning of the Prosecco land)
• first stop will be in a cheese factory to learn about all the procedure, plus tasting some of the award winning cheeses
• second stop it will be for a prosecco wine experience where you have a lovely introductions to this world famous wine plus a light luch
• you will end the day to learn more about the local microbrewery, that in Italy are becoming more and more popular

Come with us to enter in authentic Italian experience meetign the local producers.

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Cooking School in Venice countryside

You will attend the cooking class in one of the most magnificent places outiside Venice, with an incredible family that will show you all the special secrets of the amazing italian cooking traditions. You will be right in the heart of the prosecco valley, right between Venice, and the so well renown Dolomites mountains. Surrounded by a wood forest, this will be the pefect location for your cooking experince, with a professional and talentive chef, in a realaxing homy atmosphere. It will be a fin experience , that will introduce you into the italian life  style, enjoyining prosecco, learning about italian wines, dishes and products.

• Hands on cooking for a private cooking school outside Venice.
• Fun lerning
• Organing ingredients during the cooking class
• If interested you can have a special wine testign lessons

All classes will be  ‘hands on’ and will include lunch or dinner. What you will prepare and cook during your experience, will be your lunch or dinner, you will learn even the plating ideas in a elegant homy set. You will be having prosecco during your meal, red wine, and whire house wine, and local fresh ingredients.

What you will learn from the cooking class in the Venice countryside:

With the local chef, and in order of your cooking skills, you will be able to create three to four dishes, plus homemade breads, or you can focus your experience in specific fields, like pasta, gnocchi, fish or meat, baking or desert. All the lessons are normally starting with the preparation and cooking of the bread, explaining the different flavours, tecniques and shapes. All the classes will make sure that you will have the time to be more confident in cooking, and in order that you will be able to do it again once you will be back home.

Chopping as a professional chef it will be part of your day, always follow by our chef, you will learn easy skills, always working in a safe and fast way.

Now that you have learned few basic things, about the cooking in Venice countryside, you are ready to start to prepar your faboulus italian meal, always bespoke according your wishes and tastes, and seasonal, consisting in started, first course, main course, and desert, you can have a vegetarian option too.

Our Chef will share his secrets to impress your friends once you will be back home, your cooking experience will improve your tortellini, lasagne or ravioli skills, at the end you will be almost professional.

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