Cooking & New Year's Eve in Southern Italy

If you'd like to visit this new place before it's discovered by everyone else, this is your chance! Wonderful, scenic Puglia/Apulia - the unspoiled heel of the Italian boot which has been heralded as “the new Tuscany.”

The “Cooking and New Year's Eve" tour of Puglia features luxury accommodation in a beautiful 16th century manor house owned by a baron whose family has inhabited it for five centuries. Days are filled with cooking lessons in traditional Puglian cuisine under the guidance of a professional chef in one of the castle’s many fully-equipped kitchens, visits to local markets, shops, farms and picturesque Baroque, Byzantine and medieval villages where time passes at a different pace and the streets are not jammed with tourists.
One day, there’s a hand-made pasta class in the garden by the swimming pool. The next, wine-tasting at a nearby vineyard, then a visit to a mozzarella farmhouse.
Puglia is home to the true Mediterranean Cuisine with an emphasis on seafood , vegetables, olive oil - doesn't get much better. It ranks #1 in production of Olive Oil and wine, #2 in almond production. When the almond trees are in bloom the air is rich with the sweet scent.
The tours includes luxury accommodations, buffet breakfast daily, restaurant lunches, dinners at the villa or a neighboring castle, cooking classes, excursions, all transfers (including to and from the airport) and daily room cleaning service.

Day 1 (Friday, Dec 28)
· Arrive in Brindisi
· Van transfer to seaside castle via private van
· Orientation & aperitifs
· Welcome dinner
Day 2 (Saturday, Dec 29)
· Breakfast
· COOKING CLASS (traditional Puglian appetizers and hand made pasta prepared during the Christmas week and on the New Year’s Eve night)
· Lunch - dine on our own dishes
· Free time for a siesta or to socialize
· Visit to a worldwide renowned live Nativity crib
· Dinner at the a traditional restaurant
Day 3 (Sunday, Dec 30)
· Breakfast
· Visit to Lecce and an artisanal chocolate and ice cream company. You will have the best ice cream ever!
· Sunday lunch at a traditional restaurant in Lecce
· Visit to a famous papier-mache' artisan. (Artisans in Lecce produce all over the year Madonnas, Saints and “pupi” which they display during the Presepe (crib) period at Christmas time. They are famous worldwide)
· Dinner at the villa prepared by a cook
Day 4 (Monday, Dec 31) New Year’s Eve
· Breakfast
· COOKING CLASS (traditional Puglian appetizers and second courses prepared during the Christmas season)
· Lunch - dine on our own dishes
· Free time for a siesta or to socialize. Getting ready for the big dinner
· Dinner at a very good restaurant with all the Puglian people. Formal dressing.
Day 5 (Tuesday, Jan 1)
· Breakfast
· COOKING CLASS (traditional Puglian bread, focaccia and desserts prepared during the Christmas season)
· Lunch - dine on our own dishes
· Free time for a siesta or to socialize.
· Visit to Gallipoli and to the fish market. Free time for shopping in Gallipoli
· Dinner at a very special fish restaurant perched on limestone cliffs above a perfect turquoise sea.
Day 6 (Wednesday, Jan 2)
· Breakfast
· Visit the famous weekly food Market in Otranto
· Free time to shop
· Lunch at a typical local trattoria in the countryside with samplings of special foods
· COOKING CLASS at the villa
· Dinner at the villa
Day 7 (Thursday, Jan 3)
· Breakfast
· Visit to a local pasta maker
· Lunch at a traditional farm masseria
· Free afternoon to pack or to go around. (We might be able to visit a local mozzarella producer)
· Graduation dinner
Day 8 (Friday, Jan 4)
· End of tour, van transfer to Brindisi…..back to reality!


For more information contact us at info@stilemediterraneo.it or to reserve CLICK HERE