Countryside adventures for travellers who want to escape from crowded cities and join a small group to enjoy the hidden rural culture of Italy. Food and family are the way into this inner sanctum. If you’re also interested in fibres and textiles, you’ll find tours specially designed for you. Whatever your interests, you learn with Italian farmers and artisans who welcome you to their workshops and homes. They’re eager to exchange views and enrich their knowledge and yours.
As we explore together, you'll discover the heritage of the countryside tucked away behind unmarked doors in beautiful remote places. You'll be surprised and enchanted. Dinner will never be the same again. You'll carry the experience and beauty of rural Italy home with you to enrich your own life. (Very small group: maximum 10 people; no large coaches, no guides waving umbrellas).
Tastes & Textiles small group tours are designed specially for people with a lively interest in fibres, textiles and the delicious regional food of Italy. Depending on which tour you choose, you'll find yourself in exquisite little-known corners of Tuscany, Le Marche or Sardinia, where you'll meet extraordinary artisan craftspeople, young and old. They carry on the local traditions and rejuvenate them without the support of a network of craft guilds. An inspiration to all of us. Intimate escorted tours (maximum 10 people).
Even if you only have a day, you can meet an artisanal food producer, visit a handloom weaver, lunch in a family restaurant known only to the locals and tour a mediaeval mountain-top village or a villa garden. Each season has its own culinary and cultural excitements. For a taster click on the months below. With us, as your guide, you can relax and merge into this slow-paced world and return home with a day to remember for a lifetime. We hope you'll be so excited by this slower mode of travel that you'll come back for one of our Small Group Tours.
