Learning

Learning a skill or handcraft

Learning trips seem to us a multiple joy: while learning a skill or handcraft, you are supporting an artisan and an artisan activity  sustaining sustainable, slow tourism.  Your participation in Italian artisanship helps to actually keep artisans’ doors open.

All learning activities are behind-the-scenes and your teachers are the artisans themselves. Some are on an observer basis: watching buffalo mozzarella being made in the Campania region, or Parmigiano Reggiano in Emilia Romagna, or cheeses in Umbria and Tuscany, or aceto balsamico in Emilia.  Others are directly participatory — for example, olive and grape picking, and following the processes of transformation, returning home with bottles of your own oil and wine.

More hands-on courses are in Tuscan sausage preparation, mosaic production, ceramics, weaving, gelato making and of course cooking, glorious cooking; this in many regional styles.

We’re pleased to offer learning activities only in conjunction with our defined planning services.

Our defined planning services

 

FAQ

What types of artisan workshops can be included in my travels ?
Expect a wide range of learning experiences with our highly experienced docents and guides including art and artisan courses : oil and water color painting, mosaic making, sculpture, cooking, textile working and many hands-on agricultural activities.
Are there are artisan workshops for children ?
Yes, our artisan colleagues are experienced in teaching children ! Mosaic-making; watercolor, fresco and oil painting; paper making; cooking : all are often highlights of an Insider's Italy trip with children ! These are taught by artisans with deep experience and endless enthusiasm.
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Meet Marjorie

Insider’s Italy is an experienced family business that draws on my family’s four generations of life in Italy. I personally plan your travels. It is my great joy to share with you my family’s hundred-year-plus archive of Italian delights, discoveries and special friends.

The docents were all superb. The hotels were all great. And when you asked if we would change anything, the short answer is NO. "This is a moment in time that I will never ever forget” we said to each other again and again. Also I don't think I have ever had better food. The memories you gave us were ones that will never be forgotten. You put together the perfect trip....and more...and we all thank you very, very much!

Barbara Cook

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