Searching for Italy package: South of Italy

Searching for Italy tour lets you visit the locations Stanley Tucci has been to, try the delicious Italian dishes he had, and experience cooking classes where you can learn to prepare delicious Italian dishes. This Searching for Italy tour combines food tastings, cooking classes and visits to the best spots of the main Italian cities – the same activities and experiences Tucci had!

Rome: The Eternal City par excellence, and the destination where Tucci enjoyed many typical roman dishes including rigatoni alla carbonara, amatriciana pasta, the typical cacio e pepe and fried artichokes. This romeanditaly group tour also offers a beautiful sightseeing tour of the highlights of one of the most ancient cities in the world.

Searching for Italy tour brings you to Naples and the Amalfi Coast. Naples is the city where pizza was born and where Stanley Tucci had a taste of the most famous one. The Amalfi Coast is also the land of limoncello and amazing coastal panoramas.

Finally, romeanditaly group brings you to see Palermo and Catania, two cities in the biggest Italian island: Sicily. The best place to spend summer (and winter!). Along with its amazing art treasures and panoramas, Sicily is also renowned for its food specialties: “cannoli”, “arancini”, granita, fresh fish… and much more!

ROME

Services included in the package:

At your arrival at Rome airport, an assistant will wait for you with the nominal sign.

Transfer private vehicle with a driver to the hotel.

In the morning you will be offered a private walking tour with a local guide . At the Bar San Calisto you will be able to taste the typical sweet maritozzi.

Stanley Tucci stopped at the restaurant Armando al Pantheon to enjoy a classic roman dish: rigatoni all’amatriciana. Here is where you will have lunch.

After spending some free time after lunch, you will have dinner at the Pommidoro, where you will be able to enjoy a traditional carbonara made with guanciale, eggs, black pepper, and fresh pecorino cheese.

You will then spend the night at the hotel in Rome.

ROME

Services included in the package:

In the morning, private walking tour with a local guide and visit the city’s old Jewish ghetto. The tour includes the tasting of fried artichoke (carciofo fritto) in the La Reginella restaurant.

Free time for lunch for your own.

In the afternoon, an assistant will then take you to your cooking class, where a chef will teach you how to recreate dishes such as amatriciana, carbonara al cacao, and pepe sauce.

Transfer by private vehicle with a driver to the Santo Palato restaurant, dinner included, where chef Sarah Cicolini offered Tucci several dishes.

Menu: frittata with chicken offal, roman tripe cooked in tomatoes, and wagyu heart tartare.

Transfer back to the hotel by private vehicle with a driver.

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NAPLES

Services included in the package:

Transfer by private vehicle with a driver to Rome railway station.

Train tickets from Rome to Naples. At your arrival, an assistant will be waiting for you with the nominal sign.

In the morning, private walking tour with a local guide including tasting of fried pizzas and fagottini filled with pork and ricotta at the Pizza Fritta da Fernanda restaurant.

Free time for lunch on your own.

In the afternoon, transfer by private vehicle and driver to the cooking class, where a chef will teach you how to prepare pizza, and you will be able to taste it afterwards.

Transfer back to hotel by private vehicle with a driver.

AMALFI COAST

Services included in the package:

Private vehicle with a driver at your disposal for the highlights of the Amalfi Coast.

Lunch at the Lo Scoglio restaurant is included,  where you will enjoy one of Tucci’s favourite dishes: spaghetti alla nerano and a tasting of limoncello and a traditional dessert.

The tour also includes a tasting of lemon delight cake (delizia al limone) at the Pasticceria Sal De Riso pastry shop, a typical dessert of this area.

Transfer back to hotel by private vehicle with a driver.

SICILY: PALERMO

Services included in the package:

Transfer by private vehicle with a driver to Naples airport.

Flight tickets from Naples to Palermo.  At your arrival, an assistant will wait you with the nominal sign.

Transfer by private vehicle with a driver to the cooking class where a chef will teach you how to make two Sicilian staples: cannoli and arancini.

Transfer by private vehicle with a driver to hotel.

Transfer by private vehicle with a driver to the Pupi restaurant, in the Bagheria area, dinner included. The chef, Tony Lo Coco, showed Tucci his interpretation of the traditional Sicilian dish spaghetti alla Bottarga.

Transfer back to the hotel by private vehicle with a driver.

SICILY: CATANIA

Services included in the package:

Transfer by private vehicle with a driver from Palermo hotel to Catania hotel.

In the afternoon, transfer by private vehicle with a driver to the Winery in the area near the Etna volcano, enjoy a wine tasting experience.

Transfer by private vehicle with a driver to the Me Cumpari Turiddu restaurant, dinner included, where chef Roberta Capizzi offered Tucci several dishes.

Menu: pasta alla norma, a pasta dish with fried eggplant, ricotta cheese and basil.

Transfer back to the hotel by private vehicle with a driver.

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