Tour Italy Knitting Tour In Women Only Small Group: Venice, Veron

Meals

breakfast in hotel welcome dinner at Bacaro in Venice Spritz & Knit in Venice cooking class with following dinner in Verona gastronomy experience including cheese, cured meats & wine tasting in Lessinia cocktail in hotel during Sip’n Knit session wine tastings in Valpolicella fish lunch in Desenzano farewell dinner in gourmet restaurant

Guide

English speaking tour leader from Women’s Travel Circle during the whole tour 2 hrs Venice city tour with local guide 30 min.gondola ride Lagoon islands tour with tour leader 2 hrs Verona tour with local guide breeding farm + laboratory guided visit + workshop 2 hrs Sirmione tour with short boat cruise Valpolicella villas guided tours and entrance tickets

Transport

private transfers in/out Apt Venice private minibus during the excursions 2 days Venice card for local transportation

Accommodation

3 nights in TWIN Superior room with ensuite bathroom in boutique hotel 3* in Venice island 4 nights in TWIN Superior room with ensuite bathroom in boutique farmhouse 4* in Verona hills

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Flights

Flights are not included

Insurance

Travel insurance is not included but we suggest to have one.

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Day 1 Venice: Arrival & Welcome Dinner Venetian Style In Bacaro
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Venice: Arrival & Welcome Dinner Venetian Style In Bacaro

Arrival at Venice airport and transfer to your hotel 3* centrally located. Take your time to rest and unpack.

At 06.00 PM we will meet all together to start our Italian adventure. After a short introduction, let’s immerse ourselves in one of the oldest Venetian traditions - The Bacari.

As true locals we will take a seat in one traditional “bacaro” to taste different cicchetti and discover typical corners of the city far from the most touristic areas. Having a chat while sipping a glass of good Prosecco and biting a creamy Baccalà mantecato will be the perfect start to get to know each other and get the right Italian mood!

In the evening locals meet at the Bacari - typical bars serving cicchetti (sort of tapas) along with local wine, prosecco or spritz.s. Like the Spanish tapas, cicchetti is a food synonymous with Venice. Although menus change daily, they are usually dominated by crostini; slices of bread with various creative toppings; panini, which we know as sandwiches; and fritti, or fried food – mostly fish and vegetables. Cicchetti are a big part of Venetian food culture, as the perfect snack for fishermen, who arrive home from sea around 9 am and settle down in their favorite dark bars for a bite to eat and a glass of wine.

Back to the hotel and overnight.

INCLUDED: airport transfer, welcome dinner at Bacaro with drink, overnight.
Day 2 Venice: Walking Tour With Gondola Ride, Spritz & Knit
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Venice: Walking Tour With Gondola Ride, Spritz & Knit

Breakfast. Today we meet our local tour guide for an interesting walking tour of Venice, from the most iconic sites such as Rialto bridge and St Mark’s Square to hidden corners that only insiders know. As a cherry on top , we will embark on a Gondola to admire the floating city from another perspective and discover secret and quiet canals far from the crowd.

We will now have some time at disposal for lunch (with our tips of course!) and then in the afternoon …needles and yarn out for a Spritz & Knit time.

In an intimate location in the heart of Venice, get to know a local knit lover. She will introduce us to the initiatives organized by her group of Venetian women such as creating roses against violence or their knit cafè. A wonderful opportunity to share experiences, thoughts while knitting all together in front of a chilly Spritz.

Rest of the evening will be at leisure. You can take your time to relax and wander along the Venetian calle (the narrow alleys) discovering some secret quiet spots or admire the grandeur of San Marco square at night.

Overnight.

INCLUDED: 2 hrs private guide for Venice walking tour, 30 minutes gondola ride, spritz & knit experience, overnight
Day 3 Venice, Murano & Burano Islands
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Venice, Murano & Burano Islands

After breakfast, we leave by public boat to the Lagoon islands of Murano & Burano . Here we visit a laboratory of Glass Blowing in Murano & see old women at work creating amazing lace masterpieces in Burano colorful houses.

From Burano we will go through a small bridge taking us to a very special secret place - a small estate surrounded by medieval walls and a 14th-century belfry located in the vineyard.

Possibility to organize a wine tasting and lunch here (by additional payment)

Back to Venice and rest of the day at leisure.

Possibility to book an optional workshop of Venetian masks.

Overnight.
Day 4 Verona: City Tour & Pasta Cooking Class
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Verona: City Tour & Pasta Cooking Class

After breakfast, check out and transfer from Venice to Verona by local train.

Once we arrive in Verona, we meet our driver and local guide for a tour of Verona. Part by private bus and part on foot , we will be taken on the

“In fair Verona, where we lay our scene…” The chorus that opens Shakespeare’s great tragedy makes it impossible to separate Verona from the love story of Romeo and Juliet. And the balcony of Juliet is an unmissable stop of our tour!

But Verona is much more…here you can feel the power of a millennial history from the Roman arena to the Medieval walls to Baroque buildings surrounding Piazza delle Erbe with its buzzling market.

Free time for lunch.

In the early afternoon transfer to our boutique farmhouse on Verona hills . Accommodation in your room.

Ready Steady Cook! It’s time to learn all the best culinary secrets with a pasta cooking class. Our host will welcome us on a beautiful terrace overlooking Verona, here with a glass of Prosecco in hand we will start learning about the history of the farmhouse run by Camilla and her family. We’ll move inside the bright dining room to start a funny hands-on experience.

At the end we’ll sit around the table and enjoy the meal just created accompanied by tasty wine locally produced.

Overnight.

INCLUDED: transfer to Verona, 2 hrs private guide for walking city tour, cooking class with dinner, overnight.
Day 5 Verona: Gastronomy Experience, Breeding Farm Visit & Dyeing Demonstration In Lessinia Mountains
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Verona: Gastronomy Experience, Breeding Farm Visit & Dyeing Demonstration In Lessinia Mountains

Breakfast. Today we will move to the Lessinia mountains around a 30 minutes drive from Verona.

Our first stop to a local producer for a great tasting experience . Here skilled hands and ancient recipes handed down the generations of Benedetti family give birth to mouthwatering cured meats and cheeses. We will go “behind the scene” to see where cheese ages and learn about what makes these artisanal products so special.

Our light lunch will take place in a unique setting - an aging cellar. Surrounded by prosciutti , salami and other fragrant cured meats we will taste 5 cured meats, 5 cheeses, 2 accompaniments, Beef Carne Salà (salted meat) with Grana Padano DOP cheese and extra virgin olive oil accompanied by a Valpolicella wine.

A short drive we will reach a small village on the Lessinia mountains , where Cristina will accompany us to visit her alpaca and Brogna sheep breeding farm. Here with our feet in the grass we will make friends with these sweet animals and learn about the story behind this courageous project.

Cristina - the owner of this small farm decided to start her adventure with the autochthonous breed of Brogna Sheep that has been at risk of extinction. Due to its characteristics of finesse and elasticity, Brogna sheep’s wool is one of the best quality native Italian wools.

Brogna yarn has a very ancient history. In medieval times, in fact, it was a source of prestige and wealth, from which the "Veronese high cloths" were obtained, precious fabrics sold throughout Europe.

Later on move to a tiny medieval village that hosts the craft workshop where Cristina carefully creates the skeins, dye the wool with natural pigments and make felt. Here we will have the unique chance to enter the laboratory where Cristina will show how she dyes her yarns from onion skins or chamomile.

Here in a comfortable and intimate wooden room our workshop will take place.

Return to the hotel later in the afternoon. Dinner at leisure and overnight.

INCLUDED: gastronomy experience, breeding farm visit and dyeing demonstration, 2 hr workshop, overnight
Day 6 Verona, Garda Lake Boat Tour & Sip’N Knit
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Verona, Garda Lake Boat Tour & Sip’N Knit

After breakfast drive towards Lake Garda till Sirmione where we will meet our private guide.

Embark on a short boat tour around the Sirmione Peninsula (25 min) and wander in the streets of the historical center.

We leave from the Scaligero castle’s port and sail along the peninsula’s coast, where you can see Maria Callas’s 1920’s villa, where Callas felt inspired to interpret her opera characters, you can observe the thermal spa baths and the Aquaria wellness centre. We stop to imagine where the poet Catullus wrote his poems within the Roman villa known as the “Grotte di Catullo“. Then we look amongst the waves to find the bubbles from the Boiola sulphur spring, that provides the beneficial thermal water to Sirmione and finally, after admiring the architecture and perfect preservation of Sirmione Castle, we will have to lower our heads to go under the castle drawbridge and return to port.

Fish lunch in a restaurant in Desenzano.

Return to Verona. Stop in a local yarn shop for some shopping.

Sip’n Knit session at the hotel… and overnight.

INCLUDED: breakfast, fish lunch, 2 hrs guided tour of Sirmione with short boat tour, drink and snacks in hotel for the sip ‘n knit session,overnight
Day 7 Verona: The Valpolicella Historical Villas & Their Wines, Free Time And Farewell Dinner
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Verona: The Valpolicella Historical Villas & Their Wines, Free Time And Farewell Dinner

After breakfast, a short ride will take us to Valpolicella, where we will enter a majestic historical villa. Our knowledgeable guide Sara will take us discovering the frescoed hall, the park, the vineyard and the cellars. She will accompany us step by step during the wine tasting, including the famous Amarone.

Time to move to another villa which hosts an Italian garden of incomparable beauty - member of the network Great Italian Gardens. The architect was able to create a project full of spectacular scenery and impressive geometries and synthesize the classic canons of the Italian garden with the “picturesque” taste of rising Romanticism. Here the Noble family Rizzardi produce also some great wines

Inside a XVII century courtyard we will take our time to taste a good glass of wine and enjoy the relaxing environment surrounded by the Valpolicella countryside.

In the afternoon back to Verona and free time to relax and refresh in the hotel.

This evening we will have time to share our emotions and feelings about this trip at our farewell dinner, which will be served in an intimate dining room at a gourmet restaurant near Verona.

INCLUDED:breakfast, villa & garden tours, wine tastings, farewell dinner, overnight
Day 8 Departure & Arrivederci
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Departure & Arrivederci

Incredible but true our adventure has come to an end! After breakfast, we’ll check out and make our private transfer to Venice airport for departure. It’s time to say goodbye … no, it’s just an Arrivederci!

INCLUDED: breakfast, private transfer to Venice airport.

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Itinerary of your trip Italy Knitting Tour In Women Only Small Group: Venice, Veron

Venice: Arrival & Welcome Dinner Venetian Style In Bacaro

Venice: Walking Tour With Gondola Ride, Spritz & Knit

Venice, Murano & Burano Islands

Verona: City Tour & Pasta Cooking Class

Verona: Gastronomy Experience, Breeding Farm Visit & Dyeing Demonstration In Lessinia Mountains

Verona, Garda Lake Boat Tour & Sip’N Knit

Verona: The Valpolicella Historical Villas & Their Wines, Free Time And Farewell Dinner

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