Venice
Join Chef Sebastiano in beautiful Venice for 3 days and four nights of cooking, touring and fun! From Saint Marks Square to the islands of Murano, Burano & Torcello to food shopping at the Rialto market with Chef Sebastiano, this program brings you to hidden Venice and its culinary world.

Called the most beautiful city in the world, Venice features a haunting atmosphere, which exudes the splendor of its past. Venice is built on more than a hundred islands in a shallow lagoon, with the canals serving the function of roads - every form of transport is on water or on foot. In fact, Venice is Europe’s largest car-free zone, unique in Europe in remaining a sizeable functioning city in the 21st century entirely without cars or trucks.

Venice forever thought of as a city of romance, waterways, gondoliers, flowering window boxes, glass blowers and bellinis (a cocktail made with white peaches and Prosecco), is a popular destination. All the pictures in the world cannot prepare you for the city's exotic landmarks, rising like mirages from the surrounding waterways. With sumptuous palaces and romantic canals, Venice is straight out of an 18th-century masterpiece.

Executive Chef Sebastiano
For lovers of fine cuisine, Venice offers a wide selection of excellent restaurants serving delicious Italian food, traditional dishes of the area and international cuisine. Our Venice cooking program takes you to a private palazzo, where you will share the wonders of Venetian cooking with Executive Chef Sebastiano. From Risotto to Venetian delights, he leads the cooking classes teaching you the traditions of, Sarde in Saor, Venetian-style Risotto, Branzino and potatoes, Peoci gratinati and the Zabaglione Spumone with chocolate and almonds. Venetian cuisine is a feast for the eyes and palate.

The Grand Canal
Venice is laced with the Grand Canal, one of the world’s greatest and romantic waterways; and covered with tiny beautiful tiny bridges-each one with a name. The first bridge built in Venice was the Rialto Bridge, the most photographed bridge is the Bridge of Sighs. Its labyrinth of waterways and tiny winding streets make it a city on the sea to discover. People stroll the squares and streets by foot, or zip along the waterway on vaporetti, motoscafi and speed boats. If you are not in a hurry, take an old-world gondola. The city will always capture you with its beauty.

Itinerary:

DAY 1:

• Pick up and transfer by private boat from Venice airport to the B&B in Venice, by crossing the wonderful Venetian Lagoon with the hostess.
• Arrival to B&B and Welcome Brunch or Aperitif in the beautiful and ancient living room of the palazzo.
• In the afternoon, our guests will have a two-hour guided tour to Saint Mark’s Square, Saint Mark’s Cathedral and Palazzo Ducale.

DAY 2:

• Breakfast is served. It includes homemade Venetian cakes cooked by Mrs. Mariagrazia
• After breakfast, the guests will visit the fish and vegetable market on Rialto Bridge, accompanied by the chef Sebastiano; there the group can choose the ingredients for their cooking class.
• Cooking class: a complete Menu with Fish including Sarde in saor, Venetian-style Risotto, Branzino and potatoes, Peoci gratinati and the Zabaglione Spumone with chocolate and almonds. Class includes the “Spritz break”.
• Lunch with the cooking lesson’s food from class.
• In the afternoon, our guests will have a two-hour guided tour they can chose among the following alternatives:
  Secret Venice: a tour to visit some beautiful hidden corners of Venice, not included on the tourist map.
  ~or~
  The Jewish Ghetto: a tour to the very ancient Jewish area in Venice, where we can visit a synagogue, museum, and other interesting historical sites.
  ~or~
  A Venetian museum: you can choose from the famous Galleria dell’Accademia, where the most important collection of Venetian paintings are shown, dating from the 14th to 17th century, Ca’ Rezzonico, a museum dedicated to exploring and explaining 18th century Venice; and the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, the most important museum in Italy for European and American arts of the first half of the 20th century.
• After the cultural guided tour, our guests will have the guided ‘Bacaro Tour’ with the hostess: a 2 hours walk around Venice with 4-5 stops in some historical “bacari”, the typical Venetian bar, where guests can enjoy “cicchetti” (typical appetizers) and “ombra” (a glass of wine).

DAY 3:

• After breakfast, we will head for a one-day excursion of the Venetian Lagoon Islands of Murano, Burano, Torcello, with private boat and professional tour guide:
• Murano: worldwide famous for its glass factories. We will visit one of the glass factories where we can observe the amazing way glass is blown and worked; here, the guests will have the chance of buying real Murano glass.
• Burano: beautiful little island, with colourful small houses, where women to this day still do pillow and needle laces in front of their house door. We will also visit the Lace Museum, where beautiful and ancient laces are exposed.
• Torcello: one of the most ancient Venetian islands; we will visit its 2 beautiful churches and then enjoy our lunch in one on the very good and famous restaurants of the island
• Dinner (not included)

DAY 4:

• After breakfast, our guests will head for a very special gastronomical-historical tour accompanied by an expert guide who will help them discover Venice and its history by offering testimonies of the culinary culture development. Different itineraries could be chosen, each based on a different theme, which will be developed through visits to monuments, paintings and secret corners.
• Lunch (not included)
• Pick up and transfer by private boat from Venice airport to the B&B in Venice, by crossing the wonderful Venetian Lagoon with the hostess.