Your Italian cooking holiday in sunny and unspoilt Sabina, just north of Rome. Let’s cook together in Sally and Guido’s Italian family home!
Your accommodation will be in a restored family home in the Sabine hills, with spectacular views of the surrounding countryside made of olive groves and rolling hills dotted with medieval hilltop villages and castles. All single and double bedrooms have en-suite bathrooms. you will have access to a sunny patio or garden to relax and enjoy the beautiful Italian scenery.
Step into authentic Italy from your first evening.
After a beautiful sunset in Sabina, we’ll welcome you over dinner, a feast of wonderful local food and wines. During this relaxed evening, held at your farmhouse, Sally and Guido will discuss the programme of events for your Italian cooking holiday.
Italian breakfast is served at your farmhouse accommodation where you can enjoy a perfect cappuccino and fresh croissants, while sitting on the patio.
More than just a cooking holiday.
We specialise in small groups so that we can give you more personalised and individual attention during your Italian culinary vacation. Our longer Italian cooking holidays also include a guided tour of an olive grove, wine tasting sessions and afternoon trips to explore the winding streets of the ancient medieval village of Fara Sabina and 6th Century monastic village of Farfa. You also have the option of taking one of the many walks in the unspoilt and beautiful countryside.
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Convivio Rome has been running cookery vacations and cooking holidays since 2006 and, over the years, Tripadvisor awarded our Italian Cooking Holidays near Rome with awards to aknowledge our consistently high standard of quality and service to our international guests.
Enjoy a visit to a 2,080 years old olive tree!
Fun and creative cooking lessons and lunches.
Week mornings will be dedicated to cooking wonderful traditional lunches, using the most popular recipes from Cucina Romana and Toscana, with an eye for contemporary presentation: all very easy to replicate at home. We only use the most flavoursome seasonal fresh ingredients sourced from local farmers. All levels of cooks are welcome in our relaxed, fully hands-on cooking lessons, from absolute beginners to advanced. We open our family home for your Italian cooking lessons, during which we also invite you to sample a platter of local cheese, salami, olives and local extra virgin olive oil on sourdough bakery bread. After your 3-course cooking class, you will enjoy the wonderful results of your morning as lunch, accompanied by wines from central Italy, while admiring the breathtaking views from our family terrace.
Afternoons at your leisure.
In the afternoons, tours of nearby villages, monasteries and wineries are also included in our cooking holiday programmes. Or if you wish, you can simply relax and enjoy the Italian sunshine and scenery at your farmhouse. If you are feeling a little more energetic, there are many walks available that wind through the valley and if you are a keen photographer or painter, the villages and surrounding natural beauty are guaranteed to inspire you. In the evening, you will enjoy dinner at the farmhouse restaurant, all meals are included! You can also participate in one of the local food and cultural festivals when they are on.
An Italian Cooking Holiday for fun!
Our Italian cooking holidays are designed to be just that - a real holiday. So apart from cooking, eating your freshly prepared meals and sampling local wines, there's time to yourself. For example, you can explore the Sabina area and its ancient castles and villages, such as Toffia, Fara Sabina and Farfa, travelling back in time to the middle ages. Or you can just unwind while you have a drink in the sunny gardens overlooking olive groves, waiting for the sunset. Sunsets in Sabina often display incredible shades of red, purple and orange.
Non-cooking companions can accompany you to our family home and just relax and enjoy the views from our family terrace.
Natural and sustainable Italian Cookery Holidays.
During your Italian cooking holiday you will discover the unique and incredible flavours of our seasonal and natural produce. The fruit and vegetables used as ingredients for our Italian cookery classes are supplied by specially selected, small local organic gardens and orchards. For instance, the fresh fruit and vegetables sampled during Convivio Rome Italian cookery holidays might have a little organic roughness, but they are incredibly juicy, sweet and full of flavour. At Convivio Rome Italian Cooking Holidays we believe in the 'zero miles' idea of sourcing our ingredients, olive oil, wine and cheese from organic local farms and producers. This is a way to keep our carbon footprint to a minimum and to please our senses at the same time!
Touring the medieval streets of Fara Sabina village.
Cultural Events and Food Festivals
Toffia, Farfa and Fara Sabina, amongst other hilltop villages in the area, celebrate their local cultural and food by holding festivals all year. Many festivals in the Sabine Hills include live jazz, blues and traditional Italian music, theatre, street performers and of course plenty of food and wine. The olive oil harvest is enjoyed and celebrated during ‘andare per olio’ week.
Our little village of Fara Sabina is the centre of many cultural events and music festivals. These activities are held outside in one of the many piazzas or inside one of the palazzi, some with a 1500's frescoes. These events are usually followed by an amazing dinner with local foods and wines. If you are lucky enough to be here when there is a music festival, play, art exhibition, poetry reading or performance, we are are happy to take you along to join in the fun.
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