Making tourism work to sustain the rural economy and the people

You will encounter an endangered lifestyle which we don’t want to disappear

Inspiring culinary tours of life behind the scenes that you won't find in any guidebook

Get to know the food artisans and crafts people of Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont and Liguria

Let Italy surprise you

Discover a gentle way of life, a generosity of spirit and the enjoyment of simple pleasures

Join in with the locals

Pick grapes and olives with the estate owner, bake bread with the village baker, cut the cheese curd with the shepherd, cook with Italian mammas, party at village festivals

Enjoy Italy's cultural and natural heritage

Music, art, architecture, gardens, shopping and walks in glorious countryside

Welcome

Sapori e Saperi Adventures are vacations for people who daydream about finding a shepherdess on a hillside with her flock and being transported to her cantina to watch her make pecorino cheese; people who can't stare at a bottle of olive oil without wondering when and how the olives are picked, pressed and bottled; people who love to cook and eat.

The Adventures open locked doors to a brand new palette of exquisite flavours (sapori) and new skills and knowledge (saperi).

Sign up for one of our seasonal small-group tours or contact us to arrange a personalised tour for you or your group from a day to as long as you like.

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Sapori e Saperi Adventures is a member of Slow Travel Tours, an affiliation of small-group trip operators offering personalised tours to Europe. All have a similar travel philosophy of spending more time in fewer places to develop an understanding and appreciation for the countries we visit. If one of our trips is not right for you, please look at those of others in this group. Follow the Slow Travel Tours blog to learn more about our way of travel, and read Heather's latest post!

Heather's Blog...

Artisan or traditional style?

Last week I went with Debra Kolkka to the Mostra Internazionale dell’Artigianato at Florence. You can read her views on it and look at her splendid photos over at her blog. I agree with her that its location in the Fortezza da Basso, a 10-minute walk from the Santa Maria Novella train and bus stat ...

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Weeds for Lunch

Guest blog by Penny Barry I had an adventure last weekend. Heather returned to Cambridge leaving me with a sub-contracted quest deep in the Garfagnana to discover the hidden properties of weeds as food. So what happened? This is my tale. The event centred around a dish called la minestrell ...

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Use Your Nose

So what did I learn at the first sommelier course lesson? Apart from the party trick of how to open a bottle of champagne by chopping the top off the bottle with a knife, I learned that I have to smell everything. I must have only been fake smelling before. One of the wines we tasted was a Vernaccia ...

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7 Shades of Orange

Blood oranges have character and flaunt their diversity; every morning as I cut open two of them, I watch with anticipation to see what colour and patterns are hiding inside. There are three varieties of the arancia rossa di Sicilia (red orange of Sicily): Tarocco, Moro and Sanguinello. They usuall ...

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Meaning in a Glass of Wine

I’m about to embark on a three-month wine sommelier course at Lucca. It’s not that I want to become a wine expert, but I want to move from knowing what I like to understanding why I like it. My education in wine began with a husband who was buying fine wines at auction when we were so poo ...

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