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Cheese + Honey | Pork + Porcini | Olive Oil, Chestnuts + Polenta | Gastronomic Adventures for Familes
Bare Oil in Tuscany | Slow Food Salone del Gusto + Lucca | Cooking Lessons and Courses

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Bare Oil in Tuscany

Any weekend from 1 November to 4 December

Find out everything you’ve ever wanted to know about extra-virgin olive oil on an olive estate in Lucca — famous for its olive oil since Roman times. Pick olives, take them to the olive press and go home with your very own oil. Choose from a variety of activities including olive oil massage, sightseeing in Lucca, wine tasting, cooking lesson and special olive oil menus at local restaurants. Accommodation is at an agriturismo (with a private gym) on the olive oil estate in a small village 6 km south of Lucca.

Picking olives

Picking olives

Sorting olives

Sorting olives

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Visiting a baroque garden

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Lucca cathedral

5 nights (Thursday night to Tuesday morning)

Price for 2 people in shared room: approximately €1000 each depending on your selected activities.
Price for single person: approximately €1240 depending on your selected activities.

3 nights (Friday night to Monday afternoon)

Price for 2 people in shared room: approximately €650 each depending on your selected activities.
Price for single person: approximately €950 depending on your selected activities.

Alle CamelieIncluded: accommodation, most meals, cooking lesson, massage, wine tasting (5-night itinerary), 5 litres of olive oil. Not included: international travel and internal transfers

Meeting points
Pisa International Airport (Galileo Galilei)
or the following train stations:
Pisa Centrale
Lucca
Ponte a Moriano

International travel advice
For more information on flights to Pisa International Airport, please click here. For information on arriving by train The Man in Seat Sixty-One gives much good advice.

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