Locations

Mark , Just a short note to say what a fantastic Italian Cooking holiday we had with you last week. The combination of the cooking lessons and the people we met was very special, particularly as we enjoyed hospitality in their homes. We appreciate all the time you have spent in setting up the schedule and, of course, all of the driving you did to get us to places and show us the beautiful countryside and villages. Our few days in Rome was rather a contrast to our time in Sabina but we certainly walked off some of the wonderful food we had eaten!

Sue and John Woodcock ~ Eavesham More from the viistors book...







Sabina, a magical and unspoilt landscape of rolling hills, olive trees and wine groves, fields of wild garlic and sunflowers, rich colours and aromas. This is a countryside scattered with medieval hilltop villages, Etruscan ruins and Roman villas - a land treasured by all.

Sabina offers a colourful calendar of cultural and religious festivals, and this being Italy, they need no excuse to celebrate with wonderful food and fine wine. The best of Italian cooking can be found here. An unforgettable stay in what is the real Italy.




Casperia , a traffic free medieval hilltop village of winding cobbled alley ways is set in Sabina, an undiscovered rural corner of Lazio, just south of Tuscany and Umbria and North of Rome. Towns like Orvieto , Assisi, Perugia, Viterbo and Rome are all within a comfortable driving distance, or accessible by train.

The virgin hilltop village's like Casperia continue to preserve traditions, , popular festivals include the "sagra dei stringozzi" (a rustic pasta), held in august, "andare per olio" tasting the newly harvested extra virgin olive oil in November, and also the "medieval centro storico "and the polenta festivals. During these festivities, which all the locals attend, tables are set outdoors in the little piazzas and local Sabine specialities are served and everybody joins in both the cooking and of course the eating .


A Taste of Rome Italian cooking holiday gives you the chance to be part of the fabric of village life where the local people, especially the children, have a certain curiosity about 'stranieri', a charming encounter not experienced in many other parts of Italy and something we'd like to preserve.








You may know of Sabina due to its depiction in the painting ' The Rape of the Sabine Women ' This mythological event occurred shortly after the founding of Rome when the new and powerful Rome, lacking only in women to produce male offspring, abducted Sabine women.





The primary access to this area is by the Via Salaria or "Salt Way," so named as it was the road used by tribes of Latin shepherds to bring the salt from the Adriatic Sea to Rieti.