Venice Carnival

This is a period when Venice transforms itself and its magic fascination gives life to special forms of art: the masks and the costumes of Carnival.

There are events taking place all over the city but the culmination is, without doubt, the spectacular Masked Ball at the Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the last Sunday of Carnival, which for 2013 will be 10th February.

 

 Stay in a beautiful hotel in the heart of the city close to St Mark’s Square, attend Baroque concerts and take interesting walking tours of lesser known areas of the city. Then go for a fitting of your chosen costume- a selection of which can be found here.

A Gondola will collect you and take you to the Palazzo Pisani Moretta and you will be seated at one of the best tables.

We can organise all of this for you and more.

Contact us to find out more, or to arrange a meeting.

Eno-Gastronomic

We believe that any eno-gastronomic trip should also encompass the culture of the country visited. No country better lends itself to these trips than Italy with its diverse regions, scenery and cuisines.

  

The 'Slow Food movement' started in Northern Italy and 'slowly' worked its way down to the very toe and heel of this glorious peninsula and across to the islands. Italy has been doing slow food forever. It even does fast food. It's called pizza.

Salame cotto from Piedmont and casseoula from Milan, sardee in saòr from Venice and fagioli al fiasco from Tuscany, coratella con carciofi from Rome and pesce all'acqua pazza from Naples, sebadas from Sardinia and cannoli from Sicily.

Pasta, risotto, polenta, vino, olio, tartufo, aceto balsamico, limoncello... and just precisely why does the best lard come from Colonnata? And what on earth is a 'conca'?

Won't you join us on an eno-gastronomic discovery? 

Check our website for more details: 

 http://www.thecontentedtraveller.com/eno-gastronomic/