A whole week of Art, Food and Wine Experience

04.07.2020 - 10.07.2020 Tuscany | Francesca Matteoni painting, landscape, nature, urban, sketching, drawing, watercolour, culture 2747 EUR

A luxury week to focus on your artistic talents while discovering Tuscany and enjoying a typical Italian summer! Make Art everyday surrounded by inspiring nature! Wake up every morning in a typical Tuscan home! Enjoy sketching with us in Lucca’s historical city center! Taste the authentic hand-made Tuscan cuisine everyday! Special wine tasting and experience in a local vineyard! Walk into a timeless villa garden and learn to create watercolour landscapes! Make incredible memories while living like a local in Tuscany.

This is the Art Vacation…that every Tuscany-lover dreams of.

This experience is meant to be a full immersion in the Tuscan life style and a typical summertime experience. It will be centered around art, good food, and Italian experiences that will leave you living and creating like a Tuscan artist! Together we will have free time to relax, time for seeing the city and to be in nature, eat at a top restaurant, and soak in the Italian slow-living at the Tuscan Home.

Picture your-self walking into a timeless villa garden to make watercolour art together with like-minded people.. how does it feel?

Your Tuscan Home (Included in the costs!)

You will spend 6 nights and 7 days in one of the most authentic country homes in Tuscany. Picture yourself waking up here everyday and having a whole day ahead to explore and experience Tuscany in many different ways. Witness the summer sunsets with a glass of Prosecco in hand while smelling the food cooking. Enjoy the slow living while learning art here everyday.

DAY 1 - Saturday July 4th

16:00 pick-up at Pisa Airport – group transfer by bus.

17:30 Arrival at your Tuscan home for the week. Settle in and explore the villa.

18:30 Welcome Aperitivo

20:00 Dinner

DAY 2 - Sunday July 5th

08:00 Breakfast

09:00 – 12:30 First Drawing Class. Learn to draw from a still life.

13:00 home cooked lunch by our private chef

15:30 -19:00 sketch walk in nature*

20:00 Home cooked dinner

21:30 Evening Surprise

*this activitiy is not obligatory and the participants can decide to use that time as personal free time without participating if you wish.

DAY 3- Monday July 6th

08:00 Breakfast

09:00 – 12:00 Second Drawing Class. Learn how to create chiaroscuro drawings

12:30 Travel together to Lucca by bus

13:45 Lunch at a local restaurant in the heart of Lucca

15:00 -19:30 Lucca sketch walk and shopping*

20:30 Dinner at a local restaurant in the heart of Lucca

23:00 Transfer back to our Tuscan Home

*these activities are not obligatory and the participants can decide to use that time as personal free time without participating if you wish.

DAY 4 - Tuesday July 7th

09:00 Breakfast with large choice both italian and international.

10:00  Morning Art Class

13:00 Home cooked Lunch with Tuscan chef

14:00-17:00 Free time

17:00 Cooking Class “Learn how to make Tordelli” the most typical meat dish of Lucca!

20:00 Home-cooked dinner ..by your-self! With the guidance and assistence of a private chef.

DAY 5 - Wednesday July 8th

08:00 Breakfast

09:00 Travel to Villa Reale

10:00 – 13:00 Watercolour Art Class “Painting the Landscape”- part I

13:00 Picnic lunch in Villa Reale Garden

15:00- 18:00 Watercolour Art Class “Painting the Landscape”- part II

18:15 Transfer back to our Tuscan home

20:30 Dinner on the grill

DAY 6 - Thursday July 9th

09:00 Breakfast with large choice both italian and international.

10:00 Morning Art Class with live nude model

13:00 Home cooked Lunch with Tuscan chef

17:00 Departure for Montecarlo of Lucca

18:00 wine tasting in a tuscan winery

20:30 Special private dinner in the vineyards.

DAY 7 - Friday July 10th

09:00 Breakfast

10:00 Free time for packing

12:00 Transfer to Pisa Airport






A whole week of Art, Food and Wine Experience
Francesca Matteoni