An Overview of The Castle Weeks at a Glance:
A Different sort of Week.

On several special occasions throuought the year, a local friend loans us his ancestral home, a beautiful and aristocratic castle not far from the Adriatic, in the deep, deep south of Italy. And while our normal weeks tend towards intimate instruction and lots of personal attention, our castle weeks tend to towards large, loud and laughing affairs, where we roast entire animals on the castle grounds, spend evenings in front of the massive stone fire place and dine in great numbers in one of the castle’s main halls, a human wave of clinking goblets running down a 27 metre-long table. With thoroughly modern amenities, the castle is a genuinely unique place for large groups to enjoy a special event.

The castle is not an alternative to our local leccese B and B- it’s too far away, but rather an entirely different type of week.

The castle sleeps up to 35 people and functions as a modern Bed and Breakfast the rest of the year. And always, we meet in Lecce and then we handle all transportation.

We’ll pick fruit of the trees on the massive castle grounds, and depending on the season, turn them into limoncello, marmalade or even the region’s famous quince dessert, la cotognata. We still cook together, still make pasta everyday in one of the castle’s seven kitchens.

A week at the castle or a week at the school in Lecce? Which is right for you? Only you can decide but it’s best to know all that we offer.

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