With all the cookery lessons available in Italy, which is right for you, a castle week or a Lecce week?

We only have one ‘style’ of course, but two distinct locations: there are weeks in Lecce, and our weeks the castle. It’s important to decide which is right for you.

We have our Lecce course, at Silvestro’s home in Lecce. And we have the castle courses, which are held at the baron’s castle, the building and grounds of which make up a small town an hour south of Lecce. At the castle, it’s ours for the week, not only for sleeping, eating and relaxing, but the baron’s recently build us a special dream kitchen, unlike any other in Italy (it’s been featured in several Italian architectural design magazines.) In the warmer months, we also have access to his olympic-sized pool.

Both courses are hands-on, but while the Lecce course ONLY changes with the season, the larger numbers at the castle allow us to offer more dynamic courses, such as breadbaking in the baron’s wood-fired oven, our new new wine course, our school’s birthday and San Martino, the best holiday of the year here in Italy.

The urban experience in both locations varies as well, as Lecce is a city of 100,000 people, the castle’s town if closer to 6,000. Interaction with local venders, butchers, wine and olive oil makers and our staff, are constants at both of our courses. Putting you in touch with these people is what we do best.

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