**Please note that the itinerary may be subject to change.

• ARRIVAL DAY! Each day will start with a Tuscan style breakfast including fresh bread, pastry, sweet spreads, and café, cappuccino or tea. Fine wines from the region or IL Rifugio's own House Wine is included with our meals and wine tasting event.
• DAY ONE: Your first "hands-on" cooking class in the kitchen of IL Rifugio. Sightseeing and shopping in Cortona this afternoon. Tonight we'll enjoy supper at a Ristorante within the historic walls of Cortona.

• DAY TWO: This morning we may visit a vineyard, a cheese making farm or the historic hill town of Civita di Bagnoregio for a cooking class out of this world.
• DAY THREE: Today is yours! Take the time to enjoy IL Rifugio's surroundings, spend the day in Cortona or take a day trip to Florence, by train. We will be happy to drop you off and pick you up later at the train station.
• DAY FOUR: This morning we depart for the historic hill towns of Montepulciano and Montalcino. We will ascend the stone streets of Montalcino to the fortress where will engage in wine tasting, lunch, sightseeing, and shopping.

• DAY FIVE: Market Day! Get ready to shop at the mercato (local street market) in Camucia where we will find table linens, cook wear, clothing, and unbelievable Italian produce, meats, and cheeses. Tonight, English speaking sommelier Marco Molesisni will offer degustazione (wine tasting) with some of the regions finest wines on the terrace of Il Rifugio. 
• DAY SIX: Final cooking class. Guided of Cortona churches, an Etruscan museum, Signorelli Theatre (featured in both films Life is Beautiful and Under the Tuscan Sun), Santa Margarita, and the fortress. A farewell supper at Ristorante Pane e Vino in Cortona.
• DEPARTURE DAY 10:00 AM Saturday morning - We bid you a reluctant "arrivederci". Transfer from IL Rifugio to Cortona or train station is provided.