Explore the history of Cortona over three walking tours and one outting to the recently opened Archeological Park.
Themes, dates and times to be announced.
Each walk is approximately an hour in English and Italian.
Date and price to be announced.
In 2009 a tour of the archaeological park by the two professors who have been leading the excavation since 1990 sold out. The Italian-Canadian partnership of Professor Helen Fracchia and Professor Maurizio Gualitieri will take a small group on tour of the site as well as give a talk on their discoveries and insights into Etruscan and Roman life in the vicinity of Cortona. The tour and lecture will be followed up with an authentic Etruscan lunch, which has been carefully put together exclusively for the Tuscan Sun Festival.
Example Etruscan Lunch Menu:
A booklet with explanations about the menu will be available for participants.
Antipasto: Grapevine leaves stuffed rolls of spelt and vegetables, Olive tart; bread puff pastry without yeast, with black and green olives and boiled eggs with mint sauce
First course: Broad bean soup
Main course: Honey pork; leg marinated with honey, fennel and laurel.
Accompanied by dressed lettuce, and leeks in sauce
Dessert; Tyropatinam; cooked cream with honey and pepper, Offellae; omelette with fresh cheese with honey and poppy seeds, Dulcia; sweet bread with dry figs.
