7-Day Yoga and Cooking in Sicily

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The morning will start with a Hatha Yoga class, preceding breakfast. The rest of the day will be on a guided visit to Modica, the capital of one of the most important feudal states in Southern Italy. You will later discover the local ancient method to make chocolate and then will have a sweet dive into the world of the “Modica Chocolate” by visiting a local laboratory, attending a show cooking before tasting the “food of the Gods”.

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Continue your Sicily cooking holiday in the southern area of Sicily to delve into the world of the “Nero d’Avola” wine. After a pleasant walk among vineyards and a visit to a winery, enjoy a wine tasting and a light lunch. In the afternoon, after a walk among the enchanting Baroque façades of Noto’s palaces, churches and convents, you will move towards the charming fishing village of Marzamemi, to learn everything about tuna-fishing in one of the most ancient fish factories in Sicily.

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After the yoga class this morning, you start an archaeological trek in Cava d’Ispica, a fascinating canyon within the Hyblaean Mountains. After trekking among prehistoric rock-cut tombs and medieval rupestrian settlements, you will enjoy lunch in a shelter among the cliffs. In the late afternoon, you'll enjoy an aperitif and a night stroll in Scicli, a Baroque town set in a picturesque location characterised by canyons.

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Today, you'll visit an authentic Sicilian farm to enjoy cheese tasting, traditional food tasting – oil, cheese, sun-dried tomatoes – and a typical Sicilian lunch. In the afternoon, you'll walk along the narrow lanes of Ortygia, whose urban setting contains the complex historical events of Syracuse among the streets of Greek origin, the walls of the Medieval buildings and the façades of the Baroque churches.

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Today, you'll visit Ragusa Ibla, which is the older part of a unique Baroque town in the heart of the Hyblaean Mountains and stop off at a pottery shop here. In the afternoon, you'll take part in a traditional cooking class followed by dinner in Casa al Castello where Mrs Mimi Frasca will help you discover the secrets of a Hyblaean grandma’s home cooking making your own pasta and delicious pasta sauce.