The hidden Italian culinary heritage of Abruzzo
Eight delicious days of exploring, tasting & cooking on Big Green Egg
A one-of-a-kind Big Green Egg Culinary Tour
We’re so excited to welcome you on this culinary BBQ-adventure of a lifetime! A truly special and intimate Italian gastronomic journey to understand, recreate and experience the magic of “La Dolce Vita”. Come and join us on an amazing eight-day adventure through the best of gastronomic and historic Abruzzo! We’ll take you from the mountains to the sea! From ancient castles and fortresses to the most beautiful and elegant Italian villages.
4 Big Green Egg workshops on Italian food
Together with some of the best local chefs and a certified Big Green Egg workshop leader, you’ll get to recreate the culinary heritage of Abruzzo on daily BBQ workshops on your very personal Big Green Egg, which will travel with us during this unique and very exclusive food adventure in Abruzzo’s culinary heritage! Prepare typical Abruzzo dishes from the heart of Italy on your personal Big Green Egg and soak up a thousand years of Italian history.
You’ll explore, taste & learn how to prepare the finest and freshest local regional dishes with local chefs, hosts, farmers and producers, right in the heart of Abruzzo. You will hunt with the best truffle dogs for wild white truffles in ancient forests. Harvast the world’s best saffron in l’Aquila. Cook traditional Abruzzo dishes at mystic ancient castles as the sun sets. Taste some of Italy’s finest olive oils and wines. Learn everything about Montepulciano d’Abruzzo and other great Italian wines and olive oils. Fish on the Unesco World Heritage trabocchi of Ubruzzo. And prepare a great lunch with your catch of the day overlooking the azure blue Adriatic coastline…
From the mountains to the sea in 3 Abruzzo regions:
8 Days, 7 nights La dolce vita
During the Abruzzo Harvest Tour you’ll stay in 4- and 5 star hotels, selected on contributing to the tour activities in:
- l’Aquila region
- Chieti region
- Teramo region
Culinary heritage on BBQ:
Smell, taste & cook with:
- l’Aquila Saffron harvest
- White truffle hunting
- Truffle dog school
- Lamb
- Wine: Montepulciano d’Abruzzo
- Olive oil of Abruzzo
- Trabocchi + fish
- Dried ham + chestnuts in Teramo
- Pasta chitarro
- Four cooking workshops with the best local chefs and the team of certified Big Green Egg workshop leader Roy Voogd from BBQ52 are included!
Cultural heritage of Abruzzo:
Explore, see & experience
- Rocca Calascio, Gran Sasso mountains
- Sancta Stefano
- l’Aquila
- Sulmona
- Majella Mountains
- Hermitage of the Holy Spirit
- Trabocchi Coast of Abruzzo
- Campia
- Civitella del Tronto
Pricing from € 4.250
- All accomodations (based on double room occupation) transfers, meals, tastings, and entrance fees are included.
- Flight tickets are not included.
- This comprehensive gastronomic tour needs a total minimum of 6 and a maximum of 12 participants.
Be the first to experience this unique culinary BBQ tour!
This tour on culinary heritage of Abruzzo is absolute one-of-a-kind. Never before you had a chance to experience so much cultural ánd culinary heritage of such a rich historic Italian region, combined with the unique opportunity to learn how to recreate the dishes on high level BBQ cooking workshops and master classes. Each participant will work on a personal Big Green Egg that will be ready on each location.
The Abruzzo Harvast Tour 2024 is the first of a new series of Culinary Heritage Tours, organised by Culin-Air Travel. The tour is a unique collaboration with BBQ52 and Abruzzo1. Extraordinary is the daily active BBQ activity in this exclusive tour, including several cooking workshops on Big Green Eggs, given by the best local chefs and a certified Big Green Egg workshop leader.
This unique comprehensive culinary BBQ tour is developed with the support of:
