Relatives and friends

Special programs, single customized guided tours and walks are available for companions of participants to the courses. Relatives and friends can apply to any of the scheduled weeks of Tasteof.it calendar WITHOUT attending the cooking courses (nor included lunches).
They will join the party in any of the social cultural and culinary activities, such as tours, excursions, walks, tasting, lunches and dinners.

Please see below for a variety of activities in any location.

In Rome
Guided tours to monuments, museums, archaeological, artistic and historical sites; photographic tours; personal shopping; kids activities; baby sitting and babies activities


In Fié allo Sciliar
Special reduced cards for the Kastelruth Golf Club; Guided tours to Bolzano, Merano and Bressanone, to ancient abbeys, medieval castles and interesting museums; hiking and naturalistic walks to the Siusi Highland, the Sciliar Massif Natural Park and Val Gardena.

In Salina
Guided tours to some of the splendid gems of the Aeolian Islands; visits to museums, hiking up to the volcanoes peaks, boat tours and scuba diving.


The mission of Tasteof.it is to provide everything in order to make the weeks in Italy a unique experience, an unforgettable stay for both participants and their companions.
So please let us know about any special request to create the most suitable program for you.

It is also possible to anticipate or to extend the duration of your stay. Please let us know any of your needs and we will do our best to arrange accommodation and organize a customized program of activities of any kind.

Aeolian beauty

Salina is the greenest of the seven Aeolian Islands. Un unforgettable experience is here waiting for you. You will learn the secrets of Sicilian cuisine; you will swim in the crystal blue sea and explore the rich and wilde nature of the island. You will be surprised by Salina's people warm and kind hospitality, the same way you will be from the taste, the quality and the freshness of its sea and land products.

The ingredients of this magic and dreamlike holiday are: the sun and the sea, the vulcans, the capers, the tomatoes, the wilde fennel and malvasia...

Boat shelters near Pollara beach

Rocks and clear sea

Rinella gulf

Fishermen's wooden boats

Walking up to Monte Fossa delle Felci

The sight from the top of Monte Fossa delle Felci looking at Lipari and Vulcano islands

Caper's flowers

Salina is the second largest of the seven Aeolian Islands, after Lipari. The island is formed by six inactive volcanoes, the two youngest and tallest of which are named Fossa delle Felci ("Fern Hollow") (962 m) and Monte dei Porri (860 m). In the Hellenic Age, the island was named "Didyme" (Δίδυμη), a Greek name which refers to the two mountains as "twins". The modern name comes from the production of sea salt which was performed at the southern tip of the island. Salina is the most fertile of the Aeolian isles, and grapes grown on Salina are used to make Malvasia wine. The island also exports capers and caperberries internationally. The island was inhabited as far back as the Bronze Age and has been developed and then abandoned many times over the subsequent millennia.
Areas on the island, including the two mountain peaks, were designated as a natural reserve in 1981. There are currently approximately 2300 residents living in Salina. Michael Radford's film Il Postino was partly shot on Salina.

Our guests will stay in a real aeolian style hotel very close to "casa del vento", a XIX century house base of our social meetings