Lunch with Giuseppa and Paolo at their Deruta countryside farm is not only a feast for the palate. It’s a joyous experience of family warmth – even more so if grandchildren Irene…
Giuseppa gives us far more than an “Umbrian” welcome when we arrive at her farmhouse for a rural lunch. No one opens home and heart to visitors like Giuseppa. No one. Just…
It’s hard to decide which is the highlight of a rural banquet with Giuseppa in the family farmhouse near Deruta: her rural goodness, cooked up with such passione – or the warmth…
Feasting with Giuseppa is always unforgettable – and not just for the Umbrian goodness she cooks up, but for her ebullient joy as she welcomes guests into her Deruta farmhouse. Starting off…
Now over eighty, Raffaello started painting his maiolica masterpieces as a young boy. Massimo started young on the potter’s wheel, too, creating the vases, pitchers, urns Raffaello still decorates. At a young…
Joining in a local village food festival – la sagra – will certainly be a highlight of your stay in Umbria. And not only here in Umbria: le sagre animate local life…
Not just Giuseppa’s generosity abounds – as Doug and Wendy wrote after lunch with her – but so does the goodness! Let Becky and Marcello’s group tell you about the joy of…
My wife and I found Anne while going through You Tube videos about the Umbrian region. What attracted us to Anne was her extensive knowledge about each particular site she visited. She…
My wife and I found Anne while going through You Tube videos about the Umbrian region. What attracted us to Anne was her extensive knowledge about each particular site she visited. She…
Annie Robichaud is without a doubt a guide above the rest. She is the only American guida regionale (authorized regional tour guide) for all of Umbria. But more than that, she is…







