Etruscan Tour and Lunch
Etruscan tour and lecture with Etruscan Lunch
Date: Friday August 6, 2010 - 09:30 AM
Venue: Meeting point Piazza del Mercato - Cortona
Venue: Meeting point Piazza del Mercato - Cortona
For the first time in 2009 we provided an exciting and unique opportunity: a guided tour of the recently opened archaeological park, by the two professors who have been leading the excavation since 1990. The tour sold out and we will be repeating this in 2010.
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.
9.30 am: Meeting point at Piazza del Mercato, Cortona.
Departure by shuttle (15 mins) to the archaeological park to meet with Professors Maurizio Gualtieri (University of Perugia) and Helena Fracchia (University of Edmonton).
Guided tour of the archaeological park in English and Italian.
11.30 am: Shuttle to Borgo il Melone for a lecture by Professors Maurizio Gualtieri and Helena Fracchia about Etruscan and Roman Cortona.
1.00 pm: Four course Etruscan lunch.
3.00 pm: departure by shuttle to piazza del Mercato, Cortona.
Example Etruscan Lunch Menu - Subject to change
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.
A booklet with explanations about the menu will be available for participants.
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.
9.30 am: Meeting point at Piazza del Mercato, Cortona.
Departure by shuttle (15 mins) to the archaeological park to meet with Professors Maurizio Gualtieri (University of Perugia) and Helena Fracchia (University of Edmonton).
Guided tour of the archaeological park in English and Italian.
11.30 am: Shuttle to Borgo il Melone for a lecture by Professors Maurizio Gualtieri and Helena Fracchia about Etruscan and Roman Cortona.
1.00 pm: Four course Etruscan lunch.
3.00 pm: departure by shuttle to piazza del Mercato, Cortona.
Example Etruscan Lunch Menu - Subject to change
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.
A booklet with explanations about the menu will be available for participants.
Program and times are subject to change
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