Cultural exploration
Delicious fun
Unique tours for the culturally curious and the sophisticated palate.
Elifant Archaeo-Culinary Tours offers week-long trips that combine remarkable access to cultural and archaeological sites, truly expert leaders, and some of the best food in Italy. Our trips are a feast for the mind, soul, and body.
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There’s a good deal more to northeastern Italy than Venice. The stretch along the top of the Adriatic between La Serenissima and Croatia was and is a cultural crossroads with a unique archaeological legacy. Aquileia boasts a magnificent late-antique basilica.
Trieste’s Austro-Hungarian heritage is evident in its ornate architecture, coffee culture, and baked ham, while the secret of charming, canal-lined Treviso is beginning to leak out—there’s not a moment to lose.
Sardinia has all the requisites of paradise: ancient mysteries, a spectacular coastline, rugged mountains, sparkling beaches with pristine water, and a cuisine unto itself. The Phoenicians and Romans who settled here left their mark, as did an indigenous people who built curious conical stone towers known as nuraghi, which survive in the thousands.
We’ll “march” across the Boot behind the Roman legions along two of the great Roman roads—the Salaria and the Flaminia—to follow the traces of their conquest of the indigenous peoples of central Italy. This itinerary, from Rome to the Adriatic and back, touches four Italian regions (Lazio, Umbria, Marche, and Emilia-Romagna) and crosses an area famed for its medieval and Renaissance attractions, natural beauty, and great food.
From the arch at Susa to the theater at Aosta, near the French border, ancient monuments of the Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta regions still proclaim imperial power on the western frontier of Roman Italy. Turin, the elegant royal seat of the Savoia kings, is an industrial, gastronomic, and cultural capital and famous for both its Egyptian Museum and its chocolate. Piedmont’s celebrated Langhe area has practically mythical status as the home of Barolo, Barbaresco, and Barbera wines and the white Alba truffle.
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History buffs. Art lovers. People who care about the who and the why of traditional food as well as the what. Elifant travelers are curious—and congenial. Many travel solo and enjoy meeting new people. And all appreciate a little pampering.
Grow your mind
and feed your soul
Is there a particular museum or site you don’t want to miss? A local specialty you’re eager to taste? We’re here to answer your questions, large and small.
Elizabeth Bartman and Maureen Fant
Principals, Elifant Archaeo-Culinary Tours
