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What do Insiders Know About Getting the Most Out of Southern Italy?

Find out, with our free 20-page guide to the food, wine, language, extra virgin, as well as insider travel tips. If you want to fall in love with this part of the world, you’ll need to to know a few things first. What’s worth visiting? What isn’t? And what should you be eating and drinking along the way.

Guide to Cycling Southern Italy

How to use this guide: Bicycle-based tourism is on the rise all over the world. As a mode of travel/holiday/personal development, it can take many forms. This guide aims to help you crystallise your desires, to be able to articulate them more precisely to yourself and your travel partners. And we hope that you can learn from our decades of bicycling Italy, avoiding the mistakes that we made ourselves earlier on.

Free Guide to Southern Italian Wine

How to use this guide: What follows is 95% of everything you need to know to really dive into Southern Italian wine. The last 5% is up to you. Consider us your ‘man on the ground’ in Italy, generous with information about wine in Italy but completely in the dark about where to find it in your community (Those in other countries that insist that we must somehow know their local stores better than they do are always disappointed. We’ve likely never been to your city nor statistically, even to your country).

Download Guide Extra Virgin Olive Oil

How to use this guide: What follows is 95% of everything you need to know to really dive into Southern Italian extra virgin. The last 5% is up to you. Consider us your ‘man on the ground’ in Italy, generous with information about olive oil but completely in the dark about where to find it in your community: Those in other countries that insist that we (here in Italy) must somehow know their local stores better than they do are always disappointed. We’ve likely never been to your city nor statistically, even to your country.

Free Guide to Yoga and the Mediterranean Diet

With all the constant, ongoing studies and breakthroughs in evidence-based medicine, one conclusion is inescapable: the ancients knew a lot. What follows are 6 short articles about the various, often overlapping aspects of Yoga and The Mediterranean Diet. If you’d like to know more about either of these two methods, consider coming to the castle to study with us.