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Mamma Agata's Cooking School
Via San Cosma, 9
84010 Ravello
Salerno
Italy
Mamma Agata’s cooking course takes place in her private home, situated on a clifftop, 1000 feet above the sea level, a very gracious home that majestically overlooks the AMALFI Coastline, with wonderful terraces and a spacious garden full of lemon trees, fruit trees, flowers, vegetables and poultry. She produces nearly all the food that she cooks!!
“Mamma Agata” has been the chef for many major Hollywood actors and actress, Humphrey Bogart, Anita Eckberg, Richard Burton, Lyz Taylor, Fred Astaire, Charles Cubbon, Van Efflin, Federico Fellini (big pasta e fagioli eater ), Jaqueline Kennedy ( 1962 in Ravello ), Marcello Mastroianni, and for important international journalists, writers, politicians such as Susanna Agnelli.
She has a special gift for cooking and will show you how to create many wonderful pasta, including her own special recipes. Ingredients used include veal, fish, chicken and seasonal vegetables, while dishes demonstrated include pizzas, cakes, traditional marmalade and conserves. You will learn the secrets of traditional Italian Cuisine in a relaxing, friendly and warm atmosphere.
Every day at the end of the lesson you will be able to taste the various recipes and enjoy some of the best local wine, while sitting on a breathtaking terrace overlooking the Mediterranean sea.
At the end of the course you will be able to cook wonderful Italian meals for yourself, your family, friends, partners etc.; organise Italian evening; or just follow a natural Mediterranean diet which is known to be one of the healthiest in the world.
This school operates all year round and costs approx. 200 euro per day. They offer a reduction for groups and if attending for more than 1 day.
"A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure."
- Sirach 6:14
Because of the role Ravello plays in the field of classical music, The Ravello Concert Society is one of the city's main attractions. The Society puts on many concerts from March through November each year. The settings for the concerts are usually outdoors in one of the many beautiful gardens that exist in Ravello.
Villa Cimbrone Gardens
Via Santa Chiara 26, Ravello, Italy
Tel: 089-857-459
Activities: walking
Would highly recommend you visit the gardens in the last hour (open until 2000hrs as of Sep 13th) where there are no crowds and you can catch the beautiful sunsets from the Terrace of Infinity. Good thing to do pre-dinner or Villa Rufolo concert.
Villa Rufolo
Piazza Duomo, Ravello, Italy
Tel: 089-857-657
The Villa Rufolo was named for the patrician family who founded it in the 11th century. Once the residence of kings and popes, such as Hadrian IV, it's now remembered chiefly for its connection with Richard Wagner. He composed an act of Parsifal here in a setting he dubbed the "Garden of Klingsor." He also lived and composed at Palazzo Sasso . Boccaccio was so moved by the spot that he included it as background in one of his tales. The Moorish-influenced architecture evokes Granada's Alhambra, and the large tower was built in what's known as the "Norman-Sicilian" style. You can walk through the flower gardens leading to lookout points over the memorable coastline.
Duomo
Duomo daily 9am-1pm and 5-7pm. Museum Easter-Oct daily 9am-1pm and 3-7pm
Location: Piazza Duomo
Prices: Duomo free admission; museum 2€ ($2.60)
It's unusual for such a small place to have a cathedral, but Ravello boasts one because it was once a major bishopric. The building dates from the 11th century, but its bronze doors are the work of Barisano da Trani and were crafted in 1179. Its campanile (bell tower) was erected in the 13th century. One of its major treasures is the pulpit of the Rufolo family, decorated with intricate mosaics and supported by spiral columns resting on the backs of half a dozen white marble lions. This is the work of Nicoló di Bartolomeo da Foggia in 1272. Another less intricate pulpit from 1130 features two large mosaics of Jonah being eaten and regurgitated by a dragonlike green whale. To the left of the altar is the Chapel of San Pantaleone (Cappella di San Pantaleone), the patron saint of Ravello to whom the cathedral is dedicated. His "unleakable" blood is preserved in a cracked vessel. The saint was beheaded at Nicomedia on July 27, A.D. 290. When Ravello holds a festival on that day every year, the saint's blood is said to liquefy. A museum of religious artifacts is also on-site (2€/$2.60 admission).
Ravello's program of classical music starts in March and runs through late October. The Festivale Musicale di Ravello occurs in the latter part of July. International Orchestras and special guest stars perform many pieces by Wagner. For more information contact the Ravello Concert Society at 089 85 81 41 or www.ravelloarts. These concerts are held in the wonderful gardens of Villa Rufolo. You can also go to http://www.ravellofestival.com/new/index.php to find
more information. They generally have 3-4 musical events each month in Ravello.
The Ravello-Minori Walk.
Episcopio: don't leave Ravello without a bottle of the city's own white wine Episcopio! and pick up some limoncello too :)
The main square of Ravello is filled with little shops selling ceramics, limencino, and gelato and even a cute little jewelry store.
If you are lucky enough to be staying at the Hotel Caruso then you can take advantage of some of their many activities and offers. The Motor-boat 'Ercole', a typical wooden coastal craft (16 mts.) is for our guests wishing to take an unforgettable complimentary mini-cruise (mornings) to discover the only fiord in the Mediterranean, but also coves, hidden beaches and many creeks and bays along the coast of Amalfi.
Departure from the port of Amalfi (shuttle bus down from the hotel will leave 15 mins before) is 10.00 am. Return to Amalfi by 12.30 pm (shuttle bus to hotel leaves at 12.45pm)
Boat charter-of various sizes and speed with or without skipper, for daily excursions from Amalfi to the most beautiful places on the coast (Positano, Praiano, Li Galli Isles, Nerano/Marina del Cantone, Capri, Sorrento.
Santa Chiara
This is a strict enclosure convent built in a magnificent position, not far away from villa Cimbrone. You can only visit the atrium and the entrance where you find the gate and the Ruota (wheel) . The gate is used for the rare contacts between the nuns and the outer world, keeping the figure hidden, and the wheel is used to pass goods in and out from the convent.
The picture below is of the gate and wheel.
There is hourly bus service between Amalfi and Ravello. This trip generally takes about a half an hour and goes thru some
hairpin twists and turns. It is relatively cheap - 1 Euro for an hours ride.
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