Multi-Day Trip: Croatian Food and Beverage Culture and Heritage
Novigrad, Croatia
Trip Type: Multi-day Tours
Duration: 8 days
Travel to Croatia and enjoy the best food and wine tour! Each day you will taste a new local specialty as well as enjoying best wine tasting experiences. You will appreciate special meals based on truffles, fresh fish prepared in a traditional way, beef steak of Istrian Boscarin Ox, all this combined with the best wines tasting experiences. The tour offer also tastes of brandies made with local herbs and plants, truffle hunting demonstration and other local activities which will introduce you to local culture and heritage.
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Travel to Croatia and enjoy the best food and wine tour! Each day you will taste a new local specialty as well as enjoying best wine tasting experiences. You will appreciate special meals based on truffles, fresh fish prepared in a traditional way, beef steak of Istrian Boscarin Ox, all this combined with the best wines tasting experiences. The tour offer also tastes of brandies made with local herbs and plants, truffle hunting demonstration and other local activities which will introduce you to local culture and heritage.
This is what you can expect of your multi-day tour:
Day 1 - Pick up at the airport. - Transfer to the hotel will be made with private mini bus. - Time spent to arrive at the hotel will depend on chosen airport to land (from Pula airport 40 minutes driving; from Trieste airport 1.5 h driving; from Ljbljana airport 1.5 h driving; from Venice MArco Polo airport 2 hours driving; from Treviso airport 2 hours driving). - Dinner at the hotel.
Day 2 - Your gastro-cultural experience in Croatia starts with a 'Truffle hunting experience', a guided tour with local expert. After that you will enjoy a lunch based on truffle dishes in combination with red wine Merlot. tour continue at local distillery where you will discover the step by step the process used to obtain 100% pure brandy made with local herbs and plats. A taste of 3 different types of brandy is included.
Day 3 - After a free morning, your day starts with the excursion 'The path of Moscato' by visiting local wineries and taste quality Moscato, a sweet type of white wine. Lunch will be served at local Tavern, tasting autochthon food combined with one of the most appreciated white wine Malvazija. Tour continue visiting Grožnjan (Grisignano), one the most famous hilltop village of artist in Croatia.
Day 4 - Enjoy a free day
Day 5 - In the morning you will enjoy a guided tour on Parenzana electric train where you will live a new experience through a unique ride along the route of historical Parenzana. Apart from riding through Istrian landscape and visiting magnificent places of central Istria, you will be offered tastings of native dishes and beverage. After the train ride you will enjoy a lunch at local tavern where will be served one of the best local dish made with meat of autochthon Ox served with red wine Teran. After the lunch you will be driven back to the hotel to enjoy a free evening.
Day 6 - The day will start with the visit of a local winery specialized sparkly wine production. You will be enjoying a tasting and a small snack will be given as well. After the sparkly wine tasting your tour continues with the visit of Pula, which includes the visit of the Amphitheater, passing through the remains of the Hercules' temple, to the Cathedral, then to Roman Forum with Augustus and Roman Temple, and the City Hall. Daily tour continue visiting the Histria Aromatica Park, which cover an area of 150.000m2 where are grown biological products, herbs and plants used for producing them medical and dermatological products. A lunch will be served for you and after that you will be tasting brandies of them own production.
Day 7 - The day before your departure you will be enjoying a boat tour experiences Istrian coast from the sea. A lunch based on fish will be served on the boat including a glass of white wine to have the perfect eno-gastronomic experience on the boat.
Day 8 - Departure to the airport
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