Everything guests ask before reserving their spot.
It's Rasna's fixed-departure week (August 9–15, 2027) in Blera, an ancient Etruscan hill town in Italy's Tuscia region. Guests hand-pick tomatoes, make pasta by hand, and cook the year's sauce, explore rock-cut Etruscan tombs, swim at the Tyrrhenian coast and Lago di Vico, and ride and make cheese at Civitella Cesi, all as a small group capped at 8 guests.
Most Italy tours move large groups through sights by bus. Rasna caps every trip at 8 guests and builds it around real local life: you work alongside the people who actually farm the land, cure the meat, and cook the meals, rather than watching a staged demonstration.
€2,125 per person, all-inclusive: accommodation, all meals, guided Etruscan site visits, the tomato harvest, hands-on pasta making, and sauce day, and local transport. The only extra costs are flights, travel insurance, and personal spending. See the full pricing chart.
No. The Italian Summer Experience is one flat price, €2,125 per person, whenever you book. See the full pricing chart.
Yes. Alongside the fixed Italian Summer Experience departure, Rasna offers fully custom small-group Italy experiences. Pick your own activities and dates and Rasna arranges everything around you.
Blera is in Tuscia, the historic Etruscan region of northern Lazio, about 90 minutes from Rome. Far enough to avoid the Tuscany and Amalfi Coast tourist crowds, close enough for an easy transfer.
Light layers, sun protection (hat, sunscreen), a swimsuit for the coast and Lago di Vico, comfortable walking shoes for the tombs and San Giovenale (uneven ground), and something you don't mind riding a horse in if you're not used to it.
No. English runs the trip. Nikolai also speaks Italian, French, Spanish, and Russian, so if it's easier to ask a question or tell a story in another language, use it.
Cancel 30+ days before departure for a full refund, 15–29 days for 50%, and it's non-refundable within 14 days, since accommodation and local partners are booked and paid on your behalf in advance. Unavoidable circumstances at or near Blera, or a cancellation by us, get a full refund regardless of timing. See the full policy.
The trip is hands-on and physical — hiking, horseback riding, swimming, farm work, and similar activities carry inherent risk, like any real outdoor activity. You're responsible for your own safety and for following your guide's instructions; if you're hurt through the ordinary risk of an activity and not through our fault, that's not on Rasna. If we (or a local host) are at fault, Italian and EU package-travel law means that liability can't be waived away. See our full Liability Waiver & Assumption of Risk.
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