GOLF AND FOOD & WINE PLEASURES – STRONG RELAX SENSATION PLAYING GOLF PLUNGED IN THE NATURAL AND QUITE FRANCIACORTA (7 DAYS) HOLIDAY: 7 days / 6 nights PACKAGE: ·6 overnights including breakfast at Relais Franciacorta (****); · 3 dinners at the hotel restaurant; ·1 dinner at restaurant Miramonti l’Altro that proposes traditional but innovatory dishes; ·1 dinner at restaurant Due Colombe offering typical but creative cooking; ·1 country dinner at La Villetta tavern; ·1 visit with tasting to Guido Berlucchi winery; ·5 green fees; ·Lunches at your leisure
DETAILS The hospitality of Franciacorta is known for its variety and charm. Whatever type of accommodation you choose, be it a farm holiday centre, hotel, or stately home, the atmosphere will be unique. The region's hospitality is a combination of entrepreneurship, passion, love for the land and its resources. These are the qualities that characterize the local people involved in tourism. Franciacorta offers a special, indeed unique, holiday for people who want to combine golf, relax and gastronomy. Should you plump for a vacation in a hotel nestling in the vineyards of Franciacorta or in a hotel on the shores of Lake Iseo, the hoteliers with their innate sense of hospitality will ensure you will be well looked after. In our package we have foreseen 5 days dedicated to the golf, each of them on a different green, and two days dedicated to gourmet cuisine, wellness and relax.
In the evening, in fact, after a day spent on a golf course, you will be able to taste the typical products of Franciacorta, through 4 dinners at the best restaurants in this area and a guided visit to a winery to better know the famous wine local reality.
Golf di Franciacorta Sixty hectares in the greenery, the Franciacorta Golf Club is a place conceived for sporty and dynamic families. A wonderful oasis of green surrounded by woods and vineyards, boasting an avifauna worthy of a reserve. The 18 holes championship course has a PAR 72 and 6005 meters in length. Designed by Pete Dye and Marco Croze, whose careful landscaping has recreated the old rural charm of the vine-covered hills, the course has 18 holes par 72 and 9 holes executive par 27. The technical characteristics of the Franciacorta Golf Club are, by accounts of all players whether professionals or amateurs frequenting it, of remarkable interest considering the “personality” of each single hole. A club intended, planned and constructed in order to become important and to enter fully between the most prestigious golf realities.
Arzaga Golf Club Arzaga is situated between the Alps and Lake Garda, providing a stunning backdrop and a unique mild climate, which allows golf to be played throughout the year. The first 18 holes – par 72, Arzaga I, were designed by Jack Nicklaus II, while the 9 hole – par 36 course, Arzaga II, was designed by Gary Player. Arzaga's Golf Academy is the first Teaching & Learning Centre of the PGA of Europe in Italy. The Arzaga golf courses have been planned in different ways with the attempt to satisfy the beginner as well as the professional player.
Gardagolf Country Club Experts consider GARDA GOLF one of the best golf courses built over the past 10 years. It stretches over an area of 110 hectares and was designed by British golfing architects. The Garda Golf Country Club is a 27-hole golf course which spreads between the Rocca di Manerba, the Castle of Soiano and the Valtenesi hills, and offers a breathtakingly beautiful panorama.
Bogliaco Golf Resort Situated close to the hills on the western side of Garda Lake, Golf Bogliaco lies in a basin at an altitude of 100 metres, covered with oleander, laurel, cypresses, olive trees and other plants typical of Mediterranean vegetation. The raised position gives a splendid view over almost the full length of the lake and the mountains which surround it. The decidedly mild climate offers the possibility of playing all year round. Its course (18 holes - par 67), is particular and charming and still keeps “English” style. Golf Bogliaco was created in 1912 thanks to the enterprise of a hotel owner in order to satisfy the demands of increasing tourism from England and Germany, becoming the third golf course in Italy.
Golf Cà degli Ulivi Play golf with a view over Lake Garda - on the Golf Course Ca´ degli Ulivi, located beautifully some 3km above Garda, this is possible. The 18-Holes par 71 Champion's Course, designed by English study Cotton Penninck & Partners, is surrounded by olive groves and cypresses and offers, from some holes, a stunning view over Garda Lake to the golfer. Eastwards, you see the rolling forelands of Monte Baldo. The course is embedded in beautiful nature and its 600 metres altitude makes it most challenging even for experienced golf players. The small 9-Holes Course is just as beautiful and demands precise play even from advanced players. After the game, you can recover on the lovely terrace and enjoy the amazing view over the lake. If you're looking for a challenge, then the golf tournaments, held each Sunday, might interest you. SUGGESTED FOR For people loving golf and want to practice this sport in a place dipped in nature and to devote themselves both to the wellbeing and to the pleasure playing golf. Keens on golf have, every day, the opportunity to discover a new fantastic course to play. Opportunity of golf course for beginners; this is addressed to all the people who need to approach golf in a simple but complete way. For people playing golf and love open spaces and contact with nature, it is impossible not to be enchanted by these places where silence is broken only by the trampling of their own steps or by the swish of the little ball. The undoubtedly mild climate offers the possibility of playing all year round.
ACCOMMODATION Relais Franciacorta**** Peace, relax and comfort oasis, warm and refined atmosphere. Even equipped with every kind of technological comfort and facilities, Relais Franciacorta still keep untouched its charm during the years, with the typical rural of a seventeenth century farm house; the ideal place to enjoy both your stay and your relax after the time spent on greens. RESTAURANTS
Relais Franciacorta Restaurant Exclusive and refined restaurant, 100 persons capacity. Its delicious cooking, proposing local and national typical dishes, it perfect couples minimalism, quality, easiness and high research, tradition and creativity in a wide range of receipts, particularly devotes to Franciacorta specialities and fresh-water fish of Iseo Lake. Moreover the restaurant proposes tasting of a wide choice of regional and international wines.
Miramonti L’Altro Restaurant The Miramonti l’Altro in Concesio is one of the finest and most celebrated restaurants in Italy, boasting Two Stars from the Michelin Guide and top rankings in all other dining guidebooks. It is managed by siblings Mauro and Daniela Piscini, wife of the ultra-talented French chef Philippe Lévaillé. Miramonti l’Altro in Concesio is celebrating its 25th year of life and achievements precisely this year, and this new initiative gives the Piscini family the opportunity to offer the highest level of dining experience to groups of customers who appreciate true elegance. We can really name it “Temple of cuisine”.
Due Colombe Restaurant Typical dinner at Due Colombe Restaurant, where the chef Stefano Cerveni, one of the greatest creative chefs in our area, re proposes the “dishes of memory”. Dinner is served in an authentic mill of the fourteenth century.
La Villetta taverna The tavern is a small building near the station of Palazzolo. The Villetta is considered to be one of the 12 best inn in Italy, with food that is in keeping with tradition, that results from the selection of the best Italian food and wine products and it specializes in food from the Brescian territory. It is a place very quiet, the atmosphere is warm, the wooden tables are properly prepared with nice goblets of wine precluding a very serious wine list.
Guido Berlucchi Winery In 1961, a young winemaker called Franco Ziliani convinces Guido Berlucchi to exploit Borgonato castle cellars and property vineyards in Franciacorta to start a challenge. The challenge is that one to create a great sparkling classic method with wine that may arise on a par with the most titrated French Champagne. The first sparkling wine was a Millesimato appreciated by the public, strengthening in Franco Ziliani the conviction that Borgonato and Franciacorta were ideal place for producing a high-quality sparkling wine. Currently Berlucchi produces approximately 4,600,000 bottles of wine which are known throughout the world and is one of the most dynamic reality of Italian wine panorama. AND MOREOVER… For people loving relax: there are several wellness treatments at Franciacorta Wellness Centre. For people loving nature: we suggest you some striking rides in the green of Franciacorta. For people loving sport: we suggest bicycle tours with cycle-touring guides.
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