What You’ll Love about Your Week in Madrid
Madrid is an exciting, ever-changing city with vibrant neighborhoods, beautiful architecture and an interesting food scene. We’ll explore the city through the lens of food and wine, and also art. Art curator and European painting expert Ronni Baer, currently Distinguished Curator at Princeton University Art Museum, will guide us in the Prado, explaining the works of Goya, Velasquez and El Greco, as well as still-life painter Luis Melendez. You may have had a guided tour in a museum before, but nothing like a Ronni Baer tour.
We’ll learn about Spanish food and cooking from experts – including the daughters of Clara Maria de Amezua, a tireless ambassador of Spanish cuisine who is sometimes called the Julia Child of Spain. Fausto Luchetti, a former director of the International Olive Oil Council, will teach us all we need to know about extra virgin olive oil (including how to taste it!). We’ll be introduced to the wide range of wonderful Spanish wines by local experts. As with all Oldways Culinarias, we’ll visit a range of interesting restaurants and markets and spend an evening “tapas hopping” in small groups.
We love Madrid, and we’ll also introduce you to Toledo, a historic hilltop city south of Madrid. It’s famous as the former capital of the Spanish Empire, and as a city where Christian, Muslim and Jewish communities co-existed. The city’s cultural traditions and architecture reflects this, and it is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
And if you’re like us, you’ll just love walking the streets of Madrid. We hope you’ll join us.
The Madrid Culinaria may be eligible for CPEU credit pending CDR review and approval.
