At the Agriturismo Sant'Ilario sul Farfa you have the opportunity to join different initiatives according to your interests and spare time.

Creative classes
Attend a creative course run by professional teachers who will introduce you to decorative techniques in a pleasant and relaxing atmosphere:
- Regional Cuisine
- Oil and vine tasting
- Arts & crafts
- Star lights

Green week
In a fantastic environment, we organize, during predifined weeks, holidays for young boys and girls from 7 to 13 years old. ISEF teachers constantly take care of them all.

Theme week-ends
Each season has its events and each event gives the opportunity to meet people, taste flavours of nature and enjoy being together..
- Olive harvesting
- Grape harvesting

Itineraries
The Sabina is very rich of cultural and archeological sites, all to be visited and appreciated despite cultural and religious differences.
We have selected only for you some very interesting itineraries.

Creative courses

Watercolor, wonderful landscapes will inspire your paintings and Oscar will share her experience with you,
Teacher: Oscar

Cross-stitch, stitch after stitch, you will learn the basic cross-stitch technique and the advanced one in order to put into practice the 'perfect reverse'. Teacher: Liliana Babbi Cappelletti

Pyrography, drawing by burning with the pyro machine. Learn how to decorate wood, cork, leather. Teacher: M.Laura Baronti Marchiò

Computer Science, technology and nature. What a great opportunity to learn the basics of Windows, Internet and Microsoft Office in a relaxed atmosphere. Teacher: M.Laura Baronti Marchiò

Decoupage, anyone who can use scissors and glue can decoupage! With time, education and experience the decoupeur will progress from simple designs to complex works of art. Teacher: Dianella Cappi Bernardini

Polymer clay, it is a modelling material that is available in many colours and is marketed under such brand names as Fimo, Cernit, Sculpey III etc. and can be used for a remarkable range of creative artwork. Teacher: Daniela Messina

Classic Embroidery, after many years during which it was nearly a forgotten art, today embroidery is enjoying renewed success and popularity as an expression of feminine creativity. Teacher: Liliana Babbi Cappelletti

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Green weeks

Every year, in the second half of June, we organize what we call 'Green Weeks'. During those two weeks, children from 7 to 14 years old, can spend a fantastic holiday playing sports and enjoying themselves under the constant supervision of ISEF teachers, coordinated by Prof. Franco Bagalà, ISEF teacher himself.
Young boys and girls stay in confortable rooms with three or four beds, all with bathroom. During the day they have: breakfast in the morning, lunch at noon, snacks in the afternoon and dinner in the evening, all based on genuine products from the farm.

Planned activities are the following: Swimming
- Volley-ball
- Football
- Gymnastics
- Badmington (mini-tennis)
- Ping.pong
- Traditional games (campana, ruba bandiera, salto della corda, palla avvelenata etc.)
- Draught, chess, risiko, monopoli, scrabble etc.
- Drawing and painting activities
- Folk songs
- Movies
- Walks along the Farfa river and visits to Farfa Abbey
- Visits to other farms specialized in breeding cows, horses and pigs, or which produce milk and cheese.

Day type and other information

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Our initiative, already experimented during the last few years, has had great success among children that had the opportunity to live a great adventure that helped their social experience and their capacity to gain authonomy.
Last year children from the following school were our guests:
- Secondary Schools, Settembrini, Alfieri - Lante della Rovere, Esopo, Sinopoli, I.Nievo.
- Primary Schools, Principessa Mafalda, Mazzini, Contardo Ferrini.

Typical day planning:
8.00 Wake-up
8.30 Breakfast
9.00 Meeting to plan the day
11.00 Swimming pool
12.30 Shower and dressing for lunch
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Afternoon nap
15.30 Walk along the river or visit to a farm
18.00 Outdoor games
19.00 Personal cleaning
19.30 Dinner
20.30 Table games or movie watching or free supervised activities
22.00 Back to rooms for sleeping

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Theme week-ends

Each season offers an opportunity to enjoy nature in different ways.
In November and December when the olive harvest takes place, we propose theme week-ends with arrival on friday afternoon and departure on sunday afternoon.

Cost includes: 2 nights and breakfasts, saturday dinner and sunday lunch.

The daily plan is:
- Partecipation or observation of olive harvest;
- Visit to the oil mill to see how extra-virgin olive oil is produced;
- Visit to the Olive Oil Museum at Castelnuovo di Farfa;
- Extra-virgin olive oil shopping if anybody is interested in.

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Creative courses

Regional Cuisine
Typical delicious dishes from the Sabina region, all prepared and tasted directly at the farm house.

Oil tasting
At the beginning of november, the olive picking starts and at our farm house where we produce olive oil D.O.P., we organize courses about the oil culture and tasting:
- Tasting
- Oil and health
- Different uses of olive oil
- Olive oil history and tradition

Courses will be run during the week end by experts that will let you discover all the peculiarity and powers of olive oil. They will show you each step of the olive oil production, from the picking to the bottling. You will learn to distinguish tastes, properties and faults of one of the most important gastronomic richness of our country.

During the week, we will be delighted to welcome groups of students.

Star lights
Surrounded by the peace of country evenings, definitely away from artificial lights, we arrange stars observation evenings run by the experts of the Frasso Sabino observatory.

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