Eyes wide open - focus to beauty

DAY 1 — ARRIVAL
Before you can look, you have to stop.

Evening Welcome. A glass of wine, something on the table. One single instruction for the week: bring a notebook, a pencil, an open gaze.
After dinner. First observation - Five minutes outside, in the dark, just listening. No photographs yet — only presence.

DAY 2 — THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EYE
The sea as first subject.

06:30 Sunrise at the sea. We go out before the day makes up its mind. The light at half past six resembles nothing else. Camera or smartphone — the tool doesn't matter.
08:00 Breakfast & sharing. Back home, we look at what we captured together. No judgement — only observation.
10:00 Workshop · Landscape photography. How to read a scene. Light, shadow, waiting. We go out into the nearby territory with a different gaze from a tourist's one.
13:00 Lunch at home. Slow, with garden products.
15:00 Free afternoon. Go wherever you like with the camera. The harbour, the alleys, the countryside.
17:00 Workshop · Long-rise pizza dough. Hands on something else, while the mind processes the day's images. We prepare the dough — tomorrow evening it goes in the oven.
20:00 Dinner & viewing. Photos from the day are shared. Everyone picks their favourite and says why.

DAY 3 — THE WRITTEN WORD
A village, a story to tell.

07:00 Morning swim. Short swim, breakfast at the seafront coffee bar.
10:00 Guided visit · Belmonte Calabro. We walk with the look of who will write about it later. Notes go on paper — not on the phone.
13:00 Lunch on site. Village trattoria or picnic with local products.
15:00 Workshop · Writing from life. Sitting with the notebook, we write about the place we just visited. Not a review — a fragment. Three paragraphs, one impression, one scene. Read aloud only if you want to.
17:00 Free time. Independent walk, rest, holistic massage on request.
20:00 Pizza from the wood-fired oven. Last night's dough is ready. We fire the oven, eat together, talk about what we wrote — or completely about something else.

DAY 4 — SLOW DRAWING
Drawing is not about knowing how to draw.

07:00 Morning swim. Sunrise observation or swim — your choice.
10:00 Workshop · Drawing from life. We draw what we see — a corner of the garden, a window, an object on the table. No expectation of results. Slow drawing is a form of meditation.
12:30 Lunch at home. Light, colourful.
15:00 Guided visit · Amantea (~12 km). The hilltop old town, the Aragonese walls, the seafront. We walk with pencil and notebook in pocket — whoever wants to stop and sketch or jot something down, stops.
18:00 Artisanal gelato on the seafront. A necessary pause.
20:00 Dinner at home. Shared table. Everyone shows what they drew during the day — no judgement, only curiosity.

DAY 5 — SILENCE AS MATERIAL
Some of the best things are made by not doing.

Morning. Free at the sea. No workshop. Just the sea, the body, the sky.
10:00 Holistic massage. A session to put the body back at the centre, after days of eyes and mind at work.
13:00 Light lunch. At home, simple.
17:00 Fiumefreddo Bruzio (~6 km). Walk up to the medieval village at sunset. Bring the notebook — or the camera. Or nothing at all.
20:00 Dinner on site or return. Village trattoria if open, otherwise back home for dinner.

DAY 6 — GATHERING THE THREADS
Everything you have seen, written, drawn: it is already a work.

07:00 Last sunrise. Go out at dawn for the week's final photography session.
10:00 Workshop · Seasonal preserves. Hands take care of something concrete and fragrant while the mind sorts through the week's memories.
12:30 Lunch at home. With the freshly made jam, bread, a long coffee.
15:00 Workshop · Editing & storytelling. We go back over photos, sketches, notes. Each of us choose one image, one text, one drawing to take home as a memory of the week. Those who wants to, shares it.
18:00 Free time. Last afternoon at the sea or in the garden.
20:00 Final conscious dinner, local wine. A toast to what was made — and to what will be made when we get home.

DAY 7 — DEPARTURE
You leave with a different gaze from the one you arrived with.

Morning. Slow breakfast. Coffee, bread, yesterday's jam. No rush.
Before leaving . Something to take home. A jar of preserve, the recipe, a printed photo, a drawing. And promise to keep looking at the world this way, even back home.
Departure. Flexible according to travel times.

Lamezia Terme International Airport (SUF)
Paola Railway Station
Highway A2 direction Reggio - Calabria (from the North) exit Lagonegro Nord. Direction Salerno (from the South) exit Falerna. In both cases proceed on Strada Statale SS 18 towards Longobardi Marina (CS).

The private villa is immersed in the vegetation at a middle height on the sea level, facing the Thyrrenian Sea, watching Stromboli and the other Aeolian Islands on the horizon.
You have free access to a multifunctional area with musical instruments, library, bar and sofa to relax and create. A terrace to share meals and a big garden with trees and plants to hang, observe, fill lungs with clean air.

• Pick up ad drop off your train station/ airport in Calabria.
• Overnight stays with private bathroom.
• 5/6 dinners.
• 1 breakfasts.
• 4 lunches.
• 1 holistic massage.
• 3 tours.
• 6 workshops.
• Open bar at home.
• Daily transfers in mentioned locations.

What's Not Included

• 6 breakfasts at the coffee bar.
• Other Holistic massages.
• Every meal and purchase at the coffee bar and restaurants/lido.
• Everything not mentioned in what's included.