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Byline: Barbie Nadeau
Forget the digital camera. The preferred way to capture a holiday in Italy seems to be with a charcoal pencil or watercolor set. Sketching and painting tours have been gaining in popularity, even surpassing some of the country's
culinary and wine-tasting excursions.
Barbara Hardesty, creator of Da Vinci Capers, which offers one-week painting trips to Tuscany or the Amalfi coast, says most of her customers have never picked up a paintbrush before. "They all want an experiential vacation," she says (davincicapers.com ; from $4,000 per person for a week in Tuscany; $3,000 for the Amalfi coast). Active Gourmet Holidays ...