Rogaia Blog

La Rogaia: A spring picnic in the countryside

03.04.2021

Food and Drink, Umbria

La Rogaia is still waiting to welcome guests again. Over Easter we will inevitably have our green hill in Umbria to ourselves, but we hope to have new guests from May onwards!

The spring-like weather inspired us to have a picnic, in anticipation of the enjoyable life in the great outdoors in the warm months.

Deeply relaxed while dancing tango

23.02.2021

Tango, Tuscany, Umbria

In the summer of 1999, shortly after we started the tango holiday weeks in La Rogaia, we also gave courses for local people interested in tango.

In our courses we started with a short introduction to Argentine tango and our concept of relaxed tango dancing.

But then something stranged happened...

Recipes from La Rogaia: Risotto alle rape rosse - Beetroot-Risotto

14.02.2021

Food and Drink, Tuscany, Umbria

For today's Valentine's Day, Amira has cooked a risotto in the color of love - with beetroot and red onions from the garden and with red wine.

Decorated with a heart of cheese sauce, this dish shows that the way to the heart is through the stomach ...

The first tango morning - where on earth has this guy gone?

08.02.2021

Tango, Tuscany, Umbria

We can hardly believe it ourselves, but in 2021 we will actually be holding tango courses in La Rogaia in the 23rd year.

So many difficulties and not even the COVID19 pandemic have stopped us from going on! We look back on many wonderful courses with great teachers and participants.
Here are our memories of the first tango morning in La Rogaia.

Recipes from La Rogaia: Pere cotte - Baked pears in red wine

02.02.2021

Food and Drink, Umbria

Even after Christmas, baked apples with cinnamon and raisins taste wonderful, for example on cold winter evenings in front of the fireplace.

Today we have an Umbrian variant with pears for you, of course another recipe from Mamma Ornella, prepared and photographed by Amira.

Longing for togetherness

17.01.2021

Tango, Umbria

Experiencing beautiful things together with others has become difficult for all of us in times of Corona - also and especially for tango dancers.

It only made us more aware of what is important to us about dancing tango.

Here are our thoughts on this:

Happy New Year and a Big Thank You

04.01.2021

Umbria

A piece of blue sky and even a few rays of sun - finally.

At th end of a difficult year we want to do mainly one thing:
We want to say Thank you!

La Rogaia Recipes: Panna Cotta with Flower Syrup

06.06.2020

Decameron, Food and Drink, Special Offers, Tuscany, Umbria

The rose garden of La Rogaia opens again!

From mid-June we can welcome guests. To celebrate the end of the "Decameron", Amira has prepared a panna cotta with syrup made from roses and lilac flowers from our garden.

See you again at Villa La Rogaia!

Sleeping Beauty Rogaia

16.05.2020

Decameron, Tuscany, Umbria

When we came to La Rogaia more than twenty years ago, part of the garden was overgrown with blackberry bushes. And indeed, in the Umbrian dialect "le roghe" means: thorny brush ...

We then set about planting a garden and the name "ROGAIA" stood for us as an abbreviation for "ROse GArden In Advance"

The roses have grown and they bloom more beautifully every year - this year too. And our two daughters these days sometimes feel like living in a remote enchanted castle.

Recipes from the "Decameron": "Stuck in paradise" and an Orange-Fennel-Carpaccio

06.05.2020