Cooking courses and holidays in Italy

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Roll up your sleeves, don your apron & get ready to cook with the locals, from Italian mammas to professional chefs. You'll be kneading pasta dough, flipping pizzas, whipping up regional dishes with recipes passed down from generations, all washed down with a glass of local vino. Cooking experiences in Italy should always be this immersive.

Rome

Prices from £100

Tuscany

Prices from £127

Lake Garda

Prices from £244

Umbria

Prices from £334

Florence

Prices from £460

Bologna

Prices from £627

Puglia

Prices from £630

Sorrento

Prices from £849

Abruzzo

Prices from £1257

Our most popular holidays

After all, it's not just where you go, it's how you come back.

"Great holiday cooking dishes handed down for generations & seeing the beauty of Puglia."

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Sue, UK: Italian cooking & culture holiday, Puglia

"Oli is a passionate chef with great knowledge of Italian food. Worth every penny."

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Mike, UK: Italian cooking & gastronomy, Tuscany

"This cooking holiday was amazing. A very true and authentic experience."

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Tess, Canada: Cooking & wine holiday, Emilia Romagna

Multi activity holidays

Why settle for just one activity when you can try two!

Multi activity holidays
Cooking and Italian courses

Cooking and Italian courses

from £307

Multi activity holidays
Cooking and horse riding courses

Cooking and horse riding courses

from £937

Buon appetito

Italians embrace food as an essential way of life: something to savour and to spend hours revelling in alongside good company and fantastic views.

Italian food is so much more than rich gelato, hearty pastas and savoury pizzas (though those are great, too).

Cooking holidays in Italy draw you into the depths of Italian flavours and the complexity of the dishes – and likewise the culture – proving why Italian food is the most-copied cuisine in the world.

Go learn to expand your knowledge of flavour combinations and allow your creativity to flourish, understand the elements of local ingredients and be daring and bold with them, and – most importantly – share stories and a glass of wine with other passionate cooks over a meal you've prepared together.

And with local chefs, fourth-generation cooks and Italian artisans showing you the way around the kitchen, you'll return with new skills and satisfied tastebuds.


Where to experience cooking courses in Italy

Go just to explore one of Italy's diverse regions, or combine your Italian cooking classes with another hobby or passion like painting, horse riding, hiking, yoga or learning to speak Italian.

Cook with a stunning view of the Bay of Naples on an Italian cookery course in Sorrento or discover the seat of the ancient Roman Empire with one-day Italian cooking classes in Rome.

Find the freshest ingredients in the enticing food markets of Bologna or learn to cook among the canals of Venice or the stunning villages near Lake Garda.

Or, traverse Italy's most iconic food and wine regions.

In Tuscany, let the sun-baked hills and local Tuscan flavours inspire your creations (and wander the romantic streets of Florence while you're at it!) or head to charming Puglia or Umbria to discover serene settings, regional delicacies and palate-pleasing local wine.

Cooking courses should always feel this inspiring.

Whatever your tastes, you can find a cookery holiday in Italy to indulge your inner chef and a group of like-minded people to experience it with. Never settle for ordinary.


Who are our Italian cooking holiday guests?

Fervent foodies, beginners who struggle to roll fresh dough, lifelong chefs – everyone is welcome in the kitchens of our Italian cooking schools.

You'll meet people of all ages and nationalities on cooking holidays in Italy, from solo travellers to couples to friends. Some love local, seasonal food, others are simply looking for a getaway that blends relaxation with life-enhancing activities (and excellent meals).

All that's required is a passion for food, a love of learning and a refusal to be boxed in.

Is this you? It looks like you.

Thousands of people have already discovered that our eclectic mix of cooking holidays in Italy are as diverse as the people who go on them. Come and join them.

Guest reviews

"Let your mind be blown. Eat the new food, have a broken conversation, dance with a local, get bombed on Limoncello. It’s a holiday." Elaine, USA

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