Top Manarola Classes & Workshops

Learn how to make authentic Italian pesto with a local chef who grows all the ingredients themselves. Discover more about local culinary traditions from your teacher as you grind the fresh ingredients on a mortar and pestle. Relax and enjoy your handiwork with a glass of crisp white wine and homemade focaccia at the end of the class.

A great day in Cinque Terre to discover the fabulous and scenographic villages with an authorized tour guide photographer. You will meet your guide/photographer at La Spezia harbour (or any other place upon request) . We will take the private car to reach Manarola and on the way we will stop in a secret spots where we will take magical pics. Visit of Manarola, surronded by vinyards, and his magical photo spots, Vernazza the so called The pearl of Cinque Terre, Monterosso the biggest fishing village and the only one with a real sandy beach famous alla round the world for is beauty. We will move by car, train and ferry to have contiunsly different prospectives of the area. During the walking tour you will discover the history of these small and charming villages dating back to the Middle Ages and we will help you to get unforgettable pictures! Your memories. . . your life. . . PLEASE NOTE : NECESSARY EQUIPMENT : REFLEX MIRRORLESS CAMERA OR VERY GOOD QUALITY CAMERA PHONE

Get a taste of Cinque Terre on this 4-hour tour from Manarola, Cinque Terre, that combines a pesto demonstration, a boat cruise along the coast, and lunch. Travel to Cinque Terre via train with your group, then end the tour in Vernazza with a Cinque Terre trail pass to explore further if you wish.

Sardinia produces exceptional olive oil and instead of just tasting it in a restaurant, this experience allows you to visit a family-run olive oil company in Budoni, Provincia della Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna. Enter a tasting room and meet the farm’s owner to learn the secrets of their award-winning extra virgin olive oil production. Then enjoy a tasting session with bruschettas, meat, cheese, and local wine paired with the olive oil.

Get off the tourist track and get an insider’s immersion into a local wine producer and vineyard. Discover hidden wonders of Manarola on foot, enjoying views of the sea and surrounding hills. Then, head to a centuries-old wine cellar for a sommelier-led tasting of two local varieties of white wine, paired with traditional Ligurian delicacies like focaccia and pesto.

The focaccia you cook will be so good that you will want to give it back at home, and you will succeed because we will teach you how to make it at home. For pesto I'll teach you all the secrets to give it the best, trust me

You won't have many other opportunities to make both pesto and trofie, without knowing the secret they are difficult to realize, but I will reveal it to you! We will make pesto made with a marble mortar, just like my grandmother used to make it, and she taught me how to roll trofie, with a little secret that only in Ligurian kitchens is used. You will feel involved in Ligurian cuisine, when you taste the trofie with pesto, you will not believe that you made them, how good they are.

Manarola wine tasting experience is a nice walk through the Manarola vineyards among panoramic points to take beautiful photos, good local wine and flavors, snacks and an exclusive moment in an amazing old cellar from the 1800s, relax and sharing at the convivial table, nice music.