Top Veneto Classes & Workshops

Bardolino is one of Italy’s most prestigious wine-producing areas and sits within striking distance of Lake Garda, but it’s a challenge to find a cellar to visit on your own. With this pre-booked tour, stop at a local winery to explore the scenic vineyards and aging cellar. Learn about the winery’s history and production, then relax over a tasting of four wines paired with local specialties.

Prosecco is Italy’s most beloved bubbly, produced on the scenic slopes just north of Venice. Make exploring beyond city limits simple—and head to wineries you might not find on your own—on this small-group tour. Enjoy a scenic drive through rolling vineyards and medieval villages from Venice to boutique wine estates for tours, wine tastings, and a light lunch overlooking the hills.

So many Venice tours focus on sightseeing or food, but not many combine the two. However, this express walking tour does just that, covering iconic Venice photo points such as the Rialto Bridge, historic monuments such as the Basilica dei Frari, and traditional “bacari” bars, too. “Cicchetti” (small plates of Venetian snacks) are included, along with the chance to live some local culture with a guide.

Benefit from personalized attention and a flexible itinerary on this private tour focused on the Italian traditions of aperitivo and cicchetti. With a local host by your side providing culinary history, sip some wine and prosecco, accompanied by light snacks. Your guide tailors their bar selections and commentary to your tastes, and you have plenty of time to ask questions.

Meet your host, Massimo, for a fun and informative private cooking class. Shop for ingredients at the Mercato di Rialto (if option selected), then head back to Massimo’s for a lesson in Italian cuisine. Learn to prepare dishes from the Veneto region and make homemade pasta and focaccia bread from scratch. After the lesson, enjoy the meal you’ve prepared together.

As a visitor to an unfamiliar city, it can be difficult to get close to the local culture. This intimate experience offers the rare opportunity to do exactly that by having a cooking lesson from a professional chef in her Venetian home. Learn to cook one classic main dish and pair your creation with local wine for the full Venetian experience.

Capture your trip to Venice during this private one, two, three, or four-hour photoshoot with a professional photographer. Let the city be your backdrop as you pose in front of iconic Venice locations—ideal for solo travelers, couples, or special events. Get between 20 and 50 final images (depending on the duration selected) in an online viewing gallery within two weeks.

Venice is home to pasta-making traditions passed down for generations, but too often, travelers suffer through disappointing meals. Skip the usual tourist traps and head to the home of a local Venetian cook to learn time-honored cooking secrets. After mixing, kneading, and shaping classic pasta dishes such as bigoli, tagliatelle, or ravioli, sit down to enjoy the fruits of your labor over a bottle of wine.

Enjoy a local's eye view of Venice by joining this small-group cooking class led by a Venetian-born host in their home. In a small group of no more than 10 guests, learn how to make fresh pasta, then sit down together to enjoy a 3-course meal accompanied by a glass of white wine or Prosecco.

Discover Venice exactly the way you want to with this completely customized private tour. Your friendly local guide will create a 3-hour itinerary based on preferences you provide at booking. Whether you’re interested in architecture, local legends or Renaissance art, this tour is for you! Along the way, pop in at a local bar for a glass of regional wine and appetizers, and feel free to ask all the questions you like.

Get a taste for the hill towns near Venice with this small-group tour of Veneto. Wander the charming medieval streets and gardens of Asolo and Bassano del Grappa, and visit the well-preserved Villa Barbaro, designed by the famous Renaissance architect Palladio. Savor Veneto cuisine at a local restaurant (lunch not included in the tour price), and toast your trip with a bubbly glass of prosecco at a vineyard tasting. Numbers are limited to 8 people to ensure an intimate, personalized experience.

This private tour for Italian supercar enthusiasts takes you from Venice to Italy’s “Motor Valley”. Visit the Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena, tour the Lamborghini factory to see models like the Aventador and Huracán, and stop at Horacio Pagani’s headquarters. To keep you fueled for your fast car adventures, the trip also includes an authentic Bolognese lunch.

Expand your cooking skills with a half-day class in Padua. Learn about Le Cesarine, a network of home cooks spread across Italy, during a private class in the home of a Cesarina. Get advice about how to prepare local cuisine and go through the steps to make three regional recipes from scratch. After the class, feast on everything you prepare along with local wine.

Roll up your sleeves for a Venice cooking class and market visit designed especially for vegans and vegetarians. While Italian food is world-renowned, meat dishes often take center stage on restaurant menus. This intimate cooking experience focuses on seasonal veggies, pizza, focaccia, and fresh pasta, paired with unlimited wine and good company.

Learn authentic Italian recipes passed down through generations. Make ravioli and fettuccine step by step with a local chef. Enjoy 3 glasses of wine plus 1 Prosecco or soft drinks. Take home easy recipes and real Italian food knowledge from Verona. Learn to make fresh pasta and tiramisu in a real Verona restaurant.

Pizza and tiramisù are two Italian crowdpleasers, but these blockbuster dishes are trickier to prepare than you might think. Hone your skill with this hands-on cooking class hosted in a home kitchen in Treviso. Turn out pies like a pro “pizzaiolo” (pizza chef), then whip up a luscious dish of tiramisù from scratch under your instructor’s watchful eye. End by sampling your handiwork during a celebratory lunch or dinner.

Pasta and tiramisu are two iconic Italian dishes, and with this private cooking class, you can go to a local cook’s home in Padua and learn how to make both these dishes from scratch. As it’s a private experience, you can ask plenty of questions throughout, and benefit from one-to-one demonstrations. Then, at the end, feast on all the tasty specialties you’ve created.

Learn how to authentically make two common Italian foods in their country of origin in a private cooking class in a local home in Verona. Follow your teacher’s guidance as you make pizza and tiramisu from scratch the local way. End the class by dining on the meal you’ve created and take your newfound knowledge home to share your new skills.

Explore Italy’s culinary heritage at a greater, more in-depth level with this shared cooking class in Verona. Begin by visiting the local market to experience the culture there and learn about seasonal produce. From there, head to a family home for a cooking class where you’ll learn to cook a pasta dish typical to Verona and tiramisu. There is a limit of 12 participants in this class.

Don't lose the opportunity to become a "pizzaiolo" (pizza-maker) and a great tiramisu maker! Enter a local home, connect with an expert home cook and discover how Italian mamma and nonnas used to prepare awesome pizza at home. With this private hands-on cooking class, you will learn how to make pizza and tiramisù from scratch from a real Italian family. To complete your feast, enjoy what you have prepared for lunch or dinner with a selection of local wine included. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test and amaze your friends and family with a pizza party once you come back home! This experience is suitable for families with children of all ages. Le Cesarine is Italy’s oldest network of home cooks all over the country in more than 120 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

We paint a glimpse of the city under the guidance and with useful advice of the instructor. We work in a small group of up to 6 people, we share pleasant moments of plein air painting. As a result, each participant will take home a watercolor painted with their own hands which will be a souvenir of the beautiful holiday in Verona.

Tuscan and Pugliese olive oils get most of the international attention, but Lake Garda has its own protected designation—Garda DOP, classified in 1997 as one of Italy's first five PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) olive oils. The lake's eastern shore has been called the "Riviera degli Olivi" since 1968. This tour visits a working oil mill with a tasting of four extra virgin olive oils, including the Garda DOP, paired with local food.

Enjoy a hands-on Italian cooking class just minutes from Venice! Make fresh pasta, traditional tiramisu, and sip local wine in a warm, home-style kitchen in Mestre — no city access fee required.

MORE aims to connect people through food & beverages, to show that a sustainable and authentic Venezia is still surviving. We imagine being at our table witnessing a cultural interchange akin to a symposium. Our guests often tell us it felt less like a class and more like an afternoon among old friends. In the refined charm of a 16th-century Venetian home, they cook, learn, laugh, and dine together—sharing not just food, but a true taste of Italian life. It's this blend of authenticity, warmth, and elegance that makes our experience unforgettable.