Top Venice Classes & Workshops - page 3

Explore a unique part of Venice’s history and culture—and enjoy a hands-on art experience that few other visitors get to have—thanks to this small-group mask-making workshop. Make your own way to the centrally located artisan studio, and get ready to create your very own Venetian mask using papier-maché and other provided materials. As you craft, learn insider facts and stories about the city’s mask-making traditions that you wouldn’t otherwise encounter.

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.

This hands-on cooking experience in Venice teaches you home recipes that you wouldn't find in a cookbook. Learn in a unique setting, the home of a local home cook, and enjoy the more personalized experience of a small-group cooking lesson. Learn to make pizza and tiramisu from scratch and feast on the delicious dishes you make.

Experience the vibrant food culture of Italy during this 4.5-hour small-group tour in Venice. Start by exploring the local markets in search of some of the best Venetian products. Then get hands-on experience with a cooking class to create a delicious Italian meal. Enjoy the fruits of your labor as you eat your 3-course meal paired with local red and white wines from the region.

Basilica San Marco is the most important church in the city. In the altar is the tomb of St Mark the Evangelist. We can visit the Pala d'Oro and the terrace. Hi, my name is Cristina Caragia, I work as a licensed tour guide and I have a degree in architecture here in Venice.

Enjoy an authentic Italian experience during a small-group Venetian cooking lesson, so you'll leave your trip with skills as well as memories. Learn more about the history of Venetian cuisine than you would if eating in a busy restaurant, and learn tips and tricks you can take home to impress friends and family with. Create a 3-course meal with local, seasonal produce, which you can then enjoy as a group in the architect-designed workspace or courtyard garden.

Learn to make a Veneto favorite turned global standard—tiramisu—and two regional specialties, such as bigoli pasta, gnocchi, or risi e bisi (rice and peas), in a private cooking class with a home chef in Venice. Work alongside your host, then savor the fruits of your labor for lunch or dinner with water, local wines, and coffee.

Learn the tips and tricks of authentic Venetian cooking with this culinary experience led by a chef instructor. Head to a kitchen in a historic ‘palazzo’ for a private lesson in regional cooking techniques. Help prepare a gourmet, multicourse menu, creating various pasta shapes and seasonal sauces, then sit down to enjoy the homemade feast with wine.

We are an artisan laboratory of artistic screen printing, active since 1968 in the heart of the city of Venice. It prints high quality editions, making available its own technical expertise and sensitivity, managing to interpret and translate the different expressive languages of painters, sculptors, photographers, illustrators, street artists, graphic artists and designers into graphics. Gianpaolo Fallani inherits the passion for screen printing from his father Fiorenzo, who has collaborated with over 200 artists from all over the world and for whom he has created more than 1000 editions. Printing on commission continues, also offering workshops and residences of various levels that invite the artist to learn about and experience the versatility and potential of this printing technique. In 2018 Gianpaolo received the recognition of MAM Master of Art and Craft and participates in Double Firma and Homo Faber.

Learn how to make a delectable Venetian delicacy, the traditional cichetti, without fighting for your teacher’s attention in this private cooking class. Make a series of these small plates, served in Venice’s specialist bars and osteries, from a range of seasonal ingredients: vegetables, meats, fish and more. Make enough for your lunch and then eat them all, with a complimentary glass of Prosecco to polish them off.

Venice is Italy's carnival capital and festive masks are a large part of this annual celebration. Experience Venice's mask-making tradition first-hand with this private workshop at a local atelier. Learn how to create a paper mâché base using antique stone molds on day one, then come back the following day to decorate your hardened mask with paints, fabric, crystals, gold leaf, feathers, and other adornments.

On this private culinary experience, chef Francesco invites you into his Venice home like an old friend for a cooking lesson. You’ll discover ingredients, practice expert techniques, and learn to make recipes handed down through generations of his Italian family, all while learning about Venice and its food and drink traditions. After you enjoy the meal you’ve made, your host will pick up his guitar and give a live performance.

I'll show you all the secrets to making perfect fresh pasta, from preparing the dough to making the different shapes of pasta. We will learn together how to prepare Tiramisu, the most famous desert in the world, following the traditional recipe. At the end of the lesson, we will sit down together at the table to enjoy the fruits of our work, accompanied by a bottle of wine. My home, located in the heart of Venice, is welcoming and full of history. I can't wait to share my passion for cooking with you!

Venice is unique and wonderful, without a doubt. If you are here on vacation, you will surely want to come home with some beautiful memories to show to friends and family and to cherish. If you are passionate about photography, you must absolutely participate in this workshop that will show you how to best photograph the beauties of the city. We will see some street photography and architecture techniques and we will learn to hone our techniques and our creative eye to get the most out of our photographs. * Children and teenagers up to 13 years of age can participate for free. It's necessary to notify their presence via message, specifying number and age.

Discover the flavors of the Veneto region in this small-group, 3-course cooking class hosted through Cozymeal. Held just steps from the Grand Canal, this hands-on experience blends culinary traditions, regional ingredients and warm Venetian hospitality. Menu - First course: Fondi di carciofi — artichokes braised in olive oil and herbs - Second course: Handmade ravioli — with ricotta and seasonal vegetables or risotto — made with squid ink or asparagus - Dessert: Choice of panna cotta with fruit or tiramisù with espresso-soaked ladyfingers With local wine, regional recipes and intimate group size, this class offers one of the most authentic ways to cook and dine in Venice.

Explore Venice through your taste buds and learn something new on this small-group tour of the city’s famous Rialto Market followed by a hands-on cooking lesson in the home of your guide, a trained chef. You’ll pick up fresh seasonal ingredients from the bustling stalls, then prepare a traditional Venetian lunch while discovering Italian cooking techniques. Afterward, you’ll taste your creations and take your new skills home.

You will spend a different morning, out of the crowds and tourist stops to immerse yourself in a homemade experience amongst the flavors and atmosphere of Venice. You will be able to customize your menu according to your particular preferences and needs, giving value to the seasonality of local products. On fine days, you can enjoy our wonderful terrace overlooking the gardens, rooftops and San Marco bell tower.

Delve into Murano’s centuries‑old glassmaking tradition with this immersive live demonstration by a master artisan. Traveling in style by water taxi, visit an authentic glass factory, watch each step of the production process, and learn the techniques used to create the iconic Murano glass, even trying to blow the glass yourself. Sip a glass of local Prosecco as you observe the artistry up close before exploring the showroom’s collection of beautiful glass pieces. After, take another water taxi to Burano, the island of colourful houses, where you will visit an old lace lab and sample local cookies or gelato. A final water taxi will return you to Venice with more scenic waterway views on the way.

The ancient art of engraving, which had its greatest splendor and diffusion in Venice, will have no more secrets! For those who want a unique experience in the ancient world of craftsmanship, I organize individual courses (one or at most two people) to explain and put into practice the basic techniques of engraving. Participants will thus have the opportunity to create a real art print made by them (on their original idea or drawing) and take it home. An experience that they will certainly not forget - in fact, they can hang it in their home! The course includes etching with the drypoint technique on Plexiglas or drypoint on zinc. I will follow you in the choice of subjects, in the preparation of the drawings and during all the processing phases, from the initial study to the processing of the plate up to the final prints. Reservations are accepted by people from the same family or relatives

Follow three authentic Venetian recipes during a small-group cooking class and learn the tricks of the trade from a 'cesarina,' or home cook, in Venice. Each participant is equipped with utensils and ingredients at a personal workstation during the 3-hour lesson. You’ll prepare 'cicchetti,' or small plates, then taste each delicious dish, accompanied by a selection of local wine.

Arianna is one of the few remaining Venetian artisans who still prints like in the 15th century. If you plan to visit Venice you cannot miss the opportunity to travel through time and return to the age of the "Serenissima". You can meet Arianna at her art studio, an antique-style printing house in Fondamenta dei Ormesini in the Cannaregio district and attend an entire press session with her: you will be surprised by the atmosphere, the colors, the scents, the gestures , from the work behind a single print. The entire work behind an art print will be shown: starting from the initial drawing, the various processing steps will be explained to obtain a chalcographic engraving, until the actual print is under your eyes.

Enrich your knowledge of authentic Italian cooking with this combination of a Rialto market tour and a cooking experience in Murano. First, visit Rialto market with your guide to pick up fresh fish. Then ride across the canal to get to your chef’s home in Murano. Here, you can pick up great cooking tips, enjoy prosecco, then feast on a tasty multi-course lunch that you’ve prepared together.

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.

Learn a new skill and have the special opportunity to create a one-of-a-kind glass object to take home with you during this hands-on tutorial with a glass master in Venice. As it’s a private class, you can benefit from expert tips, one-to-one demonstrations, and plenty of opportunities to ask questions throughout.