Top 50 Cooking Vacations in Italy 2024


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Chianti hills with vineyards and cypress.

Chianti Cooking Vacation and Wine Tour

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6 Nights Starting At $5,975

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A few of the Roman skyline on a culinary tour of Italy.

Best Food & Wine Tours in Rome, Italy

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3 or 5 Nights Starting At $1,630

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Delicious focaccia from Liguria on an Italian Riviera cooking vacation.

Discover Sanremo Culinary Vacations in Italy

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4 Nights Starting At $2,925

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An Italian village in the hills of the Molise region.

Best 2024 Cooking Vacations in Molise, Italy

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6 Nights Starting At $4,135

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Capri by boat during an Amalfi Coast culinary vacation.

Best of Sorrento and Naples Food Tour

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6 Nights Starting At $5,890

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Temple of Concordia visited on you Sicily cooking vacation

Best of the West: Sicily Cooking Vacation

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6 Nights Starting At $6,390

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View of the Umbrian countryside on your cooking tour of Italy

Cooking and Walking in Umbria

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6 Nights Starting At $4,530

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Spaghetti with mussels and clams as prepared on a cooking vacation on the Amalfi Coast

Food & Wine Tasting Tour in Puglia, Italy

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6 Nights Starting At $4,600

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Elegant garden at the 5* luxury villa Cordevigo in the Veneto.

A Five-Star Retreat in the Veneto

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6 Nights Starting At $3,670

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View of Bellagio on a culinary vacation in Italy

Best Bellagio Cooking Tour on Lake Como

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5 Nights Starting At $5,270

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Chef preparing handmade pasta on a culinary vacation in Italy

Emilia Romagna Food & Wine Tasting Tours 2024

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4 or 7 Nights Starting At $2,875

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Dinner served on the terrace.

Weekend in an Italian Villa

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3 Nights Starting At $910

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View of the Veneto, home for your culinary vacation

Michelin Star Cooking Tours on the Prosecco Road

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2 or 3 Nights Starting At $1,150

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Greek ruins in Taormina during an authentic cooking vacation in Sicily

Elegant Taormina and The Eastern Coast

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4 or 6 Nights Starting At $4,800

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Don Alfonso

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4 or 6 Nights Starting At $2,760

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Some of the delicious, typical products of Umbria, discovered during our cooking vacations in Umbria.

A Food Lover's Paradise in Norcia Cooking Vacations

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4 or 6 Nights Starting At $3,150

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View of Menaggio, one of your homes during your Italy lakes cooking vacation

Luxury Italian Lakes Foodie Vacations

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6 Nights Starting At $4,950

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View from the Venice Lido, home for your Venice food tour.

Insider's Venice

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3 Nights Starting At $1,025

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Staying in a small Italian village in the Lazio region during a cooking vacation with The International Kitchen.

Roman Countryside Cooking Vacations in Italy

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6 Nights Starting At $2,750

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Spectacular view of Sorrento coast, South of Italy

Sorrento Cooking Adventure

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4 or 6 Nights Starting At $2,875

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A view of the sea from the promenade of Vasto, Abruzzo.

A Culinary Vacation in Vasto

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6 or 11 Nights Starting At $1,855

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Pool at the Villa Romana hotel on the Amalfi Coast

Authentic Amalfi Cuisine in Minori

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4 or 6 Nights Starting At $2,200

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Gondola in Venice during a cooking vacation in the Veneto

A Venice Cooking Odyssey

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5 Nights Starting At $3,870

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Cooking with the locals during an authentic Italy cooking vacation with The International Kitchen.

Cooking with the locals during an authentic Italy cooking vacation with The International Kitchen.

FAQ about cooking holidays in Italy

Where can I learn to cook in Italy?

Tuscany, Umbria, Campania, Sicily, Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont, Lombardy, Lazio, Puglia, and the Veneto, are only a handful of the places where you can learn to cook in Italy. Italy’s 20 regions all offer amazing opportunities to learn regional and traditional Italian cuisine. Each region has its own pastas, sauces, main dishes and desserts, and you will learn to make them on our cooking courses in Italy.

Which city has the best food in Italy?

Italians might fight to the death over the answer to this question! Many would say that the city of Bologna has the best food in Italy. It is definitely one of the culinary capitals of Italy, and Emilia Romagna, the region in which it is found, is known for its incredible wealth of gastronomic products such as prosciutto di Parma, Parmigiano-Reggiano, aceto balsamico di Modena, and pastas like tortellini, tagliatelle, and lasagne.

We think that each of Italy’s regions, however, has something truly unique and unforgettable to offer on our culinary vacations in Italy.

Which city in Italy has the best pizza?

Most Italians would agree that Naples has the best pizza in Italy. Naples, the capital of the Campania region, is also the birthplace of pizza! The main ingredients of pizza also come from this region: fresh mozzarella cheese and San Marzano tomatoes, grown in the sun-drenched volcanic soil of Mount Vesuvius.

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Tasty homemade creamy mushroom soup.

Autumn in Italy: Creamy Mushroom Soup Recipe

April 4, 2022

We eat soup year round, but there is something about soup in the fall and winter that is particularly appealing. And if you pair that…

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