About this tour
A 4-hour cooking class on a working Basilicata farmhouse where you'll learn to make fresh pasta and traditional local dishes in a professional kitchen. The farm grows its own produce across 2000 olive trees, citrus groves, and organic vegetable plots—many of the ingredients you'll cook with come straight from the land around you. You'll finish with a meal of your own creations paired with local wine.
Highlights
- Learn traditional pasta-making in the farm's professional kitchen
- Cook with produce grown on-site: tomatoes, eggplants, zucchini, artichokes
- Taste antipasti and wine sourced from the Basilicata region
- 2000 olive trees and 300 orange trees on the property
- Built with local, traditional materials in rural countryside setting
- Eat what you've prepared with included wine and water
- Wheelchair accessible with nearby public transport options
What to expect
You'll arrive at a farmhouse built from traditional local stone and materials, surrounded by extensive olive groves and citrus trees. After a brief introduction to the kitchen and ingredients, you'll move into the professional kitchen space where a guide will walk you through preparing fresh pasta and traditional local dishes. You'll work with produce harvested from the farm's own plots—tomatoes, eggplants, zucchini, artichokes and others depending on season.
Once cooking is complete, you'll sit down to eat what you've made. The meal includes your pasta dish with traditional sauce, a selection of local antipasti, and wine paired with water. The experience wraps up after you've finished eating, typically within the 4-hour window.
What travellers say
- Cook with ingredients grown metres away on the farm
- Professional kitchen setup, not a cramped home kitchen
- Inclusive meal and wine at the end of the class
- Wheelchair accessible and family-friendly logistics
- Rural location may require car hire or organised transport
- Group size and class ratio not clearly stated beforehand
- Four hours is relatively short for hands-on cooking instruction
Themes summarised by our team from public information about this tour. Verify specifics on the operator's page before booking.
Good to know
This suits anyone who wants hands-on cooking tuition with regional Italian food and doesn't mind a rustic farmhouse setting. It's accessible for wheelchairs and families with small children (prams welcome), and service animals are permitted. Public transport is available nearby if you're not driving. The experience is physically moderate—mostly standing and working at kitchen stations. Weather won't affect you since cooking happens indoors. Snacks are included alongside the meal, wine, and water; clarify with the operator if any dietary requirements need advance notice. Group size isn't specified—worth confirming whether it's intimate or larger groups.
Tour sold and operated by Viator via Viator. Descriptions on this page are original BookNow summaries written by our team — not copied from the operator. Prices and availability are confirmed at checkout.