Homemade Pasta Cooking Class

About this tour

Roll up your sleeves and learn to shape fresh pasta from scratch with a local cook in Tuscany. This 2.5-hour class strips away the mystique of Italian cooking, walking you through dough-making and hand-formed shapes before sitting down to eat what you've made. You'll also descend into a 2500-year-old Etruscan grain store beneath the Fattoria di Fiano, adding a tangible layer of history to your afternoon.

Highlights

• Hands-on pasta shaping with traditional techniques
• Taste your own work over lunch
• Underground Etruscan storage chambers, 2500 years old
• Prosecco and Chianti paired with meal
• Working farm setting in Tuscany
• Walkable from local transport links

What to expect

You'll spend the opening hour at a wooden table learning pasta fundamentals—how dough comes together, the feel of proper elasticity, how to cut and shape by hand. The instructor will show you regional shapes and explain why each one matters. After an hour or so, you break for lunch featuring your freshly made pasta alongside farm wines. Before heading out, you'll take a guided walk through the property's cellars and down into subterranean Etruscan granaries carved into bedrock centuries before Rome. Expect dust, cool air below ground, and a genuine sense of age.

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