Experiences in Italy
Food tours, cooking classes, wine tastings, markets and day trips. We don't curate; we route to GetYourGuide's full inventory, filtered by category and city.
Food tours
Guided eating as reconnaissance
A structured walking tour is the fastest way to decode a new city's food: a local leads you past the bar where the locals actually have their morning coffee, into the market that supplies the restaurants, through two or three tastings the average visitor would never find.
EXP-02Cooking classes
Hands on the dough
A three-to-four hour cooking class in Italy produces a meal you eat at the end, but the real deliverable is muscle memory: how a tortellino is closed around the thumb, how a carbonara is emulsified off the heat, how a bistecca rests.
EXP-03Wine tastings
DOCG at the source
Italy is the world's largest wine producer by volume and its most geographically fragmented: 408 DOC and 74 DOCG appellations spread across all 20 regions.
EXP-04Market visits
Mercati rionali
The mercato rionale is the working heart of an Italian neighbourhood: Testaccio in Rome, Quadrilatero in Bologna, Ballarò in Palermo, Rialto in Venice.
EXP-05Day trips
One bag, back by sunset
Italy's high-speed rail spine and short driving distances make day trips unusually productive: Pompeii and Herculaneum from Naples, Siena and San Gimignano from Florence, the Cinque Terre from Genoa, Alba and the Langhe from Turin, the Amalfi coast from Sorrento.
EXP-06Walking tours
The city on foot
A guided walking tour works as orientation on day one: two hours covering the baseline — which piazza anchors which neighbourhood, which church holds which painting, where the market stands, where the evening aperitivo happens.