With your handsA car collects you at your hotel in Rome and takes you out into the countryside at Tivoli, where you spend the day making pasta by hand and then sit down and eat what you made.
It fills the whole day and the kitchen is the point of it — if you would rather be outdoors with your hands in the ground, the olive harvest in the Sabina is the other kind of day.
Tivoli at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.
Open it where the roads are
Takes you to Tivoli — the town, not the meeting point. Check with the operator where exactly to turn up: their own page is linked further up.
Getting there
No parking to find, no wrong turns, and you leave when the day is done.
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See the dayOne thing we have not resolved: The price includes a transfer from Rome, arranged by the operator. They do not state the languages, the minimum and maximum group size, or whether the booking is confirmed straight away — ask them when you book.
Checked 2026-08-18 · villaproietti.com
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