Tivoli With your hands

Full-day cooking class in the countryside at Tivoli

Tivoli

Tivoli is where Romans have escaped Rome since the emperors started it, and this is a whole day in a kitchen up there, with your hands in flour instead of on a camera.

How the day goes

  1. The day begins at your hotel in Rome, and the road climbs out towards Tivoli.
  2. Fresh pasta made from nothing with Chef Davide, who cooks and also knows the wine.
  3. Local wine tasted alongside it, and then you sit down and eat what you made.

It takes the whole day, so Villa d'Este and Villa Adriana will have to be a different one.

Where it is

Tivoli at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.

Tivoli, and where it is from Rome Tivoli drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 43 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 43 min Rome Tivoli

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Tivoli — the town, not the meeting point. Ask them where exactly to turn up; the number is on this page.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 43 mindrive from the middle of Rome
  • 33 kmeach way
  • Rent a car for the day

    The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.

    • You pick it up in Rome and drop it back in Rome
    • No timetable to build the day around
    • The stops on the way are the good part, and they need a car

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  • Have a driver take you, door to door

    No parking to find, no wrong turns, and you leave when the day is done.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • Nobody spends the day driving

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