Viterbo With your hands

Handmade pasta class in English, an hour north of Rome

Viterbo

Egg and flour on a board, a rolling pin, and no machine anywhere in the room. By the time the sheet is thin enough to see your hand through it, lunch is close.

How the day goes

  1. In the kitchen on the Cassia outside Viterbo, with the chef teaching in English.
  2. Knead the egg dough by hand, then roll the sheet out with the pin.
  3. Cut it: tagliatelle, fettuccine, maltagliati, and Viterbo's own lombrichelli.
  4. Cook what you cut, sit down and eat it, and take the recipes away with you.

The class is small and the dates are agreed with the chef, so it is arranged in advance rather than joined on the day.

Where it is

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

Viterbo, and where it is from Rome Viterbo drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 91 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 91 min Rome Viterbo

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Strada Cassia Nord km 86, Viterbo, the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 31drive from the middle of Rome
  • 108 kmeach way
  • 3 honce you are there

  • 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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