Top Matera Classes & Workshops

Whether you're a history enthusiast or simply someone who appreciates a remarkable dining experience, our Farmer's Lunch promises to enchant. Come join us on this extraordinary gastronomic journey! Imagine yourself in a captivating cave, surrounded by ancient stone walls that whisper stories of generations past. As you step into this unique setting, you'll feel the excitement building. And here's the best part: we're going to dive deep into the art of making Strascinate al tegamino, a traditional dish that has been perfected by local farmers for ages. As you indulge in the fruits of your labor, surrounded by the cave's enchanting atmosphere, you'll revel in a sense of accomplishment and pure satisfaction. The flavors will dance on your palate, reminding you of the rich heritage and culinary traditions that have shaped this incredible region.

Immerse yourself in a private pasta and tiramisu-making class in a welcoming home, learn the secrets of the region's most famous pasta dishes and tiramisu and taste the fruit of your labour for lunch or dinner accompanied by local wines. During this private lesson, you will learn how to prepare 2 pasta recipes and the tiramisu dessert from scratch. Your Cesarina will reveal the tricks of the trade of these iconic recipes. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test and amaze your friends and family once home with an Italian meal! This experience is suitable for families with children of all ages. Le Cesarine is Italy’s oldest network of home cooks all over the country in more than 120 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

Don't lose the opportunity to become a "pizzaiolo" (pizza-maker) and a great tiramisu maker! Enter a local home, connect with an expert home cook and discover how Italian mamma and nonnas used to prepare awesome pizza at home. With this private hands-on cooking class, you will learn how to make pizza and tiramisù from scratch from a real Italian family. To complete your feast, enjoy what you have prepared for lunch or dinner with a selection of local wine included. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test and amaze your friends and family with a pizza party once you come back home! This experience is suitable for families with children of all ages. Le Cesarine is Italy’s oldest network of home cooks all over the country in more than 120 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

Take a break from sightseeing and discover Matera’s rural heart with this private cooking class at a traditional farm. Connect with a local family to visit their olive and orange groves, then roll up your sleeves and get to work in the kitchen preparing fresh pasta and other classic dishes. Sample your handiwork at the end of the class with a casual meal featuring the recipes you’ve prepared.

The ingredients are a synthesis of the basic elements peculiar to the Matera area: water and grains. The shape of the bread recalls a small mountain relief, characteristic of the Murgia Materana landscape. An educational workshop on bread processing tecniques in a four generation traditional bakery to discover a true gastronomic excellence and a traditional symbol of the city; to learn the most important bread processing secrets of a four generation bakery; to get hands in dough, do your own loaf. Such as until 1950, families in Matera, you will brand the pasta to be baked with a wooden stamp, to recognise it, and take home, after creating and baking. You will savour history and traditional abilities, discovering our local delicacies. The culture of bread is linked to the wisdom of local farmers in producing, selecting, stocking and preserving certain varieties of durum wheat, intact, over time. Number of participants, min 2 people.

Southern Italy is famous for its cuisine across the globe. Connect with a local home cook and discover the secrets to turning out traditional fresh pasta with this hands-on cooking class in Matera. Roll up your sleeves and prepare three different specialties under the guidance of your host and instructor, then sample your handiwork served with wine at the end of the class.

You will be able to discover and experience first hand, inside a craft workshop, the ancient art of pottery making and its secrets. "This land speaks to us," says the architect and designer, "it frees with its signs the voices that groan in it. I listen to it, I pick up its voice, and build objects that interpret it. The visit to a typical Sassi artisan studio will be a way to enjoy a 2 hours fascinating storytelling by an architect and ceramist from Lucania who, in his workshop, creates different design objects with materials skilfully chosen locally and worked with his own hands. Roughness and ripples of mineral and telluric ceramics recall the gullies between Aliano and Montalbano Jonico, creating a bridge with the cultural landscape of Basilicata. At the end of the activity you could take home your artifact or ask for shipping: it will be a unique, fun, and satisfying moment!

For me, hosting and home is a whole other thing from a simple restaurant that can be as hospitable as you want but will never be able to welcome you with the serene and informal conviviality of "my home". Here I relive the experiences lived in my grandparents' house before and my parents later. Perfumes from boiling pots, the same but always different voices and gestures of my mother and my aunt who repeat rituals that have unknowingly marked me. Over time I have accumulated a treasure trove of sensations and knowledge that intertwine between the countryside and the kitchen and from which I am indelibly marked. Today I find myself chasing cookbooks and recipes to reproduce in an attempt to relive that experience and I ask for your help in order to succeed. We will prepare various dishes of the Matera tradition together, depending on the period in which we meet, and then we will taste them in the convivial and "Slow" atmosphere that has always distinguished me.

Discover the secrets of southern Italian cooking with this culinary experience in Matera. Benefit from your host’s insider knowledge as you pick out fresh produce in a local market, then be welcomed into their private home for an intimate cooking class and meal. Get hands-on experience preparing three regional specialties, then sit down together for an authentic taste of Italian cuisine over a glass of local wine.

Italy is world-renowned for its fantastic cuisine, but if you want to get more out of your visit than just dining in restaurants, then a market tour and cooking class is a great way to boost your Italian cooking skills. Join a local cook on a Matera market tour to discover the freshest local ingredients. Then, take part in a home cooking experience where you can discover how to make both pasta and tiramisu.

Enjoy a 3-hour hands-on cooking class in Policoro and learn how to cook a 3-course menu from scratch under the expert guidance of an Italian mamma. This is a private experience and you can fully customize the recipes based on your wishes. Share your passion for the Italian cuisine and immerse yourself in the local culture. • 3-hour private hands-on cooking class in Policoro • Enjoy your creations at lunch or dinner with wines, water and espresso included • Learn Italy’s cooking secrets and amaze your loved ones back home

There are endless choices for places to find excellent food in Italy, but if you’re curious about expanding your cooking skills so you can recreate authentic dishes at home, then this private pasta and tiramisu class is a great choice. Taking place at a local’s home in Policoro, learn how to make two pasta recipes and tiramisu—then feast on all your tasty creations at the end.

Try your hand at creating authentic Policoro dishes with this private market tour and cooking class. Shop for seasonal ingredients at a market like a pro, and then step inside a local home to prepare three lunch or dinner dishes alongside a home chef—no cooking experience needed. After cooking, slow down and enjoy your creations paired with regional wines.

You can't visit Italy without trying at least one pasta dish... So, we'll teach you two! Learn how to roll 'sfoglia' (fresh pasta) by hand and how to prepare 2 simple different kinds of pasta (filled pasta + fresh pasta) from scratch with your Cesarina. As the icing on the cake you will learn to prepare also the iconic Tiramisu. Share your passion for the Italian cuisine as you make new friends in this hands-on cooking class. It's a great way to truly experience Italian culture. • Learn to roll 'sfoglia' (fresh pasta) by hand • Learn to make 2 iconic pasta types • Learn to make the iconic tiramisu • Small-group cooking class with a maximum of 12 people. Share your passion for the Italian cuisine with other lovely guests • Enjoy an Italian Aperitivo to warm-up Cesarine is Italy’s oldest network of home cooks all over the country. They are welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

It is an outdoor activity, the skipper/instructor is very experienced and has over 30 years of career. The sail boat is a perfect 12.5-meter cruising project of the Pardo shipyards (Grand Soleil 39), the landings they are always pleasant, on the ground the Marina is welcoming, the bathrooms clean and internal guarded parking is possible in the Taranto base. The boat is one of the safest means from a health point of view compared to COVID19, it is sanitized and certified COVID free by a specialized company before each guest arrival. In addition, the proposed experiential activity, totally immersive in the world of sailing, allows you to truly distract yourself from stress and enjoy unique moments.

It is an outdoor activity, the skipper / instructor is very experienced and has over 30 years of career, the boat is a perfect 12.5-meter cruising project of the Pardo shipyards (Grand Soleil 39), the landings they are always pleasant, on the ground the Marina is welcoming, the bathrooms clean and internal guarded parking is possible. The boat is one of the safest means from a health point of view compared to COVID19, it is sanitized and certified COVID free by a specialized company before each guest arrival. In addition, the proposed experiential activity, totally immersive in the world of sailing, truly allows you to distract yourself from stress and savor unique moments.

Italy has a vast and varied culinary heritage, and our local hosts are proud to share its hidden secrets. Share your passion for Italian gastronomy with other lovely guests, immerse yourself in the vibrant local market and enjoy an authentic hands-on cooking class. You'll visit the local market with your Cesarina host, who will teach you all about how to select the best ingredients with the seasons. Then, you'll return to their home, warm up with an Italian Aperitivo and enjoy the class. You'll learn how to make one iconic Pasta type, typical of the city you are visiting, and the famous Tiramisu. After the class, you will enjoy everything you've prepared with local wines. This experience is the perfect choice if you want to encounter the real Italian regional gastronomy through genuine connections, food, and friendship.

Don't lose the opportunity to become a "pizzaiolo" (pizza-maker) and a great tiramisu maker! Enter a local home, connect with an expert home cook and discover how Italian mamma and nonnas used to prepare awesome pizza at home. With this private hands-on cooking class, you will learn how to make pizza and tiramisù from scratch from a real Italian family. To complete your feast, enjoy what you have prepared for lunch or dinner with a selection of local wine included. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test and amaze your friends and family with a pizza party once you come back home! This experience is suitable for families with children of all ages. Le Cesarine is Italy’s oldest network of home cooks all over the country in more than 120 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

Maggiore is not simply a dairy but a tradition, a family project of many generations. A true artisanal dairy where fresh mozzarella is made every day from high-quality milk from selected farms just a few kilometres from our dairy. After discovering where milk comes from by reconstructing the certified local supply chain, you will immerse yourself in the scents and vapours of the production workshop to witness the magic of spinning that our cheesemakers still perform by hand. The warm, stringy mozzarella and the soft, piping hot "pasta filata" will radically change your point of view about food and cheese, and you will never go back to the usual commercial products. You will be guided and supported by an experienced and qualified Master cheese taster. This is a special experience that will allow you to witness the production of mozzarella and cheese entirely in the traditional way and to taste rare flavours. You could also visit market and buy some lucanian delicacies

Learn about our cooking secrets and some cute stories and anecdotes: cook, taste, and share. Be the chef and the diner simultaneously. Discover all the secrets of the dough, from the flour to the cutting. Whatever your level of culinary expertise, enjoy an experience that is not just cooking, but a full immersion into Italian culture and traditions. The local chef will guide you, step by step, from using flour and egg to cutting your fresh homemade pasta from an original Italian recipe: showing you the various types of cuts you could make and which traditional sauce is better for each recipe. You will discover those gestures and aromas that characterized country life: from secret techniques to our philosophy of simplicity, this original and special experience in a typical 'Masseria' will whisk you away to a side of Southern Italy that is truly authentic. This is a warm and friendly experience you could try to feel at home, better than only eating. You cannot miss this opportunity!

Take part in this fantastic experience in the kitchen, you will learn the art of making bread made with your own hands and more, and you will also learn how to make fresh pasta with 0 km ingredients. All seasoned with a view of the vegetable garden and the farm. The products used to make the bread and pasta are all BIO products harvested in our gardens a stone's throw from the farm. This educational activity offers a path of awareness towards nature and the goods it offers. The experience will end with a convivial lunch where you can taste everything previously made with your own hands, all accompanied by a local wine. We are waiting for you to achieve all this.

Cook alongside a local in their "agriturismo" home, a farmhouse in the countryside near Matera. Offering a more authentic take on a cooking class, the experience lets you live the local culture for a few hours, cooking with traditional recipes, and enjoying good food, wine, and company. You’ll even get a tour of the agriturismo to learn about organic farming methods.

This wine tasting experience in the heart of Matera tantalizes the senses with a flavor that is both rich in history and vibrant in the present. It's a fusion of tradition and modernity, where ancient winemaking techniques meet contemporary appreciation. But it's not just about the wines: it's about the entire sensory experience. The aroma of aging barrels mingles with the scent of freshly poured wines, creating an olfactory symphony that sets the stage for discovery. With each swirl, sniff, and sip, the flavors dance on the palate, revealing layers of complexity and depth. Paired with delicious bites that enhance and complement the wines, the tasting becomes a culinary journey through Matera's gastronomic heritage. And for those who choose to indulge in the optional olive oil tasting, another dimension of flavor is unlocked, adding a touch of Mediterranean magic to the experience!